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David Melville received a patent for his apparatus for making coal gas. Coal gas was used for street lighting.
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Thomas Edison started up the first power plant in New York.
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Nikola Tesla develops A.C. (alternate current) generators enabling electricity to be transmitted longer distances.
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Landfields are introduced and became the way for disposal and creating more soil
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the first commercial greenhouse use of geothermal energy is undertaken in Boise, Idaho. The operation utilizes a 1000-foot well drilled in 1926.
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This is the worlds first and biggest hydroelectric power plant
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The first nuclear reactor goes into operation at windscale
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The Geothermal Energy Association is formed. The association includes U.S. companies that develop geothermal resources worldwide.
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The Energy Commission approved the Burbank power plant, bringing the total of licensed power plants since 1999 to 36. Of those, 18 were online producing 4,976 megawatts. Another 14 plants were awaiting licensing.
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AGRA Biofuels has announced that it will build no less than 11 biodiesel plants in Pennsylvania in the next five years.
