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GRID
As the lights go out at coal-fired power plants, what happens to the electric grid? (via ClimateWire)
Negative wholesale electricity prices: possible, but rare (via US EIA)
Controversial Sunrise Powerlink clean power line is finally live (via Earth2Tech)
MISO grid operator: cleaner electricity means price hikes (via Des Moines Register)
TRANSPORTATION
China eyes subsidies to develop energy-saving vehicles (via Reuters)
EPA officially approves E15 for sale in US (via Autoblog Green)
Automakers, tech companies mining electric car big data to plot industry’s future (via Forbes)
CLEAN TECH
Smart learning software predicts renewable energy output with 90% accuracy (via TreeHugger)
5 ways to sell smart grid to consumers (via Greentech Media)
Israeli firm unveils ‘smart’ power storage system (via Reuters)
RENEWABLES
Solar boom heads to Japan, creating $9.6 billion market (via Bloomberg)
Chinese exports crushing German solar industry (via Deutsche Welle)
UK subsidies for onshore wind farms ‘to be axed by 2020’ (via The Telegraph)
UK solar industry sidesteps tariff cut to build bigger projects (via Bloomberg)
Brazil leading Latin America’s clean energy charge (via BusinessGreen)
Renewables no fix for US military fuel woes: study (via Reuters)
The end of New Jersey’s solar gold rush? (via InsideClimate News)
School districts using solar power to cut energy bills and cope with budget cuts (via Wall Street Journal)
Fossil fuel attacks put bio-energy industry at risk (via Des Moines Register)
KEYSTONE XL
TransCanada sweetens pot for Nebraska landowners (via Omaha World-Herald)
ENERGY INDUSTRY
Obesity epidemic will weigh on world energy requirements, warns report (via BusinessGreen)
Wind at their backs: utility sector mulls further dealmaking (via AOL Energy)
Effects of Washington State clean energy initiative unclear (via Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
NUCLEAR
Using risk estimates to guide nuclear safety (via New York Times)
RIO+20
Environmentalists say UN sustainability pact lacks teeth (via Bloomberg Businessweek)
Ignoring climate change at Rio+20 makes other goals “meaningless” (via Mongabay)
Rio+20 environmental conference gearing up in Brazil (via Los Angeles Times)
GREEN BUSINESS
Intel reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 60%, surpassing own target of 20% (via TreeHugger)
OIL
Iraq eyeing 9 million barrel/day oil output by 2020 (via Fox Business)
Transocean asks judge to release federal documents on Deepwater Horizon (via Houston Chronicle)
In its first life, an oil platform; in its next, a reef? (via New York Times)
CLIMATE/EMISSIONS
48 major cities across globe pledge to tackle climate change (via Washington Post)
Carbon shown to rise as trees replace tundra (via Brisbane Times)
EPA won’t curb greenhouse gases from ships, off-road trucks (via Bloomberg Businessweek)
In NC and VA, business and tea-party politics rise over sea levels (via Triple Pundit)
NATURAL GAS/FRACKING
Data documents shale gas is difference between coal’s global boom and North American bust (via Facts of the Day)
Ohio may sell water from state parks and forests for fracking (via Columbus Dispatch)
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Denmark pushes through first-ever EU energy efficiency law (via Forbes)
Oregon releases 10 year energy plan, focuses on efficiency & renewables (via Sustainable Business)
POLITICS
Climate rules, earthquakes and fracking in focus at Congressional hearings (via The Hill)
Greens give Obama wilting enthusiasm (via Politico)
OPINION
Why $775 billion in fossil-fuel subsidies are so hard to scrap (via Washington Post)
Why the Rio+20 earth summit is another step, not an end goal in itself (via Climate Progress)
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