California Energy Update 6/30

NiMin Energy Announces Closing of Sale of California Assets MarketWatch (press release) NiMin Energy Announces Closing of Sale of California Assets. CARPINTERIA, CALIFORNIA, Jun 29, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- NiMin Energy Corp. (TOR:CA:NNN) (OTN:NEYYF) (otcqx:NEYYF) (the "Company" or "NiMin") announced that it has ...

BrightSource, NextEra buy California solar projects Reuters In 2009, units of Solar Millennium and California oil company Chevron Corp proposed the Blythe project in Riverside County about 225 miles (362 km) east-southeast of Los Angeles, according to the project filing on the California Energy Commission website.

Solar firm that got Fed energy loan goes bankrupt Contra Costa Times WASHINGTON - A Colorado-based solar panel maker that received a $400 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration said Thursday it will file for bankruptcy, the latest setback for an industry battered by the recession and stiff competition from ...

Clean Energy Adds Major Trucking Fleets to Natural Gas Fueling Autochannel (press release) SEAL BEACH, CA--June 29, 2012: Clean Energy Fuels Corp. today announced that it has begun providing natural gas fuel to additional trucking fleets which transport products for some of the country's largest and most well-known brands, accelerating the ... Autochannel (press release)

Biggest Solar Farm Switching to Panels Only Before Purchase Businessweek The switch is described in a petition filed by Solar Trust's Palo Verde Solar I unit and posted today on the California Energy Commission's website. If approved, construction may begin as soon as April on what would be the world's largest solar farm ...

NextEra Files to Switch Blythe Project to Photovoltaic Panels Bloomberg ... asked regulators for permission to follow through on previously announced plans to use photovoltaic panels at its 1000-megawatt Blythe solar farm, not the originally planned solar-thermal system, before the California project is sold to NextEra ...

Alternative Fuels in California Imperial Valley News Sacramento, California - It's been a watershed few weeks for alternative fuels in California with more than $30 million in grant funding announced recently by the California Energy Commission for research, development and distribution. At CDFA, we pay ...

NiMin Energy Announces Closing of Sale of Wyoming Assets Energy Digital (press release) CARPINTERIA, CALIFORNIA--(Marketwire - June 28, 2012) - NiMin Energy Corp. (TSX:NNN)(OTCBB:NEYYF)(OTCQX:NEYYF) (the "Company" or "NiMin") announced that it has completed its previously announced sale of its assets in Wyoming's Big Horn ...

PG&E Provides Top-to-Bottom Look At Natural Gas Safety Actions Energy Digital (press release) Based in San Francisco, with 20000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation's cleanest energy to 15 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/ and www.pgecurrents.com.

Concentrated Solar Power: BrightSource, NextEra buy California solar projects REVE BrightSource Energy and NextEra Energy Inc have bought two large concentrating solar power projects in California from insolvent German renewable power company Solar Millennium AG. Concentrated Solar Power: BrightSource, NextEra buy California ... See all stories on this topic