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Fdic Bank Closings
Jun 25 2014 11:05 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Bank closing in June State . . Bank Name ------- ----------------------------- FL . . . Valley Bank IL . . . Valley Bank FDIC Bank Closings . . . 2007 . . . 003 . . . 2008 . . . 025 . . . 2009 . . . 140 . . . 2010 . . . 157 . . . 2011 . . . 092 . . . 2...
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Clean Energy: Army Will Help Air Force
Aug 29 2016 02:20 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
The Departments of the Army, and . . . the Air Force, share a common requirement, . . . to secure their installations with clean, reliable, and affordable energy. The Army established an "Energy Initiatives Task Force" that used, . . . power p...
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Fierce Storms Effect Energy Infrastructure
Oct 07 2016 02:20 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
South Australia’s energy infrastructure, . . . was not strong enough for the force of the fierce storms of September 28, . . . “This was pretty much a power system apocalypse": . . . . . . 3 Main Transmission lines fell, . . . . . . Some wind farms...
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Average Family Spent $3,000.- For Gas Last...
Feb 07 2013 04:00 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
2012 The United States Energy Information Administration EIA says, . . . the average U.S household spent $2,912.- . . . refueling their vehicles last year. With up to $147 per barrel for oil and . . . gas prices that exceeded $5 per gal...
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Energy Independence For The Us - When?
Jun 03 2013 06:55 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
What the US Government forecasts suggests about US energy independence. Source: Infograph
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Shanghai To Forbid Coal Burning
Oct 29 2013 02:35 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
In an effort to rapidly and substantially improve the air quality, . . . in China’s most populous city of nearly 24 million residents. The plan, which broadly targets 6 areas: . . . . . . energy, . . . . . . industry, . . . . . . transportation, . . ....
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City Energy Project (Cep)
Jan 31 2014 02:10 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
10 US Cities Making Massive Emissions Cuts, . . . the equivalent of millions of cars per year, and . . . could cut billions from utility bills, . . . through Energy Efficiency: . . . . . . Atlanta, . . . . . . Boston, . . . . . . Chicago, . . . . . . D...
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Energy = Economy
Jan 20 2015 03:35 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Israeli developer of solar-biogas hybrid power technology, AORA, . . . will provide solar-biogas hybrid power solutions, . . . for rural communities in Ethiopia, which often suffer from blackouts, and . . . 2/3's of the country’s citizens have no e...
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Battery Prices Are The Key
Apr 18 2015 12:30 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Researchers now see, . . . Massive investments in battery manufacturing, will cause, . . . battery prices of $150 per kWh by 2020, which will cause, . . . massive changeover to renewable energy, and electric vehicles. 04-18-2015 Source: Battery...
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Florida Utilities: Mislead Voters
Jul 16 2016 11:25 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
The Energy and Policy Institute chart, shows that powerful interests, . . . (including the Koch Brothers) are willing to spend millions, . . . to fool voters, and protect their right to make even more Money. 7-16-2016 Source: Florida Utilities: Misl...
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South Korea: $37 Billion Renewable Energy
Jul 18 2016 01:45 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
30 trillion won will be spent by state utilities on solar, and wind power generation with . . . 13 gigawatts of capacity by 2020 – equivalent to . . . twenty-six 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants. 7-18-2016 Source: South Korea: $37 Billion re...
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Follow The Money: Microgrid Chp
Jul 23 2016 02:00 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
It can be difficult for microgrids to compete on cost alone, . . . if they provide only electricity. However, when combined heat and power (CHP) is added to the equation, . . . microgrids become more competitive, . . . based on economics alone. Exam...
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Australians Adopt Solar Storage
Oct 04 2016 09:30 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
275,000 solar homeowners in South Australia, Victoria, and New South Wales, . . . will see their solar feed-in tariffs dropping by as much as . . . 90%, by 2017. No longer able to count on . . . revenue generated from excess solar energy feeding into t...
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Electric Car Investing
Oct 31 2016 12:30 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
Daimler is building up a . . . Billion-euro global network of . . . electric vehicle battery production facilities. Also, competitors are upping their battery game. Why? Because Batteries are the . . . most valuable component of electric cars. 10-30...
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Austria To Go 100% Nuclear-Free
Jul 30 2013 10:55 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music. The Austrian Parliament announced the adoption of a . . . ban on nuclear power imports to the country. The policy decision was announced more than a year ago, . . . but has only now been made law. Austria d...
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Follow The Money: New York Green Bank
Sep 12 2013 11:15 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo just announced, to build a more . . . cost-effective, resilient and clean energy system in New York, . . . $165 million financing for New York State’s, . . . $1 billion Green Bank. The money will go to technologies t...
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100% Nuclear Free: Japan
Sep 16 2013 07:40 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Japan shuts down its last reactor. This is impressive because nuclear power used to supply about . . . 1/3 of Japan's electricity. Meanwhile, problems at Fukushima are still not fully under control. 2013-09-16 Source: 100% Nuclear Free
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Follow The Money: Investors Stranded Assets
Dec 19 2014 02:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
We need to know how fossil fuel companies see the future, and . . . to what extent there may be stranded assets: . . . . . . Coal, . . . . . . Oil, . . . . . . Gas, and . . . . . . Nuclear. 12-19-2014 Source: Follow the Money: Investors stranded assets
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Brazil + Devastating Drought = Solar
Apr 06 2015 01:00 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
Brazil’s, 7 month dry period, created a Water Problem: . . . . . . devastating drought, and . . . . . . hydroelectric (Normally produces 80% of its energy). Thousands of solar panels attached to buoys, . . . would be floated on the surface of the dwin...
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Stranded Assets
Apr 30 2015 02:45 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Bloomberg New Energy Finance, priced the fossil fuel industry at, . . . $5 trillion (although the drop in oil prices means this has since fallen). HSBC, the Global Research division of, . . . Britain’s multinational banking and financial services...
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Eremy Rifkin Bbc Hardtalk
Feb 21 2016 12:40 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
eremy Rifkin BBC Hardtalk
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#follow The Money: $8 Billion
Oct 07 2017 01:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Australian Clean Energy Council Chief Executive Kane Thornton said . . . 41 renewable energy projects, will deliver over . . . 4330MW of new capacity, have been committed in 2017, creating an . . . $8 billion investment, and approximately . . . 46...
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Another Myth Busted
Apr 05 2013 03:10 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
Solar photovoltaic modules have dropped about 75% in price. . . . Current scientific and technological advances in the laboratory . . . suggest that they will soon be so cheap . . . that the principal cost of going solar . . . on residential and commer...
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Grid Defection
Jun 23 2014 01:40 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
“2 years ago, “grid defection,” had to be explained as a concept,” . . . says UBS utilities analyst David Leitch. “Now every electricity business and player from: . . . . . . generators, . . . . . . retailers, . . . . . . networks and . . . . . . regul...
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India Railway: Goes Solar
Jun 29 2014 11:05 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Promotion of non-renewable energy in the Railways, . . . is one of the main agendas of the Narendra Modi government and . . . it will be adequately reflected in the first Rail Budget . . . under the present NDA dispensation, . . . said a senior Railway...
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