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Posted on March 19, 2010 by Energy Matters LLC

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Posted on March 18, 2010

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 17, 2010

Beacon Power Corporation has shipped, installed and connected a Smart Energy 25 (Gen 4) flywheel energy storage system at a wind farm in Tehachapi, California. The system is part of a wind power/flywheel demonstration project being carried out for the California Energy Commission.

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Posted on March 16, 2010 by Active Profile

The Inaugural Energy Innovation Awards – the brainchild of the world-class Energy Innovation Centre, are officially open for entries and organisers are calling on the UK's £106 billion low carbon environmental goods and services (LCEGS) market to take part.

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Front Page Public Relations

The Arizona Solar Power Society (http://www.arizonasolarsociety.com) reports that the residential solar market in Arizona is creating a gold mine of solar revenue. In the past 18 months, more than 275 residential solar installation companies have opened shop, hired thousands of employees and created one of the most promising industries seen in a decade in Arizona, a state with more sunshine to harvest than anywhere in North America.

Posted on March 11, 2010 by PVPowered Inc.

PV Powered, Inc., the innovation leader in solar inverter reliability, performance, and serviceability, announces that its commercial inverters have been installed in a new office building project in Lakewood, New Jersey that also employs new high-density thin film cylindrical solar panels by Solyndra, Inc. of Fremont, Calif. The complete design, engineering and installation was completed by Premier Power Renewable Energy, Inc. of Eldorado Hills, Calif.

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Solar Energy International (SEI)

SEI's Third Annual PV Instructor Training is in full swing in Paonia, Colo.

Posted on March 11, 2010 by National Hydrogen Association

On March 5th, 2010, hydrogen and fuel cell industry experts joined Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii to brief Senate staff on the balance needed between industry and government commitments as well as between different clean vehicle technologies. Daimler, General Motors, Linde and Dr. C.E. (Sandy) Thomas led the event on "Solving the Market's Dilemmas-Energy Infrastructure for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles."

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Poet

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.

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Aries Power & Industrial

The achieved financing for the project rises to EUR 275 million. The technology developed by Aries positions the company as the standard of international efficiency in the development of concentrated solar power projects.