New analysis shows US land, water resources - most in Gulf Coast, S East - could support growth of enough algae to produce up to 25B gal/yr of fuel. ~8% of US demand.
Tesla repaid DOE loan 9 yrs early. Plans supercharger network.
Colo State U Center for New Energy Economy created new online database for anyone interested in clean energy legislation in any state.
Biofuel Weiss (Germany) building 7M gal/yr biodiesel facility in Nova Scotia. Entire production to go to Germany. Used cooking oil feedstock. 1/3rd of production capacity by yearend.
India ethanol price settled at 62 cents/gal.
Oil tanker owners have lost ~$27B since '09. Consolidation inevitable.
Proposed $500M fund to help geothermal developers could leverage up to $9.6B of new investment, 2.4Gw of new capacity. Costs $10-36M just to see if site merits development (2-4 wells). ~6% of world's est. geothermal potential tapped so far.
Itochu (Japan) and partners to produce 50M gal/yr at non-food feedstock biodiesel fuel plant in Neb.
Panasonic to end solar wafer production at Oregon plant at end of June. They want to consolidate production at Malaysia plant. OR factory also makes silicon ingots for solar wafers. Also closed solar wafer factory in Calif last year. (Guess they'll be shipping OR ingots over to Malaysia.)
EU threatening fines, airport bans for 8 Chinese airlines failing to provide info required under Europe's new GHG reduction program. China says plan violates international law, ordered their airlines not to comply.
Element Power aims to build 300Mw wind farm in Finland.
CCC says low carbon investment after '20 could save UK up to 100B Pounds.
UK to intro energy efficiency auctions in '14.
One Wind to bring 1st wind farm in $2B portfolio online by '15.
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