Thursday, September 28, 2017

Fwd: Exclusive: Russia's election meddling

Trump and Putin employed identical strategy and tactics. He's a stooge and wannabe autocrat.
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Subject: Exclusive: Russia's election meddling
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A social media campaign calling itself "Blacktivist" and linked to the Russian government used both Facebook and Twitter in an apparent attempt to amplify racial tensions during the US presidential election, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CNN. The accounts are part of a cache being handed over to Congress in the coming days. 

Both "Blacktivist" accounts regularly shared content intended to stoke outrage. "Black people should wake up as soon as possible," one post on the Twitter account read. "Black families are divided and destroyed by mass incarceration and death of black men," another read. The accounts also posted videos of police violence against African Americans.

The "Blacktivist" accounts provide further evidence that Russian-backed social media accounts saw racial tensions as something to be exploited to achieve the broader Russian goal of dividing Americans and creating chaos in US politics during a campaign in which race repeatedly became an issue.

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Trump's Tax Overhaul Will Slash Rates for Companies, Individuals

Corporatate reduction and 100 percent year 1 depreciation will push tax man down and and loss pass-throughs up.

There will be less tax equity around so expect it will be more costly to get.

Wont make up for tariffs on panels if they are significant, though

MB


Trump's Tax Overhaul Will Slash Rates for Companies, Individuals https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-09-26/tax-framework-is-said-to-slash-rates-for-companies-individuals

Report: West Texas Oil Boom Fuels Fears Of A Crash

California Utility Launches First Hybrid Power Systems

Japan's Fukushima Cleanup Plan Delays Removal Of Fuel Rods Again

Photos Of The Day: This 4,000-Mile Cable Is The Fastest Info Stream Across The Atlantic

NYPA, NYSERDA RFPs for renewables draw robust response | American Public Power Association

Friday, September 22, 2017

Newsroom : Québec, Ontario and California Join Forces to Fight Climate Change

Three Mile Island fights once again for its nuclear survival | Energy Central

Solar Boom Or Bust? Companies Seek Tariffs On Solar Imports

Court: Utility, Not Gov't Responsible For Fukushima Disaster

Fuel cell firms power higher on natural disasters, analyst love, insider buys By Seeking Alpha

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Ontario awards 150 MW of small-scale renewables under final FIT round – pv magazine International

Nicaragua Joins Paris Accord, Leaving Trump Alone With Syria - Bloomberg

U.S. Residential Solar Market Slides for the First Time in 16 Years - Bloomberg

Corporate America Has Amassed a Record Amount of Cash

WTO Sharply Upgrades Forecast For Trade Growth In 2017

Brazil: EPE registered 18 GW PV capacity for reserve energy auction in December

Brazil: EPE registered 18 GW PV capacity for reserve energy auction in December

20.09.2017: Brazil’s energy agency EPE (Empresa de Pesquisa Energética), announced that it has registered around 550 solar PV projects totaling 18,000 MW for the upcoming new energy auctions. The auctions »A-4« and »A-6« are scheduled to be held on December 18 and 20, respectively. The first is focused on renewable sources (wind, biomass, solar and small hydropower), while the second covers wind, hydroelectric and thermoelectric projects with gas, coal and biomass.
In total, 1,676 projects were registered for the »A-4« category which totaled 47,965 MW in capacity. Wind was the most registered source (957 projects, 26,604 MW).
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Monty Bannerman

ArcStar Energy

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www.arcstarenergy.com

 

US installed generation capacity by type as of this date

Total installed power generating capacity in the USA is about 1,189 GW. This include: natural gas 516 GW (43.44 percent), coal 284 GW (23.92 percent), nuclear 108 GW (9.09 percent), water 100 GW (8.46 percent), wind 85 GW (7.20 percent), oil 43 GW (3.67 percent), solar 27.49 GW (2.31 percent), biomass 16 GW (1.41 percent), geothermal steam 3.80 GW (0.32 percent), waste heat 1.26 GW (0.11 percent) and other 0.81 GW (0.07 percent).

