Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:December 17, 2003

*News and Events Planned 30-Megawatt Wind Power Plant is Nebraska’s Largest Utah BLM Completes First Geothermal Lease Sale Since 1988 Scientists Decode Genome of Energy-Producing Bacterium Solar Cell Companies Aim to Cut Costs by Cutting it Thin Fuel Cell Vehicles Proliferate on Land and Take to Sea Are Renewables, Efficiency on your Holiday Shopping List?Editor’s Note: The EERE Network News will be taking the next two weeksoff for the holidays. We’ll return with a New Year’s bundle of energynews on January 7th. Until then, we wish all our readers a joyous,renewable, and energy-efficient holiday season! (See this week’s finalnews story for some tips on how to achieve that!)Planned 30-Megawatt Wind Power Plant is Nebraska’s LargestThe Board of Directors for the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) gave its approval last week for the construction of a 30-megawatt wind power plant near Ainsworth, located in the central Nebraska near the South Dakota border. NPPD holds options to lease land for the wind energy facility, which will be the state’s largest. The utility may even expand the installation to 75 megawatts if it succeeds in selling wind power to other utilities. NPPD hopes to sell 10 megawatts of wind power to the Omaha […]

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