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Biofuel plant opens in Chatham
- The News and Observer (new window)
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9/26/2006 |
| PITTSBORO - A Chatham County co-op that started out making alternative fuel from french fry grease launched the state's first big biodiesel production plant Monday. | |
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Editorial: Potential plant violations are our concern
- The Chapel Hill Herald (new window)
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9/26/2006 |
| Officially, the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant is in Wake County. That's its legal address. But really, it's next door. | |
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Opinion: Should toughest provisions of energy bills be kept?
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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9/24/2007 |
| Democratic Senate-House conferees should stick to their guns in support of tough energy legislation aimed at pushing Americans out of their gas-guzzling SUVs in a last-gasp attempt to stop a global warming catastrophe. | |
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Buncombe, Progress Energy agree to terminate Woodfin site lease
- Asheville Citizen-Times (new window)
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9/24/2007 |
| ASHEVILLE — A decision by Progress Energy and Buncombe County commissioners to terminate a lease of county-owned property in Woodfin marks the end of controversial plans by the utility to use the land for a power plant or other energy-related use. | |
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Third of nuke plants have had long shutdowns
- The News and Observer (new window)
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9/20/2006 |
| One-third of the nation's nuclear reactors have been forced to shut down for a year or more because of safety concerns, according to a new study from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nuclear watchdog group in Washington. | |
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Harris N-plant clears bar to extended license
- The News & Observer (new window)
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8/9/2007 |
| Progress Energy has cleared a hurdle in its bid to extend the operating license of the Shearon Harris nuclear plant by 20 years. | |
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CFCC faculty, students are excited about making their own biodiesel
- Wilmington Star-News (new window)
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8/9/2007 |
| Cape Fear Community College is revving up to become a player in the region's local biodiesel manufacturing movement. | |
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Bio-fuel Efforts Are Creeping Ahead in 1st Gear
- WRAL (new window)
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8/7/2007 |
| Raleigh — The alternative fuel movement is in its infancy in North Carolina, and few service stations offer ethanol or bio-diesel. | |
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Duke signs wind power deal in Indiana
- Charlotte Business Journal (new window)
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8/30/2006 |
| Duke Energy Indiana will buy up to 100 megawatts of wind-generated electricity from a wind farm an independent company is building in Benton County, Ind. | |
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Opnion: An Incomplete Energy Bill
- The New York Times (new window)
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8/2/2007 |
| The House will begin debating Friday on a generally useful energy bill that would increase energy efficiency, encourage more responsible oil and gas development on public lands and stimulate investment in cleaner fuels. Yet the bill is incomplete. If it truly hopes to address the problems of global warming and energy independence, three vital issues need to be addressed. | |
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Cost-effective energy
- The News & Observer (new window)
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8/2/2007 |
| Your July 24 article "Energy bill moves ahead" presents a flawed analysis of solar energy technologies. | |
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Is the certificate real?
- The News & Observer (new window)
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8/16/2007 |
| Private individuals and corporations can purchase renewable energy certificates to subsidize green energy. But once you own the certificate, how can you be sure that your money ends up supporting solar, wind or other renewable energy efforts? | |
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Pollution a worry with company's proposal for new boiler at Cliffside
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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8/15/2007 |
| A public hearing on Duke Energy's plan to build a new boiler at its coal-fired Cliffside power plant will be held Sept. 18, the N.C. Division of Air Quality said Tuesday. | |
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County to discuss waste-to-energy
- The Charlotte Obsrever (new window)
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8/13/2007 |
| York County leaders will begin talks this fall on a new way to deal with the area's growing trash problem. | |
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Scientists at center stage
- The News & Observer (new window)
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8/11/2007 |
| Ratna Sharma didn't attract much attention when she started doing research on the properties of cotton stalks and switchgrass almost four years ago. But that was before gas sold for $3 a gallon and green was a marketing strategy instead of a color. | |
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The good and the bad on energy policy
- The Chapel Hill Herald (new window)
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8/10/2007 |
| North Carolina has embarked on an energy policy that, in one regard, looks to the future and, in another, retreats to the past. | |
