 SDG&E launches new solicitation for renewable energy
(San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News: Wed, 12 Mar) San Diego Gas & Electric has issued a competitive solicitation seeking supply of renewable-energy resources to help the utility meet California's mandate to derive 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources starting in 2010.
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 Senate passes plan to ease requirements for nuclear power plants
(Lexington Herald-Leader: Wed, 12 Mar) The Senate has approved a plan that would ease requirements for building nuclear power plants in Kentucky. State law forbids nuclear power plants from being built unless a permanent radioactive waste disposal operation is available. The measure would lift that restriction that has essentially put a moratorium on such plants in Kentucky because the U.S. has no permanent waste storage facility. ...
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 Iberdrola Renovables begins tests on pilot wave energy plant
(Energy Business Review: Wed, 12 Mar) Clean energy firm Iberdrola Renovables has begun testing of a wave energy pilot plant in Santona, in the Spanish province of Cantabria, which the company claims will become the first of this kind to be installed in Europe.
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 Toshiba Creates Nuclear Energy Unit
(AP via Yahoo! Finance: Thu, 06 Mar) Toshiba Corp. said Thursday it has established a new U.S. company, Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corp., to enhance its nuclear power businesses.
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 Toshiba to open up U.S. nuclear-power business
(Addict 3D: Thu, 06 Mar) Mission of Japanese consumer electronics company's Toshiba America Nuclear Energy is to promote and support boiling-water plants. Consumer electronics giant Toshiba on Thursday said it has launched a new company in the United States to enhance its nuclear-power businesses.
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 Nuclear Power Not Efficient Enough To Replace Fossil Fuels, Study Finds
(Science Daily: Tue, 04 Mar) Nuclear energy must increase by more than 10% each year from 2010 to 2050 to meet all future energy demands and replace fossil fuels, but this is an unsustainable prospect. According to a new report such a large growth rate will require a major improvement in nuclear power efficiency otherwise each new power plant will simply cannibalize the energy produced by earlier nuclear power plants. ...
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KY Senate Passes Plan to Ease Nuclear Power Plant Requirements
Craig suggested that the Air Force branches into nuclear power
