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Cameroon Hires MRS For Tidal Power Study

Cameroon is considering harnessing power from its ocean currents to help fill its chronic electricity gap.

The government of the central African state bordering the Atlantic has hired MRS Power Cameroon, a subsidiary of MRS Holding Ltd, to conduct a tidal power feasibility study, the government-owned Cameroon Tribune reported on Monday.

"This project comes at a time Cameroon is suffering a h

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28/09/2010
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Electric Car Use Beats Wind To Cut Oil Use: Study

Widespread adoption of electric cars could reduce U.S. oil demand and the need for imported oil more than creation of a national mandate for renewable power such as wind and solar, according to research from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy released on Monday.

The Baker Institute analysis found that a mandate calling for 30 percent of all U.S.

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Scotland To Get 100 Pct Green Energy by 2025

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28/09/2010

Scotland should produce enough renewable electricity to meet all its power demand by 2025, First Minister Alex Salmond said Tuesday.

"Scotland has unrivalled green energy resources and our new national target to generate 80 percent of electricity needs from renewables by 2020 will be exceeded by delivering current plans for wind, wave and tidal generation," Salmond said.

"I'm confident that

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R-Power to set up solar plants

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27/09/2010

New Delhi: Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company Reliance Power is setting up the world's largest solar power plants in the country with an investment of Rs 9,000 crore. The group is planning to generate 600 MW. The company has already identified the sites in Rajasthan and Maharashtra to generate 600 MW.

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Senators Aim To Keep Renewable Power Bill "Clean"

Senators backing a bi-partisan bill that would make big utilities begin embracing renewable electricity believe they can get enough votes to pass it without having to add oil or nuclear incentives to the measure, a Congressional aide said on Friday.

Democrat Jeff Bingaman, the chair of the Senate's energy committee, and Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican, introduced the bill this week that inc

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Bulgaria Plans Caps On New Green Energy Assets

Bulgaria plans to put limits on new renewable energy assets to avoid a spike in sensitive energy prices and a collapse of its aging power grid, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said on Friday.

Traikov said the Balkan country can add up to 2,000 megawatts of new solar, wind and hydro power plants by 2020 without jeopardizing the security of power supply and keeping the energy prices a

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Solar Stocks Mostly Rise After California Move

Stocks of solar power companies were mostly higher on Friday after California regulators voted on Thursday to raise the state's renewable energy target.

California's Air Resources Board approved an increase in the share of electricity in the state that is produced from renewable energy sources to 33 percent by 2020 from 20 percent by 2010.

However, an initiative in front of California voters

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27/09/2010
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NTPC to generate 75 gw by Mar 2017

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27/09/2010

New Delhi: NTPC is aiming to add capacity at 13% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) in order to generate 75,000 mw by March 2017 and reduce its carbon footprint by increasing the share of renewable and nuclear power in its energy mix and improving energy efficiency of coal-fired plants.

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Green Energy Management Services launched

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24/09/2010

Crystal Future Ventures Limited of Bangladesh and ACME Tele Power (Mauritius) Limited on Thursday jointly launched Green Energy Management Services to provide green energy solutions for the telecommunication sector in the country.

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