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		<title>NREL gives green light to feed-in tariffs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that feed-in tariffs established by states to promote the use of renewable energy are legal under certain conditions, clearing the way for the programs that aim to level the pricing playing field. The long-awaited NREL report points out that that the feed-in tariffs can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2332&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consultants’ study touts benefits of Antekope Ridge wind farm plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company hoping to build a second wind farm in Union County says annual revenues to local governments from both facilities would range between $2.7 and $6 million. Not only that, the two winds farms combined will account for more than 300 construction jobs and more than 90 direct, indirect and induced jobs. But not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2329&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Cow Power To Horsepower&#8217; Researched In Bellingham</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think of what federal economic stimulus money has paid for, the first things that come to mind might be highway paving, energy retrofits or high–speed trains. Now here&#8217;s one of the most unconventional stimulus projects we&#8217;ve heard of. An institute at Western Washington University is getting half a million dollars to examine how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2326&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Tester Spends Presidents&#8217; Day in the Flathead Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Jon Tester talks jobs and renewable energy in the Flathead Valley. The Senator started his day at F.H. Stoltze Lumber in Columbia Falls. The mission? To learn more about a biomass energy project the mill is hoping to push forward. It&#8217;s called the Woody Biomass Combined Heat and Power Project. It&#8217;s basically a facility that would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2324&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wind tunnel breezes onto Portland State’s campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new wind tunnel at Portland State University could bolster the city’s green cache by bringing top-level researchers to the city. The custom-designed wind tunnel is being constructed in Wisconsin and will be shipped to PSU in March. It will be installed in a first-floor lab of the school’s new engineering building, 1930 S.W. Fourth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2321&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Plan for Shelton, WA biomass plant is great news for region</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plans are under way to build a $250 million biomass plant near the Shelton Airport with an objective of turning 600,000 tons of wood debris into enough electricity to power 40,000 homes. A joint venture of Duke Energy and a global energy firm called Areva has a long, long way to go to get the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2318&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators seek comments on Ore. wave energy project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now&#8217;s your chance to learn more about a proposed wave energy project off Gardiner and comment about it to federal regulators. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received a water permit application from the developers and the agency has opened a 30-day comment period. The deadline is March 10. Reedsport OPT Wave Park has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2315&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon House passes biomass energy bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two energy-related bills moved from the Oregon House on Wednesday and went to the Senate. House Bill 3674, which passed 60-0, allows some pre-1995 plants powered by biomass or municipal solid waste to be counted against Oregon&#8217;s goal of utilities obtaining 25 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2025. The bill also allows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2313&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bend Based Geothermal company ready to drill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vulcan Power Co., a Bend-based geothermal energy company, expects to start construction on its first power plant within the year in Nevada. The company was scheduled to start new drilling near Patua Hot Springs, east of Fernley, Nev., this week, with construction of a 60-megawatt power plant projected to begin in January, said Bob Warburton, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2308&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solar project forum Feb. 21 in Yakima</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public is invited to a presentation on forming a community solar project on Feb. 21 at Wesley United Methodist Church. The featured speaker is Gary Nystedt, who created a successful community solar program for Ellensburg. He will share Ellensburg&#8217;s experience in setting up the nation&#8217;s first community solar project in 2006 and what steps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwrenewablenews.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5541961&amp;post=2305&amp;subd=nwrenewablenews&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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