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Amtrak's Locomotives Send 100% of Energy Back to Grid 05/17/2013 Seventy new electric locomotives, Amtrak Cities Sprinters, will service the Northeast corridor starting in the fall of 2013. |
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SolarCity and Goldman Sachs Team on $500 Million in Solar Leases 05/16/2013 SolarCity has announced a lease financing agreement with Goldman Sachs to fund more than $500 million in solar power projects; an estimated 110 megawatts in generation capacity for homeowners and businesses. |
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GE Sees U.S. Wind-Turbine Installs Doubling in 2014 05/16/2013 The biggest U.S. supplier of wind turbines views the PTC renewal as a business booster. |
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U.S. To Spend $2 Billion on Smart Water Meters 05/15/2013 U.S. water utilities will spend $2 billion on smart meters in infrastructure upgrades this year through 2020, almost matching all previous investment in the leak-finding devices, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. |
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Second CA City Mandates Solar 05/15/2013 Sebastopol residential and commercial buildings will have to o include a solar-power-generating system or pay an in-lieu fee. |
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Saudi Water Company Signs $587 Million Jeddah Tower Deal 05/14/2013 The deal supports the Kingdom Holding project, which includes plans to build a 1 kilometer-high (0.62 mile) skyscraper in Jeddah that would surpass the Burj Khalifa in Dubai as the world’s tallest tower. |
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SoloPower Struggles For Cash With Auction, Layoffs 05/14/2013 The company auctioned items and laid off workers at its California headquarters, as it prepares for more layoffs in June, and to shut down its Portland operation. |
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Adding Wind To PJM Region Could Save $7 Billion 05/13/2013 Adding more wind power to the grid in the PJM region can lower gas and coal consumption and reduce regional wholesale energy market prices, saving nearly $7 billion per year in the mid-2020s, according to a new study conducted by Synapse Energy Economics on behalf of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG). |
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CO2 Levels Highest in Human History 05/13/2013 The daily average atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has passed 400ppm for the first time in its half century of recording, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. |
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NRG Opens Largest Solar PV Plant in CA 05/10/2013 NRG Energy, Inc. has opened a 66 MW (AC) solar photovoltaic facility, which is currently the largest fully operational solar plant in California. The power generated by the facility is being sold to PG&E under a 20-year PPA. |