World:
¶ Despite the ongoing shutdown of all its nuclear energy-producing facilities, Germany exported the greatest amount of power in 2012 of any year in the past five years. This happened because Germany’s renewable energy industry grew to produce 23% of nation’s power in 2012. [Utility Products]
¶ A big, largely unreported, news message is that some European countries, especially Germany, have launched projects that combine renewables like solar and wind with hydrogen for energy storage, implying clean, zero-emission, stable power grids that require no coal, oil, or nuclear power. [Bangkok Post]
¶ A partnership between a wind farm in India and a waste management project in Colombia sets both to benefit from a new to offset the carbon emissions of the United Nations Environment Program and the United Nations Office for Project Services. [Waste Management World]
¶ For the second time in as many days, radioactive water has been found to have leaked from an underground storage tank at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan. [Deutsche Welle]
… News of the leak of contaminated water from a storage tank at Fukushima Daiichi is the latest blow to local fishermen who had hoped to restart their livelihoods. [Asahi Shimbun]
US:
¶ NorthWestern Energy, Montana’s largest electric utility, is attempting to use the courts, the Legislature and state regulators to restrict severely any new power it must buy from small, independent wind power projects in Montana. [Billings Gazette]
¶ A Gallup poll conducted in March, 2013, found that 2 out of 3 Americans, including Republicans, want the U.S. to place more emphasis on the development of solar, and wind energy was not far behind. [Truth-Out]
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