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Via Motors and PG&E Unveiling Extended-Range Electric Trucks, Vans and SUVs

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:22:04 +0000

GM seems to have hit the right button when it comes to electric cars, or, at least, extended range EVs. Or so thinks Bob Lutz, former GM executive, who now joined VIA Motors, a company whose aim is to rebuild America’s most loved trucks, SUVs and vans, but propel them by an electric motor instead […]

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Oregon Utilities Setting Target of Reducing CO2 Emissions 10% Below 1990 Levels

Mike Sandru — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:12:18 +0000

To decrease the amount of greenhouse emissions 10% below 1990 levels, Portland General Electric (PGE) in Oregon intends to replace coal plants with 2,362 MW wind energy systems and 557 MW of simple-cycle combustion turbines burning natural gas.

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Biglow Canyon – Oregon's 450 MW Wind Farm has Been Completed

Mike Sandru — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:22:36 +0000

Oregon has made a significant progress in the alternative energy field. Portland General Electric (PGE) has recently announced that the 450-MW Biglow Canyon wind farm in northern Oregon has been officially opened.

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First Solar Signs Agreements With Major Energy Utilities to Provide Solar Power

Cristi — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:17:21 +0000

First Solar Inc. has recently announced that it will start working on a huge photovoltaic project called Desert Sunlight in Southern California. The facility will produce 550 MW from solar power, of which 300 MW will be sold to California's Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and 250 MW to Southern California Edison (SCE).

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PG&E to Build Space-Based Solar Power Plant by 2016

Mike Sandru — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:55:00 +0000

A space-based solar electricity program could soon power the Californians' homes. The project belongs to the state's biggest energy company, PG&E, and it aims to generate 200 megawatts in the next 15 years.

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