August 18, 2010 - quick update

Quick update today.  In Massachusetts, candidates for governor are debating the merits of offshore wind including the Cape Wind project.

President Obama declares his clean energy policy will create 800,000 jobs by 2012.

Wildly large numbers coming out of an Ontario, Canada feed-in tariff: the Ontario Power Authority is lowering the rate paid to some landowners with ground-mounted solar panels to 64.2 cents per kilowatt hour from the original 80.2 cents.  I will look more into this soon.