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Cape Wind Wins 87% Support on Massachusetts Ballot
As the long battle over a proposed wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts inches towards a conclusion, project supporters won an important, albeit, symbolic victory on November 4th, as Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly voiced their approval of what would be the country’s first offshore wind farm. Eighty seven percent of voters in eleven Massachusetts towns [...]
NREL Ignites $3.3 Million Woodchip Boiler
With the spark of a road flare, engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory lit its new, smoke-free Renewable Fuels Heating Plant today. The $3.3 million project is the Laboratory’s latest step toward operating as a net-zero energy facility. The RFHP will heat NREL’s South Table Mountain Campus laboratory buildings by [...]
Recycling in America
According to the EPA, Americans recycled and composted 85 million tons of the 254 million tons of total municipal solid waste produced last year. Recycling in America has become much more than a simple act of separating one’s bottles and cans from the rest of the household waste. Along with replacing incandescent light bulbs with [...]
Swiss Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff Settles In
The Swiss, famed for their democratic traditions, chocolate, and knives with corkscrews, have adopted an aggressive feed-in tariff to promote the rapid development of renewable energy. The Swiss federal government has launched an aggressive system of feed-in tariffs that pays any renewable energy generator for every kWh of electricity generated. The Swiss system, which is [...]
Canada’s Largest Wind Farm Goes Live; Country Still Lags Behind Peers
Canadian Hydro Developers have announced the completion of phase II of the Melancthon EcoPower Centre, located near Shelburne, Ontario. With the completion of phase II, the project now generates 199.5 MW of wind power, making it the largest wind farm in Canada, accounting for more than 10% of the country’s entire wind energy capacity of [...]
