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		<title>Offshore solar: Get ready for floating photovoltaic farms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Wednesday, I wrote about floating solar farms: PETALUMA, Calif. — Solar panels have sprouted on countless rooftops, carports and fields in Northern California. Now, several start-up companies see potential for solar panels that float on water. Already, 144 solar panels sit atop pontoons moored on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4960&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virgin green: SFO&#8217;s new enviro-friendly airport terminal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on April 12, I wrote about San Francisco International Airport&#8217;s new &#8220;green&#8221; terminal: SAN FRANCISCO — If the prospect of flying holds all the appeal of a cross-country bus trip, the $6,500, lipstick-red leather Egg chairs at San Francisco International Airport’s Terminal 2 are intended to return [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4954&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GE to build U.S.&#8217; largest solar factory, shake up market</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/ge-to-build-u-s-largest-solar-factory-shake-up-market-321144281/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[image: General Electric In Thursday&#8217;s New York Times, I write about General Electric&#8217;s bid to to become a major player in the U.S. solar industry: SAN FRANCISCO — In a move that could shake up the American solar industry, General Electric plans to announce on Thursday that it will build the nation’s largest photovoltaic panel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4944&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powering up: Green tech investment surges in first quarter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: BrightSource Energy I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Some good news on the environmental front for a change: Global investment in green technology in the first quarter of the year spiked 52 percent compared to the previous quarter, to $2.57 billion. That&#8217;s according to a report released Tuesday by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4936&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opposed piston engine tech promises fuel efficiency gains</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote a follow-up to my story on efforts to reinvent the internal combustion engine: As I wrote in Thursday’s Times, several start-ups backed by Silicon Valley venture capital firms are developing a new type of internal combustion engine that promises a striking boost in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4929&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China charges up the on-ramp of the electric highway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. When it comes to the future of electric cars, as with other green technologies, the wild card is China. The People&#8217;s Republic has invested billions in renewable energy and has become a solar superpower in photovoltaic manufacturing. It&#8217;s also poised to one day potentially blow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4926&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Startups aim to reinvent the internal combustion engine</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/startups-aim-to-reinvent-the-internal-combustion-engine-321142370/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote about a slew of Silicon Valley-backed startups developing new kinds of internal combustion engines that are more fuel efficient and less polluting: BERKELEY, CALIF. – In this city where Toyota Priuses clog the roads and battery-powered Tesla Roadsters and Chevrolet Volts can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4920&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free ride: Rising oil prices boost electric cars’ affordability</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/free-ride-rising-oil-prices-boost-electric-cars%e2%80%99-affordability-321140248/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. One of the biggest knocks against electric cars, other than their current range, is the rather steep upfront cost due to the price of the battery. Of course, you&#8217;re essentially pre-paying much of your fuel costs for the life of the car. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4915&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report predicts 3.8 million electric cars on the road by 2016</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. As the first mass-market electric cars start to, slowly, hit the streets, the big question is whether battery-powered vehicles are the future or a fad. The answer won&#8217;t be known for years but a new report from GTM Research offers some interesting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4908&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 23 coalition revives campaign for green policies</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/prop-23-coalition-revives-campaign-for-green-policies-321139371/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The New York Times on Friday, I wrote about the organizers of California&#8217;s No on Proposition 23 campaign resurrecting their coalition to press for green energy policies in the Golden State and Washington: George P. Shultz, the Republican former secretary of state, and Thomas F. Steyer, the Democratic hedge fund billionaire, are reviving the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4903&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PG&amp;E to let customers disable their smart meters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Over the past year, a revolt against the rollout of utility Pacific Gas &#038; Electric&#8217;s smart meters has swept through Northern California as some customers claimed the devices&#8217; wireless transmission of electricity data was harming their health. In response, city councils in a number of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4899&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starter homes get solar panels as standard equipment</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/starter-homes-get-solar-panels-as-standard-equipment-321139933/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: KB Home In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote about a home builder installing solar arrays as standard equipment in new developments in Southern California: