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Aug. 23, 2010 -- Renewables are often seen as "new." In fact, they are the original energies. Wind, water, biomass and the earth's heat have been used for thousands of years. Being able to harness those resources on a mass-scale is what's new.
Half a century ago, just north of San Francisco, construction began on The Geysers, the nation's first commercial geothermal site. Now an extensive complex of geothermal energy production, the Geysers has come a long way from its beginnings as a single 11-megawatt power plant. <<Read more>>

Aug. 20  2010 - New legislation introduced by Republican Representative Devin Nunes (CA) and backed by several GOP House members would invest billions into renewable energy deployment, signaling an opportunity for bipartisan support for clean energy technology policies. <<Read more>>

Fourth of five stories on renewable energy in California
"Right below your feet is enough potential clean energy to keep the whole country humming with electricity for 30,000 years, according to Department of Energy calculations...
"At its root, it's hot rocks," says John Geesman, who co-chairs the American Council on Renewable Energy." <<Read more>>

Aug. 20, 2010 -- California's clean energy investors are raising millions of dollars for an advertising battle with oil refiners who want to delay the state's new law on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The campaign aims to convince residents to vote against the so-called Proposition 23 when it comes up for approval in November.
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Aug. 18, 2010 -- U.S. EPA is planning to take over permitting programs for states that can't or won't comply with the Obama administration's climate rules by next year, and that isn't sitting well with some state regulators. Officials in Texas and Arizona are staunchly opposing EPA's plans to force states into compliance with controversial climate regulations. <<Full Story>>

Aug. 17, 2010 -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has set an ambitious plan that requires a third of the state's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020. But a fight over where to build large clean-energy projects is slowing the green revolution. <<Full story>>

Aug. 16, 2010 -- Using a Menomonee Falls energy storage system manufacturer as a backdrop, President Barack Obama said his administration’s commitment to clean energy could lead to more than 800,000 new jobs by 2012.ZBB is expanding production of advanced zinc bromide flow batteries and so-called intelligent power control platforms for renewable energy storage with the help of a $1.3 million loan from the Stimulus Act.
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Aug. 13, 2010 -- With great fanfare, an Arizona-based energy company signed a preliminary agreement with China last fall to build the world's largest solar-power plant in the Mongolian desert. The deal was hailed as the first major example of the United States and China cooperating on a big-ticket energy project, and the largest foray by a U.S. company into Asia's fast-growing alternative- energy market.... Nearly a year later, the deal has not been completed and there is growing skepticism as to whether it will happen.  <<Full story>>

Panels will cut cost, supply power at Michigan Assembly
Aug. 13, 2010 -- Ford Motor Co. is tapping the sun's energy to help power production of the next-generation Focus and hybrid-electric vehicles coming to market in the next two years. <<Full story>>

Aug. 13, 2010 -- Illustrating the breadth and scope of clean tech companies in California, a newly updated map from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) contains 3,500 green businesses, academic institutions and organizations throughout California.... When the map is paired with a recent report from the California Employment Development Department showing nearly 500,000 jobs in the state’s clean tech sector, a picture emerges of a vibrant and growing green economy. <<Read more>>

Aug 12, 2010 -- PG&E, owner of the state’s largest utility, won the California Public Utilities Commission’s permission today to buy electricity from a 250-megawatt solar plant being developed by a unit of NextEra Energy Inc., the largest U.S. producer of wind and solar power. The cost of the Riverside County, California, plant and the value of the contract weren’t disclosed. <<Read more>>

Aug. 10, 2010 -- If voters roll back California's landmark climate change bill in November, the state's burgeoning cleantech economy and the jobs it has created will face serious jeopardy. That was the consensus of cleantech leaders who gathered Tuesday morning at Google's Mountain View campus to talk about the state's leadership in clean energy and to rally opposition to Proposition 23. <<Read more>>

August 10, 2010 -- As the body of evidence builds, we get a clearer picture of what’s driving our climate. We now have many lines of evidence all pointing to a single, consistent answer – the main driver of global warming is rising carbon dioxide levels from our fossil fuel burning. <<Full story>>

Aug. 10, 2010 -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Texas-based oil companies that are the primary backers of a November ballot effort to suspend California's global warming law are among the state's biggest polluters, according to a report issued Tuesday by two groups advocating for inner-city residents.<<Read more>>

Aug. 10, 2010 -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed legislation that would fund emergency assistance to various states, partly through the trimming of $1.5 billion in funding for renewable energy loan guarantees. <<Full story>>