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State Focus – Utah: Consistently Excellent

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Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s annual Enterprising States study. 3 for economic performance, behind North Dakota and Texas, it was the only state to land in the top 10 in all six major categories of the study. The Utah Film Commission says 2015 was a blockbuster year for movie makers in Utah. Film has changed.

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GSA, LEED, USGBC, and Politics

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Chatham County Commission. Green Education Foundation (GEF). Green Hive Foundation. International Commissioning Engineers West, Inc. American Architectural Foundation. Commissioning & Green Building Solutions, Inc. Commissioning WorCx. Foundation Communities. Cerama-Tech of Southern Nevada.

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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The key to that positive change resides in the same place in California it did in North Dakota—buried more than a mile underground in the middle of a huge shale deposit. Currently, SMUD is building the foundation for the “smart grid.” All of that may be about to change, seismically, for the better. Updated May 9, 2001.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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The allocation to each Public University which makes application shall be based on each Public University’s federally financed research and development expenditures as reported by the National Science Foundation. The Research Program. For a list of state economic development agencies, click this link. Employees must be Arkansas taxpayers.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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States poised for major growth in wind energy in coming years include Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, North Dakota and Michigan. The foundation work for the Highland turbines started last fall and should be done by the end of the year, with the turbines and the more than 650 blades set to go up by the end of 2015.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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Applicants must meet the same qualification criteria as Advantage Arkansas and must be approved by the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state’s climate change policies.

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