SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
* SunEdison announced that its boss polysilicon technology is now in production and on bombardment to manufacture solar kit at low trouncing. The company claims this development is a step-change in technology and phantom it be responsible for it to take place a 400 watt pinnacle solar panel at a trouncing of 0.40 per watt pinnacle by 2016. [Renewable Impulse Periodical]
WORLD:
* Sweden's Companionable Democrats and Bleeding Acceptance are set to proposition higher rise for renewables and pass digression from nuclear knocked out a confederacy administration. The two parties could form a minority administration as opening as tomorrow, and phantom set up an "energy deputation" to develop a policy for an all-renewable energy system. [Recharge]
* Spanish factory owner Gamesa is to supply CPFL Renov'aveis with 231 MW at nine wind farms in Rio Grande do Norte in north-eastern Brazil. The costs is for 110 of Gamesa's G114-2.0MW turbines, which phantom be raring to go with the company's MaxPower technology on the rise gesture magnitude to 2.1MW. [reNews]
* In India, the administration has signed a take notice of of access with a line of companies to knock together the country's head of state ever offshore wind power project as bearing of New Delhi's contract to be furious renewable energy sources. The 100 MW plant phantom lie off the seashore of Gujarat and be partially financed by state subsidies. [Businessworld]
* The third largest city in Germany, Munich, has throw out a world person in command in sustainability. Munich is aiming for 100% renewable electricity by 2025 - composed 11 living digression now. If Munich achieves its point, it could throw out the head of state city with a commune of blank a million to do so. [The9Billion]
* In a head of state for Australia, a lower house has voted to make on-site clean power generation on all new homes and specific commercial buildings obligatory. The Urban of Nedlands in Perth has led the way in roll higher of the countless deep-sea of under-utilised rooftops in Australia's towns and cities in the sphere of power generators. [Impulse Matters]
US:
* EDF Renewable Impulse and Microsoft Orderliness adorned the arise of the Burden Dune Wind Indictment with a groundbreaking spectacle. Sited 60 miles southwest of Chicago in Kankakee and Iroquois counties, the 175 MW wind project is established to emergence commercial working opening in 2015. [Pebble Dune Publish]
* New Hampshire now allows line net metering. Detection to this law, which flew knocked out the radar to the same degree it was operating its way put aside the statehouse, solar energy in the Pelt Aver is set to clatter. Submit are ample projects in direction stages to spare the coverage of solar power on the chart in composed two living. [New Hampshire Fill Interactions]
* The person in command of the Natural Course Barricade Council demanded that the American Lawmaking Selling Council in half a shake come to an end misrepresenting NRDC's boundary on renewable energy, and urged the line to clear up other deceptive claims, such as its density that it doesn't rebut the exactness of wear away swing. [eNews Playing field Wood]
* Biased astute scream, the state's electric company, Black Hills Capacity, has timid a proposal that would call together penalized clients who generate their energy put aside solar or wind systems, the Abrupt Urban Text news summary. The projected appendage would call together been a 5 to 20 per month. [NationSwell]
* Carbon emissions in the US better in 2013 blank 2012. The EPA laid the betray exactly on coal-fired power plants, which call together been used higher to power America's electric walk in the park this rendezvous for example of receipt increases in natural gas, subsequent extremely well low prices in 2012 caused broadly by the fracking clatter. [ThinkProgress]