The following information was released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA):

On April 15, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released guidance clarifying the eligibility for the recently extended renewable electricity production tax credit (PTC). Congress passed the extension on January 1, 2013 as part of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA). EIA expects this extension could result in significant wind capacity additions over the next three years, leading to higher generation from wind.

The following information was released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA):

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly.

Note: Other includes petroleum, purchased steam, nonbiogenic municipal solid wastes, batteries, and other sources of electric generation.

The following information was released by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce:

The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 271, the Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act by voice vote. The bipartisan legislation, introduced by Reps. Pete Olson (R-TX) and Mike Doyle (D-PA), will ensure America's power companies are able to comply with Department of Energy emergency orders to maintain grid reliability without facing penalties for violating potentially conflicting environmental laws.

The following information was released by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Democrats:

Today the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an analysis of the policy implications of enactment of a carbon tax. The CBO report makes a compelling case for inclusion of a carbon tax in any legislation to reduce the deficit or reform the tax code.

(600401) "Hareon Solar Technology Co., Ltd." (the Company) -- Announcement on Outward Investment of Establishing Gucheng Hareon Photovoltaic Power Generation Co., Ltd. and Building 50 MW Photovoltaic Grid-connection Power Generation Project

The abstract is for reference only. Please refer to the full text of the announcement on the very day.

Hyderabad, home to several information technology, pharmaceutical and construction companies, goes without power for more than eight hours every day, making the state capital akin to a very large and crowded furnace in these days of summer. The crowds may not stay quiet about this when elections to the state assembly come around next summer.

Paris, May 23 -- The controversial Jaitapur nuclear power project, against which local residents and activist groups have been protesting, may only be commissioned by 2021 at the earliest. That's if the contract for the two European pressurized reactors (EPRs) between state-owned Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd(NPCIL) and France's Areva SAis inked in the current calendar year. This looks ambitious, given that the two companies still need to iron out critical issues such as India's Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages Bill, credit arrangements for the construction and the final cost of the project located in Maharashtra. The Euro7 billion general framework agreement signed in December 2010 during former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to India deals with the supply of two EPRs, each with a capacity to produce 1,650MW of electricity, and uranium supply for a period of 25 years for the Jaitapur project.

Industry responds to challenge from Government to provide solutions to 'green the grid'

CALGARY, May 22, 2013 /CNW/ - Alberta can once again be a leader in renewable energy development and address global concern about the province's environmental record by meeting rising electricity demand with new clean wind energy. WindVision 2025: A Strategy For Alberta, released today by the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), makes the case for the strategic deployment of more wind energy in Alberta in a direct response to a challenge by Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes for the renewable industry to put forth policy solutions to help "green the grid".

Since the country's first wind farm was constructed in southern Alberta in 1993, the province has installed 1,100 MW of wind energy - but this represents just a small fraction of the available resource. Alberta currently sits in third place for total installed wind energy capacity - behind Ontario and Quebec. WindVision 2025 makes the case that Alberta is well positioned to take strategic advantage of its significant wind resource, access to skilled trades, and interest by independent power producers.

Japanese regulators are in the process of deciding which nuclear reactors are not safe enough to operate because of the existence of active faults, but the task has proved tough with clear room for improvement.

Assessments of suspicious faults at three nuclear power plants have been proceeding in parallel so far, and the first evaluation finalized by a panel of experts was accepted by the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday.

At a press conference, NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka gave full support to an assessment that a fault beneath the No. 2 reactor at the Tsuruga plant in western Japan is active.

KUWAIT CITY, May 22: Recording one of the highest energy consumption rates per capita in the world, Kuwait is keen on pursuing a sustainability plan that includes generating 15 percent of electricity from renewable resources by 2030. At the rate Kuwait is consuming energy, with the average Kuwaiti using 22 times more resources than the country provides per person, experts believe it will need as much as 20 percent of its oil production capacity just for energy generation by 2017 - a consumption pattern deemed unsustainable given that 66 percent of the country's GDP is dependent on the oil industry. On June 2-3, 2013, Kuwait's senior government officials, policymakers and influential private sector stakeholders will gather at the Kuwait Energy & Efficiency Conference at the Hilton Kuwait Resort to start mapping a national energy efficiency strategy. Organised by MEED Events and supported by the Ministry of Electricity & Water and Kuwait National Petroleum Company, Kuwait Energy & Efficiency 2013 will provide an excellent platform to debate and discuss a sustainable energy plan for Kuwait, including identifying concrete solutions that will help energy consumption in Kuwait. Kuwait's increasing energy consumption has been driven by a number of factors.

The office of Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., issued the following news release:

In a letter to President Barack Obama, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) joined five of his Missouri Republican colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives to express their continued concerns surrounding the Obama Administration's proposed regulations, which would effectively ban the construction of new coal fired power plants.

The proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would establish unprecedented Greenhouse Gas (GHG) New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for power plants. In the letter, the Missouri lawmakers called on President Obama and his administration to amend the proposed rule and utilize a technology-based approach to reduce carbon dioxide emissions - an option that would not harm the economy or endanger the nation's electricity supply.

NEW DELHI, May 22 -- The government of India issued the following news release:

As per the re-assessment studies carried out by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) during 1978-1987, the hydro power potential in terms of Installed Capacity (I.C.) is estimated at 148701 MW out of which 145320 MW of the potential consists of hydro electric schemes having I.C. above 25 MW.

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.

May 22, 2013

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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.

A COMPANY that specialises in helping utilities and electricity-distribution companies improve electrical grids across Europe is on course to increase its workforce by almost half this year.

Since its establishment in 2008, Swansea-based S&C Electric Europe, has seen rapid growth with the number of employees increase by over 127% between 2010 to 2012.

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.