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Google's Earth: inside the internet giant's $1bn renewable energy portfolio
2013-02-19 01:00:00| Power Technology
Google's $200m equity stake in the Spinning Spur Wind Project in Texas, US, brings the company's total committed investment in renewable energy to more than $1bn. Julian Turner quizzes Kojo Ako-Asare, head of corporate finance, about greening the gri
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Two New Lithium Discoveries Make The Renewable Energy Economy Just That Much Closer
2013-02-16 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: The basic and essential problem with most renewable energy sources is that their output is not continuous. Solar doesnt produce at night of course (notwithstanding those clever Spaniards who realised that shining floodlights on cells was profitable given the vast premium paid for solar electricity going into the grid over buying electricity from the grid) and wind power is famously variable even at 5 minute intervals. Its going to be very, very, difficult running an industrial economy on such sources....
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Tea Party dim bulbs go after renewable energy standard in Kansas
2013-02-12 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: As we`ve noted several times here at Grist, conservatives are going after state renewable energy standards (RES`s) across the country. They`ve prevented a few new ones from passing, but I don`t think they`ve succeeded in persuading any state to roll back an RES already in effect. Yet. Now they`re going after the RES in Kansas. Passed in 2009, it instructs utilities to get 10 percent of their power generation capacity from renewables from 2011 to 2015, 15 percent from 2016 to 2019, and 20 percent...
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Kansas Considers Pulling Plug on Renewable Energy Standards
2013-02-11 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Topeka Capital-Journal: State legislative attempts to weaken or repeal Kansas' renewable energy standard would be a setback to businesses eager to broaden wind power production or a victory to politicians uneasy with requirements that utilities develop greener portfolios. A law adopted in 2009 as part of a compromise between the Republican-led Legislature and Democratic Gov. Mark Parkinson breaking a regulatory deadlock over a state permit for a coal-fired power plant in southwest Kansas stipulated utilities must draw...
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Renewable energy to power new visitor complex
2013-02-10 03:51:13| Electronics - Topix.net
Stewart Clague of Stewart Clague Services has converted an old mill into a restaurant and tearooms, incorporating an interactive exhibition centre for the Laxey mines.
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