STUFF

TEPCO shares down 80% since.

US GDP down on gas prices, weather, defense spending cuts.

Italy to extend solar incentives to Sept.

Wells Fargo to fund $120M over next year for Sun Edison (sub of WFR) solar PV projects. Builds on $200M funded since '07.

Austin E providing 25-yr PPA for 30MW PV solar farm that Renewable Energy Systems Americas will build. Trina Solar panels.

CA Indy System Operator (ISO) now has real time data of solar elgen. Wholesale power grid. Shows current MW from solar. They serve 80% of CA.

Tucson Water Dept. dedicated 1MW SPWRA solar system.

Nanosolar signed contracts to supply up to 1GW thin film solar panels to Euro power plant builders over next 3-6 years. That's about as amorphous as their previous contracts.

ITRI beat lowered expectations, record backlog reported after close yesterday. Revs up 13%. Down 1% today.

Fed gov responsible for 66M metric tons CO2 emissions in '10. ~2.5M mettons less than '08, tho. DOD by far the worst w/ >34 mettons in '10.

Excelon acquired Constellation. $7.9B to make a $52B/34GW utility in DC, 38 states and parts of Canada.

Exxon made $11B Q1.

Utilities (w/nukes) brace for EPA studies on hex chromium in drinking water.

S. Africa to cut coal use, they say, and explore a carbon tax. Yea right. DOE sees China GHG growth stopping in 20 years if everything goes right. When the hell has that ever happened? China's new 5-yr plan favors clean E. Okeydokey. MD gov under pressure to veto trash-to-E bill. Yea, that's evil.

Mitsubishi Chem signed MOU with Genomatica to explore building  bio-BDO plant in Asia. Better Place signed deal with China Southern Power Grid (8th largest utility in world). A "cell" of charging or batt swap stations for a metro area runs ~ $150M.

GE has retrofitted a refrigerator factory to curb cyclopentane, a GHG.

Chavez putting a 95% tax on any oil revs over $100/bl. What side is that on?

Germany to double land for energy crops by '20 to 3M hectares (~6M acres?).

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