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Distributed Generation  -  January 11, 2017

IKEA completes 45th US rooftop solar project

Home furnishings retailer IKEA recently completed its 45th U.S. project, a 1.13 MW rooftop system atop its Renton, Wash., store near Seattle that the company says is the largest in the state.
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Sourcing Renewables  -  January 10, 2017

New PPA structure hopes to meet clean power needs of small, midsize energy users

Looking to capture the interest of midsize C&I organizations, Altenex has announced a new power purchase agreement structure that allows for smaller amounts of renewable energy capacity to be purchased on shorter contract terms.
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Sourcing Renewables  -  January 10, 2017

Greenpeace praises Switch in clean energy rankings

Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace, in a new report, named Apple, Google, Facebook and Switch as leaders in the movement to build a renewably powered internet while taking a more critical eye toward Amazon.
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Sourcing Renewables  -  January 10, 2017

Citi strikes clean energy deal for Texas data center

Banking giant Citi has entered into a new contract to purchase renewable energy for a multiyear term at its Roanoke, Texas, data center.
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Wind  -  January 9, 2017

Google-supported Texas wind project changes hands

About a year after Google announced its signing of a 225 MW wind PPA with developer Invenergy, the project has been sold to Southern Co. subsidiary Southern Power.
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Sourcing Renewables  -  January 6, 2017

Fact sheet: Defining the greenhouse gas benefits of renewable energy purchases

This fact sheet from the Center for Resource Solutions offers guidance on communicating the benefits of renewable energy purchases.
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Regulation  -  January 4, 2017

Green group challenges Duke Energy monopoly

A North Carolina environmental group is taking a challenge to a long-standing state policy preventing the sale of electricity by parties other than a utility to a court of appeals.
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Regulation  -  December 30, 2016

With veto, Ohio clean energy standards to unfreeze

Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Dec. 27 vetoed a bill that would have weakened the state's renewable energy standards for power companies; seven of the state's largest businesses, including Nestle, Owens Corning and Whirlpool, applauded the move.
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Wind  -  December 29, 2016

AWEA: Rural, Rust Belt wind powering corporates

As commercial and industrial corporations are turning to wind energy to help meet increasingly large renewable energy goals, the American Wind Energy Association has published an analysis of corporate wind power purchase agreements to date.
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Hydro  -  December 29, 2016

Cheap hydro attracts Amazon data centers to Montreal

Amazon.com's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, has opened at least two data centers in Montreal, attracted to the area for its access to low-cost hydro-electric power, the Ottowa (Ontario) Citizen recently reported.
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