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Washington D.C. – U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that a partial loan guarantee for a $1.3 billion loan has been finalized to support the world’s largest wind farm.

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A pilot project for the creation of an “energy park” with a full-cycle environmentally friendly electricity generation facility will be launched in the village of Lypivka in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

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Boralex Inc. and Gaz Métro Ãole Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gaz Metro Limited Partnership, announce the acquisition of the rights on a wind power project having an installed capacity of 69 megawatts.

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WASHINGTON: The United States approved on Monday a permit for the largest solar energy project in the world – four massive plants at the cost of one billion dollars each in southern California.

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LANCASTER, NY–(Marketwire – 10/20/10) – Ecology and Environment, Inc., (E & E) (NASDAQ: EEI – News ) is proud to announce its involvement in the Silver State North Solar Project, the first large-scale solar energy project on U.S. Public Lands in Nevada. The First Solar, Inc. project was approved by Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, yesterday. This is the second landmark, large-scale solar …

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ROSEMEAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SCE began construction of the state’s largest investor-owned utility photovoltaic power plant at a site in the San Joaquin Valley.The construction project is expected to create approximately 125 jobs.

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This week the Municipality of Anchorage will turn down the heat and turn off the lights to practice cutting energy consumption. Among other things, the muni will literally shut down large municipal buildings and ask you to turn down the heat and shut off the lights from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday to cut energy consumption. The idea is to practice the last line of defense to keep us — Southcentral …

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Google has invested in an effort to create a 350-mile power transmission backbone linking wind turbines several miles offshore with sites along the United States East Coast.

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MENLO PARK, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Skire, Inc. (www.skire.com), the leading provider of capital program, facilities, real estate and project portfolio management software, today announced that DTE Energy has selected Skire’s Unifier solution to manage the complete lifecycle of the company’s capital projects, from inception through execution. DTE Energy Co. (NYSE: DTE …

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National Ignition Facility (NIF) was honored by Project Management Institute (PMI) as winner of its prestigious PMI® Project of the Year Award. Constructed at and led by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA, NIF is largest and highest-energy laser. This accomplishment came to be via worldwide collaboration of representatives from governments, academia, and industrial …

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