US used >24TCF of NG in '11. Produced >28TCF. Check UNG (US NG Fund) for kicks. 9 LNG exporting projects applied for govt OK. 1 - in Alaska - given green light. FERC also gave OK recently to retrofit in TX for exporting. EIA says it could export 14BCF/d.
FPL to reopen ap period for solar rebate program.
PG&E asked state regulators for OK to let customers support 100% clean E for avg of a few $/mo.
Calif solar firms got about $1.2B of VC investment last year, 62% of worldwide investment in solar ventures.
INTL tops EPA list of top 50 "green-powered" orgs.
Solar project supplying Lanai with 10% of it's total el need now online after batt system install.
Cape & Vineyard El Co-op awarded contracts to install 50MW of solar across Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard. 44 projects.
Constellation (unit of EXC) completed, owns, maintains 11.5MW solar project at a NJ Board of Ed.
Soros: EU in worse shape than USSR before disintegration. Roubini: EU "unlikely to survive".
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt": Herbert Hoover.
Best Buy's "take back" program - recycling electronics - now fast-growing biz.
Lockheed Martin exceeded goals to cut emissions, waste ahead of sched. Setting new goals.
ETF market now controls >$1.2T in assets. Cash flow in growing ~24%/y. >24 ETF providers. National Exchange Traded Fund Assoc created. NETFA. Is this going to be the next unregulated blow up?
Quiet new fact: with shipping costs added in, US manufacturing as competitive now as ever. Ships spending up to 2X as long at sea to cut costs. And in '10, a worker in China could produce 27% of American counterpart.
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