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Advanced Energy Economy // Jul 16, 2013

Wind energy is taking off in major ways – with Minnesota, North Dakota, and New Mexico becoming the latest states to enter the development stages for massive wind farms.

On Saturday, the “Solar Impulse” experimental airplane lifted the potential for solar energy technology to new heights. The plane touched down at New York’s JFK International Airport, marking the completion of an unprecedented 5,650km journey over the United States. Known as the ‘Across America’ project, the Solar Impulse team noted that, “[this is] the first time a plane capable of flying day and night – powered exclusively by solar energy – has crossed the USA from West to East coast, without using a single drop of fuel.”

In a response to the onslaught of sweltering summer heat waves, many cities areramping up programs that conserve peak-time energy consumption to help providea buffer between the US's complex electrical grids and outages or astronomicalprice jumps.

In a speech Tuesday at Georgetown University, President Obama unveiled an ambitious new climate action plan to curb pollution and increase the amount of renewable energy installed in the US. Obama called to put an end to the "dumping of carbon pollution" with the first-ever federal regulations on heat-trapping gases emitted by new and existing power plants.

WASHINGTON, DC – Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a national business organization representing the advanced energy industry, today unveiled a "Public Utility Commission Portal," an online database that provides insight into the official bodies responsible for energy regulation in the 50 states. The site also includes key energy data for each state and a comparison tool that allows users to analyze states side by side.

Solar Team Eindhoven (STE), a student-led design bureau at the Eindhoven University of Technology has created the world’s first “full-size” solar car.

This week’s opening of the London Array marked the completion of the daunting project to build the largest offshore wind farm in the world. The decade-long venture has involved three national governments and scores of corporate contractors – but may change the way the world perceives wind energy.

In a speech Tuesday at Georgetown University, President Obama unveiled an ambitious new climate action plan to curb pollution and increase the amount of renewable energy installed in the US. Obama called to put an end to the “dumping of carbon pollution" with the first-ever federal regulations on heat-trapping gases emitted by new and existing power plants.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a national business organization with a significant presence in California, today released a statement regarding California Governor Jerry Brown’s FY 2014 budget signing in which the organization reiterated its call for funds to be leveraged and used as intended to support the state’s advanced energy goals.