Thursday, September 19, 2013

STUFF ... World's leaders failing at controlling climate change: UN official ... China finding resistance to oil deals in Africa ... Fed appeals court upheld Cal's transportation fuel standards designed to reduce GHGs from fuel to '90 levels by '20 ... This year's Arctic sea ice cover 6th lowest in modern record ... Doctors, green groups sued EPA over smog in UT drilling area ... No penalties for chronic polluter in Eagle Ford: report ... Sol Voltaics (Sweden) aims to apply nanowire to solar modules to hike efficiency. Secured $15.6M so far in equity round. Enough to get to pilot production, they say. Gallium-arsenide nanowire ink mix. Modules 25% more efficient ... Some oil starting to come out of Libya again. May be up to 400Kb/d ... Northern Iraq oil pipeline bombed again ... GM hopes new batt tech - nickel, cobalt, manganese - will drive their $30K 200-mile range EV ... Gertler looking for partners to develop Congo oil. Up to 2B bls potential ... EDF, Enbridge dedicated 300Mw wind farm in Canada. ~$700M ... Finalnd's biggest utility to install 1.5Mw demo wave energy plant in France. Also building 10Mw plant in Sweden ... Eurus Energy (Japan) bought 44% of 42Mw Uruguay wind project. Vestas turbines. Online early '14 ... WalMart, Fed Ex among top 50 undermining climate progress ... Coke launched 1st el-refrigerated truck fleet ... Ecuador released Chevron from pollution liability ... Halliburton to plead guilty to criminal charge in GUlf of Mex BP spill ... USDA to buy more sugar for fuel production ... Oil seeping into flooded South Platte ... Japan PM called for shutdown of all Fukushima reactors. 5.3 quake hit area ... Shale gas has added US clean energy growth: Alexa Capital ... GCL-Poly (China) got $480M credit from China Development Bank ... Novozymes (Denmark) to provide Raizen (Brazil) with enzyme tech for 1st cellulosic ethanol plant ... Ecotality (ECTY) wants to auction assets Oct 9 ... 3 US biofuels firms charged with $100M fraud by SEC ... Abengoa subsid bought Siemens CSP assets ... Suzlon to sell 75% stake in China wind turbine manufacturing unit for $28M, much less than expected.

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