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Idaho Power says it already gets nearly half its energy from hydroelectric dams such as the Swan Falls Dam on the Snake River, just south of Boise. The utility plans to phase out its use of coal power plants.

Idaho Utility Spurns Coal, Pledges 100 Percent 'Clean' Energy By 2045

4:32pm March 27, 2019

by Bill Chappell

Idaho Power plans to stop using coal power plants. The news comes as a U.S. energy agency says renewable sources produced a record amount of electricity in 2018.

Governor Roy Cooper Issues Executive Order To Cut Greenhouse Gases

7:58am October 30, 2018

by Associated Press and Eddie Garcia

Governor Roy Cooper issued an

Court Tests NC Ban On Selling Solar Power To Greensboro Church

1:41pm April 17, 2018

by Associated Press

North Carolina's highest court is considering whether a clean-energy advocacy group illegally sold solar power to one church to undercut the monopoly power of the state's electric utilities.

Kelp plants grow on a 30-foot-long, white PVC pole suspended in the water. If this is successful, instead of just one row, there would be a whole platform, hundreds of meters across and hundreds of meters deep, full of kelp plants.

Scientists Hope To Farm The Biofuel Of The Future In The Pacific Ocean

6:08pm August 22, 2017

International research labs are using seaweed to make biofuel, but little progress has been made in the U.S. Now scientists in California are developing a prototype to enable vast open-ocean farming.

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Wind Farm On NC Coast Operational Despite Opposition

4:37pm February 09, 2017

by Eddie Garcia and Associated Press

North Carolina's coast is now home to a fully operational wind farm. Power generated from the turbines is currently being produced, despite opposition from some Republican leaders.

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Solar Impulse 2, the solar powered plane, flies above Giza Pyramids as it finishes its penultimate flight, landing in Egypt on Wednesday.

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PHOTOS: Experimental Solar Plane Flies Over Egypt's Giza Pyramids

2:26pm July 13, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Egypt is the last stop before Solar Impulse 2 finishes its round-the-world journey in the United Arab Emirates. The team is aiming to raise awareness about clean energy.

U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz takes part in a press conference at the end of the 2015 meeting of the International Energy Agency Governing Board on Nov. 18, 2015 in Paris.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Says Government Can Help Clean Energy Innovation

5:27pm May 29, 2016

As he prepares for a conference on implementing clean energy to combat climate change, energy secretary Ernest Moniz says he's confident the Obama administration's commitments will remain in place.

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