reuters.com - 10/26/2009
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce the largest investment of economic stimulus funds in clean energy during a visit to Florida, an Obama administration official said on Monday. The announcement will involve the smart grid, which will help bring energy from clean domestic ...
energy.gov - 30 days ago
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ARCADIA, FLORIDA - Speaking at Florida Power and
Light's (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President...
Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of ...
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President Obama Announces $3.4 Billion Investment to ...
arstechnica.com - 29 days ago
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arstechnica.com —
Earlier today, President Obama spoke at the opening
of what's now the largest photovoltaic power installation in...
the US, using the opportunity to announce the funding of a different energy project: the modernization ...
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Obama announces stimulus funding for the smart grid
nypost.com - 10/21/2009
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Remember that time President Bush interrupted the Emmy
telecast to tell people we should support reform of...
Social Security before it bankrupted the country? Neither do I. Yet when I tuned in to watch "Monday Night Football" this week to check out t...
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Fisker Set to Buy GM Plant to Build Low-cost Plug-in Electric Vehicle
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... Vice President Joe Biden is reportedly expected to visit the GM plant on Tuesday, and make an announcement about the new Fisker factory. ...
Smart Grid Stimulus Funds Being Announced Tomorrow?
Earth2Tech —
... Is tomorrow the day of reckoning for the smart grid industry in the U.S., where utilities and companies will finally learn whether or not they will receive part of the close to $4 billion in stimulus funds? It’s starting to look like it. According to suggestions from media reports, a planned Department of Energy press briefing tonight and the DOE Secretary Steven Chu’s talk at Google this morning, Tuesday just might be the big day. ...
Dept. of Energy to announce $3.4B in Smart Grid grants tomorrow
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... The Department of Energy is getting ready to announce the recipients of $3.4 billion in stimulus package grants to utilities looking to adopt smarter, more efficient electrical grid technology, as early as tomorrow. The department said the news, to be announced by president Barack Obama himself, wouldn’t come until early next week, but Reuters reported differently, predicting the the president will use his trip to the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Florida tomorrow as a well-timed venue. ...
Fisker Details Plans for “Project Nina” at Old GM Plant, Eyes Exports
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... this morning that it will buy an old General Motors assembly plant in Wilmington, Del., for $18 million drawing funds from the $528.7 million conditional loan it received from the Department of Energy last month. Word got out yesterday that Fisker was in advanced talks to buy the GM facility for the project, and a White House insider told Reuters that Vice President Joe Biden would be on hand at the shuttered facility this morning to announce its reopening. Now we’ve got details. ...
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