Saturday, November 30, 2013

Privatization and the Affordable Care Act

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The Empire Strikes Back: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme -- Again

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The NSA's Porn-Surveillance Program: Not Safe for Democracy

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Whole Foods Strike Wins Thanksgiving Day Off, Workers Say

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'Black Friday' Civil Disobedience Targets Walmart's Poverty Wages

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Here's Why Wall Street Has a Hard Time Being Ethical

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HealthCare.gov Will Meet Deadline for Fixes, White House Officials Say

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Airlines Urged by US to Give Notice to China

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Privatization and the Affordable Care Act

Charles M Smith, Truthout: The roots of the Affordable Care Act web site failures may start in the Reagan Administration's fixation with contracting out federal services, even when they were performed better and at less cost by the government.

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Six of the Top Ten US Billionaires Are Kochs and Waltons

Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, Yes! Magazine: The profits of corporate giants that crash our economy and corrupt our politics deserve your outrage. But the efforts to curb them need your creative energy.

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Dialectical Communitarian Anarchism as the Negation of Domination: A Review of The Impossible Community

Javier Sethness, Truthout: John P. Clark's latest book represents a crucial contribution to the struggle against the oppression of capitalism and patriarchy by encouraging the intervention of a mass-confluence of anarcho-communist - or communitarian anarchist - socio-political movements.

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US Commander in Afghanistan Apologizes for Civilian Death, Injuries

David Zucchino, LA Times: The American commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan telephoned Afghan President Hamid Karzai to apologize for an airstrike that killed at least one Afghan civilian and badly wounded two others.

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Misled by Mainstream Media

L Michael Hager, Truthout: Michael Hager points out the glaring gaps in mainstream media news coverage and how it has created a society of citizens forced to navigate through a sea of misinformation.

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The Massacre in Marikana: Questions Raised About Role of British Company In South African Mining Massacre

Maeve McClenaghan and David Smith, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Fifteen months after the massacre that left 34 striking miners shot dead and 78 wounded, executives from British-owned Lonmin, have still not yet been called to appear before the official commission of inquiry into the massacre.

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Is the Pope Getting the Catholics Ready for an Economic Revolution? (Maybe He Read Marx)

Lynn Parramore, AlterNet: As Pope Francis' latest indictment against free market capitalism takes its cue from atheist economist Karl Marx, Lynne Parramore explains how this is not the first time the church has shaped its views with the words of this 19th century philosopher.

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Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide

Staff, Making Contact National Radio Project: One in three native women have been victims of sexual assault and the murder rate of indigenous women is consistently higher than the national average. Andrea Smith, author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide explains the connection between violence against women, and the colonization of native lands and bodies.

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Repro Wrap: Your Boss May Get to Veto Your Birth Control and Other News

Robin Marty, Care2: The Supreme Court has agreed to review complaints over the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act, which will allow them to decide whether private corporations have the right to deny employees birth control coverage because of the company owners' "religious or moral" beliefs.

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Tiny Tim Time at Walmart

Jim Hightower, OtherWords: Shouldn't Sam Walton's heirs at least pony up a pittance from their prodigious inheritance for a few turkey-and-sweet-potato dinners on Thanksgiving for their own underpaid employees instead of asking for donations?

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All is not lost: Three reasons not to count President Obama out | The Raw Story

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Noam Chomsky: Modern universities designed to ‘deprive you of your freedom’ | The Raw Story

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*Interesting take on the modern economics of higher education, not the education itself. Well worth the read. - Dan

Friday, November 29, 2013

Military Commissions Stuck on Torture

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There Is No Thanksgiving for Violence, Poverty and Injustice

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Massive Black Friday Strike and Arrests Planned, as Workers Defy Walmart

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Pope Francis Understands Economics Better than Most Politicians

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Deadline Looms on Undetectable Guns

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Despite Filibuster Limits, a Door Remains Open to Block Judge Nominees

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When a Government Knows More About Its Citizens Than They Do About the Government, It Is Tyranny

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An Army in Transition Awaits West Point Cadets as Wars End, Military Budgets Shrink

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Military Commissions Stuck on Torture

Adam Hudson, Truthout: From October 22 to 25, 2013, pretrial hearings for the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people took place but made little progress as the issue of torture - and the protective order preventing its discussion - dominated the hearings.

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Labor As Seen from Down Under: Fair Wages and Decent Benefits Profit Everyone

Niall McLaren, Truthout: The idea that workers have to be beaten down at every turn just doesn't add up, as the industrial experience Down Under shows us every day of the year.

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Memory and Repression in El Salvador

Alexandra McAnarney, Truthout: While many Latin American countries tell the stories of the victims of human rights violations perpetrated during the military regimes and dictatorships of the '60s, '70s and '80s through public trials and increased access to historical archives, in El Salvador, repression of alternative narratives intensifies.

