Alternative Energy News GE-powered Santa Catarina wind power farm goes online in Mexico Scottish Government rejects Loch Ness wind turbine plans Siemens wins 81 MW wind power order from Philippines Xcel looks to add 600 MW of wind power in the Midwest Thai biomass power plant ordered to close Welspun secures $10.9MM in financing for new solar project Renewable Energy: Action plan for desert power Ethanol lobby sees red over a yellow gas hose in Kansas First Solar to begin 50 MW solar power project in New Mexico Monthly Biodiesel Production Report Feed-in tariff: A policy tool encouraging deployment of renewable electricity technologies RINs and RVOs are used to implement the Renewable Fuel Standard U.S. ethanol production and the Renewable Fuel Standard RIN bank Uruguay deficit likely to speed windpower plans Interior approves three renewable energy projects Construction begins on one of Vermont’s largest solar plants Analysis of the Global Solar Power Market Simulation program launched for photovoltaic and solar heating Clariant achieves bioethanol manufacture milestone 3D-Micromac to launch innovation for thin-film solar module NRC to hold open house on Davis-Besse nuclear power plant Delsur to deploy smart grid solutions from Efacec ACS Jordan’s science community interested in solar power E.ON starts work on 288MW offshore wind farm Cape Cod Biofuels signs new distribution partnership New Minnesota solar mandate law will give power companies a jolt DOE: Finding Solutions to Solar’s Soft Cost Dilemma The 2012 Renewable, Alternative and Hydrogen Industry Almanac Energy Commodity News & Resources American Gas Association American Oil & Gas Historical Society American Petroleum Institute DOE – Fossil Energy Environmental Protection Agency Energy Citizens Energy Nation Energy Tomorrow Fuel Fix International Association of Drilling Contractors International Energy Foundation Lewis Morburg’s Internet Oil & Gas Newsletter Lousiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association National Petroleum Council NY Times Energy & Enviro Oil & Gas Insight Oil & Gas International Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin Oil & Gas Investor Oil & Gas Journal Oil & Gas Online Penn Energy Petroleum History Resources Petroleum Marketers Association of America Petroleum Technology Transfer Council Rig Zone Rocky Mountain Oil Journal Society of Petroleum Engineers Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers State Energy Data System Texas Carbon Capture & Storage Association Touch Oil & Gas US Energy Information Administration US Geological Survey World Nuclear Association World Oils World Oil Online Energy Markets & Top Stories Increased U.S. coal consumption met by burning through stockpiles Further Sensitivity Analysis of Hypothetical Policies to Limit Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Short-term, real-time power prices reflect system strain during Northeast heat wave U.S. natural gas spot prices increased during first-half 2013 OPEC Revenues Fact Sheet Prime Supplier Report Electric Power Monthly Electricity Monthly Update Wholesale electricity prices rose across the United States U.S. Natural Gas Imports & Exports 2012 Natural gas storage capacity increases in 2012 Natural gas storage working capacity grows 2% in 2012 Electricity Wholesale Market Data EIA projects world energy consumption will increase 56% by 2040 International Energy Outlook 2013 – Highlights Coal Production for Week Ended 7/20/2013 Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report Weekly Petroleum Status Report, Data for Week Ending 7/19/2013 Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update The Coal News and Markets Report for week ended 7/19/2013 EIA: Lower 48 working gas storage capacity up 2% in 2012 Relief well planned to stop natural gas leak, rig fire in gulf Natural Gas Weekly Update This Week In Petroleum Oil discovery for Sea Dragon in Egypt North Carolina to focus efforts on offshore drilling Natural gas storage capacity increases in 2012 Fire erupts on drilling rig in Gulf of Mexico Alstom, UCC partner on emission control systems for coal power Japan’s LNG imports fall Electricity Wholesale Market Data World Bank energy strategy cuts financing to coal power FPL paves way for natural gas power with demolition Today in Energy CNOOC natural gas development platform to get Emerson automation Egypt oil well successful for Sea Dragon Energy New offshore Nigeria oil exploration contract for Saipem Enbridge oil pipeline returns to service Tenaska drops Taylorville, Trailblazer advanced coal power projects Obama ties Keystone XL to emissions Electricity Wholesale Market Data What caused the run-up in ethanol RIN prices during early 2013? 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