Sierra Club calls for responsible transition for workers at the plants West Virginia – In a victory for clean air and local residents’ health, Ohio-based First Energy Corp. announced the retirements of three of its coal-fired power plants in West Virginia. The plants are slated to close on September 1, 2012. Today’s news follows last [...]
FirstEnergy Corp. has announced that a Request for Proposal (RFP) will be conducted to secure 10-year Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) and Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs) for customers of its Ohio utilities – Ohio Edison, Cleveland Electric Illuminating and Toledo Edison – to help meet the renewable energy benchmarks established under Ohio’s energy law. The [...]
Constellation Energy has announced that its retail business is offering a solar panel leasing program to residential customers in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Constellation’s residential leasing makes solar generation a real option for homeowners, with a choice of a little-to-no money down or prepaid lease for a 20-year term. The [...]
BNB Renewable Energy Holdings and Enfinity America Corporation today announced plans to co-develop a portion of BNB’s distributed generation (DG) pipeline in the USA. The first of several anticipated projects under this joint development agreement is the previously announced 9.8MW solar project which is under construction on 60 acres of land at the Campbell Soup [...]
More than $1.1 million Approved through Energizing Careers Program The Ohio Department of Development has approved more than $1.1 million in Energizing Careers Program grants for 10 Ohio companies to assist in training workers in advanced energy technologies. The program is made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act State Energy Sector Partnership Training [...]
Cleveland, OH—Ohio is reaping the benefits of clean energy, according to a new report by Environment Ohio, Ohio’s Clean Energy Report Card: How wind, solar, and energy efficiency are repowering the Buckeye State. Two years into the implementation of the state’s Clean Energy Law, which sets standards for both renewable energy and energy efficiency, Ohio [...]
Columbus, Ohio – The Ohio Third Frontier Commission las week approved more than $3 million in Pre-Seed Fund Initiative and Entrepreneurial Signature Program funds that will be awarded to three Ohio-based projects. The funding ensures that new start-up technology companies continue to have access to early-stage capital to develop new products and technologies, and bring [...]
The Environmental Law and Policy Center, an environmental legal advocacy and eco-business organization, has released a new study of Ohio’s wind and solar energy supply chain. The study found that 106 Ohio companies are doing business with the wind power industry and 63 Ohio companies are part of the solar energy supply chain. Ohio’s strong [...]
Toledo, Ohio and Tempe, Arizona—The SolarWalk, an artistic steel structure that features over 1,400 solar panels and will reduce The Toledo Zoo’s use of non-renewable energy, was dedicated recently in a ceremony near the Zoo’s Main Entrance. In addition to providing green energy for the Zoo, the SolarWalk also features beautiful graphic panels that demonstrate the [...]
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