Washington DC - March 12 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development has awarded $3.7 million to tribes that are developing renewable energy resources for their communities.

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Washington DC - March 9 - U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy has offered a conditional commitment on a $117 million loan guarantee to finance the construction and start-up of an innovative 30 megawatt (MW) wind energy project in Kahuku, Hawaii.

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Washington DC - March 4 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Government of India, and India’s Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry are hosting the 2nd Methane to Markets Partnership Expo in New Delhi.

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Washington DC - March 3 - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available to accelerate innovation in green technology, increase America’s competitiveness and create new jobs.

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Washington DC - February 23 - Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $1.37 billion in loan guarantees under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to BrightSource Energy, Inc. to support the construction and start-up of three utility-scale concentrated solar power plants.

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Washington DC - February 22 - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar hosted a meeting with Governors and representatives of Atlantic Coast states to discuss a regional approach to wind energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

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Washington DC - February 11 - Geothermal energy capacity expanded 6% in the United States in 2009, due to six new geothermal plants which came online, adding 176.68 megawatts (MW).The total online capacity in the U.S. reached 3,152.72 MW as of August 2009.

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Washington DC - January 27 - The U.S. wind industry broke all previous records by installing nearly 10,000 megawatts of new generating capacity in 2009 (enough to serve over 2.4 million homes), but still lags in manufacturing, the American Wind Energy Association said in its Q4 report.

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Washington DC - January 22 - U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the selection of five projects to receive more than $20.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support deployment of community-based renewable energy projects, such as biomass, wind and solar installations.

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Washington DC - January 22 - The United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Navy announced that leadership from the two departments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to encourage the development of advanced biofuels and other renewable energy systems.

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Washington DC - January 21 - The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory released the Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study of future high-penetration wind scenarios, designed to analyze the economic, operational, and technical implications of shifting 20 percent or more of the Eastern Interconnection’s electrical load to wind energy by the year 2024.

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Washington DC - January 21 - Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced nearly $190 million in State Energy Sector Partnership and Training Grants, designed to teach workers the skills required in emerging industries, including energy efficiency and renewable energy.

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Washington DC - January 19 - The Tennessee Valley Authority, the Electric Power Research Institute and Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that they will test and deploy solar-assisted charging stations for electric vehicles across the state of Tennessee as part of one of the largest electric transportation projects in U.S. history.

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Washington DC - January 14 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing eight landfill methane capture projects for their innovation in generating renewable energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Washington DC - January 11 - President Obama announced the award of $2.3 billion for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States; including solar, wind and efficiency and energy management technologies.

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