Sunday, May 18, 2014

CHINA TARGETING 70GW solar installed by '17. 150Gw by '30. Plans to have 150Gw wind capacity by '17, 11Gw biomass, 50Gw nuclear, 330Gw hydropower. Wants 13% clean/renewable power ... $60M more incentives from NYSERDA for solar installs of over 200Kw. Aps due mid-July. All online by April '16. $50K extra for projects that incorporate energy storage, efficiency ... TBEA Sun Oasis (China) set to install most solar in world this year. FSLR to install ~1.3Gw (93% large scale), TBEA up to 1.5Gw. FSLR has 1Gw pipelines each in Latin Am, Mideast. TBEA has projects in Pakistan ... Global solar project pipeline 140Gw, up 5Gw since Feb. 21Gw under construction or with signed PPAs. N Am largest pipeline - 34Gw announced projects, 5Gw under construction. Avg. size over 25Mw. 80 projects 100Mw or better in development ... Latin Am 15Gw in development. Over 4Gw in Brazil, 7.5Gw in Chile ... 274 coal miners dead in Turkey, est. 120 still trapped. Mine owners had cut cost of production from $140/ton to $24. Political connections to get around safety regs. Erdogan may be back in trouble ... Global nuclear industry ~$140B/yr. DOE has offered $452M to be matched by small modular reactor sector to get a design licensed by '22. Babcock & Wilcox doesn't see it after spending $400M with DOE. NuScale Power (Fluor unit) hopes to submit design in '15 for '18 approval. Commercialization within decade ... Exelon in '10 generated 93% of its el from nukes. Looking at small modular ... 80% of Britain citizens support clean energy.

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