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Ethanol is becoming a component in an increasing amount of the nation’s fuel supply. Those who manufacture and sell it and the associations that represent them hail ethanol as the reducer of and, ultimately, the means for ending the nation’s dependency on foreign oil.

A PPL Corporation subsidiary will renovate and recommission its Orono, Maine, hydroelectric plant, adding 20,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) per year of clean, renewable electricity to the region’s power supplies.

In April 2008, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $2,400,000 in funding to 12 cities across the country for the development of solar power projects.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed an ambitious green building ordinance, appropriately, on Earth Day 2008.

Wind energy leaders in most categories held onto their No. 1 positions in the latest version of the American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) annual rankings of wind power leadership in the United States.

Despite oil prices that hover around $100 a barrel, it may take at least 10 years of intensive research and development to reduce the cost of solar energy to levels competitive with petroleum, according to Harry Gray, Ph.D., who spoke at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society (A

Georgia Power signed a long-term contract with another independent renewable generator that will produce electricity from landfill waste.

Science has relentlessly sought nature’s ability to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Recently, Penn State University researchers developed a device that could split water and produce recoverable hydrogen.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) and BioEnergy Solutions announced that their biogas-to-pipeline injection project in Fresno County, Calif. has begun production of renewable natural gas derived from animal waste.