Science and Technology:
¶ Initial marketing tests show customers are strongly inclined to buy algae-based diesel fuel. [Autochannel]
Economics:
¶ The massive global increase of installed solar PV-systems has an enormous impact on the position of energy utilities, which need to compensate with changes to their business models. [InvestorIdeas.com]
¶ Fossil fuels are the fastest growing energy source. [Commodities Now]
World:
¶ In the UK, Hinkley Point’s nuclear power plans are under threat, as talks between owner EDF and the Government reach crisis point, and could fail at any time. [South West Business]
¶ In Gujarat, India, forty-five hundred farmers walked out of a public meeting on a new nuclear power plant in protest. [Times of India]
¶ Weekly anti-nuclear rallies are continuing in Japan. [The Japan Times]
US:
¶ The sequester means a cut of 8.7% in renewable energy grants. [Greentech Media]
¶ The proposed New Hampshire moratorium on wind power is being held in committee over the summer. [New Hampshire Public Radio]
¶ There may be more storage tanks leaking at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation than the six we have already been told about. [OregonLive.com]
¶ There are mixed reactions to the appointment of Ernest Moniz, an advocate of both nuclear power and hydro fracking, to the position of Energy Secretary. [Energy Collective]
¶ Fire safety improvements the NRC required at the Oconee nuclear plant for 2012 are still not completed. The owners, who already failed to get the NRC to give them until the end of 2014, now say they cannot do them until 2016. [Anderson Independent Mail]
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