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A Pope's Pointed Message

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: In a stunning new treatise on the Catholic Church and its role in society, Pope Francis addresses the widening gap of inequality that capitalism is creating around the globe and charges Christians to be accountable for their own worship of the false idol better known as money.

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Israel-Palestine: Enough Negotiations Already!

Adil E. Shamoo, Foreign Policy in Focus: Palestinians should not lend their name to a charade of endless negotiations; Shamoo instead demands that they "let negotiations go, and find other means of achieving Palestinian rights and statehood."

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Delicious Food Is Not An Indulgence—It's a Way to Solve Our Ecological Crises

Frances Moore Lappe, Yes! Magazine: Over the past few decades, the slow food movement has flourished into an endless garden of possibilities. Now, food that is good for our bodies and the planet might also be the key to addressing climate change.

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Courageous Boeing Workers Say No to Corporate Extortion

Richard Kirsch, Next New Deal: By rejecting a contract that amounted to corporate extortion, the Machinists Local 751 at Boeing have taken a stand for middle-class workers all over the country.

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Struggles of Younger US Workers Ripple Through Economy

Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: Economists worry about the flagging household-formation rate as graduates, unable to find full-time work, continue to live with their parents for extended periods of time.

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Cop's History an Issue in Toy-Gun Slaying

Dennis J. Bernstein, Consortium News: It has been discovered that a Sonoma County Deputy Sheriff, who shot and killed a popular Latino eighth-grader who was holding a toy gun, has a history of overreaction that dates back years as the incident has sparked a series of interviews with neighbors and community members who have all had negative interactions with the officer.

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Black Thursday: Thanksgiving in the Consumer Wasteland

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William Rivers Pitt | Black Thursday: Thanksgiving in the Consumer Wasteland

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Pretty much every employee of all the companies that have chosen to steal Thanksgiving will be forced to sacrifice their holiday and smile at sweaty, aggressive lunatics who actually think shopping on Thanksgiving is a positive good."

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The Courage of Malala: Shot for Advocating Education for Girls

Mark Karlin, Truthout: Perhaps the value of the full development of women in a non-patriarchal society, of the wisdom that they contribute to resolving world conflicts, can best be exemplified by what Malala Yousafzai recently told President Obama: "Drone attacks are fueling terrorism."

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Art and Social Change

Michael Pirsch and Francois May: On November 20, 2013, about 100 Thai artists gathered at the main protest site on Ratchadamnoen Road in Bangkok to express their feelings about the current situation in Thailand. Michael Pirsch and Francois May capture the color and passion of the scene.

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Five Ways to Support Striking Walmart Workers

Kevin Mathews, Care2: Walmart strikes are occurring around the country, but you need not be one of the company's under-compensated employees to participate. Here are five ways you can support Walmart workers in their quest for economic justice.

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The 1961 JFK Speech That Kicked the American Dream Into High Gear

Katherine Smith, The People's Voice: Our consumer society didn't just happen; it was planned. And our American dream of shopping for useless toxic stuff, an environmental nightmare, went into high gear after JFK was killed in 1963.

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Senate Majority Invokes "Democracy Option"

Brad Friedman, The Brad Blog: The US Senate changed their rules to partially end the filibuster, invoking what some refer to as the so-called "nuclear option." The rule change, which will permit an up-or-down majority vote on all presidential nominations for executive and judicial office, is better described as the "democracy option."

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New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove's Group Spent Even More on Politics Than It Said

Kim Barker, ProPublica: New tax documents indicate Karl Rove's group Crossroads spent at least $85.7 million on political activities in 2012, not the $74.5 million reported to the Internal Revenue Service. That's about 45 percent of its total expenditures.

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How Can We Help America's Opportunity Youth? Five Lessons Learned in New Orleans

Nell Abernathy, Next New Deal: In New Orleans, 23 percent of young people between the ages of 18-24 are out of work and out of school, compared to a national average of 16 percent. Expert academics and practitioners weigh in on how we, as a country, can tackle this pressing challenge.

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Switzerland Shows US How to Handle CEOs

David Swanson, War Is a Crime: In Switzerland a petition from 100,000 people, or about 1.25 percent of the population, creates a public referendum. By this means, last March, Swiss voters created strict limits on executive pay.

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Can President Obama Do More to Stop Deportations?

Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: During a speech, President Obama was talking about comprehensive immigration reform. President Obama was interrupted, though, by a guest who was a part of the White House-approved backdrop. The young man shouted to the president that he should halt deportation. The Real News takes a look at what unfolded.

