Intel Remains Top Green Power Partner Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) kept its top ranking in the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Power Partners program for 2009. ... Powerex strikes green-power deal with California utility PG&E Powerex has struck a precedent-setting deal to deliver green electricity to a major California utility.The five-year deal with Pacific Gas & Electric, which has 15 million customers, would see the BC Hydro electricity trading subsidiary annually deliver between 330 and 1,000 gigawatt hours of renewable power to PG&E.That's enough to meet the needs of between 30,000 and 90,000 households each year."This is the first true indication that there is a market for renewable electricity in California which can be served by BC Hydro/Powerex," said British Columbia electricity sector commentator David Austin in a telephone interview.He added that a five-year contract is one... Just Energy Purchases Local, Green Power From First Wind's Steel Winds Project in New York MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Just Energy (JE.UN), one of North America's leading energy retailers, is pleased to announce it will enter ... Bid to win $100m in green power funding A Queensland consortium has been launched to bid for $100 million in federal funding for solar power pilot projects. The consortium includes the Queensland government, energy companies Ergon and Energex, the CSIRO, universities and Korean government-owned electricity giant KEPCO. Energy Minister Stephen Robertson said two key parts of the bid include a solar thermal storage technology pilot project, which captures heat from the sun and stores it for future electricity generation, and a trial of fitting solar photo-voltaics to the power grid. The Queensland Smart Communities bid proposes to build a large scale demonstration Smart Grid-S... BC Hydro sees green power supply deals soon - Reuters VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Long-term power contracts are expected to be awarded shortly to small clean energy producers in British ... Intel plans 8 solar electric facilities Intel was recognised by the Environmental Protection Agency as the top purchaser in the USA of green power under EPA's Green Power Partnership. ... Overpaying for Green Power Green power advocates in the United States have started pushing for a European-style subsidy scheme in which homeowners or businesses that install solar panels or windmills can sell their excess power back to the grid at inflated prices. Utilities are required by the state to pay above-market rates for this environmentally-friendly power. These so-called feed-in tariffs were first devised in Germany in the early 1990s and have been adopted by nearly 20 other countries since then as a way to boost the installation of renewable energy production. And if encouraging the installation of renewable energy capacity is the chief goal, feed-in tariffs do work. As the result of its feed-in tar... Rochester Business Journal New York business news and information ... energy sources and incorporate green power educational opportunities for schools,” power authority President and CEO Richard Kessel said in a statement. ...

Green "Volcano" to Power U.K. Town But the residents of Stockton-on-Tees in the northeastern UK. may soon rely on their friendly neighborhood "peak" for green power. With construction due to ...

Green Gym for the Homeless ... Green Revolution, taps into pedal power, providing exercise machines and consulting to facilities, harnessing the energy of gym rats into green power. ...