Energy and Environment News Roundup – 9.2.14
A daily roundup of the most important energy, environment, and climate news from around the world.
EMISSIONS
China seeks pollution cut with national carbon market (via Bloomberg)
Carbon prices to average €23 in the 2020s, say analysts (via BusinessGreen)
EU mulls €30 billion low carbon fund for industry and member states (via BusinessGreen)
Fossil fuel divestment: A $5 trillion challenge or opportunity? (via Energy Collective)
Brazil presidential candidate Silva would put a price on carbon (via Reuters)
Study: Calculating the true cost of CO2 emissions (via Environmental Leader)
RGGI to hold allowance auction this week (via Bloomberg BNA)
EPA staff backs new ozone restrictions (via The Hill)
RENEWABLES
India poised to be a world solar leader – adding 145GW in 10 years (via Renew Economy)
Solar makers set for record 2014 sales on strong demand (via Bloomberg)
Geothermal power nears 12,000 megawatts worldwide (via EcoWatch)
Floating solar power hits land-squeezed Japan under new plan (via Bloomberg)
Utility-scale projects driving Japan’s PV module demand (via PV Tech)
Survey finds Midwest customers support solar as utilities push back (via Midwest Energy News)
Inedible crop biofuels need government mandate, says Novozyme (via Bloomberg)
Austin, Texas passes a new law making solar a “default” generation resource (via Greentech Media)
In depth: The YieldCo effect (via Recharge News)
ENERGY POLICY
U.S. residential electricity prices are rising (via U.S. EIA)
Renewables and resiliency help reverse a 30-year decline in U.S. transmission investments (via Greentech Media)
Obama to nominate new FERC energy regulator (via The Hill)
NATURAL GAS
Russia-Ukraine interim gas deal sought by EU amid fights (via Bloomberg)
Europe drafts emergency energy plan with eye on Russia gas shut-down (via Reuters)
WRI says 38% of world’s shale resources facing water stress (via Bloomberg)
Drilling furiously: Chinese energy giants turn upbeat on shale gas (via Reuters)
Pennsylvania finally reveals fracking has contaminated drinking water hundreds of times (via Climate Progress)
CLIMATE
China’s Xi Jinping likely to skip UN climate summit (via RTCC)
Threatened coral: Climate change puts 20 types at risk (via Christian Science Monitor)
United Nations predicts climate hell in 2050 with imagined weather forecasts (via The Guardian)
Climate change ups odds of a Southwest mega drought (via Climate Central)
OIL
Shell formally launches 2015 Arctic drilling bid (via Houston Chronicle)
TRANSPORTATION
Charge Ahead California opens a portal to America’s future (via CleanTechnica)
California renters may soon install EV chargers at home (via Autoblog Green)
Tesla teams up with China wireless carrier Unicom for EV charging network (via GigaOm)
The long game for Tesla’s Gigafactory (via San Jose Mercury News)
Tesla rolls out destination charging program at hotels, restaurants, resorts (via San Jose Mercury News)
ENVIRONMENT
Water resources a problem for energy extraction worldwide, finds report (via Houston Chronicle)
Australia to scrap plan for dumping near Great Barrier Reef (via Reuters)
Mountain forest changes threaten California water supplies (via Climate Central)
California bans plastic bags (via EcoWatch)
Desperately dry California tries to curb private drilling for water (via New York Times)
COAL
Is coal really “peaking” in China? (via Energy Collective)
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Nudging can save Europe billions of Euros on energy bills (via Bloomberg)
Energy efficient set-top boxes save $168 million (via Energy Manager Today)
Electrical unions launch net zero energy training center (via GreenBiz)
OPINION
Why does NATO still downplay climate threats? (via RTCC)
Cut carbon, breathe easier, live longer (via Climate Central)
We are on the verge of an electric car battery breakthrough (via Climate Progress)
Labor Day 2050: Global warming and the coming collapse of labor productivity (via Climate Progress)
Energy quote of the day: Ultimately it will be necessary to clean produced water for reuse in fracking (via Breaking Energy)
A doomed Earth of science fiction may well become reality (via The Guardian)
Why the shale revolution is not about to end (via Reuters)
Divesting from fossil fuels: Last one out loses (via Renewable Energy World)
Why carbon markets should top Ban Ki Moon’s climate agenda (via RTCC)