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 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.

(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

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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.

Reflecting its longstanding commitment to military recruitment, Southern Company has been named a top employer for both active duty and veteran military in a pair of recent surveys. Southern Company is the top-ranked energy company and No. 19 overall in the Military Times EDGE Best for Vets 2013: Employers survey and has been named to the Most Valuable Employers (MVE) for Military® winners by CivilianJobs.com for the fourth consecutive year.

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ENP Newswire - 22 May 2013

Release date- 21052013 - AGL Energy Limited today acknowledged that on 1 September and 3 November 2011 its entities had breached the Australian Consumer Law as a result of door-to-door salespeople engaging in conduct that was misleading, deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive.

The annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy is rightly regarded as The Bible of energy numbers and is launched with something of a fanfare every June. It's very good PR for BP, especially after the battering it has taken in the Gulf of Mexico, and as a digest of summary statistics it provides something much more digestible than the tables in the International Energy Agency's (IEA) World Energy Outlook (WEO). Nuclear energy is summarised in one table, which highlights nuclear energy consumption by country over the past ten years. The rows for both Hong Kong and Singapore show a line of dashes. This is no doubt what most people, including many in Hong Kong and Singapore themselves, would expect to see. Both are extremely-densely-populated small territories, with little space for a nuclear power station. Yet Hong Kong is a big consumer of nuclear power from mainland China, and is set to import much more in the future. Singapore, on the other hand, formally turned its back on nuclear in a government report issued in autumn 2012. It is therefore worth looking at both places in more detail; so Hong Kong will be covered this month and Singapore in June.

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.

ANILA, May 21 -- Mindanao-focused holding firm Alcantara Group on Tuesday said it is on track to produce an additional 282 megawatts (MW) and raise its total electricity generation capacity to 436 MW by 2016 to meet growing demand in the power-starved southern Philippine island.

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.

May 22, 2013

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 Juhl Energy, Inc. (OTCQB: JUHL), the leader in Community Wind Power, today announced the recent acquisition of two wind energy projects located in western New Brunswick, Canada from Canadian developer Terravis Wind. The projects are being developed under NB Power's "Embedded Generation" program, which is designed to allow Independent Power Producers to sell electricity to the NB Power distribution system at a fixed, stable price and under a long-term contract. 

"The acquisition of the TerraRidge and TerraVista projects, each of which are 1.65 MW in size, represents our first two renewable energy projects that will be located outside of the United States," stated Corey Juhl, Vice President of Development for Juhl Energy, Inc.  "As we expand our reach throughout North America, Juhl is actively seeking to partner with and/or acquire mid-stage wind project developments that fit our current growth strategy."