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Links tagged “renewable energy”
- Germany’s Expensive Gamble on Renewable Energy (8/27/14)
Companies Worry Cost of Plan to Trim Nuclear, Fossil Fuels Will Undermine Competitiveness
- FuelCell installing system at New Haven port (7/29/14)
Danbury clean power manufacturer FuelCell Energy will install a 2.8 megawatt fuel cell system near the port of New Haven, as part of a larger deal with Orange utility United Illuminating.
- Clean-energy views add heat to Maine governor’s race (3/21/14)
In a day of staking out positions, Gov. LePage says pro-renewables policies cost money and jobs, clashing with his two rivals’ support for solar and wind.
- Legislature looks to expand renewable subsidies (3/18/14)
The Connecticut General Assembly's Energy & Technology Committee on Tuesday discussed expanding support for renewable energy installations between 1-20 megawatts.
- Vermont loves renewable energy, until it arrives (3/3/14)
MONTPELIER — Getting energy from the sun, wind and forests fits with Vermont’s sense of itself as clean, green and independent. But when it comes time to build and live with the projects that make it possible, things can get complicated
- Maine’s largest power plant taken off the market, reflecting changes in regional demand (8/12/14)
PORTLAND — Wyman Station, the state’s largest power plant, is no longer on the market as its owners saw increasing profits from the oil-fired power plant in the first quarter of 2014, when winter constraints on natural gas supply for electric generation resulted in greater demand for power from the oil-fired generator.
- State grants $1.2M to schools for energy efficiency, renewables (4/23/14)
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Office of Energy Resources has awarded $1.16 million in grants for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects to local public and private schools and school districts.
- LePage slams ‘green’ energy at clean-tech business forum (3/20/14)
HALLOWELL — Gov. Paul LePage used a meeting of clean-tech business leaders on Thursday to attack Maine’s “green” energy policies that he said bear responsibility for the loss of manufacturing jobs in the state.
- Lowell supports wind project, again (3/4/14)
LOWELL — Lowell voters affirmed their support Tuesday for Green Mountain Power Kingdom Community Wind project that is making electricity for the region on a ridgeline above the community.
- Battle over CMP’s rate proposal pits profits against renewable advocates (2/24/14)
Steve Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority, has spent the better part of three years pitching Brunswick Landing as the epicenter of an emerging clean energy market in Maine and is nearly ready to seal a deal with a company that intends to build an anaerobic digester at the former Navy base. Until recently, he had no inkling that goal also would put Brunswick Landing in a high-stakes policy battle with Central Maine Power Co.