Archive for March 7th, 2013

March 7 Energy News

March 7, 2013

World:

¶  The Indian Government has set a target to install 15 GW of wind power by the end of 2017. [Energy Live News]

¶   Two years after the Fukushima Disaster began, there is still too much radiation to get a good idea of what happened to the reactor cores. [The Japan Daily Press]

US:

¶   Los Angeles will go coal free by 2025, as the city ends contracts with old plants in Nevada and Utah. [SustainableBusiness.com]

¶   More than 300 clean energy projects started in the US in 2012 are expected to create over 110,000 jobs. [InvestorIdeas.com]

¶   The Saddleback Ridge Wind Project, in Maine, is moving forward after being ordered by a court to limit noise to lower levels than originally allowed. [Lewiston Sun Journal]

¶   The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant got a green rating from the NRC, meaning they consider its safety condition good. [Rutland Herald]

¶   The DOE and the governor of Washington want to send some of the waste from the Hanford site to New Mexico. [TheNewsTribune.com]