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  • Ask Enedina Popesco about the energy efficiency upgrades to her home in the Bienestar Apartment complex in San Luis, Ariz., and she is all smiles as she shows her electric bill -- a bill that is half what it used to be.
  • A Danish pension fund plans to kick in $200 million to help pay for Cape Wind, edging the $2.6 billion project closer to being fully financed.
  • As Southern Californians prepare for summer, Southern California Edison is asking customers to be especially conservation-minded to help keep the electric grid stable and reliable during hot weather when energy use spikes, particularly without the power generated from the San Onofre nuclear plant.
  • For the first time, electric vehicles will have a place to charge in Gig Harbor.
  • With 2013 session of Connecticut legislature already two weeks in the rear view mirror, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Dan Esty met with the media Tuesday to spotlight the gains made.
  • Virginia's energy policy decisions will shape the state's economic climate for decades to come, a member of Gov. Bob McDonnell's administration said Tuesday.
  • Dominion Virginia Power begins accepting online applications tomorrow for the company's Solar Purchase Program, which will help eligible customers offset the cost of adding solar power to their homes and properties while increasing solar generation in Virginia.
  • Chevrolet's Volt topped the Sierra Club's list of plug-in hybrids in the environmental organization's annual Electric Vehicle Guide.
  • Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG), the nation's largest drugstore chain, together with Chicago-based solar developer SoCore Energy, today said they will build more than 200 new solar installations at Walgreens drugstores throughout California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.
  • Concerns about power generation margins or resource adequacy and water shortages have led Texas to a policy crossroads. Texas Combined Heat & Power Initiative (TXCHPI) is pleased to announce that Texas Governor Rick Perry has signed House Bill (HB) 2049 and HB 1864 into law supporting CHP clean, energy efficient technology.