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NEB Report Looks At Energy Supply And Demand

on 19 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

Canadians will have choices to make concerning how they use energy but energy supply is not in question, says the latest report from the National [read more]

Hawaiian Electric Offers Wind Data To Renewable Developers

on 16 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

Hawaiian Electric Co. is making available, free of charge to any interested wind energy developer, data collected about wind conditions and bird activities in the [read more]

FERC Approves Transmission Investment Incentives

on 16 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved requests for transmission investment incentives for new grid construction. The requests came from Southern California Edison (SCE) [read more]

Landowner Joins Advisory Board Of High Country Energy

on 15 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

High Country Energy, a community-based energy development (C-BED) organization, has announced that Minnesota landowner and farmer Dana Christie will join the company's advisory board for [read more]

Businesses, Organizations Urge Congress To Support Renewable Energy Tax Incentive

on 14 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

Due to reports that congressional leaders are contemplating dropping core provisions from national energy legislation under consideration, 100 businesses and organizations have delivered a letter [read more]

Sunflower Permit Denial Could Affect Kansas Wind Power

on 14 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment's (KDHE) recent denial of a final construction permit for Sunflower Electric Power Corp.'s Holcomb Expansion diminishes the ability [read more]

Constellation NewEnergy To Secure Wind Power For Stadium

on 13 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

Constellation NewEnergy has announced that it will secure renewable energy credits to match Gillette Stadium's electricity usage with wind power before, during and after all [read more]

Canada Invests In Prince Wind Farm

on 09 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

Canada's Minister of Health Tony Clement has announced more than C$53 million in funding, over ten years, for the Prince Wind Energy Project, Canada's largest [read more]

ASES Report: Number Of Green Collar Jobs Expected To Grow

on 08 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

A new jobs report from the nonprofit American Solar Energy Society (ASES) shows that as many as one out of four workers in the U.S. [read more]

AWEA Reports U.S. On Track To Generate 4,000 MW

on 08 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) reports that the U.S. wind energy industry is currently on track to complete a total 4,000 MW of wind [read more]

MMS Requests Information For Alternative Energy Leases

on 07 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne has released the final programmatic environmental impact statement (FPEIS) for the outer continental shelf (OCS) alternative energy and alternate [read more]

Nordex Signs Contract For North America

on 06 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

Hamburg, Germany-based Nordex AG has signed a contract with BP Alternative Energy North America for the delivery of 60 N90/2.5 MW turbines. The contract for [read more]

Coalition Formed To Fight Global Warming

on 05 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

A coalition of European countries, U.S. states, Canadian provinces and New Zealand has announced the formation of the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) to fight [read more]

Spitzer Unveils Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

on 05 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, D-N.Y., has unveiled draft regulations to carry out a regional program that will cut greenhouse gases emitted by New York power plants. [read more]

House Renewables Provision Reduces Electricity Costs

on 02 Nov 2007 by NAW Staff

A recent American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) analysis of the House Energy Bill (H. R. 3221) Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) provision shows that [read more]