STUFF

Digi Times: US solar installs may only be 3.5Gw this year.

Scientists expecting 2 times as many hurricanes as normal this year.

Researchers developed dengue fever forecast using temp, rainfall records.

Moniz to pause LNG export licensing process until he can personally review DOE decision making on it. (Hate to say it, but does he want in on the money?)

EIA: coal back as top US power generation fuel.

EIB to fund Repsol Tech Center (Spain) EUR200M for R&D projects in NG transport, energy efficiency, optimizing refining processes, petrol derivatives, CO2 storage, systems development in clean, renewable energy, biofuels and transport solutions.

Chinese military renewing cyber attacks with focus on US grid. (What the hell is that?! Is that just normal? Or response to US cyber attacks? Who the hell knows? Toughens up the grid security, hopefully.)

Sauds offered $15B energy bailout to Pakistan after govt-changing election. Former Paki govt favored relations with Iran. Sauds to provide 100K bls of crude, 15K tons of furnace oil on 3-yr deferred payment basis.

US wastes more energy than any other country. Energy efficiency 42%. The rest wasted. 71% wasted in transportation. 66% wasted in power gen. 20% wasted in commercial and rez bldgs, industry, manufacturing. Low-hanging fruit - transportation and powgen.

PG&E activated 2nd energy storage project using NGK (Japan) batts to balance grid power. $18M, funded in part by $3.3M grant from Cal E Commiss. 4Mw cap. Can store el up to 6 hrs. Their 1st system was 2Mw.

Boston Scientific inaugurated their 1.28Mw rooftop solar sytem at Mass distrib center. Provides 25% of center power demand. 3rd largest rooftop system in Mass. Helio Sage Energy built with Con Ed Solutions collab.

Judge about-faced, rejected bid to force EPA to curb lead ammo. (Check his bank account. O, but how polluting is lead ammo really. It usually ends up in animal or human.)

EPA shuttered by furloughs on Friday along with IRS, others.

States: NRC process for reviewing nuke waste storage legally flawed. (Expect lawsuits.)

DOT giving NY, NJ transit agencies $3.7B for Sandy recovery. (I guess part of $50B package.)

EU approved bee protection rules. (About time. Now US I hope. Especially Calif.)

MN gov OK'd solar energy bill.

Calif bill targeting plastic pollution in ocean. (Stalled in committee? It's 2013. We should have biodegradable plastic in everything. And some way to clean up those ocean gyres. But money spent on cyber attacks, war, name the waste.)

Brazil to auction giant oil prospect in Oct.

Bolivia plans to double spending on energy exploration.