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Balance Of Power: Clean Energy And Desert Wildlife

Source: Forbes.com LLC™ | Link to article This guest post was written by Johanna Wald, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. I’ve had the great luck to spend my nearly forty year career protecting western lands. But about five years ago, I realized two things that changed the course [...]

MidAmerican Solar and First Solar Announce Start of Major Construction on Largest Solar Project in the World

Source: MarketWatch.com | Link to article DES MOINES, Iowa – May 3, 2012 – This week, MidAmerican Solar and First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) marked the start of major construction at Topaz Solar Farms, located in San Luis Obispo County, Calif. The 550-megawatt photovoltaic project will employ approximately 400 workers during its three-year construction period; [...]

NRG Energy, MidAmerican Solar and First Solar Celebrate 100 MW Milestone for 290 MW Agua Caliente Solar Project

Source: NRG Energy, Inc. | Global Energy World | Link to article The region may be the best resource—and best-kept secret—in the geothermal sector. Representatives from NRG Energy, Inc., MidAmerican Solar and First Solar, Inc. gathered with federal and local officials today at the 290 MW (AC) Agua Caliente solar project in Yuma County, Ariz., [...]

EnergySource’s New Geothermal Plant Is Online Near the Salton Sea

By Herman K. Trabish | Greentech Media | Link to article The region may be the best resource—and best-kept secret—in the geothermal sector. The EnergySource 49.9-megawatt Hudson Ranch I geothermal plant went on-line in the Salton Sea geothermal field on March 9. It is the first in that field to come on-line in twenty years. [...]

Hello, sunshine: Palo Alto utility to pay locals for solar energy

By Marla Dickerson | LA Times | Link to article Soon after the earth shook under Japan last March, NRG Energy Inc. felt aftershocks halfway around the world Green energy may be losing momentum inside the Beltway. But officials in the heart of Silicon Valley are betting on the sun. This week, the Palo Alto [...]

CEO Leads NRG From Nuclear to Solar, Natural Gas

By Leslie Kwoh | WSJ | Link to article Soon after the earth shook under Japan last March, NRG Energy Inc. felt aftershocks halfway around the world When the earthquake triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, the independent power producer was building two nuclear reactors in Texas. Amid regulatory uncertainty in the [...]