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Turkey-MENA Nuclear Industry Congress 2013 Provides a Vital Platform for MENA Nuclear Sector
Up to now, there are more than 440 nuclear power plants in 31 countries, generating 14% of the world’s electricity. IAEA predicts that this proportion will at least up to 25% in 2030, with 90 new nuclear power plants entering service. Over 60 ...
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After Investor Pressure, Continental Resources Sets Strong Goal to Reduce Natural Gas Flaring
Continental Resources, Inc., the largest oil producers in North Dakota’s Bakken region, has committed to reduce natural gas flaring from its operated well sites to “as close to zero percent flaring as possible.” This goal announced in Continental’s ...
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Lighting a Fire in Indian Clean Coal Industry: The 2nd Annual World Clean Coal Week India Focus 2013
Coal, the world's most abundant fossil fuel, plays a vital role in the world energy mix. It supplies 24 percent of the total global energy and 40 percent of global electricity. In Asia, coal accounts for almost 75 percent of electricity generation ...
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UPS Expands Renewable Energy Output at New Jersey Facilities
Building on its commitment to increase the use of renewable energy resources in the U.S. and throughout the world, UPS (NYSE: UPS) has invested in two solar power projects at its distribution facilities in Parsippany and Secaucus, New Jersey that ...
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Investors Push 13 Corporations to Adopt Clean Energy Strategies in Shareholder Filings
Leading U.S. institutional investors and pension funds have filed shareholder resolutions with 13 corporations, urging them to source more renewable energy and improve energy efficiency in order to mitigate risks posed by climate change and increase ...
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Volkswagen Chattanooga powers up largest solar park in Tennessee
Volkswagen of America, Inc. (VOW) - Biggest solar installation at a U.S. auto factory is going into operation Think Blue. Factory: 9.5 Megawatt solar system to provide 12.5 per-cent of electric energy to Volkswagen`s LEED Platinum-certified ...
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Global Solar PV Market will show significant growth up to 2020
Solar PV power is one of the fastest growing energy sources in the world. The reason for this rapid growth is the boom in the proliferation of renewable sources. The need for energy security, stability and energy independence is driving governments ...
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Majority of world’s largest companies shifting to clean energy
Despite climate and energy policy inching forward in Congress and at the UN climate change negotiations in Qatar, a new report from Calvert Investments, Ceres and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) shows that most of the world’s largest companies ...
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Voting Opens November 1 for $5,000 Green Small Business Quarterly Award
A public voting period opens tomorrow (November 1) for finalists of the second quarterly Green America “People & Planet” award recognizing America’s best green small businesses. Each of three winners will receive $5,000. ...
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Investors ask congress to extend wind production tax credit
Two dozen investors with more than $800 billion in assets under management today called for an immediate extension of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for renewable power. In a letter delivered to Congressional leaders, investors noted that this ...
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Clean currents announces `Wind Powered Baltimore Week`
Maryland based Clean Currents is hosting Wind Powered Baltimore Week October 15 – 21st, 2012 to celebrate Baltimore’s growing community of businesses, non-profits, and homes powered by wind. The week long recognition of green energy ...
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How to spur millions of people toward energy efficiency
Zerofootprint Inc., a leader in energy information for the public, announced today that Oxford Properties Group has selected its VELO platform to help make their energy efficiency programs more successful; by engaging tenants. Real-time energy usage ...
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New BSR Report Analyzes Total Sustainability Impacts, Market Outlook for Commercial Transportation Fuels
BSR’s new report assesses the total sustainability impacts of commercial transportation fuels as well as the market outlook for a complete range of fuel types. The report will help large-scale fuel purchasers make viable decisions that lessen ...
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IKEA To Sell Only LED Lighting By 2016
IKEA sheds new light on home sustainability practices with a bold move to go 100% LED by 2016 - and turns the world in a new direction by becoming the first US home furnishing retailer to sell only LED bulbs and lamps. LED lighting consumes 85% less ...
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Winthrop-University hospital provides funding for innovative new solar power roof on port washington public library through CBS EcoMedia`s EcoAd advertising program
Community members, library lovers and clean energy supporters celebrated the completed installation of a first-of-its-kind integrated thin film solar power system as part of the Port Washington Public Library’s new SBS Roofing system. The thin ...
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China joins alliance for global green growth
Following the successful launch of the Globa Green Growth Forum last year, new countries are joining the alliance to promote concrete ideas and strategies to secure sustainable growth globally. China, together with Kenya and Qatar, has joined ...
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State`s Largest Solar Array Now Plugged-In Atop IKEA New Haven; Company Surpasses 70% Solar Presence On Its U.S. Locations
With Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, DEEP Commissioner Daniel Esty, community leaders and solar industry representatives on-hand, IKEA, the world’s leading home furnishings retailer, today officially ...
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Business Leaders Urge Congress to Extend Renewable Energy Tax Credit
Today, 19 companies, including major consumer brands and several Fortune 500 firms, wrote to Congressional leaders encouraging them to extend the Production Tax Credit (PTC), a key provision supporting renewable energy. The PTC provides a tax ...
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Marine Exchange of Southern California Goes Green
The Port of Los Angeles and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, joined by representatives from trade and maritime industry, environmental organizations and the harbor community today launched a new era of clean energy for the Marine Exchange of Southern ...
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`Clean Energy Victory Bonds` bill would extend production tax credit for 10 years
A new way of continuing the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and other clean energy incentives for a decade is set out today in the “Clean Energy Victory Bonds Act of 2012,” which would allow Americans to invest billions of dollars to help ...