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NY water plan could cost power generators billions

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York environmental regulators this week released a plan to protect aquatic life in the state's rivers that could cost power generators billions to upgrade their facilities.

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Honda drives toward home solar hydrogen refueling

TORRANCE, California (Reuters) - Coming not so soon and probably not to a house near you is the home solar hydrogen refueling station -- Honda Motor Co's latest idea in its drive to make hydrogen the fuel of choice for zero emission cars.

12 Mar 2010

Climate Exchange swings to profit on higher volumes

LONDON (Reuters) - Carbon emissions exchange operator Climate Exchange turned its first pretax profit, of 2.2 million pounds ($3.3 million) against a 2.5 million pounds loss in 2008, thanks to higher trading volumes. Climate Exchange owns and operates emissions trading marketplaces, including the European Climate Exchange (ECX), where annual volumes increased 82 percent to 5.1 billion metric tons.

12 Mar 2010

Big auto and EU face off over green van targets

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's vanmakers have gone a long way toward meeting proposals to curb climate-warming emissions, but as debate on the 2016 targets kicks off big auto is seen digging its heels in over the last mile.

12 Mar 2010

Egypt to secure $430 mln loan for wind farm: agency

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is set to secure a $430 million loan from Japan to fund a 220-megawatt wind farm as it tries to boost its renewable energy output, the state news agency MENA said on Friday.

12 Mar 2010

Hungary sells "used" CO2 permits, sparks EU concern

BUDAPEST/LONDON (Reuters) - Hungary is selling 2 million U.N.-backed carbon emissions permits which have already been surrendered by companies, it said on Friday, raising concern that their buyers could use them again to comply with the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme ETS.

12 Mar 2010

British Columbia OKs 19 projects in clean power push

OTTAWA (Reuters) - British Columbia has given the green light to 19 private-sector clean energy projects that will generate enough power to supply nearly 218,000 homes in Canada's Pacific Coast province.

12 Mar 2010

German state premier Seehofer objects to solar cuts

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Bavaria state premier Horst Seehofer said on Friday that the German government's plans to cut state-mandated solar power incentives are excessive.

12 Mar 2010

Japan faces rocky path to emissions trading system

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan faces a rocky path to launching an emissions trading system after the government approved legislation on Friday that was vague on how the scheme would set limits on emissions.

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Broadwind Energy posts wider Q4 loss, sees weak Q1 rev

(Reuters) - Broadwind Energy Inc reported a wider fourth-quarter loss, and said it expects sequentially lower first-quarter revenue, sending its shares down 20 percent.

12 Mar 2010

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