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Japan Eagerly Watches as a Brand New Island Forms

S.E. Smith, Care2: Japan is famous for its seismic activity, including numerous volcanoes scattered along the island nation, but sometimes those volcanoes get a bit more rambunctious than usual. South of Tokyo in the Ogasawara Islands, one such volcano is explosively giving birth to a new island.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Letter from the sitting Governor of Illinois to me

Every politician in the State has to have a certain minimum number of petition signatures to get on the ballot. The number varies by the scale of the office. This matters.

Dan

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Maya Schenwar | Why Health Care Isn't Just About Insurance

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Robert Scheer | Heroic Diplomacy: How Barack Obama Finally Earned That Peace Prize

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American Workers: From Bounty to Bleakness

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The Climate Movement Needs to Stop "Winning"

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How Many Unnamed Officials Does It Take to Deny Civilian Deaths?

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There Is No Thanksgiving for Violence, Poverty and Injustice

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Microsoft Plans to Boost Security Over NSA Fears

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Kentucky Gay Couple Arrested, Fined 1 Cent for Protesting at County Clerk's Office

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Maya Schenwar | Why Health Care Isn't Just About Insurance

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: As Epilepsy Awareness Month winds down, let's take on the class-based obstacles to seizure management. Sleep, relaxation, nutritious food and time aren't covered by any insurance plan.

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"They Call Us Illegal": Fast-Food Workers Face Silent Raids

David Bacon, Truthout: In each of the past five years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has audited the records of more than 2,000 employers, ordering them to fire undocumented workers. Now these so-called "silent raids" have arrived at fast-food joints, just in time to scare workers as they stage more walkouts and protests.

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Walmart Workers Will Make History on Friday as America Confronts Growing Inequality

Peter Dreier, Truthout: This year, the day after Thanksgiving will be remembered as the day Americans took action to demand that Walmart, the country's largest employer, pay workers livable wages and play a part in improving our economy.

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Tilting at Gas Wells: What's the Best Way to Defend Your Community From Fracking?

Adam Briggle, Truthout: An increasing number of communities are passing anti-fracking ordinances. But what kind of community fracking bans make sense? Counter-intuitively, the most effective bans may make the fewest rights claims.

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New Satire Campaign Launches War Against Irrational Fear

Candice Bernd, Truthout: A new campaign inspired by Edward Snowden satirizes the "war on terror" and the surveillance state by highlighting statistics that show Americans are more likely to die from lightning strikes, dog attacks and playing football than domestic terrorism.

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Violence Against Demonstrators Follows Contested Result in Honduras Elections

Sarah Blaskey and Jesse Chapman: Students protesting what they claim are fraudulent election results in Honduras' presidential elections were met by police violence Tuesday. Observers document voting irregularities.

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Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance

Ellen Brown, Web of Debt: Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with genetically modified seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But if the Trans-Pacific Partnership passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of those corporations.

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Biomass Thermal: The Logs That Break the Forest's Back

Josh Schlossberg, Energy Justice Network: A sector of the biomass incineration industry claims to be turning over a new "green" leaf by building smaller, slightly more energy-efficient facilities focused on heating rather than electricity. Meanwhile, behind the smokescreen, biomass thermal advocates are supporting much of the same climate-busting policies as the biomass power pushers.

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Common Cause Unites Women, LGBT and Immigrant Rights Leaders

Elena Shore, New America Media: LGBT inmates in immigration detention often are put in solitary confinement, ostensibly for their own protection from the general population of detainees. But Eddy Arias said he never felt that the other detainees posed a threat to his safety. Being in solitary, he said, just made him feel like he was going crazy.

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Investigating the Saudi Government's 9/11 Connection and the Path to Disillusionment

Paul Jay, The Real News Network: If Saudi Arabia has so much influence on US foreign policy, shouldn't we pay attention to the words of Sen. Bob Graham, who wrote a book, Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror? Paul Jay speaks with Graham on "Reality Asserts Itself."

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Daily Kos :: Eric Cantor will propose Federal Law that Ends Overtime Pay for hourly workers

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GE Identifies "Suspect Population" Of Blades; Developer Fined $1M For Bird Deaths

