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Recent headlines suggest that TVA (NYSE: TVC, the Tennessee Valley Authority) is launching a renewable energy program, Generation Partners, which invites project developers to participate.

It has taken eight years to bring the vision and ideas to fruition but today marks another milestone in the development of the Cape Wind offshore wind farm.

The California Energy Commission has approved the Abengoa solar thermal plant slated for the desert outside San Bernardino, California.

A paper on rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity and market penetration in the U.S., written by three National Renewable Energy Laboratory colleagues (Easan Drury, Paul Denholm and Robert Margolis), shows that fully 1 gigawatt (GW) of the world’s 15 gigawatts of solar PV was installed in the U.S. alone by December of 2009.