Mercom Capital Group

 

Monty Bannerman

ArcStar Energy

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Amazon to Create 2,000 Jobs in New Manhattan Office

Hurricane Maria has dealt a heavy blow to Puerto Rico’s bankrupt utility and fragile electric grid - The Washington Post

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Exxon Mobil's Futuristic FuelCell Carbon Capture Just Might Work - Bloomberg

Fwd: News Alert: Puerto Rico is entirely without power as Hurricane Maria hammers the island with a force not seen in ‘modern history’


Monty Bannerman
ArcStar Energy
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www.arcstarenergy.com

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Date: Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:10 PM
Subject: News Alert: Puerto Rico is entirely without power as Hurricane Maria hammers the island with a force not seen in 'modern history'
To: mbannerman@arcstarenergy.com


Hurricane Maria raked across Puerto Rico Wednesday as the most powerful storm to strike the island in more than 80 years, ripping roofs off buildings and filling homes with water, and knocking out power to the entire population.

"When we can get outside, we will find our island destroyed," Puerto Rico's emergency management director, Abner Gomez, said at a midday press conference.

 
Democracy Dies in Darkness
 
 
News Alert Wed., Sep. 20, 2017 2:09 p.m.
 
 
Puerto Rico is entirely without power as Hurricane Maria hammers the island with a force not seen in 'modern history'

Hurricane Maria raked across Puerto Rico Wednesday as the most powerful storm to strike the island in more than 80 years, ripping roofs off buildings and filling homes with water, and knocking out power to the entire population.

"When we can get outside, we will find our island destroyed," Puerto Rico's emergency management director, Abner Gomez, said at a midday press conference.

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Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Doubts Arise On Whether Corporate Tax Cut Would Boost Growth

Secretary of Energy Rick Perry Announces High Performance Computing for Materials Program to Help Industry Develop New, Improved Materials for Severe Environments | Department of Energy

Perry happy to announce fattest fed bucks shifting to R&D to support fossil and nuke industries.

https://energy.gov/articles/secretary-energy-rick-perry-announces-high-performance-computing-materials-program-help

Mexico Is Rocked by 7.2 Quake on Anniversary of 1985 Devastation


There is a geologic theory (being given some credence) that the weight of the massive volumes of ocean water pushed forward by hurricanes can trigger quakes along faults under stress. This is the second coincidence of these events in as many weeks.

Resiliency and business disruption

On-Site Generation And Storage Protect Against Power Outages 

A 2013 U.S. Department of Energy study found power outages caused by extreme weather had an average economy-wide cost of $18-$33 billion from 2003-2012, and urged investments in resilient infrastructure to strengthen the grid against the increasingly frequent and intense severe weather. 

Sandy led New York State to begin its Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding to invest $30 billion to establish a cleaner and more resilient distributed grid, and spurred New Jersey to invest in distributed clean energy generation and storage at critical state facilities and along transportation infrastructure, including a first-of-its-kind system designed to keep passenger trains operational in a grid failure.

http://njtransitresilienceprogram.com/nj-transitgrid-overview/

 

 

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ArcStar Energy

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www.arcstarenergy.com

 

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Trump Plans Aggressive Road Show to Sell Tax Overhaul (Despite having no plan, but who needs one?)

Wall Street Chiefs Signal a Lingering Slump

Now Repubs, Trump and the Goldman boys working for him will feel some heat. Nobody squeals more loudly than Wall St.

Was beginning to think the market had somehow become immune to uncertainty and BS.


Wall Street Chiefs Signal a Lingering Slump https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/no-relief-for-banks-traders-as-bosses-signal-a-lingering-slump

Fwd: Energy Department Announces Achievement of SunShot Goal, New Focus for Solar Energy Office

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ENERGY.GOV - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
SunShot Initiative
 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - In conjunction with the annual Solar Power International conference, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released new research today that shows the solar industry has achieved the 2020 utility-scale solar cost target set by the SunShot Initiative. Largely due to rapid cost declines in solar photovoltaic (PV) hardware, the average price of utility-scale solar is now 6 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh).

Given this success, DOE is looking beyond SunShot's 2020 goals with an expanded 2030 vision for the Solar Energy Technologies Office. Specifically, while DOE will continue research to drive down costs, new funding programs will focus on a broader scope of Administration priorities, which includes early-stage research to address solar energy's critical challenges of grid reliability, resilience, and storage.

