Coast Guard confirmed new Gulf oil slick from containment dome BP placed weeks after well explosion. If that means permanent leak, I don't know yet. But who will accept permanent leak?
Lakes Michigan, Huron water levels touched all-time low for October.
FSLR got 100Mw deal in Indonesia.
Samsung to build 84Mw offshore wind farm in S Korea with 7Mw turbines.
Global PV solar inverter shipments est. to be record 8.6Gw in Q4. China likely to become world's largest inverter mart in '13.
8K anaerobic digesters in Europe, < 200 in US. Govt subsidies, regs the dif. 65K dairy farms in US. AD biogas potential from 1.7M cows just in Cal 1.5B cu meters/y for 450Mw, saving 1M tons CO2.
NASCAR hit 3M miles on E15 ethanol.
Southern Power (sub of Southern Comp) buying their 1st solar install in NC. 2.5Mw. 4th total solar buy. Sun Ed to build this month. Turner Renewable Energy partnering with Southern.
Ukraine to build 5 syngas-from-coal plants, '13 start. Cost may go to $3.5B. Syngas is CO + H. Energy density ~1/2 of NG. Chinese tech. Ukraine ready to provide loans. Their coal prod was up 8.8% in '11 v. '10, up 5.3% more thru Sept '12. ~64M tons/y now. China also to assist in biofuel development, converting alcohol plants to ethanol.
Explosion halting Iran NG flow to Turkey.
Distillate inventories (heating oil, etc.) in US northeast ~43% below 5-year avg. Outages of refineries in Venezuela, Netherlands, Virgin Islands contributing to shortage. How about propane tanks, more NG lines, even heat pump geothermal? Just sayin'.
14-year-old suing Kansas to force CO2 emissions limits.
USDA announced $16M for rural energy projects.
Trans Canada shut down Keystone pipeline in US on safety repair issues. Disrupts midwest oil supplies.
Royal Sauds want Arabia to go completely clean/ren energy.
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