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Renewables
Legal Wins for Cape Wind, Rejection for Atlantic City Offshore Wind
In the past week, as the Cape Wind project planned for offshore Massachusetts saw crucial legal victories, New Jersey’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) on Wednesday rejected a $188 million offshore wind farm that was planned along the Atlantic City coast. Federal Court Upholds DOI Approval of Cape Wind Issuing rulings in four lawsuits challenging […]
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Coal
Supreme Court to Weigh Power Plant GHG Regulation Question
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a narrow challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) authority to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary sources, including power plants. In a mixed bag for groups fighting the EPA’s GHG regulation, the high court on Tuesday accepted for review six petitions—which were consolidated for oral […]
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Renewables
Industry Group Proposes End to Thorny U.S.-China Solar Trade Dispute
A compromise offered by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) on Monday to resolve a worsening trade dispute between U.S. and Chinese solar industries proposes the creation of a Chinese fund to help grow the U.S. market and safeguards to offset surges of Chinese solar modules. The move comes as Chinese provisional anti-subsidy duties on […]
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Solar
Report: U.S. Solar PV Prices Tumbled 14% in 2012 but Are Still 40% Higher Than Key Global Markets
Installed prices for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the U.S. in 2012 fell for the third straight year by a range of roughly 6% to 14% compared to the prior year. In its latest edition of “Tracking the Sun,” the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) reports installed prices for PV systems fell […]
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