STUFF

TOP STUFF

Cal carbon auction raised $289M. All of '13 allowances snapped up. Most bids around floor price.

WTO reportedly backed EU, Japan complaints against Canada over Ontario subsidies to clean E producers that use up to 60% of domestic parts/tech. But didn't call it illegal subsidy.

DOI set to authorize 1,250 sq. mi. of public land for leasing in CO, UT, WY for oil shale, tar sands development. ~1/3 of what Bush admin planned to offer. Taking wilderness-quality lands off table.

DOA announced $15.7M to 189 comps to support production, expand advanced biofuels.

DOE awarded Plug Power (PLUG) $2.5M to modify airport tugs to function with H fuel cells. 15 tugs to 3 FedEx hubs.

GE buying 2K Ford plug-in hybrids.

Nissan upgraded, lowered price on Leaf EV.

In Boston, many other aging Neast cities, underground low-pressure NG pipelines riddled with leaks. > 3.3K ID'd in Boston alone, some > 15x global background methane level. Methane > 20x global warming potential of CO2.

Warming effect of GHG emissions up 30% from '90 to '11: World Meteorological Org.

PA's EPA says they test water wells near Marcellus Shale ops just as other states do. Other states' regulators say no they don't.

U of Buffalo shut down fracking institute faulted for its research and members' ties to NG industry.

Recycled fracking water so far only clean enough to reuse to frack.

S Sudan oil transport slated to restart this week. To pay $9-11/bl to use N Sudan pipeline system and 1-time $3B fee to N Sudan.

OTHER STUFF

Homeland Security financing engineering testing of huge inflatable plug to prevent flooding of transit tunnels.

Proposed NM to AZ 530-mile transmission line won't get built w/out formal commitments from wind, solar developers to use it.

Hawaii utilities worried rise in rooftop solar installs could cause power fluxes or sporadic blackouts.

First Wind turned on 69Mw Oahu wind project. Potential to meet 5-10% of island's el demand. Replacing ~300K bls of oil/yr. Siemens turbines.

Juhl Wind (JUHL) formed JV to buy existing wind farms in US, Canada. Looking for farms < 100Mw. Est. > 6Gw of farms in N Am < 50Mw.

SolFocus (NH), concentrating PV tech, up for sale. Restructuring. Produces CPV cells, develops projects. > 15Mw deployed in 13 countries last 2 yrs. Growth up last 6 Q's. Total investment in comp > $200M. Can't sell their products for profit, but "not far off".

Mich PSC approved DTE Energy's plan to expand Solar Currents customer-owned program for solar rooftop. 2 more Mw over next 2 years. 1st phase produced 600 projects for 5Mw.

ET Solar Group (China) to build total 50Mw solar PV in Romania. 20Mw already in construction, online 1Q13. Other 30Mw to start by yearend.

Despite 3 dry holes, Cuba reportedly continuing quest for oil.

EIA: cost to ship coal by rail to power plants up ~50% '01-'10. (Oil prices, cost of fuel.) Rail ships ~70% of coal to plants. ~40% of cost of coal delivered in '10. Rates up from $11.83/ton in '01 to $17.25/ton in '10.