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REC Solar completed 500Kw community solar park in Boulder, Colo.

Cherokee Nation to team with 4 other native nations - Kaw, Missouria, Pawnee, Ponca - to develop 90-turbine wind farm on native lands. PNE Wind partnering. 153Mw. Power to Swest grid.

Empower Energies completed 4 solar projects for General Motors. 49Kw array, 3 EV charging stations.

ND releases drilling/production stats monthly. PA every 6 months. OH once a year. Last OH report showed Utica Shale produced 636K bls in '12, 1.7Kb/d. Also 12.8BCF NG for the year. 87 Utica wells drilled in '12, 65 producing at commercial level.

Italy built world's 1st geothermal power plant over 100 yrs ago. World now has 11Gw of geothermal power in 24 countries. Indonesia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Japan, Kenya, Chile gearing up for more geo development. US leads world with 3.1Gw installed capacity, 77 plants. Working on enhanced geothermal tech. Uses hot, dry basement rock to heat water pumped miles deep. Philippines 2nd in world capacity with 1.9Gw. Indonesia has 1.1Gw, on track on getting that to 4Gw in '14. Italy has 843Mw, Iceland 575Mw, Kenya 202, Turkey 100, China 24.

Illinois falling short of its clean power generation mandate because customers of state's 2 major el utilities chose other suppliers that purchase power on open market. So state money for clean power program going into fund sitting untapped. $15M to balloon to near $135M by end of '14. Obscure language in law.

Group of Nebraska el utilities - Nebraska El Generation, Transmission Coop - asking state's largest power supplier - Nebraska Public Power District - to elim proposed investments in wind power, emission reduction, energy efficiency programs. They want lower costs passed on to customers. Targeting $2.1B of proposals. They also say boosting output at nuke plant the most cost effective option for more power gen.

143Mw wind farm - Turkey's largest to date - finished by Turk comp, E.ON (Germany). 340M Lira. 23 wind farms being built now in Turkey. Over 60 already operating, total cap 2.3Gw.

Over 434K hybrid vehicles sold in US in '12, over 52K EVs. 1Q13 164K hybrids, over 24K EVs sold.