Headline News:
- Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport may become the nation’s first airport to get 100% of its energy from solar power. Officials have agreed to move ahead with initial work on a third phase of its solar farm. The newest phase would help create enough electricity to pay the airport’s power bill, its chief executive said. [Chattanooga Times Free Press]
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (Staff File Photo | Times Free Press)
- A small island in the Pacific Ocean is the site of a discovery that could change Japan’s economic future. The island has large enough supplies of several rare earth minerals to supply current world demand for hundreds of years. Rare earth elements are used for numerous specialty products. Nearly all supplies had been coming from China. [CNN]
- Falling prices for solar and wind power is helping the Iowa utility owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway gain on its goal of generating 100% of its electricity from renewable sources, a company officer said. But a major force driving MidAmerican Energy’s renewable energy plans is its customers, who want more clean energy. [GreenBiz]
- Green Mountain Power in Vermont has several high-impact opportunities to build upon its customer-focused energy programs while re-imagining its business model as an “energy transformation company,” delivering low-carbon, affordable, reliable energy to customers, according to a new Rocky Mountain Institute report. [Solar Builder]
- Scientists have developed a plastic-eating enzyme that may be used to combat one of the world’s worst pollution problems. Researchers from the UK’s University of Portsmouth and the US DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory say the enzyme can “eat” the polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, that is used to make plastic bottles. [CNN]
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April 17 Green Energy News posted first on Green Energy Times
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