Tuesday, August 6, 2013

STUFF ..... JA Solar (JASO) to supply panels for largest Georgia solar farm ... Deepwater floating wind turbines may be 4 yrs away ... Alaska heat wave killing off fish ... NJ startup claims gas-to-liquids product tackles oil field flaring ... Belarus starting push for clean/renewable energy. 10 biogas facilities, wind, hydropower plants in past 5 yrs. Hydro capacity now 30Mw, biogas 5.5Mw, wind 4 Mw, solar 1 Mw ... Solar power can provide 1/3rd of US west's grid needs if DOE's Sun Shot Initiative meets its '20 goals of inexpensive equipment, etc. UC Berkeley computer model ... Carl Sandburg College offering new biofuels manufacturing tech program this fall ... Cuadrilla began fracking in Britain ... Thailand plans to spend 80B Bhat to set up solar farm in every village ... Santa Fe fall launch of website offering home energy audits ... EPA will now provide prelim screening results for clean/renewable potential at 66K contaminated land, landfills, mine sites. Up from 24K ... EPA gave refiners 4 more months to meet renewable fuel quotas. Left unchanged this year's mandate to use 16.55B gal of them. Plans to reduce 18.15B gal '14 mandates. Also cut '13 mandate for cellulosic biofuels to 6M gal from 14M ... Edison Intl bought rooftop solar developer SoCore Energy. Primarily develops comm, industrial rooftop solar ... Vivent (Utah) arranged $200M tax-equity funding to build residential solar systems ... Principal Solar to seek substantial funding in '14. 2Gw portfolio target ... UK solar FIT change confirmed by official ... Longyuan Power subsid issuing $300M in bonds for clean/renewable energy funding ... SEB, KIW IPEX investing 84M Euro in wind farm ... NM bearing brunt of US west's drought conditions ... Judge upheld Shell's Arctic oil spill plans ... GM lowered Volt price $5K.

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