Thursday, December 22, 2011

STUFF

Recurrent E got $250M financing for 200MW of solar PV projects in N Am.

AMRC got DOE acceptance for SC biomass cogen plant. 20MW online in '12. Replacing coal plant. Will use 325K tons/yr of forest residue, wood chips.

Shell oil spill off Nigeria one of worst. 40K bls heading to coast. Platform shut down.

Ag Dept to allow sale of biotech corn developed by Monsanto to resist drought conditions.

AONE got 2 new grid storage projects for their li-ion batt tech. This time directly with utilities. One 2MW, other 1MW.

Weekly US oil stocks fell 10.6M bls, way above estimates. Could be shipping/wx-related or tightening markets. Won't know for weeks.

Value of Iran's currency has fallen >50% against dollar in last 3 months.

DOE: 2x as many EV charging stations in US than E85 pumps. 4.4K charging stations, ~16.5K EV's. 2.5K E85 pumps, 7.6M vehicles that can run on it.

Turkey condemns Assad. Arab observers head to Syria. As Iraq battles itself. Eqypt still killing citizens. Haven't herd much lately from Yemen or other places.

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