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NRG Announces First-ever Dividend and Acquisition of GenOn

Posted: July 23, 2012 at 11:02 am

Electric power generators NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) and GenOn Energy Inc. (NYSE: GEN) have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.7 billion. Under the terms of ...
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Utilities Earnings Hit by Weather (DUK, SE, AES, AEE, LNT)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 8:36 am

US demand for natural gas dropped this winter leading to near-record levels of storage and historically low prices. For natural gas utilities, this was not such good news. For power ...
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Wind Power… Blowing Again (AMSC, ED, GE)

Posted: September 19, 2011 at 10:51 am

The wind power industry has taken something of a back seat to the solar PV makers in the last few months. News of bankruptcies, missed earnings targets, and collapsing prices ...
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New Storage Proposal For US Nuclear Waste Sure To Be Unpopular

Posted: May 14, 2011 at 11:30 am

No US politician ever lost an election by opposing a nuclear waste dump. That's why the latest report on from a US Department of Energy commission will end up in ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: Solar to Reach Grid Parity in 2013; Nuclear Plant to Close in Japan, New Licenses on Track in US; UN Report Predicts Renewable Surge (SPWRA, JASO, AONE, CLNE, SO, SHAW)

Posted: May 9, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Today's alternative energy news reports on a prediction that the cost of solar power generation will reach parity with other fuels by 2013. A nuclear power plant in Japan will ...
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