Geothermal energy put to test at schools

By Alex Bloom (The Arizona Republic)

Some school districts in Arizona are considering geothermal energy to reduce utility costs. Earlier this month, the Cave Creek Unified School District governing board approved the drilling of a test well at its high-school campus.

K.M. Drilling, a Camp Verde firm, will drill a 250-foot test well on Jan. 10 on the campus at Cactus Shadows High School …..

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First U.S. offshore wind farm project moves forward

By Scott Malone (Reuters.com)

A plan to build the United States’ first offshore wind farm took another step forward on Tuesday, after the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection approved its proposed undersea cables to transmit power to the mainland.

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Wave Energy: new system captures significantly more wave energy than existing systems

By ScienceDaily.com

MIT researchers are working with Portuguese colleagues to design a pilot-scale device that will capture significantly more of the energy in ocean waves than existing systems, and use it to power an electricity-generating turbine.

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Reliance Industries gets US grant for coal-based fuel project

By Press Trust of India

India’s top corporate Reliance Industries, led by the country’s richest person Mukesh Ambani, has received a grant of $600,000 (less than Rs 3 crore) for its proposed coal-to-liquid fuel project.

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Marine Innovation and Technology

Marine Innovation and Technology

Marine Innovation and Technology’s design of floating platforms, in deep water is designed for oil and gas fields. But this design can be used by Offshore wind farms to harness wind & ocean energy.

Marine Innovation & Technology’s design is a new approach to floating platforms in deep water for cost-effective development of marginal offshore oil & gas fields.

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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy intends to renew ABWR reactor design

By RTTNews.com

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, the global nuclear alliance of General Electric Co. (GE: News ) and Tokyo, Japan-based Hitachi Ltd. (HIT: News ) Monday said that they have notified the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the intention to renew the design certification for the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor technology.

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Slovakia to build new nuclear plant with Czech CEZ

By Associated press

The Slovak government has chosen the Czech Republic’s main power utility CEZ AS as its strategic partner to build a new nuclear power station in Slovakia.

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Indonesia’s Geothermal projects need investors

By Wahyoe Boediwardhana (TheJakartaPost.com)

The government is to auction off geothermal resources in Ngebel, Ponorogo, and Ijen, Banyuwangi, to help defuse the power crisis in Java and Bali, an official says.

The total capacity of the two sites is more than 400 Megawatts (MW).

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Mississippi Power plans for clean coal plant by 2015

By Emma James American Staff Writer

Mississippi Power is planning to build a $2 billion plant in Kemper County that could be become the first full-scale clean coal generating plant in the United States, Mississippi Power chief executive officer Anthony Topazi told the Hattiesburg American editorial board this afternoon.

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Coal-to-Liquids project in Fairbanks would cost up to $7.4B

By Patricia Liles Alaska Journal of Commerce

Fairbanks Economic Development Corp. officials continue to wade through a 179-page conceptual study released in November for a large-scale project that would produce synthetic diesel, jet fuel and electric power from Healy-mined coal.

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