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• Wind energy firms urge credit extension
  Some Minnesota businesses involved in wind energy production are urging Congress to extend the wind energy product tax credit, which expires at the end of the year.July 2, 2012
• GE bets on green cars in Eden Prairie
  One of the nation's biggest and most successful companies is making a bet on alternative fuel vehicles in Minnesota. General Electric Co. on Thursday opened a facility in Eden Prairie where companies can check out cars and trucks powered by something other than gasoline.May 31, 2012
• ND oil pipeline plan could be scrapped
  A Colorado company says its proposed $650 million pipeline that would move 150,000 barrels of North Dakota crude daily to a hub in Minnesota is at risk of being scrapped due to a dispute with Enbridge Energy over the use of its pipleine network.May 31, 2012
• Senate panel reins in Pentagon on clean energy
  The Pentagon's investment in green energy requires too much green paper for some in Congress.May 26, 2012
• Bright Ideas about our energy future
  Maggie Koerth-Baker, science editor at Boing Boing, shares her insights on our current and future sources of energy, in the latest edition of MPR's Bright Ideas series, hosted by Stephen Smith. The event occurred in the UBS Forum on April 24, 2012.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, May 14, 2012
• Coal power plants under cost, environmental pressure
  Inside the Taconite Harbor Energy Center along Lake Superior's North Shore, three turbines the size of train engines crank out 225 megawatts of electricity. That's enough for all of Duluth and Superior, Wis.May 10, 2012
• Ethanol plant lists first-quarter loss as subsidy ends
  In what could be a bellwether for the industry, low ethanol prices and high production costs contributed to a big first-quarter loss for the owner of an ethanol plant in northwest Minnesota.April 26, 2012
• After 4-month surge, gas prices start falling
  The worst is over, for now. Gasoline prices are starting to fall.April 21, 2012
• Give landlords incentive to upgrade appliances, Minnesota 2020 says
  A Twin Cities non-profit is proposing ideas to improve energy efficiency in rental housing units.April 19, 2012
• N.D. challenges Minnesota limit on coal-fired power plants
  A federal judge today will hear arguments in a suit challenging Minnesota's Next Generation Energy Act.April 12, 2012
• Geologists revise state's potential for geothermal energy
  Minnesota is a cold place. But a new study released Tuesday shows the state has more geothermal energy potential than previously understood.March 27, 2012
• MPR News Primer: Frac sand mining
  In hydraulic fracturing, a sand made from quartz rock plentiful in our region is blasted into shale rock to extract oil and natural gas.March 8, 2012
• Feds end monitoring of Prairie Island plant incident
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ended its intensive monitoring of a situation at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant.March 6, 2012
• Ethanol industry lurches in wake of lost subsidy, oversupply
  After predicting they would survive the end of a major federal subsidy without problems, officials at the nation's ethanol producers may have been too optimistic.February 28, 2012
• Judge recommends alternate route for CapX2020 utilities line
  A judge has made a route recommendation for a high-voltage power line in southeastern Minnesota.February 9, 2012

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