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		<title>Southeast energy challenges lead to interest in biomass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Amy Condra FOR THE JUNEAU EMPIRE: Water is abundant in Southeast — it falls freely from the sky throughout the summer and fall, filling rivers and creeks that tumble down our mountains, into the lakes, channels and canals, the bays and straits that wind their way throughout the land. Here, this water has sustained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Car Batteries Are Not Just For the Car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Matthew L. Wald of The New York Times:  Coda Automotive is supposed to start selling its electric sedan next month. On Friday, its parent company announced that it was also  moving into a related line: stationary batteries for electricity  storage.
Coda Holdings will make minor modifications to battery packs for its  cars, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaskarenewableenergy.org/2012/01/car-batteries-are-not-just-for-the-car/</link>
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		<title>Sunflowers Inspire Better Solar Power Tech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Brown of Wired UK:  We’ve all seen  concentrated solar power (CSP) plants — those rows and rows of shiny mirror heliostats all  crowded around a 100-metre-high pillar, like worshippers peering up at a  towering god.
The  orchestra of mirrors track the sun throughout the day, bouncing rays up  at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaskarenewableenergy.org/2012/01/sunflowers-inspire-better-solar-power-tech/</link>
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		<title>California imposes energy-efficiency standards on battery chargers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Marc Lifsher of Los Angeles Times:  California&#8217;s cellphones, tablet computers, power tools and hundreds of other portable electronic devices will be required to have energy-stingy battery chargers beginning next year.
The California Energy Commission on a 3-0 vote Thursday approved first-in-the-nation efficiency standards targeting about 170 million so-called vampire charging systems that waste as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Railroad eyes commuter options for Mat-Su, Anchorage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By ANDREW WELLNER Frontiersman.com: What&#8217;ll it take to bring commuter rail to the Valley?
Quite a bit it turns out, but Alaska Railroad Corp. is working on it.
At an open house discussing Mat-Su and state projects at Evangelo&#8217;s Restaurant Wednesday, while there weren&#8217;t many displays strictly talking about commuter rail, a few mentioned it in passing.
One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaskarenewableenergy.org/2012/01/railroad-eyes-commuter-options-for-mat-su-anchorage/</link>
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		<title>10 Steps to Effective Workplace Energy Efficiency</title>
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By Katherine Tweed on Green Tech Enterprise:  Energy efficiency is often called the low-hanging fruit of a clean-energy economy. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu likes to say it’s not just hanging, it’s rotting on the ground.
The easy pickings are apparently not that easy, though. Energy efficiency programs have picked up speed in the past few years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaskarenewableenergy.org/2012/01/10-steps-to-effective-workplace-energy-efficiency/</link>
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		<title>Brewing up power: Beer maker finalizes biofuels project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jonathan Grass, Alaska Journal of Commerce: Alaskan Brewing Co. has entered the final stage of a 16-year process in  setting a precedent in renewable energy. The Juneau-based brewery has a  new boiler to make its own malt waste a sole energy source and has been  selected for nearly $500,000 in federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaskarenewableenergy.org/2012/01/brewing-up-power-beer-maker-finalizes-biofuels-project/</link>
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		<title>New wood pellet mill slated to open in Ketchikan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Ketchikan mill is slated to begin producing wood pellets this winter.  As Deanna Garrison reports, Tongass Forest Enterprises is hoping to  capitalize on a recent surge in interest in processed wood heating  products in Southeast Alaska. Listen to the full story here
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		<link>http://alaskarenewableenergy.org/2012/01/new-wood-pellet-mill-slated-to-open-in-ketchikan/</link>
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		<title>Massive offshore turbines, tidal power among 2011 industry stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Levitan on IEEE Spectrum: At the end of 2010, we wrote here about the &#8220;Year of the Report,&#8221;  and the massive potential of many different renewable resources that  were revealed. In 2011, with some big fossil fuel and nuclear stories  providing the backdrop, renewable energy made some impressive gains both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://alaskarenewableenergy.org/2012/01/massive-offshore-turbines-tidal-power-among-2011-industry-stories/</link>
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		<title>Steep Growth in Smart Meter Installations Predicted for Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report predicts that 100 million new smart meters will be installed across Europe between now and the end of 2016 as nations continent-wide aim to achieve greater energy efficiency and increased reliance on renewable sources of energy. According to GTM Research, European investment in smart grid improvements will reach €6.8 billion annually, with [...]]]></description>
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