Among the standard features offered for new homes at Manzanita at Paseo del Sol, a KB Home development in a desert suburb southeast of Los Angeles, are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4888&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California to turn biosolids into green electricity</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/california-to-turn-biosolids-into-green-electricity-321139934/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Recession-wracked California is truly going down the toilet. For green energy, that is. In a gift to headline writers everywhere, the California Energy Commission on Wednesday handed out nearly $1 million to fund an experimental project to convert what it politely refers to as &#8220;biosolids&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4896&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco mayor calls for city to go 100% renewable</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/green-wombat/san-francisco-mayor-calls-for-city-to-go-100-renewable-321139935/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo:  jfraser I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Where could you get 797 people to stand in line outside a nightclub to attend a $100-a-ticket fundraiser for a nonprofit that advocates for solar energy? Not-so-sunny San Francisco, of course. The queue to get into the Vote Solar Initiative annual spring equinox [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4892&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mesh: Can peer-to-peer sharing green the planet?</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/the-mesh-can-peer-to-peer-sharing-green-the-planet-321132817/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. By the third day of any conference, one&#8217;s eyes begin to glaze over. But Lisa Gansky provided an intellectual jolt on the final morning of the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco this week when she appeared on stage to talk about &#8220;the Mesh.&#8221; That&#8217;s what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4883&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Ventures funds mobile biofuel refineries</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/green-wombat/google-ventures-funds-mobile-biofuel-refineries-321132818/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biofuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: CoolPlanetBiofuels In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote about Google Ventures funding a Southern California startup that is developing mobile biofuel refineries that will travel to the fuel source to process agricultural waste and other biomass: Google Ventures has led a $20 million financing round in CoolPlanetBiofuels, a Southern California start-up that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4876&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DOE nuke funds to continue, big green energy loans on way</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/uncategorized/doe-nuke-funds-to-continue-big-green-energy-loans-on-way-321132819/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sercer.com/uncategorized/doe-nuke-funds-to-continue-big-green-energy-loans-on-way-321132819/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: San Luis Obispo County In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote about a United States Department of Energy official affiming that loan guarantees for nuclear power projects would continue in the wake of the Japanese reactor disaster. He also said loans for a &#8220;significant&#8221; number of large renewable energy projects would be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4866&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California billionaire Tom Steyer takes on the Koch brothers</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/california-billionaire-tom-steyer-takes-on-the-koch-brothers-321131980/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The New York Times on Tuesday, I wrote about the strategy of San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer, the leader of the campaign against Proposition 23 last year, to fight efforts to restrict the EPA&#8217;s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions: Is Thomas F. Steyer the anti-Koch? For years, Mr. Steyer, a billionaire San Francisco [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4860&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solar: It’s not just a California thing anymore</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/solar-it%e2%80%99s-not-just-a-california-thing-anymore-321129764/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: REC Solar I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The United States solar businesses boomed, as usual, in 2010, growing 67 percent to $6 billion, according to an annual report released Thursday by an industry trade group. That&#8217;s been the story for the past several years, but what&#8217;s notable is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4856&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California utilities (just) miss renewable energy deadline</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/california-utilities-just-miss-renewable-energy-deadline-321129378/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The California Legislature is moving to put into law a regulation requiring the state&#8217;s utilities to obtain a third of their electricity from renewable energy by 2020. But how did California&#8217;s three big investor-owned utilities do in meeting a previous mandate to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4850&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Power sharing: App connects EV drivers, outlet owners</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/power-sharing-app-connects-ev-drivers-outlet-owners-321127602/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[electric cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The New York Times on Monday, I write about PlugShare, a new iPhone app that lets people share their household outlets and electric car charging stations with EV drivers: First there was music sharing and then car sharing. Now get ready for plug sharing. Xatori, a Silicon Valley software start-up, aims to create a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4843&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portlandia to help wean Los Angeles from coal</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/portlandia-to-help-wean-los-angeles-from-coal-321125142/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Portlandia may not be the sunniest of places, but it&#8217;s exporting solar energy in the form of photovoltaic panels used to build carbon-free power plants. On Wednesday, SolarWorld &#8212; the German photovoltaic module maker that operates a big factory in Hillsboro, Ore. &#8212; announced it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4838&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger calls for Tunisian-style green revolution</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/uncategorized/schwarzenegger-calls-for-tunisian-style-green-revolution-321124807/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sercer.com/uncategorized/schwarzenegger-calls-for-tunisian-style-green-revolution-321124807/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The people want to topple the petro-energy regime. Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday all but called for a Tunisian-style revolution to overturn the United States&#8217; old energy order. &#8220;It is breathtaking to see: people by the hundreds of thousands who want change &#8230; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4832&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Startup gets $42m to predict extreme weather for farmers</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/startup-gets-42m-to-predict-extreme-weather-for-farmers-321123804/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The New York Times on Monday, I write about WeatherBill, a San Francisco startup that announced a $42 million round of financing from Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures: Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures have led a $42 million financing round in WeatherBill, a San Francisco start-up that insures farmers against extreme weather that can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4819&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago to build electric car charging network</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/chicago-to-build-electric-car-charging-network-321123380/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[electric cars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Better Place I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. First Chicago gets Rahm Emanuel, now electric cars. Well, at least an electric car infrastructure. In a move that indicates electric cars won&#8217;t just be a phenomenon of Greater Portlandia, utility Exelon and the city will roll out 280 charging stations across [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4815&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google-backed startup aims to slash gadgets&#8217; energy use</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/google-backed-startup-aims-to-slash-gadgets-energy-use-321121332/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/google-backed-startup-aims-to-slash-gadgets-energy-use-321121332/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alternative energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Wednesday&#8217;s New York Times, I write about a Google-backed startup that unveiled a new power conversion technology it claims will dramatically cut the energy consumption of motors, electronic gadgets and other devices: A Southern California start-up backed by Google and prominent venture capital firms announced on Wednesday a technology it claimed could slash the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4810&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Short-circuiting California&#8217;s solar thermal power plant boom</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/short-circuiting-californias-solar-thermal-power-plant-boom-321121333/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/short-circuiting-californias-solar-thermal-power-plant-boom-321121333/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Todd Woody In Thursday&#8217;s New York Times, I write about how the nascent solar thermal boom in California&#8217;s Mojave Desert is being derailed by lawsuits from environmental, union and Native American groups: SAN FRANCISCO — Just weeks after regulators approved the last of nine multibillion-dollar solar thermal power plants to be built in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4806&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Californians paying too high a price for green energy</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/report-californians-paying-too-high-a-price-for-green-energy-321120977/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Are Californians forking over too much green for green energy? A new report from a ratepayers advocacy group found that the price of electricity in 59 percent of renewable energy contracts signed by the state’s three big utilities exceeded the market price referent, or MPR [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4799&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solandia: Another solar startup to build Oregon factory</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/uncategorized/solandia-another-solar-startup-to-build-oregon-factory-321119751/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Another Silicon Valley startup is planting a tree in Portlandia&#8217;s solar forest, thanks to a United States Department of Energy loan guarantee. SoloPower, a San Jose, Calif., company that makes thin-film photovoltaic models, on Thursday snagged a $197 million federal loan guarantee to build a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4793&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SolarCity buys East Coast’s biggest home solar installer</title>
		<link>http://www.sercer.com/financial-news/solarcity-buys-east-coast%e2%80%99s-biggest-home-solar-installer-321117543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Woody</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: SolarCity I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. California solar companies are continuing their eastward expansion, with Silicon Valley&#8217;s SolarCity on Wednesday acquiring the residential operations of one of the East Coast biggest solar installers, groSolar. With the acquisition, SolarCity, California&#8217;s largest residential solar installer, will move into Massachusetts, New Jersey, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegreenwombat.com&#38;blog=1757600&#38;post=4782&#38;subd=greenwombat&#38;ref=&#38;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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