Credit: pgegreenenergy The Center for American Progress has ranked the Top 10 states for policies that promote energy efficiency. The report cautions, however, that even those states on the list haven’t fully tapped into the power of using less power. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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What Are the Top States for Energy Efficiency? Did Yours Make the Cut?
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Photo: Flickr , CC Adding 3MW Turbines Europe’s largest onshore wind farm, which is located in East Renfrewshire in Scotland, is about to get even bigger. ScottishPower Renewables is planning to add 75 turbines to the existing 140, increasing the capacity of the wind farm from the current 322 megawatts to 539 megawatts. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Europe’s Largest Onshore Wind Farm to Expand to 539 Megawatts
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photo: Adam Tinworth via flickr Two new illustrations about how the US has stiff competition around the world in renewable energy: New York Times reports on how China has beaten the United States in building the first major offshore wind farm outside of Europe;
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China Beat US in Offshore Wind, Europe Still Trounces Everyone Else in Solar Power
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Photo: Google Blog , logo added by Michael G.R. Part of Google’s Goal of Being Carbon-Neutral Google Energy, a subsidiary of Google that was created to give the company the ability to buy power on the wholesale market, has just inked a 20-year deal to buy 114 megawatts of power from the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II wind farm in Iowa. This is just one of many approaches that Google takes to try to become a carbon-neutral company. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Google Energy Signs 20-Year, 114 MW Wind Power Contract
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photo: Petter Palander via flickr Here’s a bit of good news about the slow transition away from oil and fossil fuels: Reports from UNEP and Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century show that in 2009, for the second year in a row, more new renewable energy capacity was installed than was from fossil fuels in both the United States and Europe…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Renewable Energy Installations in US & Europe Continue to Outpace Fossil Fuels
photo via ted On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show, GPS , Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and oil in the coming decade. Gates, normally sanguine on the power of technology and market forces to cause transformative change at a rapid pace, said that the technology to store energy f… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Bill Gates Says Large Scale Renewable Projects Are Decades Away
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