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  Publisher’s Note: In a Bear Market, Bears Hibernate

  Dear Readers, Since it’s founding in 2009 Green Energy Reporter has published nearly 2,000 articles chronicling the most important developments in the North American renewable energy industry.

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  5 January 2012   5:29 AM EST
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  NRG Suspends Offshore Development

  NRG Energy, blaming  a lack of federal subsidies and regulatory uncertainty, has stopped development work supporting its offshore wind projects, including a 200-megawatt initiative in Delaware.

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  Tagged: Cape Wind, NRG, NRG Bluewater, offshore wind

  14 December 2011   3:43 PM EST
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  As Expected First Solar Cuts Earnings

  First Solar, the U.S. developer of thinfilm photovoltaic panels, has reduced its earnings estimate for this year and next year and has announced plans to cut  100 jobs.

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  Tagged: earnings revision, First Solar, thinfilm PV

  14 December 2011   2:31 PM EST
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  Energy PE Firm First Reserve Forms $1B Wind Venture

  Energy private equity firm First Reserve has teamed up with Spanish developer  Renovalia Energy to invest up to $1 billion on European and North American wind power projects.

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  Tagged: First Reserve, Renovalia Energy, Renovalia First Reserve, Rovigo solar

  5 December 2011   2:38 PM EST

• Solazyme Venture Signs Landmark Supply Deal With Pentagon 5 Dec 2011
• The Week in Green Energy: Renewable Energy Developers Face a Tight Credit Market 2 Dec 2011
• Rentech Axes Saint Joe Biomass Project
• Veolia Unit Acquires 50 MW California Solar PV Project 1 Dec 2011
• Details Emerge On Fulcrum Bioenergy’s Series C
• Bank of Ireland Sells North American Energy Loans 30 Nov 2011
• Solar Thinfilm Emerges From Stealth by Bringing in $15M
• Virginia Utility Makes $1M Venture Investment in Power Assure
• CPV Maker Opel Boosts Liquidity 29 Nov 2011
• Baird Adds New Cleantech Banker
• Canadian Solar Venture to Select Bank to Develop C$150M Pipeline 28 Nov 2011

Solar »

• As Expected First Solar Cuts Earnings
• Veolia Unit Acquires 50 MW California Solar PV Project
• Solar Thinfilm Emerges From Stealth by Bringing in $15M
• CPV Maker Opel Boosts Liquidity

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Funding »

• Bank of Ireland Sells North American Energy Loans
• Baird Adds New Cleantech Banker
• Panda Power Closes $420M Energy Infrastructure Fund
• OMERS VC Unit Hires New Managing Director

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CleanTech »

• Virginia Utility Makes $1M Venture Investment in Power Assure
• Energy Software Company Serious Energy Raises New Venture Money
• Cleantech PE Zouk Capital Makes Three New Investments
• Tres Amigas Pursues Development of Grid Superhub as it Attracts Support and Opposition

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Wind »

• NRG Suspends Offshore Development
• Energy PE Firm First Reserve Forms $1B Wind Venture
• West LB-Led Wind Financing Nears Close
• Pattern Abandons 100 MW California Wind Project

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Policy »

• Republican, Democrat Introduce Legislation to Extend Production Tax Credit
• Ontario’s FIT Being Reviewed
• Loan Guarantee Program Stays in Spotlight
• Ontario’s New Energy Minister Commits to Green Energy Act

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Other Renewables »

• Solazyme Venture Signs Landmark Supply Deal With Pentagon
• ZeaChem Raises Another $5M
• Waste Management Buys Into Fulcrum Bioenergy, Agrees to Finance Company’s Launch Project
• Shell Canada Eyes Construction of Biofuel Plant

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