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The California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) set a broad range of regulatory goals yesterday to help boost the state’s energy efficiency standards and renewable energy production. The regulator also set a deadline of 2011 for state utility PG&E to propose a new “dynamic pricing” rate structure. Dynamic pricing allows for variable electricity rates that reflect [...] ...

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We haven’t heard if the wind-powered VW Bug Rep. Devin Nunes designed for Democrats last week has moved out of committee yet, but engineers from Stuttgart University are way ahead and say they have successfully tested their wind-powered Ventomobile. The Ventomobile, with its three bicycles wheels and two-bladed rotor, will compete with five other European [...] ...

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Bill Gates may have left the Microsoft campus, but he hasn’t lost his flair for the dramatic gesture. It seems one part of Gates’ vast portfolio is at war with another part. To resolve things, Gates is publicly slapping himself on the wrist - something he would never, ever have tolerated from anyone anywhere at any [...] ...

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Dell said this morning that it has achieved its “carbon neutral” goal in less than a year’s time — about five months ahead of the computing giant’s previous schedule — through a combination of energy efficiency, voluntary green power purchases and carbon offsets from rainforest preservation in Madagascar. The program aimed to eliminate or offset [...] ...

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Following recent news that two solar companies were braving listings in public markets, two more bold candidates recently threw their hats into the ring. One of them is STR Holdings, short for Specialized Technology Research. The Enfield, Conn.,-based company has two lines of revenue: It makes encapsulants to secure and protect semiconductor circuits in solar modules, [...] ...

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With $200, a full machine shop and some mechanical savvy, you can now build your very own XR3 plug-in electric vehicle. Robert Q. Riley Enterprises, a product design firm in Glendale, Ariz., is selling plans for its three-wheeled, two passenger diesel-electric hybrid — the XR3 — to do-it-youselfers. Licensed as a motorcycle in most states, [...] ...

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Electric vehicle startup Tesla Motors has coaxed away another top tier exec from Detroit. The San Carlos, Calif.-based company has hired Ford exec Deepak Ahuja as its Chief Financial Officer, the company said late Monday. Ahuja, who moved from Michigan to Silicon Valley for the Tesla position, worked for 15 years at Ford, most recently [...] ...

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What’s worse than getting getting ditched by a high profile customer the same week your company does an IPO? Having a series of class-action lawsuits continue to stamp on your newly public stock. That’s what’s happening to GT Solar. The silicon solar gear maker went public two weeks ago, and after pricing its shares at $16.50, [...] ...

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Andy Karsner, the President Bush appointee that manages the DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) program, is saying farewell. This week the Assistant Secretary of Energy said he will step down at the end of August after spending 2 and a half years trying to establish renewable energy and energy efficiency programs for the [...] ...

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After the Florida Public Service commission excoriated Florida Power and Light for “mismanagement” of its nationally recognized green power program, Sunshine Energy, the utility was forced to shutter its program last week. The PSC’s drastic decision caught many in the utility green power business off guard. FPL’s program has consistently ranked among NREL’s Top 10 Utility [...] ...

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Partisan pranks kept Republican Representatives at the House in protest of the Democrats’ vote to leave for summer vacation without calling a vote on offshore drilling, Politico reports. Democrats voted to adjourn at noon but Republicans refused to leave, staying even after the lights and microphones were turned off. There was no shortage of dramatics as [...] ...

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Solar installer Akeena Solar, the company behind a Lego-like modular solar rooftop system, is in need of some sunshine today. The company saw its loss for the second quarter widen to $5.1 million from $1.92 million a year earlier, while its revenues shrank slightly, to $7.06 million from $7.51 million. Sales of commercial installations, however, [...] ...

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EEStor, maker of the supposedly killer energy storage device, might soon plug its “electrical energy storage unit” (EESU) into the grid to help solve renewable energy’s intermittent power generation problem of when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. MIT Technology Review reports that the stealthy Austin, Texas-based startup is in “serious talks” [...] ...

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Verenium has managed to stay at the front of the pack of biofuel producers looking to build cellulosic ethanol plants in the U.S., and this morning has anounced backing from a major oil player that could help it progress even more — BP. U.K. oil giant BP will invest $90 million into Verenium over the [...] ...

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As alternative energy becomes a hot button issue on the campaign trail, trade groups and individual companies in the sector are fighting to have their voices heard on the Hill — and money talks. Up until June 30, 2008, companies that make up the alternative energy production and services sector spent $11.39 million on lobbying, [...] ...

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There are a lot of commonly-discussed culprits for high U.S. gas prices — increasing world demand for oil, the peak oil theory, oil speculators — but cleaner-blended fuels used in certain regions, isn’t a common one we’ve heard. The Houston Chronicle takes a look at the possibility of the more than a dozen “boutique” blended [...] ...

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Energy continues to dominate presidential politicking and Obama proposes a $1,000 energy rebate that he says could alleviate the stress of high energy costs. But when fighting energy costs we’ve also got to mind emissions, something that worries some about a potential running mate for Obama — Virginia governor Tim Kaine who’s a well-known coal [...] ...

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OptiSolar is a thin film solar maker with massive claims, like a 550 MW photovoltaic farm in San Luis Obispo County that it says is in the works. And the Hayward, California-based startup appears to be raising loads of cash to try to implement its aggressive plans. According to a regulatory filing picked up by [...] ...

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It felt like an old episode of Dallas this week at the Earth2Tech offices with Texas oil baron T. Boone Pickens stealing all the headlines with the launch of his “Pickens Plan.” In case Mr. Pickens and his media blitz made you miss some of the other clean tech news this week we’ve gathered it [...] ...

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ArcelorMittal Launches Cleantech Funds, Misaole Gets $20M: ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg-based steel giant, has launched two new funds, a cleantech venture capital fund and a €100 million ($157 million) carbon fund. The company will be working with VCs including Khosla Ventures, KPCB and Bessemer Venture Partners and have invested $20 million in thin-film solar startup Miasole [...] ...