2017 May 23 « nuclear-news

May 23 Energy News

Opinion:

¶ “Sixteen Trends That Will Buoy U.S. Wind Power Into The 2020s” • Wind power is on track to generate 10% of US electricity by 2020. After that, the impact of the production tax credit will begin to tail off. How will the market respond? These trends will outlive the PTC and keep creating demand for new turbines. [North American Windpower]

Wind power at a farm

¶ “Congress vs. Trump: Are the President’s Anti-Science Budget Priorities Headed for Another Defeat?” • The president is expected to release his full fiscal year 2018 budget this week, without any surprises. It will likely track the earlier “skinny budget” pretty closely, which means it’s going nowhere in Congress. [Union of Concerned Scientists]

¶ “India-China climate hope” • India’s and China’s pledged actions to curb their greenhouse gas emissions are likely to overcompensate by 2030 the impacts of US President…

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May 22 Energy News

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World:

¶ Sri Lanka is betting big on its abundant wind and solar electricity resources through competitive bidding for projects, a top government official in the power ministry said. A total of 700 MW of projects include a 100-MW floating solar power project on a reservoir, 60 MW of distributed wind power, 100 MW of wind power. [ETEnergyworld.com]

Wind and solar resources

¶ Transparency Market Research has released a report which shows that global offshore wind turbine market revenue is projected to reach $58.7 billion by 2025, at a compound annual growth rate of 7.7% between 2017 and 2015. In 2016, the revenue was $29.4 billion. The market is currently dominated by Europe. [Energy Digital]

¶ A joint venture between Canadian company Northland Power and Singapore’s Yushan Energy is planning to build two offshore wind farms totaling 1.2GW in the Changhua Sea off Taiwan. The developers…

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