Wednesday, August 19, 2015
US WIND POWER SELLING AT RECORD LOW 2.5 CENTS/KWH. National avg ~11 cents. Wind was 7 cents in '09. Total US wind cap now 66Gw. Meets near 5% of powergen demand .... US natgas gathering, processing sites lose 100BCF/yr, far more than fed ests: study .... India to hold bidding for 750Mw of solar power this week. Awards in 3 months .... El Salvador to launch 150Mw clean power tender later this year .... Morocco to tender 75Mw of PV solar .... MacArthur Foundation $50M pledge for green work .... Philippines' Catholics campaigning against coal power .... Record low of Poland's Vistula River .... 1.5M tons/yr of arsenic infused into US soil with pesticides, poultry fertilizers. Rice soaks up 20X more than other grains. Brown rice 80% more than refined rice. (Watch what you eat, kids.) .... World eating more fish. Shortages coming .... 7M acres in US west burnt so far this year. (Army called in, in case you missed it.) .... Colombia peso down 21% this year v. $. Chile peso down 12%. Mexico peso down 10% .... Oklahoma already has had more earthquakes this year than last year's 585. (Fracking.) .... AZ regulators called "time out" on solar fee war .... Sun Ed (SUNE) finished 6Mw plant in Florida .... U of Conn researchers built hydrogel "antenna" to pick up blue range of light spectrum for solar cells. Could double cell efficiency. Other uses for the discovery. Company formation being explored .... Tepco, Mitsubishi, others partnering on building over 1Gw coal power plants at Fukushima. Integrated coal gasification combined cycle tech .... Yingli de-listed from NYSE.
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