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The U.S. Navy announced it has awarded a $200 million contract to construct up to 40 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic power plants at Navy and Marine Corps facilities throughout the Southwestern United States.
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- PNM, New Mexico’s largest electric utility, has signed a contract with First Solar to construct 22 megawatts of utility scale photovoltaic solar power plants at five separate sites in the state.
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- Brazil on Tuesday opened the world's first ethanol-fueled power plant in an effort by the South American biofuels giant to increase the global use of ethanol and boost its clean power generation.
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- To create green aviation fuels, diesel, and gasoline the Obama administration is investing up to $78 million of economic stimulus money in biomass technologies.
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- Fuel-tech start-up Cobalt Biofuels opened a demonstration plant this week in Mountain View, California and says it will begin to commercially produce biobutanol by 2012.
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- No1 wind producer Iberdrola Renovables and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have agreed to jointly develop wind farm projects in Eastern Europe.
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- GE announced today that it will supply 88 wind turbines to HECIC New Energy Co., Ltd, one of China’s leading wind energy developers, for three new projects in Hebei and Shanxi Provinces...
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- Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s largest shipbuilder, will build a 200-megawatt wind farm in South Korea, as it continues dialling up its ambitions for the wind-energy industry.
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 China’s A-Power Energy Generation Systems, in cooperation with US partners, says it will build a major wind turbine production and assembly plant in Nevada to serve the North and South American markets, creating 1,000 new jobs for the state. |
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 The United States gave its biggest backing yet to a renewable energy project, guaranteeing $1.37 billion in loans for a California development by BrightSource Energy that uses the sun's heat to power a steam turbine. |
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 Despite headwinds buffeting the solar industry, thin-film photovoltaic leader First Solar grew sales nearly 66 percent in 2009 to $2.07 billion. |
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 Toshiba International Corporation Friday announced that it has signed a major contract to supply hydro power generators to Isagen S.A. E.S.P., a leading Colombian power generation company. |
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 Spain-based Ingeteam, a supplier to the wind and solar energy industries, will build a $15 million clean energy manufacturing facility in Milwaukee and create 275 jobs. |
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 Canada's Trillium Power Wind Corporation said on Tuesday it chose Danish wind turbine maker Vestas to be its preferred supplier for four offshore wind projects totaling 3,700 megawatts in the Great Lakes region. |
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 Wind energy could generate 20 percent of the electricity needed by households and businesses in the eastern half of the United States by 2024, but it would require up to $90 billion in investment, according to a government report. |
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