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UPDATE 1-Glitch at UK's Buzzard oilfield causes slight output fall -sources

LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Production at the UK's North Sea
Buzzard oilfield has fallen slightly after a technical glitch,
three trading sources said on Thursday.

United States’ Largest Offshore Wind Farm Gets Green Light

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is pursing the state’s 50 percent renewable by 2030 goal with vigor. On Wednesday he announced that the 90-MW South Fork Wind Farm, which will be located 30 miles southwest of the popular summer vacation spot, Montauk, and therefore invisible to beachgoers, is now approved by the board of trustees of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).  

Accountable to Who(m) Exactly? Environmental and Energy Rulemaking in the Age of Trump

My discomfort with the largely Republican reform measures of H.R. 5 and H.R. 26/S.21 is the seeming refusal to undertake a dispassionate and measured review leading to proposed recommended revisions. The presumptions—that federal regulatory actions are capricious, dismissive of the costs incurred by the private sector and more appropriately the purview of the industries being regulated—are an over generalization.

Apple Agrees to Buy Solar Power From Buffett’s Nevada Utility

Apple Inc. agreed to buy the output from a proposed 200-MW solar farm in Nevada to help power a data center in Reno.

Fraunhofer IWES Announce New Test Bench for Offshore Wind Turbines

A state of the art test platform is being established at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology in Bremerhaven, northern Germany.

Scandinavian Offshore Wind Nixed Due to Russian Threat

While the EU has seen a remarkable increase in offshore wind, a Swedish project in the Baltic Sea has been cancelled due to a growing threat from Russia. What would have been a gigantic two-nuclear-plant-sized (2 GW) offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea; Blekinge Offshore AB was denied its permit in December due to recent heightened tensions in the region.

Pumped-Storage Hydropower Shows Promise for Boosting Energy Storage

America’s power grid is a complex network of power plants and transformers connected by more than 450,000 miles of transmission lines. As a major clean energy contributor, U.S. hydropower plays an important role today for both electricity generation and energy storage. For more than 100 years, U.S. hydropower has been an important source of low-cost, low-emissions renewable energy.

Solar Boom: 5 Leading Reasons for the Industry’s Growth

Would you believe that there are now more people working in the solar industry than at oil rigs and gas fields? With a 20 percent increase in size, the solar industry added more than 35,000 jobs — making about 209,000 solar energy employees working in the U.S. alone.

Strategic Petroleum Reserve sales expected to start this month

(Thu, 26 Jan 2017) Yesterday the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy awarded contracts for the first of several sales of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). A Continuing Resolution enacted in December 2016 included a provision for DOE to sell up to $375.4 million in crude oil from the SPR. This sale will be the first of several planned sales totaling nearly 190 million barrels during fiscal years 2017 through 2025.

TransCanada seeks presidential permit for Keystone XL pipeline project

TransCanada has submitted a Presidential Permit application to the US Department of State for approval of the Keystone XL (KXL) Pipeline.

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