ISLAMABAD, May 23 -- A lack of spare parts, natural gas and furnace oil are the primary reasons for the electricity shortage in the country, the Supreme Court was informed on Tuesday.

Ideological environmentalism has killed many of our most important natural-resources companies. Millions of jobs and billions of dollars have been lost. Now that coal, America's leading energy source, is in the cross hairs of climate-change campaigners, the situation will only get worse - much worse. Unless, that is, major energy suppliers work together to fight environmental fundamentalism, a growing force that is focused on destroying all energy sources aside from the hopelessly ineffective alternative-energy sector.

Sadly, such cooperation is a long way from happening. Instead, a kind of civil war rages within the energy industry, in which large power companies in oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear and hydro often work to discredit their competitors in an attempt to gain an advantage for short-term profit. All the while, their real enemy, and indeed the enemy of us all - aggressive environmentalism - continues its long campaign to dismantle the Western world's primary energy sources.

In December last year Dr Gordon Hughes, an economics professor at Edinburgh University, published on behalf of the Renewable Energy Foundation a statistical treatment The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark using data collected from UK and Danish wind farms to project lifetime performances levels. The results suggested that they were deteriorating more rapidly and with correspondingly less productivity than had been supposed.

This was widely reported and caused some dismay in the pro-wind lobby, but that is not the end of the story. The paper was examined by Cambridge University statistician and DECC adviser David Mackay who found a flaw in the treatment used by Dr Hughes, rendering it inconclusive. The following is a digest of both papers, but is of necessity incomplete. Readers interested in the full treatment can download both papers from the addresses given on p.67.

Dr Mackay's critique identifies non-identifiability in the Gordon Hughes treatment, and proceeds to generate from the same data a set of predictive curves with a less pessimistic outcome, and more in line with intuitive conclusions from the existing pattern of decline in turbines of a certain age.

(600401) "Hareon Solar Technology Co., Ltd." (the Company) -- Announcement on Outward Investment of Establishing Turpan Haixin Photovoltaic Power Generation Co., Ltd. and Building 20 MW Photovoltaic Grid-connection Power Generation Project by Wholly-owned Subsidiary

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May 22, 2013

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TESTIMONY-BY: R. WILLIAM BORCHARDT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

AFFILIATION: UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

Statement of R. William Borchardt Executive Director For Operations United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Committee on House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management

May 22, 2013

Chairman Barletta, Ranking Member Norton, Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) efforts to reduce office space consistent with the Federal Freeze the Footprint policy.

NRC was established in 1975 as an independent Federal agency to license and regulate the Nation's civilian use of byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials to ensure adequate protection of public health and safety, promote the common defense and security, and protect the environment. As such, we regulate the safety of all 102 operating nuclear power plants, and over 5,000 nuclear materials, medical, industrial, and fuel cycle licensees in the United States.

A BARGE with legs is heading to Swansea Bay to start assessing its suitability for a huge tidal lagoon.

Tidal Lagoon Power plc said the jack-up barge crew and other vessels will spend four weeks investigating the seabed.

Offshore wind will play a significant role as part of the UK's energy generation mix over the coming decades. However, the challenges faced by developers remain significant, in what has been, and continues to be, a rapidly changing commercial, technical and regulatory landscape.

Over recent years, one of the significant uncertainties with which developers have had to grapple is the evolving regulatory regime underpinning the connection of offshore wind assets to the onshore electricity network. In January 2013, this regime was given a higher public profile through the reporting in the national press of the conclusions of the Public Accounts Committee, which has been critical of several aspects of the new offshore transmission licensing regime ("the Regime").

Outside the offshore wind industry, the Regime remains poorly understood. This article seeks to outline, in an accessible form, the background to the Regime, highlight the key current issues arising from it, and explore the wider implications of the Regime for the industry and the public.

Background

ADURAI, May 22 -- After a brief lull in electricity outages due to high output by windmills, Tamil Nadu Electricity Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has been forced to revert to unscheduled power cuts of around 10 hours due to dip in wind power generation and outages in units of three power stations, including Madras Atomic Power Station.

United States Patent and Trademark Office has received an application no. 20130115069, on May 09, 2013, by WIND POWER SYSTEMS, LLC, titled as "Vertical Axis Wind Turbine" for the registration of patent.

NEW DELHI, May 20 -- The government of India issued the following news release:

The surplus power from the States can be transferred to a power deficit State through the Inter-State Transmission System (ISTS) from the source of supply depending upon the available transfer capacity (ATC) between the point of supply and point of drawl. Open Access in transmission (introduced by the Central Government through Electricity Act, 2003), trading mechanism and Power Exchange in accordance with the relevant regulations notified by CERC facilitate this process. National Grid, for evacuation of power from generating sources located in different regions in the country and facilitating transfer of power from surplus to deficit regions, is in place. In addition, licenses have been granted for trading of power. Power exchanges have also been set up for facilitating transfer of power from surplus to deficit States. The surplus power available with the States is also supplied by the States to other needy and desirous States under bilateral arrangements.

