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US Geothermal gets funding for Neal Hot Springs power project

Energy Business Review

Renewable energy company US Geothermal has received the first funding drawdown under the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) $96.8m loan guarantee to build a 23MW power plant at Neal Hot Springs in eastern Oregon, US. The Neal Hot Springs development ...
 
Inside Solyndra's Fall: Did The Department Of Energy Make A Massive Mistake?

Alternative Energy Retailer magazine

But when that solar manufacturer is the recipient of the Department of Energy's (DOE) first finalized loan guarantee and has hosted high-profile factory tours from President Obama, the news seems even more grim. Solyndra Corp.'s Aug. ...

Toyota Sets Nurburgring Lap Record for Electric Cars (Video)

Wall Street Journal (blog)

By Jonathan Welsh A Toyota electric car called the TMG EV P001 set a new lap record for electric cars of 7 minutes, 48 seconds around the roughly 13-mile Nurburgring race course in Germany. The “Ring” is a storied, demanding track that has seen the ...
 
BMW opens hydro-powered factory for electric vehicle bodywork

BrighterEnergy.org

Components from the Washington plant will be assembled into full vehicles in Germany. BMW said its all-electric i3 vehicle would have a life cycle emissions at least a third lower than for a highly-efficient combustion-engine car. ...

Volvo and Siemens will make electric vehicles

INAUTONEWS

Saving the planet by reducing the CO2 emissions or even cutting them down is every automaker's plan for the future and the latest partnership was signed between Volvo and Siemens, the two companies agreeing to produce electric vehicles. ...
 
Biofuel efforts continue with Blue Angels show

NavyTimes.com

Mabus is trying to put the Navy Department on pace to cut petroleum use in commercial vehicles in half by 2015, sail a strike group powered with a blend of alternative fuel by 2016, cut energy consumption ashore by 50 percent and make half of ...
 
Tough test for Japan's renewable energy strategy

The Australian

JAPAN is poised to undergo a radical change of direction on energy policy with both its government and its industrial sector belatedly embracing renewable energy. Deposed prime minister Naoto Kan strongarmed lawmakers into passing a feed-in tariff law ...
 
Department Of Energy Awards $145 Million To Solar - Solar Industry


Secretary Steven Chu has announced more than $145 million for 69 projects in 24 states that are designed to ...