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For the second time in as many days, another California utility company has announced plans to develop 500 megawatts of solar energy in the region. Over the next five years, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) says it will develop photovoltaic facilities of its own in central and northern
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California officials are hoping the new atmosphere in Washington, DC, will mean a renewed opportunity for them to regulate greenhouse gases in the state’s atmosphere. On Wednesday, Mary Nichols, chairman of California’s Air Resources Board (ARB), asked the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider a decision that
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Who says it doesn’t pay to go green in a down economy? Try telling that to NetApp, a California-based Internet services company that’s received a $1.43 million (U.S.) rebate check from the utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) thanks to its energy-saving data centre.
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Solar thermal is the way to go, says California’s Public Utilities Commission. Commissioners this week approved a contract between Southern California Edison and eSolar, a firm that plans to build solar thermal energy facilities that could generate up to 245 megawatts of electricity. Under the 20-year contract, inked earlier
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Wise words from Governator Arnie Schwarzenegger in 1987, when his political career was but a twinkle in a PR man’s eye and he was content to dress up in camo and careen around the jungle on the hunt for a murderous alien crab in Predator: “if it bleeds, we
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Irish renewables firm NTR is handing over $100 million to US solar company Stirling Energy Systems to help them deliver two massive plants. This initially confused Greenbang. A quick scout around on the internet showed her you could get several massive plants delivered for a couple of hundred quid if
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With Arnie at the helm of California’s hydrogen highway, Greenbang thought it was time to look into this political history. She did, and she found this quote from the man himself at a Republican convention: “To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say, Don’t
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There are many things that are universally accepted that are not necessarily true. Tomato ketchup is the natural compliment to chips (the pickled egg is the daddy in this category), for example, or black suits everyone (if that were true, Goths would be style leaders). Now the University of California