Thursday, April 3, 2014

STUFF ... Libyan rebs, govt agreed on opening up oil ports ... PLUG bought fuel cell stack maker ReliOn for ~$4M. All stock deal. BLDP now PLUG's exclusive supplier of stacks in N Am, some of Europe ... Fumes from new fracking well sickening homeowners living ~600 ft from well pad ... PA project finding flaws in how air pollution monitored at drill sites ... Cost overruns again at Kemper carbon capture/storage project ... China's 2nd largest carbon exchange opened in Hubei ... Germans pay 6.24 euro cents/Kwh for el ... Clean energy spending in Japan up 80% in '13 to $28.6B, almost doubled their solar cap. Canada spent 45% more - $6.5B. UK 13% more - $12.4B. Total global spending down 11% to $254B ... Solar Frontier set record 20.9% efficiency for CIS thin film solar cell ... World Bank, US, China negotiating $12B, 4.8Gw hydrodam project in Congo ... CAL snowpack 32% of normal ... US, Italy Navies collab on marine greenfuels development ... Appears entire pipeline sections "defective" from huge Caspian oil field still shut down. Way too much hydrogen sulfide in oil corrodes pipe. Consortium to lose another $4-12B in lost revs by mid-year. Exxon, Shell, Eni, Total, Conoco, Kazakh govt ... US Renewables Group got fund management license for Shanghai's 1st RMB-denominated clean energy fund ... SUNE sold majority stake in 50.7Mw Chile solar plant ... BYDDF supplying 8.6Mw solar for Rwanda project. Scatec (Norway) building ... Green Investment Bank (UK) committing several hundred millions pounds for Natl Health Service energy efficiency projects ... SPWR got $42M loan for residential solar lease program ... DOE revising $16B EV makers loan program ... Hanergy (China) planning 400Mw, $1.1B solar development in Ghana ... GDF Suez to develop 10 solar projects in France. Over 53Mw total. Through 2 subsids ... Long I. grid operator set solar FIT price for 100Mw. 16.88 cents/Kwh ... Amarenco Solar (UK) to raise Eur150M for UK, France solar projects.

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