1. The U.S. firm is linking arms with an Israeli company, Luz II, which develops utility–scale solar thermal electric power plants that convert water to superheated steam using sunshine. (Avi Bar–Eli) You still can‘t trade in Google shares in Tel Aviv.

2. One goal of the Wind Program is to further reduce the cost of utility–scale wind energy production to 3 cents per kilowatt hour at land–based, low–wind–speed sites and 5 cents per kilowatt hour for offshore (ocean) sites.

3. The grants support projects such as the Arizona Hualapai Tribe‘s construction of a utility–scale wind farm, which will power the tribe‘s ',000–acre tourism facility known as Grand Canyon West. Another tribe, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, will use its funds to generate electricity for community buildings and a grocery store through geothermal ground source heat pumps connected to Fire Lake on their reservation. This Central Oklahoma tribe –– the ninth largest in the nation –– also plans to build a greenhouse to conserve previously wasted heat. The heat will then facilitate the growth of vegetables for sale in the reservation‘s grocery store.