* Leaders of the UK's three main political parties pledged a cross-party fight against climate change. David Cameron of the Conservatives, Ed Miliband of Labour and Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats agreed to "seek a fair, strong, legally-binding global climate deal which limits temperature rises to below two degrees celsius". [reNews]
* Interest in building a 100-MW plus solar thermal plant in Western Australia's Goldfields region has been revived, as more miners turn their interest to solar and other renewables as a means to deflect volatile diesel costs. Two solar developers are considering plans for large solar thermal plant near Kalgoorlie. [RenewEconomy]
* Ontario has issued the all clear to NextEra Energy Canada's 102-MW Goshen wind farm, the seventh project in an eight-part 615-MW feed-in tariff portfolio in the province. The municipality of Bluewater, a host community, and a local resident failed to prove the wind farm would cause serious harm to human health. [reNews]
* Inverter load rejection overvoltage tests completed by the US DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of a cooperative research agreement with SolarCity have proven so successful that a testing partner, Hawaiian Electric Companies, has proposed to double its hosting capacity for solar energy. [Phys.Org]
* New York ratepayers will subsidize operation of the Ginna nuclear facility near Rochester, under terms of an agreement with the plant's operators, Exelon. The Ginna Nuclear Generating Station will be allowed to charge customers above-market rates until 2018, because the plant has been losing money. [Capital New York]
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