Headline News:
- New York Mayor Bill be Blasio announced the launch of a new solar incentive program, Solarize NYC, allowing communities, business districts and even places of worship to band together into a single purchasing group to gain access to competitively priced clean energy. [Business Green]
Solarize NYC will allow communities to join together into single purchasing groups to access cheaper solar power.
- “Nuclear power’s economic meltdown 30 years after Chernobyl” • The catastrophe at Chernobyl seemed to confirm the worst expectations of the environmental movement. Thirty years later, the nuclear industry is facing a meltdown of a different kind: an economic meltdown. [swissinfo.ch]
- An extensive new scientific analysis published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy & Environment says that proved conventional oil reserves as detailed in industry sources are likely “overstated” by half. The author is a former chief economist at Royal Dutch/Shell Group. [Middle East Eye]
- India’s Union power ministry estimates India’s electricity demand in the 2017-22 period to be 20% less than what was originally estimated, thanks to new energy efficiency targets and power-saving devices. Estimates demand in 2022 have been reduced from 298 GW to 239 GW. [Livemint]
- Wells Fargo has announced an integrated strategy to address global social, economic and environmental challenges. The company made new commitments in home and small business lending, community investment, operational efficiency, and corporate philanthropy through 2020. [Justmeans]
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from Green Energy Times http://www.greenenergytimes.net/2016/04/25/april-25-green-energy-news-2/
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