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Earlier the week Strategic Energy, a national provider of retail electricity to commercial and industrial customers, announced it is powering its corporate headquarters with 100 percent renewable electricity. Strategic Energy’s purchase of 300,000 kilowatt-hours of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) – an amount equal to its annual electricity usage – reflects its commitment to supporting electricity

Neenah Paper is purchasing over 10 million kWh of Green-e certified renewable energy annually from We Energies’ Energy for Tomorrow program.  This is one of only nine utility renewable energy programs certified as Green-e in the country.  For the fifth straight year, it has been ranked among the nation’s top 10 green energy programs, according

Precious Woods, a pioneer in sustainable forestry, announced its entrance in the European Emissions Trading Scheme with two agreements to sell 770,000 tons of Certified Emission Rights from their bio-energy project in Brazil.  By leveraging its timber activities with biomass powered electricity generation and the sale of carbon emission reductions to Kyoto compliant countries, the

groSolar, which integrates solar energy into new and existing homes, announced that it has closed its first round of venture funding with a total of $2.25 million. The investment will be used to fund groSolar’s national marketing initiative and its expansion to new locations. Led by SJF Ventures, the financing round included three venture funds

Contango Capital Management partners recently formed Standard Renewable Energy Group LLC, creating the largest integrated renewable energy company in Houston, TX.  The firm will act as more than a venture fund, financing, operating, and selling technologies developed by a portfolio of companies.  As the Houston Business Journal reports, Contango Capital, founded in 2004, closed a

Photo:(Dennis McCoy | Sacramento Business Journal) Solar Power Inc, a California manufacturer of solar-power equipment is going public through a complex merger and a $16 million stock sale.  The move would turn the company into a full service sun-power business top-to-bottom, from building solar-cell modules in China to installation on California rooftops.  As the Sacramento

The state of New York is embarking on an interesting new policy making the electricity bills of large consumers more transparent in an effort to encourage them to shift usage patterns.   As the The Business Review (Albany), If small and mid-sized manufacturers, large schools, health care facilities and office complexes use electricity at "off-hours," they

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), headquartered in Golden, Colo., today announced a strategic research alliance to advance the development of renewable transportation fuels. Chevron Technology Ventures LLC (CTV), a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, and NREL have signed a five-year agreement to research and develop

The state of Texas will partner with private-sector parties to invest more than $10 billion in new wind energy infrastructure. As the Austin Business Journal reports, "Under the partnership, private companies will make the capital investments in wind energy generation and the Public Utility Commission will direct the construction of additional transmission lines to deliver

As GreenBiz reports, Global energy and automobile companies last week announced a joint approach to advance hydrogen as a fuel for road transport in Europe. Shell Hydrogen B.V. and Total France, were joined by vehicle manufacturers BMW Group, DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Europe AG, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG, and Volkswagen AG in developing