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National Solar Power (NSP) has entered into a solar farm development agreement with Liberty County in Florida.

FirstEnergy Corp. shares rose nearly 2% in midday trading Thursday after the company said it will shut down six coal-fired power plants by September 1, 2012.

The city of New Bedford, Mass., has announced plans to install solar panels at up to 20 city properties—schools, municipal buildings and land parcels—as part of an initiative that will ultimately generate 10 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1,500 homes.

American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) announced that it's subsidiary AEP Ohio will invest US$20 million in the development of a solar farm in Noble County, Ohio.

Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), through its wholly owned subsidiary Sempra Generation, has officially celebrated the completion of the Copper Mountain Solar farm.

SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWRA) continues to grow its solar generating capacity in Southern California announcing that it has signed power-purchase contra

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Plutonic Power (TSX: PCC) and partner GE Energy Financial Services (NYSE: GE) have been making significant waves in British Columbia's renewable energy portfolio. The companies, who have teamed up on the province's largest run-of-river hydroelectric project and its largest wind farm to deliver 340 megawatts of electricity to B.C. Hydro, announced that they will work together again expanding into Ontario's renewable energy market.

Two of Canada's biggest solar energy companies have signed an agreement that will bring 18.5 MW of solar energy generation to Ontario, Canada.

NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG)  will add to its solar power portfolio when it completes construction of its newest photovoltaic solar project in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Do in large part to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Loan Guarantee Program for clean energy projects, California's solar generating capacity is growing at a tremendous rate.