STUFF

MidAm Energy awarded Siemens 407MW wind turbine order for 3 Iowa farms. 2.3MW turbs from Siemens plants in Iowa and Kansas.

GE gas engine tech to power China's largest landfill gas project outside of Shanghai. 10MW.

Vestas got 56MW order from Italy wind farm.

N. Korea stays afloat with counterfeit $100 bills.

NRC proposed 3 new orders to boost safety at US nuke plants after study of Fukushima.

EPA and the industry reached a settlement on diesel in fracking fluid.

Chevron launched China shale search. Say China shale search three times fast. Ukraine opened up its shale reserves. To whom? I'm lookin and watchin just like you. The look see. Some states unprepared to tax shale boom. (I guess that's when we know there's a boom.)

FSLR permit approval in Cal project clears path for DOE loan guarantee.

The 6 thousand year old empire of China today posted a plan for 50k tons/yr production capacity of polysilicon and 5GW/yr production capacity for solar cells by '15. Aiming to promote domestic solar energy and bolster their companies' competitive edge in global mart. They also plan to have 100GW of wind gen capacity connected to grid by '15. Sounds like the old empire likes clean energy.

Renewable Energy Group reported '11 earnings of $93M on $824M revenues v. $8M loss on $216M revs in '10. Sold 150M gal biodiesel, up 121%. 4Q revs $266M. Avg B100 price $5.20/gal last Q.

U of IL researchers say they've developed new maize hybrid to produce 15-20% more biomass given same fertilizer as commercial hybrids. The hybrid a mix of tropical and temporate maize with increased drought resistance, sugars in stalk and pest and disease resistance. That's pretty darn good research I must say.

American Coalition of Ethanol says ethanol is saving consumers 7 to 10 cents at the pump. Well, there was that report yesterday that Iowa ethanol producers are losing 11 cents per gallon made. Huh.

Well, enjoy the weekend pards. I might meself.