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Posted on March 19, 2010
NREL Launches Strategic Energy Analysis Institute
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has established a new global institute dedicated to analyzing, speeding and smoothing the transition to sustainable energy worldwide. NREL Senior Scientist Doug Arent has been named executive director of the new Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) by its institutional partners, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, the University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and NREL.
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Posted on March 19, 2010
SG Biofuels Launches First Elite Jatropha Cultivar
SG Biofuels said that it has launched its first JMax 100 cultivar, a proprietary cultivar of Jatropha optimized for growing conditions in Guatemala with yields 100 percent greater than existing varieties.
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Posted on March 18, 2010
CPUC Decision Allows Tradable RECs
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week issued a decision that would allow the use of tradeable renewable energy credits (TRECs) in the state. The legislature had previously authorized the CPUC to allow the use of TRECS in 2006. In October, 2008, the CPUC issued its first proposed decision authorizing the use of TRECs. Since then the CPUC considered various proposed decisions that would have permitted the use of TRECs until adopting the final decision on March 11.
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Posted on March 18, 2010
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Ron Pernick
Obama's Nuclear Madness and the Future of "Clean"
In early February, President Obama did something that his predecessor George W. Bush was unable to do: he pushed the restart button on the U.S. nuclear power industry. Obama announced the first loan guarantee to the nuclear industry in nearly three decades – a conditional guarantee of $8.2 billion for two proposed nuclear power plants in Georgia. In this single move, he may have jump-started the nuclear power industry in the U.S.
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Posted on March 17, 2010
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Jennifer Runyon
Clean Energy 2010 Trending Up
Last year around this time, clean tech research and publishing firm Clean Edge predicted we'd be talking about flat or even downward clean energy revenue trends in 2009. However, the report the firm issued today, Clean Energy Trends 2010, shows that combined global revenue for three major clean-energy sectors –- solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power and biofuels -– grew by 11.4 percent over 2008, reaching $139.1 billion.
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Posted on March 16, 2010
REG Finalizes Plant Consolidations
Renewable Energy Group (REG) this week said that it has completed asset purchase and consolidation agreements with commercial-scale biodiesel plants in Newton, Iowa and Danville, Illinois. The consolidation transactions were originally announced by REG in May 2009. REG's SEC registration took effect January 19, 2010.
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Posted on March 15, 2010
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David William House
Biogas Is Renewable Energy's Cinderella
Examined at a fundamental level, the universe seems to begin in lofty abstractions that lead to prosaic realities. Thus mathematics encompasses physics, physics encompasses chemistry, chemistry encompasses biology, and it all leads to… well, us.
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Posted on March 12, 2010
NV Energy & WM Sign 3-MW PPA
NV Energy and Waste Management (WM) have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement for the sale of renewable energy produced from a 3-megawatt (MW) landfill gas-powered project to be located southeast of Reno at WM's Lockwood Landfill. The facility is expected to be generating renewable energy by late 2011.
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Posted on March 11, 2010
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Poet
POET plans to cut water use to 2.33 gallons per gallon of ethanol in five years
POET plans to decrease water use in the production of ethanol by 22 percent over the next five years in the first goal of its sustainability iniative, Ingreenuity. If successful, it will cut the company's water used per gallon of ethanol from an average of 3 gallons to 2.33, an annual water savings of one billion gallons.
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Posted on March 11, 2010
US Senate Votes to Reinstate Crucial Biodiesel Tax Credit As Part of Jobs Bill
The U.S. Senate this week passed a bill containing the reinstatement of the biodiesel blenders' tax credit, a critical piece of policy for the industry that had been allowed to expire at the end of 2009. The American Workers, State and Business Relief Act, included H.R. 4213, the Extenders Package which contains the extension of the US $1 per gallon biodiesel production tax credit. The bill calls for the tax credit to be retroactive to January 1 and runs out on December 31, 2010.
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