It was a tale of two budgets.
For many environmentalists and the renewable power sector, President Obama’s $3.6 trillion blueprint released yesterday would provide a flush of new cash to spur the development of energy-efficient buildings and carbon-free wind and solar farms. It also would add new money to ready U.S. EPA for the global warming [...]
MONTPELIER— The Vermont Senate has advanced a bill that would allow cities and towns to help property owners finance renewable energy and efficiency improvements.
The bill would encourage cities and towns to set up programs that would enable property owners to install wind, solar and other energy projects and repay the cost to the municipalities over [...]
(PhysOrg.com) — One of the more interesting areas of technological development in the coming years is likely to be energy development — specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics allowing for such items as organic thin-film solar cells, it appears that energy technology could be one of the uses for cutting edge scientific [...]
JACKSON, Miss., March 23, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ —-Thirty years ago, the United States experienced the worst nuclear plant accident in American history. Since that time, increased vigilance in safety has made the nation’s 104 nuclear plants - including the 12 reactors operated by Entergy Nuclear - an even stronger and safer form of energy [...]
Having generated electricity as a plant operator, plant manager and vice president in three mid-sized electric power companies for a long career, I wish to express a few facts about using biomass (wood) as a fuel for large boilers (”Trees better alternative to coal” Hattiesburg American, Jan. 6).
There are several mid-sized boilers in service using [...]
LANSING (AP) — Retired second-grade teacher Jean Veselenak drove four hours to tell state regulators what she fears would happen if a new coal-fired power plant is built in her community along Lake Huron in northern Michigan.
She believes the environment would be polluted with more mercury — a toxin that can damage children’s nervous systems [...]
By CHRISTINE STAPLETON
Florida’s energy future should be “clean” - not just “renewable” - and include nuclear power as a source of green energy, according to recommendations from the staff of utility regulators released Wednesday.
The 111-page report is the latest step in the debate over whether power companies can count new nuclear power toward their obligation [...]
Zinie Chen Sampson ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND | Virginia universities and colleges are developing or restarting nuclear-education programs, often with help from energy companies, to replenish an aging work force in anticipation of new plants to meet increasing electricity demand.
Virginia Commonwealth University started a nuclear track to its master’s of engineering program in 2007, after officials with [...]
By Katarzyna Klimasinska
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Poland, which generates 93 percent of its electricity from coal, is considering building its first nuclear plant by 2023 in the northern town of Zarnowiec, as it seeks to cut greenhouse-gas emissions from power generation.
“We will need nuclear energy if it turns out that renewable sources aren’t efficient enough, [...]
Waste, water and warming ruled the day at Monday’s packed-house Public Service Commission hearing on Georgia Power’s nuclear expansion plans.
The first hearing on two proposed new reactors near Waynesboro drew roughly equal numbers of friends and foes to the mike.
The comments sometimes got heated.
One opponent, a woman who said she had lived in Pennsylvania during [...]
