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ADB to lend Azerbaijan US$160m for power network upgrade
Azerbaijan is upgrading its ageing power transmission facilities through a $160 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The 25-year loan will help build a double-circuit 220 kilovolt transmission line and associated substation facilities, replacing two existing lines which have been in use for about 60 years by state-owned power company, Azerenergy. Over 20% of the country’s energy ...
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India´s multi-billion dollar clean energy project
With funding support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), India’s national power grid operator is embarking on an ambitious multi-billion dollar plan to expand the country’s power transmission grid and link stable clean energy supplies to areas suffering shortages. ADB is extending a US$600 million loan to Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (POWERGRID) in a multitranche financing facility to ...
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Vietnam announces bold nuclear plans
Vietnam has announced ambitious plans to develop a nuclear power industry, with the aim of having eight nuclear reactors up and running by 2030. According to the official Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien officials announced last month (22 June) that the reactors would be located in five central provinces, and would generate 15,000 megawatts of power — enough to meet ten per cent of the ...
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NREL Estimates Economically Viable U.S. Renewable Generation
Analysts at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are providing, for the first time, a method for measuring the economic potential of renewable energy across the United States. A study applying this new method found that renewable energy generation is economically viable in many parts of the United States largely due to rapidly declining technology costs. The ...
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Maryland’s Montco communities rank high in national competition to use green power
Two Maryland communities in Montgomery County achieved high ranking in EPA’s national competition challenging cities to voluntarily use more renewable energy sources for their electricity needs. Brookeville is the challenge winner for the highest green power percentage of total electricity use. Rockville placed 10th for towns using the most amount of green power. EPA’s year-long ...
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Swarthmore Ranks 3rd in National Competition to use Green Power
The borough of Swarthmore in Delaware County, Pa. achieved third place in EPA’s national competition challenging cities to voluntarily use more renewable energy sources for their electricity needs. During the year-long Green Power Community Challenge competition, Swarthmore purchased 27.9 percent of its total electricity from green power sources, the third highest percentage among the ...
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Cities competing to win EPA’s green power community challenge / district of Columbia and Brookville, MD. currently lead the green power charge
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) first Green Power Community Challenge has reached its mid-year point with 36 communities setting an example for other cities, towns, villages, and Native American tribes to use renewable energy to help protect people’s health and the environment. At this point in the competition, the two category leaders are Washington, D.C. for its ...
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53 Fortune 500 corporations surpass EPA green power goals
In response to EPA’s nationwide challenge issued in December 2006, 53 Fortune 500 corporations are now collectively purchasing more than six billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually. These purchases surpassed the goals set by EPA’s Green Power Partnership by 130 percent and equal the avoided carbon dioxide emissions of more than 570 million gallons of gasoline each year or the ...
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Green fiscal reform can create jobs and stimulate innovation across the EU
Increasing some tax rates and removing subsidies on environmentally harmful products and services can boost economic growth if the revenue generated is then used to relieve the tax burden on employment and investment. The findings come from a series of studies from the European Environment Agency (EEA) looking at the potential for fiscal reform in four EU countries affected by the current ...
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EPA launches Green Power Community challenge nationwide/local governments expand use of green power (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is kicking off its national “Green Power Community Challenge,” a year-long campaign to encourage cities, towns, villages, and Native American tribes to use renewable energy and fight climate change. Purchases of green power help to prevent greenhouse gas emissions and also help accelerate the development of new renewable energy capacity across ...
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Pumped Storage Projects Selected for Techno-Economic Studies
Recently (12/3), the U.S. Department of Energy announced selections for its Notice of Opportunity for Technical Assistance to perform techno-economic studies to evaluate the long-term value of two selected pumped-storage hydropower (PSH) projects. While PSH projects were initially built to balance the electricity system between period of high demand during the day and low demand at night, ...
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Pumped Storage Projects Selected for Techno-Economic Studies
The U.S. Department of Energy recently (12/3) announced selections for its Notice of Opportunity for Technical Assistance to perform techno-economic studies to evaluate the long-term value of two selected pumped-storage hydropower (PSH) projects. While PSH projects were initially built to balance the electricity system between period of high demand during the day and low demand at night, ...
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D.C. makes top 20 list of local government green power purchasers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the District of Columbia for the first time appears as No. 3 on EPA's Top 20 Local Government list of the largest green power purchasers. “The District is to be congratulated for demonstrating by example the importance of utilizing green power,” said EPA mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. “Their ...
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Opening of China International CSP Plaza, jointly sponsored by Rayspower and CSPPLAZA
June 25 and 26, China International CSP Plaza and CSPPLAZA 2015 annual conference (CPC2015) grand opening was held in Beijing, Energy Research Institute of National Development and Reform Commission, New energy and Renewable Energy Division of National Energy Administration, National Climate Change Strategic and International Cooperation Center,Water Resources and Hydropower Planning & Design ...
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Portland dubbed one of the country’s greenest communities with EPA designation (OR)
Portland made EPA’s elite list of Green Power Communities for the city’s extensive efforts to reduce its carbon footprint. The city is the largest to achieve this designation and is top-ranked for green power usage. Portland joined EPA’s Green Power Partnership in 2001 as one of its founding members. The city’s municipal operations are using nearly 16 million ...
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EPA announces nation’s top 50 Green Power Organizations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named the 50 green power partners using the most renewable electricity. The Green Power Partnership’s top purchasers use more than 12 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power annually, equivalent to the annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the electricity use of more than 1 million average American homes. Green Power helps to ...
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Oak Ridge Becomes Southeast’s First Green Power Community
On Monday, the City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee becomes the newest member of EPA’s national Green Power Communities initiative. Oak Ridge becomes the first city in the Southeast to take part in the national initiative. “We applaud the City of Oak Ridge for increasing their use of clean and renewable energy sources,” said Beverly Banister, Director of the Air, Pesticides, and Toxics ...
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HYDRO 2017 Seville 9-11 October: Shaping the future of hydropower
HYDRO 2017, an international conference on hydropower & dams development will take place in Sevilla from 9-11 October 2017. The event will bring together 1500 high level delegates from 90 countries, who will have the opportunity to learn about Spanish expertise in the field. The event will focus on the future of hydropower and is organised by Aqua-Media International Ltd with supporting ...
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NREL Data Book charts growth of renewable-electricity generation in 2015
Renewable energy generation continued to grow in the U.S. even as demands for electricity decline, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) 2105 Renewable Energy Data Book. The Data Book issued this month is compiled by NREL for the U.S. Department of Energy. “Since it was first released in 2009, the Renewable Energy Data Book has provided useful insights for ...
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EPA welcomes Philadelphia as its newest green power community partner
Today, EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin welcomed the City of Philadelphia as a new member of EPA’s national Green Power Communities initiative, showing that a major metropolitan area can reduce its carbon pollution, improve public health, and help expand the nation’s renewable energy supply. The announcement came during an event at Citizens Bank Park, where Garvin also ...
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