STUFF

I like doing this. I like giving you all information. Here goes.

DOE gave conditional commitments for $4.5B more of loan guarantees for 3 AC CdTe PV projects. FSLR all of 'm. Total DOE guarantees now over $40B.

First Energy sold their newly-completed Fremont power plant to American Muni Power for >$500M. 544MW cap plus 163MW peaking cap NG combined cycle plant. <$1/w hard to beat. But. Gotta pay for that NG. For 40-60 years plant life. NG won't stay at $4 forever.

The ugly: households in JP's quakenami area being subjected to high pressure sales tactics to buy overly expensive solar systems that also overstate gen capacity.

Denver Intl Airport dedicated 4.4MW solar system w/ Constellation E. 3rd solar project for DIA, total now >8MW, most of any US airport. Yingli modules.

EV charging station installed at Honolulu Capitol, 1st of kind available to public.

Milwaukee to unveil solar financing program for city residents. And they're up north there, ya? That sun rises late and sets early in winter up there. Go figure. The south - I haven't seen much from southern cities yet.
Connecticut govt eliminating the consumer call-in center that handles questions, complaints about utilities as calls rising precipitously. Sign of coming times?

China to help Kyrgzystan upgrade its power grids. Who was Stan?

Edison Mission E and Navajo Nation to build, op 85MW wind farm. 1st clean E project majority owned by an American Native Nation.

Siemens to supply 8 500MW coal gasifiers to China.

Linear motion solutions for vacuum deposition chambers in PV manufacturing. I know. Lot of science and engineering. Love it. What does make us us?

Susitna dam moving ahead in AK.

China unveiling their feed-in tariff for clean E I saw somewhere.

India population will pass China's ~ '25. Folks, where does food come from to feed everyone? Water we got. Desalinization will not only take care of water supply but keep the climate change/global warming ocean level rise down enough so our coasts won't disolve into the sea.

Gazprom signed 4th agreement this year to supply India with LNG. Talk of sovereign wealth fund in India. Too bad we can't have one in USA, huh. Or even talk of one anymore. India and Mongolia also made a nuke/uranium deal. Ford has a 2nd plant in the works in India. Sold 95k cars in 13 months to May '11 from 1st plant. Almost half India pop under 25. Too bad we can't plug them into US social security/medicare, A? That would be true globalization.

Bank of America to start demolishing foreclosed houses. Like Roosevelt killing the pigs in the Depression.

Fun fax: $1M/day since birth of Jesus would be $700B today. $15T in cash ($100 bills) is ~130 yards squared by the height of what the Statue of Liberty holds in her left arm. Every citizen owes $46k. Here's a plan. Let's all pay it off. I can do maybe $50/month myself.

Go Congress.