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Old trash may turn to cash
- News & Record (new window)
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8/10/2007 |
| WENTWORTH — In a pile of trash, Rockingham County is sitting on a pot of money. County commissioners are considering closed landfills as a source of methane, which eventually could generate up to $1 million annually off the greenhouse gas. | |
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Alternative ramblings
- Smoky Mountain News (new window)
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8/1/2007 |
| When you look at the petroleum fuel infrastructure in this country, you’re looking at trillions of dollars worth of investment. Add to that the corporate sharks like ExxonMobile, Chevron-Texaco, General Motors, Ford, Toyota and the like who feed from and help sustain this infrastructure and you can see a formidable roadblock on the road to alternative energy. And then there’s me, oh, and you. | |
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Feeding the need
- Smoky Mountain News (new window)
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8/1/2007 |
| A state energy bill expected to pass this week has received mixed reviews from environmentalists for failing to go far enough. | |
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Duke proposes a pair of gas-fired units
- The Business Journal (new window)
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7/5/2007 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas wants to build a 600- to 800-megawatt gas-fired plant in Rockingham County that would begin producing power in 2011. The company also plans to expand the size of an already-proposed gas plant in Rowan County, boosting it to as much as 800 megawatts from 600. | |
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Capping greenhouse gases
- The Independent Weekly (new window)
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7/4/2007 |
| First, the bad news: Durham ranks well above—sometimes double—the national average in amount of greenhouse gases generated per person. And despite the city's 1999 plan to reduce these emissions, with a few exceptions, efforts to decrease these pollutants have been weak or non-existent. Now, the good news: The city and county are starting to do something about it. | |
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Energy overhaul nearly a reality
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/31/2007 |
| Despite protests from environmental groups, North Carolina lawmakers made it clear Monday evening they will approve the most significant overhaul of the state's energy policies in more than 20 years. | |
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Energy-saving gadgets in use
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/31/2007 |
| Several hundred Progress Energy customers have volunteered to test its energy conservation programs. After evaluating the tests, the utility will tell the N.C. Utilities Commission this fall which programs it wants to introduce. The commission would have to approve the programs and the subsidies to pay for them. | |
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Vote pushes green power forward
- The Charlotte Observer (new window)
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7/31/2007 |
| North Carolina inched a step closer to becoming the first Southeastern state to make its utilities use renewable fuels and energy conservation under a bill that won preliminary House approval Monday. | |
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Renovations leave dorm shaded in 'green'
- The Herald-Sun (new window)
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7/31/2007 |
| CHAPEL HILL -- UNC's renovated Morrison Hall -- focused on sustainability with newly installed solar panels -- will open its doors to 800 students on Aug. 15. The 10-story residence hall now has 172 solar panels mounted on the roof of all four wings of the building -- the first on campus to incorporate renewable energy technology. | |
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Energy overhaul nearly a reality
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/31/2007 |
| Despite protests from environmental groups, North Carolina lawmakers made it clear Monday evening they will approve the most significant overhaul of the state's energy policies in more than 20 years. | |
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Still-contended Renewable Power Bill Clears House Final Vote
- WRAL (new window)
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7/31/2007 |
| RALEIGH, N.C. — A bill to require North Carolina utilities to serve their customers with renewable fuel and energy efficiency headed back to the Senate for final approval as the General Assembly edged ahead with its final week of work for the year. | |
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Tip of the week
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/30/2007 |
| You have to wonder if your electric utility really wants to help you save energy; after all, how many companies expend a lot of effort persuading people to use less of their products? | |
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Hog farms try collecting gas, making energy
- The News & Observer (new window)
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7/29/2007 |
| At this factory farm that houses more than 10,000 hogs, a black plastic tarp covering part of a hog waste pond swells with untapped opportunity. Captured beneath the bulging cover is methane gas, which rises off the pond as manure decomposes. It is a potent greenhouse gas trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere. But methane can also fuel an incinerator or drive a turbine to produce electricity. | |
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Power firms step up lobbying
- The Charlotte Obsrever (new window)
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7/28/2007 |
| Leaving their mark on a major energy bill, North Carolina's giant power companies are on track to spend more on lobbying state legislators this year than in previous legislative sessions. | |
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