Tuesday, January 13, 2015

SOCIAL COST OF CARBON WILL BE 6X OBAMA ADMIN'S ESTIMATE: RESEARCHERS .... US can triple clean/renewable power use by '30: UN agency .... Stanford professors calling for university's divestment of all fossil fuel equities .... NASA launched 5 climate research projects .... Broad support for GMO labeling in US: poll .... EU nations can ban GMO cultivation under new law .... DOT estimates driving will increase at less than half the rate of past 30 yrs in US .... Tanzania can't stop illegal logging from ravaging forests .... Health a more powerful motivator than money in energy efficiency push .... Cyber threat could lead to nuke plant closures in S Korea .... Iceland brewer making beer from whale testicles. (I know. Go figure.) .... Oregon OK'd low carbon fuel standard. Fuels will have to emit 10% less CO2 over next decade. Expected to prompt demand for biofuel blending .... New Mexico has maxed out its Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit .... Cree Lighting (CREE) got $500M credit line .... GDF Suez plans to double clean/renewable power capacity in Europe over next decade .... GDF Suez, Nareva started up 301Mw wind farm in Morocco. Cost ~450M Euro. 2.3Mw turbines .... LNG prices globally now avg under $10. Production up ~5M tons in '14 to ~245M tons/yr .... Coal workers strike in India over plans to end state's monopoly. Shut down ~1/2 of production .... Natgas production in Ohio Utica shale down 65% July '13 to June '14 .... Abengoa (ABGB) to build $1.55B 924Mw combined-cycle NG plant in Mexico .... FLS Energy started building 42Mw solar in N Carolina. 7 sites. 1st phase of 200Mw they'll build this year .... China comp to start building 350Mw coal power plant in Serbia. $608M loan from China ExIm Bank. Project cost ~$715M .... GE got $491M, 346Mw turbine order for 2 Brazil wind projects. GE turbine factory in Brazil reaching max capacity with these orders .... Mid-American Energy to complete 1.05Gw wind project in Iowa this year. Finished 3 of 5 wind farms in 4Q14 .... Boralex buying stake in 24Mw, $75-80M wind project in Quebec. Online early '16 .... Vattenfall to invest 1.06B Euro more in wind.

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