| March 24, 2016 | | | |  | Jim Kharouf
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| | | | Lead Stories | | | | In today's edition, beware: European clean tech industry falls into rapid decline. the future for onshore wind is not clear as an uncoordinated patchwork of policies across Europe continues to stifle progress, not least in the UK and Spain, says the European Wind Energy Association. Still in Europe, a Brexit is likely to be an Âelectric shockÂ: Power price would be much higher for consumers, the UK energy secretary says. Finally, the SEC Says Exxon can't block climate change vote, a defeat for the worldÂs largest publicly traded oil producer, which had argued it already provides adequate carbon disclosures. | | | | | | | | “ | | ÂThe outlook for 2016 is not as rosy and weÂre likely to see a dip in installations this year. Beyond this, the future for onshore wind is not clear as an uncoordinated patchwork of policies across Europe continues to stifle progress, not least in the UK and Spain. We need to see more political appetite at European and national level, which means putting in place a vision for renewables into the next decade. |
| ” | | Oliver Joy, spokesman for the European Wind Energy Association, in the Guardian's story European clean tech industry falls into rapid decline |
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Brexit likely to be Âelectric shockÂ, says Amber Rudd
By Pilita Clark - Financial Times
Britain faces an Âelectric shock costing consumers at least £500m a year if it leaves the EU, the energy secretary will claim on Thursday.
http://on.ft.com/1SiODh5
Rockefeller family charity to withdraw all investments in fossil fuel companies
By Rupert Neate - The Guardian
A charitable fund of the Rockefeller family  who are sitting on a multibillion-dollar oil fortune  has said it will withdraw all its investments from fossil fuel companies.
http://bit.ly/1UmsHFL
European clean tech industry falls into rapid decline
By Fiona Harvey - The Guardian
EuropeÂs once world-beating clean technology industry has fallen into a rapid decline, with investment in low-carbon energy last year plummeting to its lowest level in a decade.
http://bit.ly/1Umu2fQ The Struggle of Clear Climate Communication
The Atlantic
There has never before been a scientific study quite like the one released this week by James Hansen, a climate scientist and the former director of NASAÂs Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
http://theatln.tc/1MneAgg
SEC Says Exxon Cannot Block Climate Change Vote
Reuters
The Securities and Exchange Commission has ruled Exxon Mobil must include a climate change resolution on its annual shareholder proxy, a defeat for the worldÂs largest publicly traded oil producer, which had argued it already provides adequate carbon disclosures.
http://for.tn/1UIN7s8
***LB: Also in this story "In a Tuesday letter to Exxon seen by Reuters, the SEC said the oil producer cannot keep a proposal spearheaded by New York stateÂs comptroller from a full shareholder vote at the companyÂs annual meeting in May."
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| Natural Gas/Coal | | GOP hits Obama administration over coal mining rule
By Devin Henry - The Hill
Members of a House Natural Resources Committee panel on Wednesday peppered a top Obama administration official with complaints over a proposed coal mining rule.
http://bit.ly/1XP6xtg
Coal Plants Use As Much Water As One Billion People Every Year
By Alissa Walker - Gizmodo
Add this to the very long list of why burning coal for energy is a horrible idea. The worldÂs coal plants are using enough water to easily fulfill the needs of a billion people for a year. WhatÂs more, theyÂre often located in places where water is already scarce.
http://bit.ly/1UbvXTU
First US shale gas sails into Europe as Ineos carrier arrives in Norway
By Terry Macalister - The Guardian
The first US shale gas sailed into Europe bringing controversy in its wake.
http://bit.ly/1WKsoCa
| | | | Power | | Smart Metering Systems wins Ecotricity smart meter contract
By Madeleine Cuff - BusinessGreen
Smart Metering Systems plc (SMS) announced yesterday it has signed a new agreement with green energy provider Ecotricity to roll out smart meters to its UK customers.
http://bit.ly/1XP6caa
Primrose Solar and PS Renewables power up 'one of the last' large solar farms in UK
By Madeleine Cuff - BusinessGreen
Renewable energy developers Primrose Solar and PS Renewables have this week announced the completion of a 49MW solar farm at Eveley Farm in Hampshire.
http://bit.ly/1Mnd3GW
EDF Energy Renewables signs five-year turbine deal with Wind Towers Scotland
By Madeleine Cuff - BusinessGreen
Wind Towers Scotland yesterday announced a five-year deal with EDF Energy Renewables (EDF ER) to supply wind towers to all the French utility's onshore wind projects in the UK.
http://bit.ly/1VHLWsk EDF chief executive predicts green light for Hinkley Point
By Jim Pickard - Financial Times
The chief executive of EDF Energy has predicted that Hinkley Point will shortly get the go-ahead, even as he admitted that the new nuclear power station would be as expensive as burning oil at $230 a barrel.
http://on.ft.com/1pzEW4c
Port Augusta 'busting a gut' to reinvent itself as a solar city when coal-fired power is switched off
By Michael Slezak - The Guardian
Each day a trainload of coal rolls into the South Australian town of Port Augusta, where it is burned and turned into electricity. But these days that coal is shipped from a mine that is no longer digging. It is burned at a power plant that is about to be demolished.
http://bit.ly/1Zvmer2
Fight to Keep Alternative Energy Local Stymies an Industry
By Diane Cardwell - The New York Times
Up and down the center of the country, winds rip across plains, ridges and plateaus, a belt of unharnessed energy capable of powering millions of customers, with enormous potential to help meet national goals to stem climate change.
http://nyti.ms/21IksCr | | | | CleanTech | | Dyson developing an electric car, according to government documents
By Adam Vaughan and Damian Carrington - The Guardian
Dyson is developing an electric car at its headquarters in Wiltshire with help from public money, according to government documents.
http://bit.ly/25nrBwH
Seattle's 'aggressive plan' to cut pollution with 15,000 electric vehicles
By Francesca Perry - The Guardian
SeattleÂs mayor Ed Murray wants to dramatically increase electric vehicle (EV) use in the city  by 15,000 cars by 2025  in order to halve greenhouse-gas emissions from the cityÂs vehicle fleet.
http://bit.ly/1RAESOp
How South America's lithium triangle is gearing up to feed our battery addiction
Reuters
ar from the soy and cattle that dominate its vast fertile pampas, Argentina harbours another valuable commodity that is rocketing in price and demand and luring newly welcomed foreign investors.
http://bit.ly/1PsJbnt | | | | Water | | American tribes are in trouble, and most won't get $48m to flee climate change
By Autumn Spanne - The Guardian
The tiny Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe has called the coastal marshlands of southern Louisiana home ever since their ancestors settled there to avoid forced relocation under the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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