Science and Technology:
¶ An airplane called Solar Impulse has started on a journey across North America without using a single drop of fossil fuel, powered entirely by the sun. [Nature World News]
World:
¶ The Indian government has advised banks not to reject financing proposals for renewable energy projects on the grounds that power sector as a whole is under stress. [Economic Times]
¶ Turkey signed a $2 billion deal with Japan for constructing Turkey’s second nuclear power plant in the Sinop province on its Black Sea coast. The new plant in the province of Sinop will be constructed by a Japanese-French consortium led by Areva and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. [RTT News]
US:
¶ Maine’s clean energy legislation has spurred more than $2 billion in local investment and created at least 2,500 jobs in the Pine Tree State. That isn’t stopping some state lawmakers from and trying to weaken and kill these laws for the sake of the fossil fuel industry. [De Smog Blog]
¶ The US DOE has made $7 million available to support the deployment of renewable energy and other “clean energy” projects on Native American lands. [solarserver.com]
¶ Duke Energy plans to file with regulatory authorities in the US state of North Carolina by mid-July 2013, for a program to sell electricity from renewable energy directly to companies. The move was prompted by a white paper from Google. [solarserver.com]
¶ Duke Energy, which just announced it is canceling the Shearon Harris expansion, plans to recover the costs incurred so far and pass them on to customers, Duke CEO Jim Rogers told investors Friday. [News & Observer]
¶ Shareholders at Entergy have rejected a resolution by New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli that calls for minimizing nuclear waste the company stores in spent fuel pools and transferring it into dry-cask storage. [Newsday]
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