Text Box: tour. By the end of that day more than 1,100 applications were handed in and another 125 have been received in the week since. Once again, funding has been exhausted. So the BPU is extending its cancellation period for longer this time, perhaps hoping that postponing applications until September 1 will dodge most of the summer rush and allow time for more adequate funding to accumulate. Text Box: Solar power is wildly popular in New Jersey…too popular, it seems, for a state rebate program. The Garden State’s stance as a national solar power leader leaves no argument that New Jersey’s solar rebates have been successful, but success can be bittersweet. Depleted funding has forced New Jersey administrators to stop accepting applications for solar rebates from now until the end of summer. The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) announced the halt on Tuesday, and the suspension will Text Box: remain in effect until September 1st. The reason for the program’s failure has actually been its success. In past years, according to a BPU spokesman, there has always been enough money for the program. But the already popular incentive just keeps getting more popular. On April 1 of this year, the BPU stopped accepting applications because the funding that had been allocated through April 30 was spoken for. Then, when they re-opened the queue on May 3, there were people camping outside as if in line for a Led Zeppelin reunion Text Box: New Jersey Calls Off the Solar Rebate Program Text Box: Colorado to Require 30% of Power From Renewable Text Box: Colorado has increased it’s energy standard to require large utilities to obtain 30% of their power from renewable sources by the year 2020. This new standard Text Box: makes Colorado one of the highest in the country. Voters in Colorado became the first in the nation (in 2004) to establish a State minimum standard of 10%, and the Text Box: legislature raised that to 20 % in 2007. The new standard is required by 2020 but there is legislation in the works to raise that 30% to 50%. Text Box: Earthrenews.com Text Box: 6/10/10 Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 1 Text Box: Earth Renews Letter Text Box: Special points of interest: Solar Geothermal Biomass Wind Hydroelectric Text Box: Inside this issue:

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BLM Auction for Geothermal Leases

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Solar Cars to Race Tulsa/Chicago

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Sanyo New Energy Efficient Panel

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AeroCraft AC1002 Wind Turbine

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Wind Turbines in the Ocean

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