Saturday, March 29, 2014

STUFF ... DOE pulled funding for Bluefire (BFRE) $300M cellulosic biofuel plant in Miss. BFRE to appeal ... NRG entering residential solar market ... S Africa intends to add 9.6Gw nuke power. 21 other African countries thinking of pursuing nukes. Kenya, Nigeria most serious. Over 600M Africans off grid, under 10% of households on. S Africa has 2 operating reactors, supplies ~5% of country's power gen ... REC Solar completed 1Mw solar plant for Cal farm ... Ormat to supply $254M of geothermal gear for 330Mw Indonesia plant. Ormat to own ~13%. $1.17B plant. 3 other comps helping to build. Construction start in '16. Japan Bank for Intl Coop, Asian Development Bank, 6 other lenders financing. Ormat also selling Cal solar farm for $35M to RET Holdings ... Open Hydro to install demo 4Mw tidal energy plant in Fundy Bay Nova Scotia. World's highest tidal surge. 2 turbines deploy in '15. Eventual 300Mw expansion ... US wind power industry forecast to reach $18.9B in '18: Fredonia Group ... EBRD to prioritize clean energy, energy efficiency in Eur1B Ukraine aid plan ... Macquarie optimizing solar assets in 120M Pound UK deal ... China's Guizhou Province earmarking $4B for 61 clean energy projects ... United PV Group (China) completed buy of 2nd solar project in Inner Mongolia. 2 more to go ... GDF Suez bought West Coast Energy (UK), wind farm developer ... Missouri county withdrew support of clean energy powerline ... Global wind power installs fell 20% in '13 to 36Gw. China led with 16Gw ... TRIG bought 2 new solar plants in UK for ~ combined 36M Pounds ... GCL-Poly secured $805M credit line from China Development Bank to finance solar projects ... Solar World reduced '13 loss ~2/3 to Eur228M. Revs, shipments down.

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