World:
¶ The German government is to help Greece develop its renewable energy sector under an agreement signed Thursday by the two countries and an EU taskforce for the debt-laden country. [Capital.gr]
¶ Renewable sources supply 12.5% of India’s electricity. [Press Information Bureau]
¶ When Scotland set its new record for electric power production, the amount it achieved was sufficient for 100% of the country’s residential power demand. [Power Engineering Magazine]
¶ Nuclear power generation is well established, but efforts worldwide to develop permanent disposal sites for highly radioactive waste remain nascent at best. In the US, the Blue Ribbon Commission hopes to have a site operating by 2048. [POWER Magazine]
¶ A report from TEPCO says, “We must sincerely accept that we were unable to draw on human wisdom to prevent [the Fukushima Disaster].” In effect they are saying they should have foreseen the waves that destroyed the plant. [New York Times]
¶ TEPCO is setting up an internal safety organization that is, in theory, independent of the rest of the company. [The Japan Times]
US:
¶ The DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory is looking at an investment practice called securitization to reduce it’s levelized cost of energy down. This could save as much as 16% on an industrial-sized solar project. [Clean Energy Authority]
¶ Two additional water infiltration areas have been discovered at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant’s switchgear rooms. [Barre Montpelier Times Argus]
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