World:
¶ Regional demand in Africa and the Middle East for solar photovoltaic power will reach 1000 MW in 2013, a 625% year-to-year increase from 2012′s 136 MW. [CleanTechnica]
¶ Motions that state-owned Taiwan Power Co suspend construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District were passed yesterday by the legislature’s Economics Committee. [Taipei Times]
US:
¶ Only a year after being given a D rating on power by Greenpeace, Apple is 100% renewable for its data centers. [Businessweek]
¶ The California grid will support 33% renewable power by 2020. [Electric Light & Power]
¶ The NRC decision on vents for boiling water nuclear reactors is controversial. The new vents’ filters will be under study for a year before a decision is made on whether they are required. [RenewablesBiz]
¶ Restarting one of the crippled San Onofre nuclear reactors this summer would cost Southern California Edison’s customers three times as much as keeping it shut down. [YubaNet]
¶ Anti-nuclear organizations in three states say Entergy is not financially qualified to operate nuclear reactors and are calling for the NRC to enforce its regulations on the matter. [vtdigger.org]
¶ The cost of a plant to turn weapons-grade plutonium into nuclear fuel has risen from $4.9 billion to $7.7 billion. The project was supposed to be finished in 2016, but that date has been pushed back to 2019. [Businessweek]
¶ Entergy is taking the State of New York to court to prevent it from interfering with the relicensing process for the Indian Point nuclear plant. [Courthouse News Service]
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