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World:

¶ Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited recently floated tenders for the preparation of detailed project reports for setting up solar power projects over water bodies in the state. The company plans to share revenues with government agencies that own the water bodies. [CleanTechnica]

Solar PVs over a canal in India. SunEdison image

¶ The southern Indian state of Kerala has finally joined the bandwagon of Indian states launching massive solar power tenders. The Kerala State Electricity Board has floated a tender for 200 MW solar power capacity. Bidders shall be able to submit bids for project capacity between 10 MW and 200 MW. [Cleantechies]

¶ A study from two research organizations at the London School of Economics concluded, as China finalizes its 13th Five Year Plan for economic development for 2016 to 2020, that the country is moving toward a new development mode, focused…

Opinion:

¶ EDF shows that wind makes better sense than nuclear • EDF in the UK may be propelled by its disastrous nuclear ambitions, but in the US it is selling its power, profitably, for under 40% of the price it has been promised for Hinkley C, including federal tax credits. [The Ecologist]

Turbine at EDF Renewable Energy’s Bobcat Bluff Wind Project, Texas. Photo: EDF Renewable Energy.

¶ What a SunEdison Bankruptcy Could Mean for Renewable
Energy • SunEdison’s apparently looming downfall may become a black eye for the renewable energy industry, but longer term, it may be good for the solar developers left standing – and for investors. [Motley Fool]

Science and Technology:

¶ Demand for the lower-priced electric Tesla Model 3 surprised even the company’s CEO Friday as 198,000 people plunked down $1,000 deposits. Tesla had secured about 135,000 reservations on Thursday, the first…

[Note that this is April 2nd and this is still dead serious, as documented below and easy to verify online. However, Obama holding his “Nuclear Security Summit” on April Fool’s Day does appear telling.]
Madmen within the American government-Obama Administration with their poison “gift” basket diplomacy are planning to bury old foreign plutonium, from terrorist countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, and Japan, at WIPP in New Mexico, and old foreign uranium waste in Utah, Texas, or elsewhere, USA. Switzerland had their plutonium in vaults at Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) behind heavy gates and probably in a bunker. Meanwhile, US commercial nuclear waste sits dangerously on nuclear reactor sites throughout America and the US government (read taxpayer) is being sued because it has not been removed from the sites, as promised. WIPP is for US defense related transuranic waste. WIPP is dangerously unfit for purpose. Only madmen-terrorists would add foreign nuclear…