For the first time, EPA implicates fracking for causing groundwater pollution http://huff.to/sMQlo2 @HuffingtonPost
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As renewable power crowds the electricity grid with growing force, transmission operators are upping the stakes for supportive infrastructure.
On Thursday, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator (MISO) announced its annual expansion plan, which included a $5 billion addition to its traditional $1.5 billion annual expansion plan. The additional money will allow the regional transmission operator (RTO) to create an improved “electric grid superhighway” that includes 215 construction projects. Keep reading →
Latest on #DipNote: An Update From the U.S. Center at #COP17 http://go.usa.gov/5Aj #Durban #climate @StateDept
Nuclear is not so hot these days.
The percentage of nuclear electrical generation worldwide is shrinking as countries slow or halt new construction and in some cases even close existing plants in favor of other types of power, according to the latest Vital Signs Online (VSO) report released by the Washington DC-based think tank Worldwatch Institute. Although nuclear provided 6% of the world’s energy in 2001, it constituted only 5% of the world’s energy portfolio in 2010. Keep reading →
It’s a big island, but it’s still an island. And most of Australia‘s population is within a boomerang’s throw of the water – all of which makes marine-based power generation a potentially important part of the country’s future clean-energy mix. Recognizing this, the Victoria state government is conditionally pumping $5 million into BioPower, bringing the wave power startup closer to the funding needed to demo a 250-kilowatt prototype of its bioWave device.
“We are now ready for the ultimate test – installing the bioWave in high energy 30-metre deep ocean waters,” CEO Timothy Finnigan said in a statement. “We have to raise another $3.6 million to complete the project funding, and given our results to date we are confident of achieving this in the coming months. The technology has been positively assessed by more than a dozen independent reviewers.” Keep reading →
China to install wind/solar capacity to equal 180 nuclear power reactors in the next decade
By Shifra MincerFrom @IEA_OECD: China to install wind/solar capacity to equal 180 nuclear power reactors in the next decade. #WillWeCompete bit.ly/rIjbNn @EnergyPressSec
Just three years after fears of an energy supply shortage, executives of the world’s leading oil companies now foresee a bonanza of oil and natural gas on the horizon.
In 2008, concern that a rapidly developing world was eating through all its energy supplies helped push prices to record levels, with oil hitting $147 a barrel and natural gas topping $15 per million cubic feet. Keep reading →
The solar industry is moving into a low-cost future overshadowed by technology changes, but is still growing quickly.
The solar industry weathered a somewhat cloudy year, rife with the political consequences of the Solyndra bankruptcy, rapidly falling prices for photovoltaic (PV) modules, and the impending expiration of the federal cash grant that has existed in lieu of a similarly lucrative but harder to obtain investment tax credit. Keep reading →
Both developing and developed countries are gathered in Durban, South Africa this week for the the United Nations international convention on climate change mitigation. But the tension is clear: developing countries, whose infrastructure is in many cases still severely lacking, face vastly different problems than developed countries.
On Monday, during the second week of UN Climate Change Conference 2011, the World Bank along with four other international development banks announced a climate change partnership in which they would develop a common approach to assessing the climate risk of cities, greenhouse gas emissions and appropriate measures for mitigation, in the process of international development. Keep reading →
On #climatechange, Ban Ki-moon tells Durban attendees the world & its people cannot accept ‘no’ for an answer http://bit.ly/rG7Ove #COP17 @UN
