Wednesday, March 11, 2015

SOLAR TO BECOME MOST AFFORDABLE POWER SOURCE in many areas of world next 10 yrs: Fraunhofer. 4-6 cents/Kwh by '25 in central, south Europe .... US has 15% share of trillion dollar global clean power market: report. (Sure could have been more by now. Why not? Politics.) .... Mass ready to more than double installed solar cap next 5 yrs: state energy/enviro officer. 751Mw now .... Ontario auction of 565Mw clean/renewable power .... India plans to add 100Gw solar by '22. (Keep that in mind, pards.) .... Politics blocking efforts to respond to global drought: UN official .... Few US investigators for crackdown on seafood fraud. (I, for one, like to know my seafood is good. Come on, pards. Let's get things better for our kids and grandkids.) .... New Zealand enviros threatening to poison baby formula over pesticide use. (Way over the line, Kiwis. Way over. Choose another tack.) .... Oregon low-carbon fuel program extension about to be law .... N Carolina hit Duke with $25M fine for groundwater contamination from coal ash .... USFS effort trying to save MN trees from beetle that thrives with warming .... Entergy Nuclear suing NY over coal plant restart .... NuGen Capital bought 4Mw solar farm in Mass. Power going to 2 local munis .... 50% solar tax cred in Louisiana .... NRC extended Ameren nuke plant license 20 yrs to '44. 1.2Gw. MO's only nuke. 76 US nuke reactors relicensed 20 yrs so far, 18 under review. Nuke waste being stored on site for 100 yrs at a time .... Sustainable Power buying stakes in 16 N Carolina solar farms from FLS. 63Mw. Duke buys the power .... UK comp to build $21M wind farm. Online by yearend. 5 turbines (I guess ~2Mw each) .... Onshore wind farms at 8.2 cents/Kwh. Coal 9.1 .... CECEP Wind (China) to raise $479M to help fund 550Mw wind power. Selling 315M shares .... GE chose Paris for clean/renewable power HQ .... E.ON to create clean/renewable power spin-off.

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