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Clean electricity scheme to expand

The government launched a working group Friday to study the expansion of its program for utilities to purchase electricity produced using clean and renewable sources of energy. The program, which started Nov. 1, enables power companies to buy electricity... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Fri, Nov 06 2009

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