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Race to buy Alstom heats up as suitors lift bids

23 June 2014

 The international race to take over France’s engineering company Alstom SA entered its final stretch on Friday, with Siemens and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries responding to General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) sweetened bid by raising their own combined offer. Alstom is due to decide by Monday what offer to accept, after the French government had solicited improved bids for the company, which […]

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Trina Solar to supply 60MW of PV modules to Xinyi Solar

23 June 2014

Trina Solar will supply 60MW of PV modules to Xinyi Solar for solar projects in Anhui, China, which will be used in utility scale and agricultural greenhouse solar projects. Of the total 60MW, Trina Solar will supply 5MW of its TSM-PC05A modules, 30MW of TSM-PC14 modules and 25MW of dual glass TSM-PDG5 modules. The PDG5 […]

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Farm rally to help in looming energy crisis

20 June 2014

An army of landowners and farmers is understood to be rallying to the call to help Britain out of a looming energy crisis by becoming small-scale power generators. Planning applications for small and medium-scale wind turbines has grown by 60% in the past six months, according to new data released by farm wind turbine specialist […]

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NextEra opens steele flats wind energy center in Nebraska

20 June 2014

NextEra Energy Resources LLC a unit of NextEra Energy Inc. announced the official dedication of the Steele Flats Wind Energy Center, located in Jefferson and Gage counties, Nebraska. The new wind energy facility is capable of generating 74.8 MW of wind power, enough electricity to meet the energy needs of 19,000 Nebraska homes. All of the power generated by the Steele […]

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First Wind and Rocky Mountain Power to develop solar power in Utah

20 June 2014

First Wind finalized four 20-year power purchase agreements with Rocky Mountain Power, a division of PacifiCorp and part of Berkshire Hathaway Energy. As part of the power purchase agreements, Rocky Mountain Power will buy the output of the planned 320 MW (AC) “Four Brothers” solar power development, which includes four, separate fully permitted 80 MW (AC) project sites. Rocky […]

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North Dakota boom: 1 million barrels of oil a day

19 June 2014

WILLISTON, North Dakota (AP) — North Dakota has joined the ranks of the few places in the world that produce more than a million barrels of oil per day, due in large part to the rich Bakken shale formation in the western part of the state. The April figures released Tuesday by the state’s Department of Mineral Resources showed […]

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Los Andes Copper and Icafal announce plans for 30 MW hydroelectric project in Chile

19 June 2014

Vancouver-based Los Andes Copper Ltd. has entered into an agreement with Icafal Inversiones SA to develop and finance a 28-30 MW hydroelectric plant on the Rocin River in Chile. Acting through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Rocin SpA, Los Andes will incorporate a new subsidiary company to own, develop, build and operate the Rocin project. Meanwhile, Icafal […]

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Storage updates: A123 buys battery tech as it mulls EVs, Sunverge aises $15 million for distributed application

19 June 2014

NEW YORK CITY — A123 Systems LLC, the battery maker bought by Wanxiang Group Corp. after it sought bankruptcy protection in 2012, purchased technology from Leyden Energy Inc. that the Chinese parent may use to make electric cars. The deal includes more than 20 patents and some employees from Leyden who will relocate from California to […]

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US BOEM proposes sale of wind energy area offshore Massachusetts

18 June 2014

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has proposed the lease sale of the largest area of offshore Massachusetts for offshore wind energy projects. The proposal for more than 742,000 acres lease sale is a part of the US President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources and […]

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UK Department for Energy approves East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm

18 June 2014

ScottishPower Renewables and Vattenfall have received development consent from the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change for the East Anglia ONE Offshore wind farm 43km off the Suffolk Coast. The 1.2GW offshore wind farm, a 50-50 joint venture between Sweden’s state-owned utility Vattenfall and Scottish Power Renewables, will feature 240 wind turbine generators and […]

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