10 March '10
9:45 AM EST
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Kansas City Power & Light To Turn Garbage Into Green Electricity

A mountain of green fuel...

Kansas City Power and Light (KC&L), the Kansas City, Mo.,  power utility is planning to use garbage as a feedstock to generate electricity at a plant it is developing in Saint Joseph, Mo., about 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of Kansas City.

Specifically, the plant will pipe methane gas created from decomposing garbage piled at the Saint Joseph landfill. Methane is a gas that if left to seep into the atmosphere can be more virulent than green house gases.

The Saint Joseph landfill has 3 million tons of garbage collected from 17 counties. The plant is expected to start operating next year.

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3 March '10
12:22 PM EST
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Exclusive: Chicago Eyes $80M Second-Generation Biofuel Refinery

Chicago City Council could greenlight the development of an $80 million, second-generation ethanol refinery on city-owned land in the west side of Chicago, a source familiar with the project tells GER. Read More »

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1 March '10
1:05 PM EST
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In Quest of a Biofuel Feedstock [VIDEO]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Technology Review  — (Green Energy Reporter will  be on the MIT campus this weekend for the university’s annual energy conference) — visited the Brazilian lab of U.S. biofuel startup Amyris. We’ve posted a link to the video below the fold. Read More »

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1 March '10
8:50 AM EST
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What To Expect This Week: BP, The Kerry Climate Bill

Tomorrow British oil and gas company BP is releasing its 2010 capital expenditure program. Expect company Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward to reaffirm his company’s focus on its oil and gas business.

Last quarter BP posted a fourth-quarter profit of $4.3 billion after losing $3.34 billion in the prior-year period. For the year, BP earned $16.58 billion. Most of that revenue was generated by the company’s upstream and downstream oil and gas business. Read More »

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27 February '10
9:35 AM EST
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Solar

This Week In Green Energy: Where’s The Money? …In Washington!

Capitol Building -- Washington DC

For cleantech companies Washington has become a crucial financial partner.

In the post-Lehman/global financial meltdown era it’s been repeatedly said that the money power has left Wall Street for the shores of the Potomac in Washington.

This is not just a talking point, but a stark reality for whole industries — the renewable energy sector among them– which have come to rely on Washington for their mid-to-long-term survival.

The government’s pivotal role as a funder of last and first resort was glaringly apparent this week with the announcement that BrightSource Energy was offered a $1.37 billion loan guarantee (if it meets certain conditions) from the Department of Energy. The BrightSource loan guarantee dwarfs the $535 million thin-film photovoltaic cell maker Solyndra got last year, which, until now, was the largest such loan guarantee. Read More »

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