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After studying the subject of efficiency, U.S. News & World Report energy writer Marianne Lavelle came to the conclusion that efficiency remains a vital and unappreciated fraction in the New Energy equation. More disturbingly, it is the same vital and unappreciated fraction it has been for more than three decades.
As […]

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Chris Bellizzi ran his air conditioning more than he normally would, more than he needed to, in Summer 2007. Why? Because he didn’t want utility PG&E to profit from the free electricity his home solar installation was sending it.
Bellizi: “If you owe them, you’ve got to send them a check…If […]

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NewEnergyNews pop quiz -> What drives a powerful utility heavily invested in fossil fuels and a huge oil company to get into wind?Answer: Renewable Electricity Standards (RESs) Dominion and BP Alternative Energy are splitting costs and benefits of wind installations in Virginia and North Carolina because the wind is there […]

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For the third week in a row, NewEnergyNews leads “Sunday World” with a story about a U.S. New Energy producer gearing up to produce overseas. China is going to incentivize solar installations. The U.S. Congress doesn’t seem inclined to.
China is unimaginably energy hungry. China is a factor in coal, driving […]

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That there are problems with ethanol, especially corn ethanol, will come as no surprise to NewEnergyNews readers. That the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has now shifted its financing strategies in response to the problems will come as good news, especially on the heels of last week’s news that the EU […]

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An important preliminary meeting in Paris of 16 major world economic powers responsible for 80% of world greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions to set goals and pick methods for the fight against global climate change ended April 18 with little of importance accomplished.
NewEnergyNews readers might wonder why, considering how much of […]

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Raymond James & Associates believes the companies “best-positioned to ride the solar wave of the future” are Evergreen Solar, JA Solar Holdings, SunPower Corp., Suntech Power Holdings and Trina Solar.
In a report last week, these five companies were singled out by the brokerage firm based on their effective cost management, robust R&D, strong […]

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To protect their bottom lines, oil refiners are employing a strategy that could send an already weak U.S. economy into freefall this summer. To be sure, the U.S. summer could pass without serious incident. But the potential exists for things to get ugly.
As has been widely reported, U.S. oil refinery utilization has been […]

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Though he’s hardly a disinterested party, Arch Coal’s chief executive, Steven Leer, expects power shortages in the U.S. within two to three years unless more coal-fired power plants are built. www.reuters.com
Emphasizing that much of the U.S. will by then fall below the 15% reserve level, Leer said that unless governors and environmentalists essentially […]

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