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Friday, July 29, 2011 at 2:42 PM Energy News Roundup: July 23-July 29
This week in regional energy news …
- By the end of 2011, Maine will have 200 wind turbines generating clean energy. With two more wind development projects under way and another proposed, Maine will soon be at one-fifth of its statutory goal of 2000 megawatts of wind power developed by 2015.
- A new solar credit adopted in Connecticut aims to spur further solar developments in the state.
- In a letter to the governors of New England and the Mid-Atlantic, hundreds of businesses have urged support of and improvements to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The New England Clean Energy Council coordinated the effort.
- With a pending lawsuit by the state of Vermont threatening its future, Vermont Yankee may or may not be purchasing fuel for the reactor this fall.
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