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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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billion, the largest single renewable energy asset finance deal ever, outside large hydro—that of the 600MW Gemini project in Dutch waters. Another challenge was, at first sight, the impact of the 50%-plus collapse in the oil price in the second half of last year. Biomass Fuels Power Generation Solar Wind'

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Water (1 project). ENERGY STORAGE. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Affordable Energy from Water and Sunlight.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Oil is the alternative. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? But there is a caveat to the accuracy of the aforementioned statement, and this would require answering the question: How is the electricity produced to power the car? Alternative is no longer an alternative. — Bada Bing 9.

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