WHITE HOUSE CLEARS EPA RENEWABLE FUELS STANDARD
WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The White House cleared the way for the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a final rule on how much ethanol and other renewable automobile fuels will be sold next year.
The EPA proposed in July that biofuels fuels would account for 7.95 percent of total gasoline sales next year to meet a congressional mandate that at least 13.95 billion gallons of renewable fuels be produced in 2011.
FIRST SOLAR PLANT OKD BY LA, OVERRIDING NORTHROP
LOS ANGELES, Nov 23 (Reuters) - First Solar Inc won the green light for a 230-megawatt solar plant slated for California's Antelope Valley after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors denied Northrop Grumman Corp's appeal seeking to block the plant.
The plant, known as AV Solar Ranch One, would be a key part of First Solar's plan to build up its plant development business, which provides a built-in market for the thin-film photovoltaic panels the company manufactures. But aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman says the plant will get in the way of a sensitive radar-testing facility in nearby Kern County.
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BIGGEST WIND FARM STARTS UP
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The largest wind farm in British Columbia, the 144-megawatt Dokie Project, has started generating electricity, joint owners Plutonic Power Corp and General Electric Energy Financial Services said on Tuesday.
Power was being generated from nine of the project's 48 installed turbines, Plutonic, a small independent power producer, said.
GERMANY TO NEED 3,600 KM MORE IN POWER GRID BY 2020
FRANKFURT, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Germany needs to expand its power transmission grid by some 3,600 km in the coming years to be able to transport growing amounts of renewable energy, Dena, an advisory agency for the government, said on Tuesday.
Berlin-based Dena issued a rewrite of a 2005 study into requirements for the 36,000 km (22,369 mile) high-voltage electricity network in the centre of Europe, which has to accommodate increasing contributions from volatile energies such as wind and solar.
CALIFORNIA PUTS TESSERA SOLAR PLANT ON TEMP HOLD
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The California Energy Commission has temporarily withdrawn approval of a controversial solar power plant by NTR's Tessera Solar after opponents protested that the 663.5-megawatt Calico project had been improperly licensed. California aims to get a third of its electricity from renewable energy by 2020 and the $2 billion plant is an important step toward that goal.
CHINA INVESTED $30BLN IN ENERGY CONSERVATION IN LAST 5 YRS-XINHUA
BEIJING, Nov 22 (Reuters) - China invested 200 billion yuan ($30.12 billion) to boost energy conservation and curb greenhouse gas emissions in the past five years, the Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.
He Bingguang -- a senior official of the department of resource conservation and environmental protection at the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's central planning agency -- made the statement to reporters in Beijing at a clean-technology conference.
EMERA INVESTS IN C$6.2 BLN NEWFOUNDLAND HYDRO PLAN
OTTAWA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Energy services company Emera Inc said on Thursday it will fund nearly C$1.8 billion million ($1.76 billion) in a C$6.2 billion hydroelectric power project planned for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Under the arrangement, electricity from a power generation site at Muskrat Falls on the Lower Churchill River would be transmitted to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New England, Emera said in a statement on its website.
RAINS LIFT BOSNIA HYDRO OUTPUT FAR ABOVE 2010 PLAN
SARAJEVO, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Rainfall in Bosnia has boosted hydro output by 16 percent above the target for 2010, Bosnia's top power utility EPBiH said on Thursday.
The utility, which operates three large hydropower plants on the Neretva river with a combined average annual output of around 1,500 GWh, said the heavy rain would likely mean hydro output finishes the year 30 percent above original 2010 forecasts.
CHINA'S HUANENG GETS NOD FOR DALIAN WIND POWER PLANT
SHANGHAI, Nov 18 (Reuters) - China's largest electricity provider, Huaneng Power International , said on Thursday it had won approval for the first phase of a wind power plant in the north of the country.
The company will invest 495 million yuan ($74.53 million) in the plant, Huaneng said in a statement filed with the Shanghai stock exchange.
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