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A recent survey conducted by Insightrix Research, Inc. has found that only 2% of Canadians believe climate change is not taking place.

Pattern Energy Group LP and Samsung Renewable Energy have inked a supply contract with Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) that will create as many as 600 new jobs at the Ontario plants operated by the German turbine maker and CS Wind, which builds wind towers, the companies announced Monday.

A new 322-page study, Geothermal Energy Resource Potential of Canada, characterizes Canada’s (in-place) geothermal potential as exceeding, by one million times, the country’s current electrical consumption.

The results from the fifth global Johnson Controls Inc. (NYSE.JCI) Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) are in, and the clear winner is improved lighting, which most of those surveyed viewed as the fastest and most financially effective path toward improving building energy efficiency.

Mortenson Construction, a large family-owned builder and power contractor in Minneapolis, Minn., has announced it is building 13 wind projects in North America this year totaling over 1,600 megawatts, enough to power an estimated 400,000 households.

The North Dakota Public Service Commission has granted its approval for Canadian energy company Sequoia Energy to proceed with the Border Winds project, a 150

The largest power authorities in the United States rate the dependability of wind projects to deliver electricity during periods of peak demand at between 8% and 18.5% of their rated power capacity, according to a survey released Friday by the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA). 

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Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR), said Monday that six of its subsidiary operating utilities will join the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO), a regional transmission organization (RTO) that now supports the delivery of electricity of 13 U.S. states and the Province of Manitoba. Entergy said joining MISO could save customers more than $1 billion in power production costs for the 2013 to 2022 timeframe.

Germany's Asola, an affiliate of California-based alternative fuel technology company Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (Nasdaq: QTWW), this week announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Canadian renewable energy developer Evergreen Po