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It may be green, but it's probably not local
Illinois law requires that, if possible, renewable energy should come from Illinois or surrounding states. However, unless a municipality or business explicitly has stated it wants local renewable power, the power it receives is probably from outside...Tags: Renewable Energy, Employment Opportunities, Alternative Energy, Rahm Emanuel, Environmental Issues
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Companies won't face charges in condor deaths
Federal wildlife officials took the unprecedented step Friday of telling private companies that they will not be prosecuted for inadvertently harassing or even killing endangered California condors. In a decision swiftly condemned by conservationists...
Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Renewable Energy, Endangered Species, Tejon Ranch Corporation
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Block Island Gets First Chance To Weigh In On Wind Turbines
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceWith just 1,000 men, women and children accustomed to - and often preferring - the seclusion their permanent residence affords, Block Island doesn't often have issues big enough to draw even one-tenth of its year-round population out of their homes on a...Tags: Denmark, Conservation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Renewable Energy
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NextEra to buy 59 GE wind turbines for Michigan project
ReutersMay 9 (Reuters) - U.S. power company NextEra Energy Inc will buy 59 of General Electric Co's new 1.7-megawatt wind turbines for a wind farm planned in eastern Michigan. GE, in a release announcing the sale, said its turbine has blades that extend 100...Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, General Electric Company, Solar Energy
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PUC forces NorthWestern to buy electricity from Clark wind farm
For the first time in South Dakota a small wind farm has succeeded in using a federal law to force a utility company to agree to buy electricity from the wind farm’s turbines. The state Public Utilities Commission made its final rounds of...Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Solar Energy
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GE says tax changes fuel 1 gigawatt of new wind orders
ReutersMay 6 (Reuters) - General Electric Co said on Monday the renewal of the U.S. production tax credit has helped it sell wind turbines with 1 gigawatt of generating power since January. The credit, a key lifeline for the nascent wind power industry, was...Tags: Renewable Energy, Politics, Taxation, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Congress
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Graham County takes another step toward wind farm
A northwest Kansas county is closer to having its own 70-megawatt wind farm. The Graham County Commission has approved a conditional use permit for the Ringneck Prairie Wind Farm 6 miles south of Hill City. The Hays Daily News reports that...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Solar Energy
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Wind turbine sound debate to restart in Emmet County
Staff Writer -- bhubbard@petoskeynews.comCROSS VILLAGE -- The howling debate about how loud wind turbines should be in Emmet County will resume Thursday night. The Emmet County Planning Commission will discuss the recent findings of a commissioned acoustic review on whether the 35-decibel sound...Tags: Renewable Energy, Science and Technology, Weather, Weather Reports, Environmental Issues
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COLUMN-UK lessons on over-paying for grid investment: Wynn
ReutersBy Gerard Wynn LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Policymakers around the world are turning to the private sector to finance a massive expansion of electric grids and Britain's experience in funding offshore wind projects holds lessons on consumers over-paying as...Tags: Renewable Energy, Politics, Finance, United Kingdom, Alternative Energy
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Wind farms to lure back German lobsters decimated by WW2
ReutersBy Madeline Chambers BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters) - New wind farms off Germany's North Sea coast will provide an ideal habitat that could help restore the lobster population near Heligoland after British bombing during and after World War II drove them away....Tags: Renewable Energy, Science and Technology, Germany, Emergency Incidents, United Kingdom
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Eastern Shore wind farm an environmental 'wolf in sheep's clothing'
Like the proverbial "wolf in sheep's clothing," a Texas energy company is promoting a massive Eastern Shore wind farm as an environmentally friendly "green" project ("Eastern Shore wind project confronts eagles, Navy," April 29). In reality, this...Tags: Renewable Energy, Glen Burnie, Environmental Issues, Solar Energy
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GE Trims Profit Outlook, Raising Concerns On Wall Street
General Electric Co. cut the profit growth estimate for its core industrial businesses on Friday, citing weakness in Europe and sliding wind turbine sales, unnerving Wall Street and pushing its stock down in morning trading. The world's biggest maker...Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Renewable Energy, Finance, Thomson Corporation, Companies and Corporations
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