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	Energy & Renewables Newsletter February 19, 2009

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US considers ethanol blend increase
The United States, the world`s largest ethanol producer, is weighing options to boost domestic use of the controversial fuel, according to the country`s new agriculture administrator. US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recommends that a higher percentage of ethanol be blended into gasoline to support the nation`s struggling biofuel industry. The United States currently allows gasoline to contain a maximum of 10.2 percent ethanol, most of which is produced from corn. `My hope is that we get a blend rate that`s higher than 10 percent,` Vilsack said, according to Reuters. `That`s ...

UK government carbon rules threaten BT wind farm plans
British Telecom (BT) is rethinking plans for its own GBP 250m wind farm capable of providing a quarter of the company`s power over fears that the government`s labyrinthine subsidy scheme would stop it from using the resulting power to count towards a reduction in its carbon emissions. Speaking to BusinessGreen.com, Dr Chris Tuppen, chief sustainability officer at the company, confirmed weekend reports that the board was looking again at the viability of the scheme after the company realised the rules governing the imminent Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) cap-and-trade scheme meant it would not ...

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Californian utility inks solar mega-deal
The California Public Utilities Commission is examining whether to give the go-ahead to a solar energy deal that could power almost a million Californian ...
EU renewables rules threaten to leave heat pumps out in the cold
Some of the most efficient forms of heat pump and waste heat capture technologies could be excluded from contributing to EU renewable energy targets, ...
Congress floats renewable energy bill
Just days after president Obama authorised around US $100bn of spending and tax breaks for green projects by signing his economic stimulus package into ...
MIT researchers harness bacteria to produce energy, clean up environment
In the search for answers to the planet`s biggest challenges, some MIT researchers are turning to its tiniest organisms: bacteria. The idea of exploiting ...
Mainstream takes on offshore wind scaremongers
Fresh from securing the exclusive rights to develop a EUR 1.2bn wind farm off the coast of Scotland earlier this week, Ireland-based Mainstream Renewable ...
LA to flick switch on world`s largest LED rollout
The largest ever retrofit of a city`s street lighting network is to get under way in Los Angeles later this year, with 140,000 existing streetlight fixtures ...
UK firm announces plan for wave energy simulator
Energy consultancy TNEI has announced plans for a new software package designed to help wave and tidal energy firms select the best sites for their generators. ...
First new greenfield waste-to-energy plant to be constructed in the US in more than a decade
The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority, in conjunction with the Frederick County Division of Utilities and Solid Waste Management and Carroll ...

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