STUFF

NRC denied license for proposed nuke reactor on Chesapeake Bay in MD. Atomic Energy Act prohibits foreign ownership, control or domination. UniStar Nuclear 100% owned by France. They have 60 days to find US partner.

GE recently installed 300 wind turbines in Brazil. >600 more next 2 years there. Also to open 2 service centers by '14. Brazil installed 583MW wind in '11, cap up to 1.5GW.

17.7MW solar farm completed in MD. Power to be sold for use at U of MD.

'08 to '12, solar power in US expanded 285%, wind power 171%. Are we better off in last 4 years? The air is sure cleaner. And the electricity free-er and cleaner. Geothermal up 13%.

Orion Renewable Energy Grp (Oakland) planning 14MW solar farm in PA. PA's largest solar farm to date -6MW - in construction. Orion's 1st solar project. They've developed wind power for 20 years. But the wind tax deduct may not make it at the end of this year in Congress.

Work begun on $30M solar project at VW Chattanooga. 9.58MW will power 12.5% of factory. TN's current largest solar farm is 5MW. VW has used solar in Spain and Germany. This project online by yearend. Silicon Ranch Corp in Nashville to install, own, op.

USGS estimates ~90% of Arctic's oil/gas resources in 7 basins from Alaska to Russia to Greenland. Shell in $4.5B deep. $2.2B for leases, $2.3B for equip, peep, sundries. Just to FIND recoverable oil. If found, looking at $30B + investment over 15 yrs for 20B bls. ~73B bls in Arctic.

5 largest E projects in world:

5. $37B. Origin, Conoco Phillips, Sinopec extracting NG from coal seams in Australia. Sinopec has 20-yr contract for the gas. Followed by Japan's Kansai Electric.

4. $41B. Gazprom developing Russia NG field. Reserves 2x Marcellus.

3. $43B. Japan firm to be pulling NG, liquid fuels from under seafloor 550 miles offshore Australia. They'll separate the fuels and pipe the NG onshore and ship the liquids.

2. $57B. Chevron, Exxon, Shell ("Gorgon") to start Australia's largest NG project in '14.

1. $136B. 8 comps to develop Kazakhstan (who was Stan?) oil field in N Caspian. 75Kb/d production by yearend. Should reach 1.5Mb/d by '20.

EPA seeking comment on proposed permit for Capitol Power Plant in DC to use NG instead of coal. Plant built in early 1900's. Provides steam heat, chilled water for cooling to fed bldgs, including Capitol. Planning to add el, last time they did that was in '51.

Appeals court in Washington ruled to keep try to prohibit coal shipments out of export terminal off the ballot.

IKEA finished another solar roof on MN store. 142K sq ft array. Currently largest solar array in MN, but larger project to start construction this month. 31st IKEA solar project in US. They've invested $590M in clean E worldwide.

$12M, 3MW PV solar project proposed on old wood waste dump west of Santa Rosa, Cal by Conergy Power.