Archive for December 24th, 2012

December 24 Energy News

December 24, 2012

Japan:

¶   The new Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, says he will review the Fukushima Disaster. [The Japan Daily Press]

World:

¶   A project in Qatar is growing cucumbers using solar power to drive desalinization. [Green Prophet]

¶   Neste Oil will produce the renewable fuel used in the ITAKA project to support the commercialization and use of renewable aviation fuel in Europe. The project is being supported by the EU. [Equites.com]

¶   Cost cutting by EDF, the French government-owned maker of nuclear reactors, could add long delays to the construction of new reactors in the UK. [This is Money]

US:

¶   Christian Science Monitor has forecasts on the futures of renewable energy, oil, and gas. [Christian Science Monitor]

¶   Minnesota Power has completed 210-megawatt (MW) windpower installations near New Salem, N.D., making them operational. [Equites.com]