STUFF

Constellation Energy offering solar leasing program to residential customers in MD, NJ, NY, MA, OH and PA. 20-year terms. No upfront costs.

DOE announced $43M over 5 years to speed offshore wind tech/deployment. 41 projects in 20 states. Really. Is that it? $43M over 5 years?! Is that all it's going to take?

Senator Wyden (D-OR): hike tariffs on Chinese solar. We did it to Brazil's ethanol. Why not China? Their $1T of our debt only 1 of 15.

~130M jobs in US in '00. ~130M jobs now. Huh.

The 5% of Americans with the highest income now account for 37% of consumer purchases: Moody's Analytics. Top earner's share of US total income peaked in '28. And now in '07. What does that tell us?

Level 3 Com (LVLT last I knew) to go with clean E to power 3 European data centers.

Green Mountain Power began constructing 63MW wind farm in VT. 21 3MW turbines. Online by end of '12. Qualifies for $47M in federal production tax credit. No news of how much the cost or who's providing the turbines.

E.ON subsid developing 2 wind farm projects in IL for 300MW. Will plant 188 GE 1.6MW turbines. Sites near existing high-volt power lines.

Puget Sound Energy erected last of 149 wind turbines for 343MW project in SE WA. Crews finishing 2 large substations and 8 miles of transmission lines to Bonneville substation. Should go online next spring. One of largest wind farms in NW. Construction started May '10. 25 permanent employees.

Arctic ice cover hit historic low in the past week since start of satellite observing in '72.

The come and the go, pards.