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Renewable energy losing its shine in Europe
2013-03-22 04:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: For British entrepreneur Timothy Porter and millions of other Europeans who get generous financial incentives for solar panels, the sun has been very lucrative. Not only does the government pay Porter for producing solar energy he produces, at far higher than the market rate for electricity, but he can also use what he generates for himself. "It's fantastic," he said, admiring the solar panel he installed on the roof of his home in the English West Midlands two years ago. Such subsidies...
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Apple makes renewable energy push with solar, fuel cells
2013-03-21 19:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Apple Inc now runs its largest U.S. data center entirely on renewable energy, with a majority of the power generated on-site from solar panels and fuel cells, the company's chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, said on Thursday. The data center in Maiden, North Carolina, which supports Internet storage and Apple's service-hosting iCloud product, produces 167 million kilowatts -- the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year -- from a 100-acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided...
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Apple hits 75 percent renewable energy across the board
2013-03-21 19:05:03| CNET News.com
The tech giant says three-quarters of its energy needs are now renewable, with some facilities now at 100 percent. [Read more]
Australia: Renewable energy target survives review, despite criticism
2013-03-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia's renewable energy target will survive at its current size after the Gillard government rejected calls from some of the country's largest power companies and business lobbies to cut it back. Responding to a review of the target on Thursday, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said the government had decided to maintain the current target to ensure certainty for investors. He said modelling by the Climate Change Authority -- which carried out a review of the target and recommended...
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Renewable energy fight to unfold in Vermont Senate
2013-03-20 10:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Vermont Senate is slated to debate a measure that one side says aims to strengthen reviews of ridge-top wind power projects and the other says would bring development of renewable energy in the state to a halt. Senate bill 30 is being pushed by critics of wind projects that they say have been damaging Vermonts mountaintops without significantly reducing the states greenhouse gas emissions. It would call for the Legislatures Joint Energy Committee to examine reports from an energy siting commission...
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