Thursday, December 12, 2013

STUFF ... Fed judges rejected EPA rule on heavy-duty truck engine emissions ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) got 100Mw, 4-project deal in China. Online in Jan ... 45M US households could easily switch to plug-in EVs: poll ... FDA voluntary plan to curb antibiotic use on farms ... EPA listed 9 superfund sites, proposed 8 more ... Dallas city council approved 1 of most restrictive NG drilling ordinances in TX ... 9 banks providing $1.2B for 531Mw Chile hydropower. 2 projects. Online '18 ... Price of PV panels up ~5% in India this year ... Focusic New Energy (China) got $32M loan from China Development Bank for 20Mw concentrated PV project near Gobi desert ... Singapore could meet 10% clean energy by '20 without govt subsidies. ~1% now ... Australia reached 3Gw of installed solar. ~1.2M systems. ~10% of el demand ... UK seeing rapid jump in cases of blocked filters from biodiesel ... USDA, US Navy unveiled Farm to Fleet program. Navy to begin to add biofuels into regular domestic purchases of ~77M gal/yr of jet fuel, marine diesel. 1st deliveries in '15. Blends between 10-50% ... USDA announced public-private development of 1st US commercial facility to produce cellulosic nanomaterial from wood fiber ... Cheneire unit signed 20-yr contract with Indonesia's Pertamina to export .8M tons/yr LNG to Indonesia from TX. 1st deliveries in '18 ... China oil pipeline blast in Nov that killed 62 caused by thieves siphoning off oil. Oil had leaked into urban storm drains ... Ukraine asking EU for 20B Euros aid to sign trade agreement. (Apparently the protests were effective.) ... Study: UK will save 85B Pounds/yr by meeting planned carbon targets, cutting emissions in half by '25 ... Iran, Russia close to agreement to build new nuke plants in Iran ... Fisker on fast-track bankruptcy. May soon restart production of Karma hybrid ... 30K Coloradans petitioning Xcel Energy to withdraw anti-solar proposal ... Grupo T-Solar (Spain) completed solar plant in S Cal. NADB $65M loan for over $75M project ... COPEL (Brazil) to buy 553Mw Brazil wind projects for $68M ... Solar City (SCTY) closed on $158M Zep Solar acquisistion. All-stock transaction ... Sun Ed to offer $800M notes to fund debt restructure ... GE Finance-led consortium bought stake in 143Mw Catalina solar plant ... Strata Solar (NC) to buy 160Mw of modules from BYD (China) ... Hermes (UK) funds acquiring majority stake in 144Mw wind farm in Scotland from EDF units.

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