Mar 8

State should remove obstacles for towns to provide electricity Boston Globe Cities and towns ostensibly have the right to buy poles, wires, and substations of major utilities at fair value. But a loophole in the law allows …

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Mar 8

New York Times Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun New York Times Regulators in the United States have favored less direct incentives like requiring municipalities to buy a percentage of their electricity from companies … and more »

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Mar 1

Panel Pushes Ways To Cut Electricity Rates WFSB Hartford Figures from the United States Energy Information Administration indicated Connecticut as having the highest average retail electricity rates in the … Conn. panel pushes ways to cut electricity rates BusinessWeek Panel pushes ways to cut electricity rates The Hour all 15 news articles »

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Mar 1

NV energy set to drop rates this fall Reno Gazette Journal Officials said continued falling energy costs in the current first quarter of 2010 are expected to mean a 1 percent average reduction in electricity rates … and more »

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Feb 23

Wired News Feds Pony Up $10 Billion to Back Solar, Nuclear Plants Wired News Seventy percent of electricity in the United States is generated by burning fossil fuels to create heat which can be converted into electricity . … and more »

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Feb 22

Reuters Google Gets OK To Buy Cheap Energy InformationWeek … of energy — the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has granted the search engine firm's request to purchase electricity at wholesale rates . … Google Electric Co? Search Giant OK'd to Sell Electricity Energy Collective (blog) Government Clears the Way for Google to Play in Energy Markets Treehugger FERC sanctions bulk purchase and sale of energy by Google TopNews United States Before It’s News  - Afterdawn.com  - DatacenterDynamics all 116 news articles »

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Feb 20

Should all- electric homes continue to receive discounted rates ? A Plain Dealer … Plain Dealer About 100000 people who heat with electricity have watched their bills skyrocket this winter, sometimes by hundreds of …

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Feb 20

Reuters Government Clears the Way for Google to Play in Energy Markets Treehugger The FERC order allows Google Energy "market-based rate authority" to sell electricity at market prices similar to generation and utility companies. … Google Electric Co? Search Giant OK'd to Sell Electricity Energy Collective (blog) Google now allowed to buy and sell electricity Afterdawn.com FERC sanctions bulk purchase and sale of energy by Google TopNews United States DatacenterDynamics  - PC Magazine  - Environmental Leader all 103 news articles »

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Feb 20

Reuters Google now allowed to buy and sell electricity Afterdawn.com Google has had their request to become an electricity marketer accepted today by US energy regulators, allowing the search giant to begin buying and selling … Google Energy can now buy and sell electricity ! TechWhack (blog) Google Electric Co? Search Giant OK'd to Sell Electricity Energy Collective (blog) Google Gets Government's Approval to Sell Power Like A Utility TopNews United States Catholic Online  - Switched (blog)  - DatacenterDynamics all 103 news articles »

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Feb 17

New York Times (blog) Nuclear Energy's Second Wind Energy and Capital (blog) The United States gets about 20% of its electricity from 104 nuclear reactors. So each one is producing about 0.2% of our needs. By contrast, we get 49% of … Obama Just Went Nuclear, And So Should You The Business Insider Working toward energy independence (Rep. Paul Broun) The Hill (blog) Obama Pushes for Risky Energy Options for What in Return? Clean Energy News (blog) all 1,934 news articles »

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