Tuesday, April 3, 2012

STUFF

Appalachian coal prices fell 15% in Jan alone, near $60/ton. Prod costs $60-75. Several comps closing mines.

EPA approved 1st aps for registering ethanol for making E15 gas.

Citigroup: subsidy cuts will nearly kill Germany's solar industry. Q-Cells filing for bankruptcy, restructuring. And their sub Solar Trust of America - developer of 1GW PV-CPV solar project in Cal - filed Chap 11.

Unseasonably warm weather causing more wildfires in VT.

Study: coral less vulnerable to climate warming than previously feared.

During ND tour, Salazar announced faster oil/gas permitting.

Spain imposing "temporary" halt to FITs for new renewable/clean E projects starting in Jan.

Exxon shale gas wells in Poland coming up empty. Drilling costing almost 3x US cost. Harder rock.

SZYM and Bunge (Brazil) forming JV to build commercial scale oils plant - 100k metric tons/yr production cap - in Brazil. Sugarcane feedstock. Oils for chem and fuel products. 2H13 startup. SZYM up 10% today on the news and trading above all their lines.

USN opened 1st of 3 planned E85 fueling stations at Pearl Harbor.

JUHL '11 revs up 148%, net up 269%. 1st-ever yearly positive earnings. Trading flat and sitting at 50-day lines.

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