SUNDAY

Deepwater applied for BOEM permit to build 1GW wind farm off Rhode Island coast. 5MW turbines. Leases could be awarded in '12.

Merkel, Sarkozy reached agreement on strengthening banking sector.

Signal Energy putting up 20MW wind farm in TX panhandle. Owned by DeWind, who's also providing the turbines from a TX plant. Online by year-end.

BP Wind E planning $800M 419MW wind farm to span 4 Kansas counties. Fall '12 completion. BP will pay >$1M/yr for 20 yrs to 200 landowners and about the same to local govts.

US tax credits for wind power expire at end of '12.

1,000th GE wind turbine installed in Canada goes into service next month. 1st installed in '04. Canada's wind power now 4.6GW, ~2% of total el demand.

Clemson project converting warehouse on former Charleston Navy base into test center for massive ocean wind turbines. $98M cost came from $45M DOE grant, $53M from SC and private donors.

GE and Inovateus Solar to offer solar carports w/ EV charging stations for commercial, corporate parking lots.

Salt River Project switched on 20MW solar farm to supply el to >100 schools in Phoenix area. Built by Iberdrola using SPWRA panels.

SPWRA expects to start building 25MW solar farm near Modesto before year-end. Online 2H12.

Feds picked 7 pilot projects to speed up transmission line buildout. 9 agencies formed Rapid Response Team for Transmission to oversee. Projects now take 5-15 years to get all the permits.

1H11, renewable E (biomass, biofuels, geothermal, solar, wind and hydro) provided 12.25% of US energy (el and transport) production. Was 11% in 1H10, 10.5% in 1H09.

Wind E in Europe expected to >triple in power output by '20 with over $262B investment for onshore and offshore wind. Production should increase from 5.5% of total el demand in '10 to 15.7% in '20.

Global small wind industry projected to triple by '15 to ~150MW/yr. US expected to have 2/3 of market.

2.1GW WY wind farm in design stage. Being developed by Pathfinder Renewable Wind E.

EDP Renewables opened 99MW wind farm in OH. 1st of 4 phases.

Sinopec to buy Canada's Daylight E for ~$2.1B. They explore for oil, NG liquids in W. Canada.