Technology:
¶ Solar modules made by Kyocera and installed in a French village twenty years ago are still operating at 91.7% of their original output. [Wall Street Journal] (This link is broken – the story can be found at global.kyocera.com/news/2012/0903_skok.html )
Japan:
¶ The Japanese government is postponing announcing an energy policy because of lack of consensus. [The Japan Times]
¶ The new Japanese safety standards will address problems from extreme events. [The Indian Express]
World:
¶ Mining companies are increasingly turning to renewable sources for their energy. One reason to do this is to cut carbon emissions. [OilPrice.com]
¶ The German solar market is changing the way it does business, but growth rapid continues. [Your Industry News]
¶ The UK government is cutting subsidies for large solar projects. [Energy Efficiency News]
US:
¶ Climate change is making it harder to produce electricity from all large-scale conventional sources. [Washington Post]
¶ New US solar installations are predicted to approach 4 gigawatts in 2012. [Digitimes] (This is about double what was installed last year, and four times what was installed in 2010)
¶ The US Chamber of Commerce and others have filed briefs supporting Entergy in its suit against Vermont over Vermont Yankee. [Brattleboro Reformer]
¶ Vermont towns are studying how to tax large renewable energy installations. [North Adams Transcript]
¶ Entergy is asking New York state regulators not to allow an electric cable to be put across the bottom of the Hudson River, because of the effect it would have on sturgeon. The power line would bring power from Canada that could replace the power lost if Indian Point closes. Entergy’s Indian Point plant is accused of killing sturgeon by heating the river. [New York Post]
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