"With the impressive decline in solar prices, it is time to address additional emerging challenges," said Daniel Simmons, Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. "As we look to the future, DOE will focus new solar R&D on the Secretary's priorities, which include strengthening the reliability and resilience of the electric grid while integrating solar energy."

To further the new priorities for DOE's Solar Energy Technologies Office, Acting Assistant Secretary Simmons today announced up to $82 million in early-stage research in two areas:

  • Concentrating Solar Power (CSP): Up to $62 million will support advances in CSP technologies to enable on-demand solar energy. CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a focused point where it is collected and converted into heat. This thermal energy can be stored and used to produce electricity when the sun is not shining or integrated into other applications, such as producing fresh water or supplying process heat. Learn more about the Generation 3 Concentrating Solar Power funding opportunity HERE.
  • Power Electronics: Up to $20 million is dedicated to early-stage projects to advance power electronics technologies. Such innovations are fundamental to solar PV as the critical link between PV arrays and the electric grid. Advances in power electronics will help grid operators rapidly detect problems and respond, protect against physical and cyber vulnerabilities, and enable consumers to manage electricity use. Learn more about the Power Electronics funding opportunity HERE.

Awardees will be required to contribute 20 percent of the funds to their overall project budget, yielding total public and private spending of nearly $100 million. The funds provided are not grants, but cooperative agreements, which involve substantial federal oversight and consist of go/no-go technical milestones that ensure attentive stewardship of projects.

Solar energy currently supplies about 1.5 percent of U.S. electricity. With DOE's help, the solar industry has drastically cut costs to enable technological innovation and market growth. In the last 10 years, the amount of solar power installed in the U.S. has increased from 1.1 gigawatts (GW) in 2007 to an estimated 47.1 GW in 2017—enough to power the equivalent of 9.1 million average American homes.

According to the report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory released today, low module prices have been the primary driver of cost reductions for solar energy. The more stubborn "soft" costs like labor, permitting, interconnection, customer acquisition, financing, and grid integration, remain challenges.

To learn more about the work being done by the Department's Solar Energy Technologies Office visit their website HERE.

 

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Hurricane Irma Blasts into the Record Books

Hurricane Irma Blasts Into The Record Books With Lasting Intensity http://n.pr/2jhUNGK

Sunday, September 3, 2017

Great quote at the end of this article

'American Space Ninja' Back On Earth After Record-Breaking Flight http://n.pr/2evak0R

Finance Elites in Como See Italy Bank Momentum Linked to Economy

The sick man of the euro zone begins  to stand up.

Finance Elites in Como See Italy Bank Momentum Linked to Economy https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-03/finance-elites-in-como-see-italy-bank-momentum-linked-to-economy

Donald Trump’s Reckless Response to North Korea’s Test | The New Yorker

Harvey Wasn’t Just Bad Weather. It Was Bad City Planning

Disaster recovery and resiliency have very real and rising costs and rewards. The biggest triggers they could have are deductibles on FEMA coverage and increases in insurance rates referenced in this article.

Harvey Wasn't Just Bad Weather. It Was Bad City Planning https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-31/a-hard-rain-and-a-hard-lesson-for-houston

Saturday, September 2, 2017

Catching the hackers in the act

See how pervasive attacks are.

Catching the hackers in the act - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40850174

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Friday, September 1, 2017

FPL Nuclear Waste "Not Likely" to Leak into Miami's Drinking Water, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rules | Miami New Times

FPL remains as the ugliest of monopolies in the US. May be the last to fall on their existing nukes (even though they are right on the coast near the capital of Latin America in a hurricane zone and already leaking salt water from their cooling into the aquifer).

Nothing like the honey pot of nukes to have clout with politicians.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/fpl-nuclear-waste-not-likely-to-leak-into-miamis-drinking-water-us-nuclear-regulatory-commission-rules-9513910

US energy agency asked scientists to scrub references to climate change : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/us-energy-agency-asked-scientists-to-scrub-references-to-climate-change-1.22513?WT.ec_id=NEWSDAILY-20170901


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