NJ legislature killed bill to compel utilities to >double solar production in '13. Don't try to force it down their throats.
Leak shuttered Indian Point nuke reactor.
Utilities filed lawsuit against Vermont Yankee nuke plant, seeking damages for shutdowns.
Unless sales pick up, GM will cut Volt production: exec. Well, there was the battery fire issue.
Dubai launched $3.27B solar park.
CPS Energy to announce OCI Solar Power - Korean subsid - as developer for 400MW PV solar project in San Antonio.
Global biofuels production dropped a touch in '11 for 1st time in a decade to 1.82mb/d. Rising cost of feedstock cited for drop. 40% of US corn crop now going to ethanol. 40%. I hate it. That's food, peeps. Yea, it's been better for our corn farmers. But food for fuel. No. US has 50% of global biofuel production. US and Brazil 80%. Brazil, of course, uses sugarcane. Yea, sugar is a food. But we can live without sugar.
Lufthansa ending flights from Frankfurt to Washington using biojetfuel, citing no secure long-term source of the biofuel.
When do we get a real energy policy?
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