STUFF

Egypt transition govt pushing ahead with plans to build new wind farms in Gulf of Suez.

Malaysia adopted feed-in-tariffs for clean E.

China added 18.9GW wind cap in '10, 73% more than '09. Total cap 44.7GW. Ist place in world. 30GW connected to grid. On track to install >90GW by '15, 150GW by '20. They also expect to increase exports of their wind equipment.

Vestas won order for 102MW wind farm in CA. 3MW turbines. Online late this year. Vestas' 1Q rev up 25% to $1.6B, but losses grew to $123M from $56M yr ago.

Germany president joined Russia's call for global nuke plant safety standards.

FL legislators killed a solar E bill. Our "Sunshine State".

World Bank prez pledged support to Morocco solar plans.

Iranian warships thwarted an attempted oil tanker hijacking by Somali pirates. 7th Iranian thwart since March.

Russia on May 1 curbed oil/gas exports because of domestic fuel shortages.

JP govt "asked" a nuke plant (not TEPCO) to shut down while the quakenami defense is strengthened. Located on major quake fault plane. Why do they do that? Really. Why. Called "most dangerous" plant in country. Would affect el for Toyota plant, HQ.

Global solar PV market in '10 installed 17.5GW v. '09's 7.2GW.

Oil hit $94 on Friday (Brent $109), US gasoline futures $3.12. US demand dropped 1.2mb/d in April. But the bounce today.

China on track to grow 9.5% in '11. El consumption growing 13% while el production growing 9%. Oops.

Sauds buying up African land to produce their wheat since their aquifers are drying up at home. Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Jordan also facing water shortages.

EIA budget cut 14%.

Jordan's citizens being asked to cut el use (most el from Eqypt's NG - cut off again).

Petrobras to double spending on Santos Basin thru '15 to accel crude production.

Venezuela in talks with Korea National Oil, Korea Gas on potential joint projects.

Shell to seek permission for 10 exploratory wells in N. Alaska waters by '13.

G20 should negotiate a "fair" cost of oil w/ OPEC and limit prices w/in a "band": UN.