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World:

¶ Dutch shipping company Wagenborg has set sail with the topside for the Horns Rev 3 offshore wind substation ahead of installation off Denmark. A pair of vessels left Schiedam with the HSM-built structure, which will export power from Vattenfall’s 400-MW offshore wind farm. [reNews]

Image: Wagenborg

¶ The US, China, and India, largest projected emitters into the next several decades, have each agreed to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on April 22, the first day they can do so. More than 190 countries agreed in principle in Paris last December. [CleanTechnica]

¶ Panasonic recently hit the 50,000 mark in its quest to distribute more than 100,000 solar lanterns throughout the world’s poor, in rural communities that don’t have reliable access to electric light. The “100 Thousand Solar Lanterns Project” is now half-way to completion. [CleanTechnica]

¶ Solar deployment in Japan…

Opinion:

¶ Ontario’s challenge is to have enough power for all the new electric cars • When Ontario’s power planners look down the road, they see electric vehicles coming at them. They just might be coming a little faster now than even the forecasters imagined.
[London Free Press]

Plug’n Drive, Ontario. CC BY-SA 2.o. Wikimedia Commons

¶ The $2.6 billion buying binge that pushed SunEdison to the
brink • Just nine months ago, SunEdison was Wall Street’s favorite clean-energy company. It put every dollar it could find into a buying binge of wind and solar farms, and now, it is at the brink of bankruptcy protection. [Chicago Tribune]

World:

¶ Danish energy company Dong Energy awarded a $250 million contract to ABB for a 220-kV high-voltage cable system for the 1.2-GW Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm in the North Sea. The cable connecting the wind…

Area where the NNSA-Obama is having foreign plutonium and nuclear waste brought in to be later buried in America.

“In August 2015, a man was indicted for impersonating a federal law enforcement agent. He used a counterfeit Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) badge and credentials to enter the Naval Nuclear Training Command in South Carolina while armed with a Sig Sauer pistol.” (See more below and wanted photo)

This is near where the NNSA is bringing in foreign plutonium and nuclear waste. “Gap” is the US gov euphemism for foreign nuclear waste and old nuclear materials, which were made and used by foreign countries and which no one wants because they are dangerous and useless. They are to be diluted and buried in America, because it’s cheaper (and safer) for these foreign countries. The NNSA says: “The Joint Base Charleston-Weapons Station offers a secure site that…