Boulder City, just east of Las Vegas and part of the greater Las Vegas Valley, has inked a deal with Wind Sail Receptor that will bring cheaper energy and lots of jobs to the city. In exchange for the free use of some property, Boulder City will get 1 megawatt of power and the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 21, 2010
Today the Department of Labor announced that $190 million in grants for green jobs training will be distributed to organizations in 34 states. These grants are a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The purpose of these funds is to train workers for jobs in energy efficiency and the renewable energy sector. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Washington State will receive $6 million in federal stimulus money to develop clean energy jobs. The new funds will go to the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. The funds will provide training for 4,700 people across the state. Grants are targeted to people with disabilities, veterans and workers who have been [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 13, 2010
An additional $150 million in training grants for people interested in “green jobs” has been awarded by the U.S. Labor Department. The announcement comes a week after the department awarded nearly $100 million to green-job training and is part of a $500 million initiative established through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The “Pathways Out of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 28, 2009
California’s SolarReserve is planning on building a solar power plant near Tonopah, Nevada, with a twist. The project involves using salt to store solar energy, for those less than sunny days. The project still needs to be approved by the Bureau of Land Management which owns a majority of the land in Nevada, and the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
DTE Energy is upgrading it’s plant in Monroe, Michigan, investing $900 million in two projects that will bring as many as 900 construction jobs to the region over the next few years. The first project, scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2010 will add scrubbers to the coal burning plant, cutting sulfur [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 20, 2009
In September, Valero opted to shut down it’s cokery and gasifier at its Delaware refinery, but kept the majority of the facility in operation. Today the other shoe dropped and the plant is closing down for good. Employees were given severance briefings this morning and will remain on the payroll for another 60 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
Peabody Energy is closing down a surface coal mine in Indiana, which will affect 80 jobs. The mine has depleted its resources, the company says. The 80 employees of the mine may be able to find other jobs with the company which has 4 other coal mines in Indiana, including an underground mine [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 29, 2009
USEC Inc, the only company supplying enriched uranium for domestic nuclear power plants, has demobilized operations on its plant in Ohio after the Department of Energy withheld $2 billion in loan guarantees due to concerns about the facilities technical and commercial viability. The plant, which is 80% complete, will be remobilized if the DoE’s [...]
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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