Japan:
¶ Japan’s carbon tax will cost utilities ¥80 billion ($1 billion) per year. [Chicago Tribune]
¶ The emperor and empress will visit a village that lies partially in the no-go zone around Fukushima Daiichi. They are doing this to inspect decontamination work and encourage residents. [The Japan Times]
World:
¶ The Indonesian government is planning to develop renewable energy as a way to keep exporting petroleum. [Platts]
¶ Australia’s first utility-scale solar farm has been put into service. It provides 10 MW. [Power Engineering Magazine]
¶ Solar hot water systems have been installed in 858,000 homes in Australia. [Energy Matters]
US:
¶ An NRC public meeting on the future of the San Onofre plant drew an audience of 1600. The crowd had a lot of anti-nuclear activists in it, along with a lot of nuclear workers. [Capistrano Dispatch]
… Permission to restart San Onofre is not a done deal, according to the NRC’s regional administrator. [Chicago Tribune]
¶ The Federal Government has approved 10 GW of renewable installation on federal lands. [KCET]
¶ A group of activists is planning to sue Entergy for polluting Cape Cod Bay. [WGBH]
¶ The sinkhole at Bayou Corne is getting bigger. The hydrocarbons coming up on the water turn out to be crude oil. [The Advocate]
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