SUMMARY: Under section 215 of the Federal Power Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) proposes to remand the proposed interpretation of Reliability Standard BAL-002-1, Disturbance Control Performance, Requirements R4 and R5, submitted to the Commission for approval by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the Commission-certified Electric Reliability Organization. Specifically, the interpretation addresses whether Balancing Authorities and Reserve Sharing Groups are subject to enforcement actions for failing to restore Area Control Error within the 15-minute Disturbance Recovery Period for Reportable Disturbances that exceed the most severe single Contingency. The Commission proposes to remand the proposed interpretation because it changes a requirement of the Reliability Standard, thereby exceeding the permissible scope for interpretations.

DATES: Comments are due July 8, 2013.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number by any of the following methods:

A 90-ACRE solar park could be created on agricultural land in Dundry. Renewable energy firm Green Energy UK Direct has revealed plans to build a solar energy park on land at Downs Farm at Dundry Downs in the village.

Using a radically new, proprietary power generation cycle, NET Power's technology promises electricity generation from fossil fuels that is not only cost competitive with the current lowest-cost, pollutant-emitting, technologies, but which can also eliminate all emissions to air from the power generation process without degrading the plant's overall economic performance.

NET Power's cycle, which can be seen as a breakthrough in power generation technology, addresses the primary shortcoming of "conventional" carbon capture concepts: they are intrinsically additive (or parasitic) processes that increase capital costs and reduce overall plant efficiencies. Despite efforts to reduce the cost of these technologies, by their very nature they will always result in an increase in the cost of electricity when applied to traditional power systems.

The NET Power approach, in contrast, was designed from the ground up to overcome these limitations by using a high pressure, highly recuperative, oxyfuel, supercritical CO2 cycle that makes carbon capture part of the core power generation process, rather than an add-on. The result is high efficiency power generation that inherently produces a pipeline-quality CO2 byproduct at no cost to the system's performance.

THE situation is really quite serious. We will have to keep our coal-fired power stations open and get fined by the EU," says UK energy expert, Prof Ian Fells.

Speaking from his home in Gosforth, he continued: "By 2015 we will be vulnerable. For the last four years the Government has been sitting on its hands doing nothing, and this is really unacceptable."

Back in 2004 Prof Fells warned of the UK's looming energy crisis and he followed this up in 2008 with a 50-page paper elaborating on his views.

Its publication was picked up by various media outlets and he recounts: "I appeared on Radio Four with Lord Hutton (Government minister with responsibility for energy security issues) where I was accused of being an alarmist.

Mr Sartaj Aziz, senior vice president of PML-N, in his article in this newspaper on April 23, has rightly argued that generation capacity is not the cause of the present energy crisis and his explanation of the circular debt is eminently reasonable. However, his position on the 1994 energy policy is untenable. In particular, the figures that he has mentioned on hydel-thermal mix in 1994 as part of his critique of the 1994 policy are incorrect.

The 1994 power policy was framed in the backdrop of power shortages which date back to 1982. In 1985, the government of Pakistan announced an initiative to encourage private participation in power generation which led to the development of Hub Power Project in 1987. Construction of the power station began in December 1992, financial close was achieved in January 1995, and the project started operation in 1996. The experience from Hub Power Project cleared the way for attracting more private investment in the power sector.

In 1994, electricity shortage was 2000 MW during peak demand, and electricity was available to only 40 percent of the population. The 1994 power policy projected an eight percent annual increase in energy demand over the next 25 years.

South Wales, United Kingdom, May 22 -- Ethx Energy, Glasgow, has filed the trademark "ETHX" on April 19 for multiple goods and services.

The trademark application (journal number: 2013/020) was published on May 17. The description of the mark registered is: "Electrical energy;Energy (Electrical -);Fuel briquettes;Fuel pellets;Wood heating pellets [fuel];Wood chips for use as fuel;Fuel in the form of brickettes;Fuel pellets;Fuel;Fuel gas. Uninterruptible power supplies [machines] for the generation of electrical energy;Waste energy utilising installations. Energy control devices;Energy regulators;Thermal energy measuring apparatus;Heat detecting apparatus;Heat regulating apparatus.

US-based investment banking giant Goldman Sachs plans to invest $2.9bn in Japanese renewable energy projects over the next five years.

Asia, for long dependent on coal for generation, is slowly moving towards gas with this growing demand being largely met by LNG. And with Singapore boasting a new LNG terminal, and a master plan to develop peak storage capacity to 20m tonnes, there is optimistic talk of the city-state developing Asia's first gas-trading hub.

Certainly Asia could benefit from more competitively priced gas, with gas buyers in Asia paying around five times the price to US buyers, but simply locating the region's largest LNG terminal in a country where there is limited government interference in markets, and which has an active energy swaps market, will be insufficient to catalyse gas trading. What is required is a change in government mentality towards energy in the fast-developing Asian market.