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Alternative Energy News Saturday January 6th 2007

AES executive joins alternative energy group's board
(bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance: Fri, 05 Jan) AES, one of the largest power companies in the world, is bringing its muscle to a national group that's an advocate for alternative energy.

German Renewable Energy Usage at Record High in 2006
(Planet Ark: Fri, 05 Jan) BERLIN - Renewable energy usage will rise further in Germany this year after reaching its highest ever level in 2006, the BEE renewable energy association said on Thursday.

The follow up file: Still using that nuclear energy expertise
(The San Luis Obispo Tribune: Sun, 31 Dec) Name: David Oatley Job: Private consultant to the U.S. nuclear energy industry What he said then: When The Tribune spoke to David Oatley in March, the vice president of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant was retiring from PG&E after eight years as Diablo's general manager. Oatley said the long hours and intense pressure of running a nuclear power plant contributed to ...

Britain shuts down nuclear power veterans
(Energy Business Review: Wed, 03 Jan) British Nuclear Group has begun the lengthy process to decommission the worlds two oldest commercial nuclear power facilities, Dungeness A in Kent and Sizewell A in Suffolk.

North Qld physicists play down nuclear power fears
(ABC via Yahoo!7 News: Thu, 04 Jan) Two north Queensland physicists have labelled the potential effects of radiation from nuclear power sources as 'overstated'.

In the Global Energy Rush, Nuclear Gets A Resurgence
(Washington Post: Sat, 06 Jan) Sixty miles outside Buenos Aires, construction crews soon will be swarming over a partially built concrete dome abandoned 12 years ago, resuming work on Argentina's long-delayed Atucha II nuclear power plant. They will be in the vanguard of surging interest in nuclear power worldwide.

Enel to build wind farms in U.S., Canada
(AP via Yahoo! News: Fri, 05 Jan) Enel SpA, Italy's largest utility, said Friday it will build two wind farms in the United States and Canada with a combined capacity of 277 megawatts as part of a euro4 billion ($5.2 billion) investment in renewable energy.

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