STUFF

EC began investigation into Chinese illegal subsidies for solar glass makers. $260M mart in Europe. EC also investigating dumping by Chinese solars, subsidies. That's a $27B/yr mart in Europe.

Ocean waters offshore US N East spiked to record highs in '12: report. (Hence, Sandy.)

GHG contribution of industrialized countries fell .7% in '11.

Ireland says likely to miss '20 GHG target.

OSHA conducting safety sweeps at Bakken well sites.

Pilot study: some residents near Marcellus Shale drilling attribute health probs to fracking.

Conflicts of interest charges over NY fracking study.

GA Power to buy 250Mw of wind power from EDP Renewables OK wind farms beginning Jan, '16.

Enterprise Car Rental giving $2M to U of MO for research on biofuels, biomass, energy efficiency. U MO to create endowment to support their sustainable energy initiative.

UPM (Finland) building 120M liter/yr biodiesel refinery. '14 completion. Offering fuel for vehicle fleet tests next month.

EIA: US produced 1.047B gal ethanol in Jan v. 1.221B in Jan '12. Jan '13 had net ethanol export balance. Consumption up 30M gal Jan '13 v. Jan '12.

Global biofuels industry investment dropped 47% in '12 from '11 to $2.6B. US led with $1.5B.

StreetKleen (UK) to use 700K tons/yr of dog poop to produce methane, CO2 to power turbine for el.

Sofia Bulgaria building waste-based biofuels plant. Greek comps to build. To reduce use of NG for heating in city by at least 10%.

Production begun at new oil field in Saudi Arabia. Up to 500Kb/d by July to go to new refinery under construction, collab with Total. 900Kb/d next year. Production from major Saud oil fields continues to decline.

S Africa to use large-scale underground coal gasification. Hope to have necessary NG infra in place by yearend. NG will contribute 15% of country's total elgen mix.

Ukraine to complete their 1st nuke power plant in '15. To use 400 tons uranium/yr. Project cost $462.5M, including $137M for Russian fuel fabrication tech. State comp building jointly with Russian fuel comp.

Obama vowed to fight to adequately invest in R&D, ensure US continues to follow evidence-based scientific review process. "We have to make sure (science) not subject to politics." (I would hope we all can agree on that. O, but, Obama is saying it. It must be evil.)

New BLM rule gives priority to clean/renewable energy projects over mining claims.

NYC suing BP over lost pension funds.

Montana ranchers taking stand against coal.

Out of calculated 4,150Gw of offshore US wind energy potential, DOE's initiative aims to achieve 54Gw by '30, ~4% of total elgen capacity. 28 coastal states use over 79% of nation's el, typically at more expensive rates.

Mayor Bloomberg signed legislation to study geothermal feasibility.

Ethiopia to get Chinese (Ex-Im Bank) funds for $1b transmission line to bring new hydropower to capital. 385-mile line, 2 500Kv cables. 6Gw, $5B dam on Blue Nile to be built next 5 yrs by China El Power Equip, Tech. Ethiopia has 2nd highest hydro potential in Africa after Congo.

Kenyan Island in Lake Victoria to fight malaria using over 4K solar panels to power insecticide-free mosquito traps.

India's Petronet LNG prelim agreement with United LNG for long-term LNG supply from offshore hub in Gulf of Mex. $14B project. 6 floating LNG process ships off LA coast. Start up in '17.

Rosneft, Marubeni MOU on LNG project in Russia east coast. Now, Gazprom operates Russia's only LNG plant on Sakhalin Island.

Keystone XL pipe a $5.3B project.

Kinder Morgan expects to spend ~$5.5B to increase capacity of existing 750Kb/d Trans Mountain pipe to BC coast by ~20%. Also plan to twin up the 715-mile pipe.

EIA: China oil production expected to reach 4.5Mb/d this year, 4.7M by '35. (Darts, anyone?)

Indian navy recently test fired sub-launched cruise missile. China planning 2nd aircraft carrier.

India's crude imports from Iran down 26% in last financial year.

Ghana expects oil production to more than double to 250Kb/d by '21. Cost $20B.

Venezuela el supplies put on emergency basis after repeated blackouts in Caracas.

Exxon began production at Alberta oil sands project. Projected to produce 4.6B bls next 40 yrs. $13B project.

Tesoro planning complex in Washington state to unload 120Kb/d of crude from trains for ships to move Bakken oil to west coast refineries. Shipping costs $13/bl.

EU clean/renewable elgen in '11 increased to 13% of total. Within 7% of '20 target. Up from 12.1% in '10.