7 January 2009, 10:44 am
LED manufacturer Cree been awarded a contract from the Department of Defense to supply over 4,200 recessed LED lights for the Pentagon, the company announced Tuesday. Testing commissioned by the U.S. government determined that Cree's LR24 recessed ...... Read More »
7 January 2009, 8:21 am
The recession is here. Some say it arrived in August 2007. All admit that it is causing job losses by the tens of thousands weekly. Suggestions range from public works projects, particularly highway bridges, to other areas of the nation's ...... Read More »
7 January 2009, 8:00 am
BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan 07, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Puget Sound Energy's work in bringing renewable energy demonstration systems to Washington schools will take another step forward in 2009 with the utility today issuing a request for proposals for up ...... Read More »
5 January 2009, 3:54 pm
Dick Coin is a power pioneer whose electric bill has dipped as low as $10 a month, thanks to the wind turbine and solar panel array on his six-acre spread in Geauga County's Hambden Township. Coin, 60, is a chemical engineer who's practicing an ...... Read More »
5 January 2009, 2:57 pm
COLUMBUS — Developers have until April 15 to tell Nebraska Public Power District what they’d charge and how they would provide electricity from a wind farm or farms in central and northeast Nebraska. In November, NPPD asked for proposals on ...... Read More »
4 January 2009, 10:48 am
FARMERSVILLE — Dave White was reminded during construction why a hilltop just off Interstate 55 south of Springfield was selected as the site for a wind turbine that is expected to begin churning out electricity this week. “One of the drawbacks ...... Read More »
3 January 2009, 5:05 am
The other night, the wind was blowing so hard that I thought it was going to rip the roof right off the building where I work. I could not believe the incredible energy that the wind of that storm produced. For more than a century, man has been ...... Read More »
31 December 2008, 3:53 pm
Elkhorn Ridge developers are in the last stages of testing the wind turbines, which sit on 8,355 acres of farm ground about 5 miles north of Bloomfield in Knox County, in north-central Nebraska. Columbus-based Nebraska Public Power District has ...... Read More »
31 December 2008, 11:14 am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Most federal incentives for wind energy have only been available to private companies, but all of Nebraska's electric customers are served by publicly owned utilities. That's part of why the development of wind energy has been slow ...... Read More »
31 December 2008, 10:17 am
More than half of Nebraska's senators agree the state should offer more incentives to encourage wind power development in the state. Several wind farm projects are in development across the state, but Nebraska has relatively few wind turbines at work ...... Read More »