Tuesday, January 7, 2014

STUFF ... Hanwha Solar (HSOL) 50Mw deal with OneRoof Energy ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) 25Mw for 4 NC solar projects. Also connected 30Mw to grid in China ... US total biogas el gen 158Mw. ~2K sites. Germany has ~7K sites ... Ormat (ORA) completed 16Mw Nevada geothermal plant ... Yingli (YGE) supplying 1Mw for Serbia solar project ... Rene Sola (China) 420Mw Japan deal. Delivery through end of '15 ... OCI America (S Korea) got phase 1 - 41Mw - of 400Mw TX solar farm online. Full completion in '16 ... Fracking contaminating wellwater in WV, PA: AP ... NAS: US methane emissions almost double as high as previously thought ... EPA: uneaten food 23% of US methane emissions. Rots in landfills ... Cleveland Browns to divert 35 tons of stadium food waste to biodigesters to make el, NG, crop nutrients, reduce CO2 emiss ... Rabobank expects ag waste to become key feedstock for renewable energy in Europe. Extreme low cost ... Berkshire (Warren) to buy Philips 66 pipeline unit developing polymers to max pipeline flow. $1.4B stock deal. Ship by rail double cost of ship by pipe - $12/bl v. $6 ... Statoil, partners found another oil/gas deposit in N Sea. Est. 19-44M BOE in area thought already mature. Drilled 3.6K meters blw surf ... Panama Canal cost $350M to build. Expansion now over $5B to double cap. '15 completion. Cost overruns up to $1.6B, delays, lawsuits. Est. double '05 tonnage by '25 ... E.ON extended partnership with Green Wave Reality for smart home services rollout across Europe ... TX grid operator cancelled emergency alert urging everyone to reduce el use. Concerns of rotating power outages. Power watch still in effect. "Conservation should still be considered." ... Toxic mine spillage flowed into Olifants River in Kruger National Park in S Af for a week. Fish kill up to 7.5 miles downriver. pH 1.5 at discharge site. Bet those animals who drank it don't feel too good ... Starwood Energy Group arranged finance for 211Mw TX wind farm bought from T Bone Pickens' Mesa Power. GE turbines. '14 completion. 1st phase of 377Mw. Starwood committed all cash equity, GE contributed tax equity, Citigroup, other bank provided tax equity and $265M construction debt ... Starwood closed 2nd energy infra fund @ $983M ... Pure Energies anticipating infra funds to replace tax equity for US solar finance ... Foreign investment in China clean energy stagnating as market shifts to domestic installs ... Yingli, CNNC unit formed JV for 500Mw of solar projects guess where ... Grid Essence (Swiss) and their UK unit 77M Euro finance with Deutsch for 60Mw solar project in UK ... Shunfeng Photovoltaic to install 3Gw solar this year guess where. Up 4x yoy. Bought Wuxi Suntech last month ... Welspun (India) $160M to build 160Mw solar in Punjab ... 8 EU ministers calling for EU to set firm '30 clean/ren target ... Etrion (Swiss), Hitachi partnering on at least 100Mw solar in Japan ... Bavaria considering 72B Euro fund for clean/ren ... US congress probably will allow US oil exports. Stopped after OPEC embargo in '70's ... Whales heading south 2x over last year. They ain't dumb ... NRC: current spent nuke fuel waste still safe. Good news, A? Whew ... FERC: Louis Dreyfus Energy Services may have manipulated power markets. O no, not them too ... Toyota to start selling hydrogen cars in US a year earlier than promised ... EV racecar debut in Vegas ... Rio launching "ecoboats" to clean up waterways ahead of Olympics ... Scientist: bee-killing chems concentrate in prairie wetlands.


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