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Following Another Blade Failure, GE Identifies 'Suspect Population' In Turbine Fleet
on 26 Nov 2013 by Joseph Bebon
GE has begun investigating another blade break involving its 1.6-100 turbine and 48.7-meter blade, this time at Invenergy's California Ridge wind farm in Illinois. In addition, reports of other recent GE blade failures have surfaced, and the turbine manufacturer says it has notified a group of customers that might have [read more]
Duke Reaches $1 Million Settlement For Bird Deaths At Wind Farms
on 25 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, has reached a $1 million settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the deaths of golden eagles and other migratory birds at two of Duke's wind farms in Wyoming. According to the DOJ, this case represents the [read more]
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Lincoln Renewable Energy Starts Building 300 MW Texas Wind Project
on 26 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
Lincoln Renewable Energy (LRE), a Chicago-based developer of solar and wind projects, has commenced construction of its 300 MW Hereford 2 wind power project in Castro County, Texas. "The start of construction of [the] Hereford 2 project marks the continuation of a very successful year for Lincoln Renewable Energy," says [read more]
Ex-Im Bank Backs Gamesa Wind Turbine Deal
on 26 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has approved a $61.1 million direct loan to Inversiones Eolicas de Orosi Dos S.A., a subsidiary of Central American wind generation company Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy, for the purchase of Gamesa wind turbines. The Gamesa turbines will be used to power the [read more]
Citing Technical Challenges, RWE Abandons Atlantic Array Offshore Wind Farm
on 26 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
RWE Innogy has announced it will no longer develop the 1.2 GW Atlantic Array offshore wind farm, which was planned for the Bristol Channel in the U.K. The company says that in comparison with other opportunities in the U.K. offshore wind portfolio, and in light of significant technical challenges specific [read more]
Pattern Energy Group Introduces Quarterly Dividend
on 26 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
Pattern Energy Group Inc.'s board of directors has approved the introduction of a quarterly dividend on the company's Class A common stock. Pattern says the board has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.3125 per Class A share for the fourth quarter, which represents $1.25 on an annualized basis. The [read more]

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GL Awards ACCIONA Seven New Certificates For 3 MW Platform
on 26 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
ACCIONA Windpower has received seven new certificates for different models of its AW 3000 wind turbine from GL Renewables Certification. ACCIONA says it now has 15 certificates awarded for the 3 MW platform. Specifically, GL has issued the design certificate for the AW 125/3000 IEC IIIa wind turbine, with a [read more]
GE Announces First Commercial Operation Of 2.5-120 Wind Turbine
on 26 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
Two months after the completion of installation, the first GE 2.5-120 wind turbine has been put into commercial operation in Schnaittenbach, a town in Bavaria, Germany. Max Bogl Wiesner GmbH is the project's investor and operator. According to GE, the turbine's advanced controls, paired with the 120-meter rotor and a [read more]
Statoil Awarded Lease For Next Phase Of Hywind Floating Turbine Project
on 25 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
The Crown Estate has granted Statoil a lease for the next phase of the developer's Hywind floating wind turbine project, to be located off the Scottish coast. According to The Crown Estate, the 30 MW project comprises five 6-MW floating turbines operating in waters exceeding 100 meters in depth at [read more]
Vestas Launches 'Wind For Prosperity' Venture To Provide Hybrid Systems
on 25 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
Vestas says it is teaming up with Abu Dhabi renewable energy company Masdar to launch Wind for Prosperity. According to Vestas, Wind for Prosperity will aim to provide energy-poor regions with hybrid wind and diesel power systems. Under the partnership, Masdar will focus on managing the development and construction [read more]

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RES Putting Turbine-Mounted ZephIR LIDAR System To The Test
on 25 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
ZephIR Lidar notes that its turbine-mounted Dual Mode (DM) system has been deployed by developer Renewable Energy Systems Ltd. (RES) in a commercial investigation into LIDAR-generated turbine performance measurements. The trial, which began in June and is expected to end this month, uses a ZephIR DM installed on a Vestas [read more]
Nordex Unveils N131/3000 Light-Wind Turbine
on 25 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
Nordex SE is extending its Generation Delta turbine platform, which the company launched this spring, with the addition of a turbine for light-wind locations. The company says its N131/3000 is specially designed for IEC-3 locations and features rotor blades measuring 64.4 meters in length. Nordex is offering the N131/3000 on [read more]
Renewables Dominate New U.S. Energy Capacity In October
on 22 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
The SUN DAY Campaign, a renewable energy advocacy group, reports that the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) latest infrastructure update shows that solar, biomass and wind sources provided 694 MW of new electrical generating capacity in October - representing 99.3% of all new generation placed in-service. Twelve new solar [read more]
Ohio's Clean Energy Law A Success, Environmentalists Say
on 22 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
Now in its fourth year, Ohio's Clean Energy Law (S.B.221) continues to spur investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency, according to a new report from the Environment Ohio Research and Policy Center. Passed in 2008, the Clean Energy Law established benchmarks for Ohio investor-owned utilities to get 12.5% of [read more]
Iberdrola Re-organizes All U.S. Operations Under Single Holding Company
on 22 Nov 2013 by NAW Staff
Global energy group Iberdrola S.A. has obtained all the necessary regulatory approvals to complete an internal corporate re-organization to bring all of its U.S. companies under a single holding company known as Iberdrola USA Inc. The new structure aligns U.S. operations with Iberdrola's corporate practice of establishing a single, national [read more]
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