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Trans Canada (XL Pipe) completed 1st of 9 planned solar acquisitions in ~$52M deal.

BLM completed revisions to enviro review of Ruby NG pipeline after Fed appeals court crit last year.

Sungevity offering charities $750 for refers.

Last month, during worst flooding in Europe in 400 years, Germany ran out of sand bags. Netherlands, Belgium, Luxenbourg, Denmark showed up with 1.6M bags.

Study: 2 degrees celsius target inadequate to avoid some of the worst impacts.

Study: without major climate action oceans will no longer be able to support coral growth by end of this century. (Don't worry, pards, this age ending soon.)

UN experts find our globe warming at unprecedented pace.

Peabody (Coal) in '10 filed response to EPA finding on power plant emissions: "burning fossil fuels is good for the environment and good for human health". (Are these guys a hoot or what? I wonder what they said about black lung.)

Shell says their new ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mex oil well might hold 100M bls. 500M bl well already nearby. Jurassic. 160M yrs old.

Russia oil industry hit post-Soviet production record.

Slow adoption of rooftop residential solar in China. New policies late '12 to encourage it. Through May, though, only 25 homes in Jiangsu installed or installing. 154Kw. Biggest obstacle grid power 8 cents/Kwh. $7.5K 3Kw system takes 20 yrs to pay back.

Japan Intl Coop Agency assisting Kenya on clean/renewable energy development, power plant and powerlines support. Intl powerlines too. Kenya goal 5Gw geothermal capacity by '20. 200Mw now.

Africa Development Bank expects African wind power capacity to increase 10x next few yrs. 1Gw now. 1% of energy mix. 10.5Gw in pipeline. Significant potential in Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Mauritania, Egypt, Madagascar, Kenya, Chad. Gamesa, Vestas, Nordex major players. Alstom a little. (Where's GE? AMSC?)

US Climate Investment Funds ($7.6B) gave "go" for Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia 1.1Gw concentrated PV solar. $660M. Leverage for $5B from other donors, private finance. 60Mw in Morocco underway.

US refineries at 92% capacity, up from 90% last week. Crude inventories down 10M bls. Gasoline stocks down 1.7M bls. Diesel down 2.4M bls. Total petrol inventories down 15M bls. (WHAT??? Exports?) US crude production up just 6Kb/d to 7.27M. 7.37M high early May not surpassed last 8 weeks. Falling output from some GOM deepwater platforms. Midwest, west coast pump prices down recently from refineries resuming normal production after maintenance. Floods in Alberta slowed oil imports. Eqypt does have 2.2Mb/d oil pipeline and Suez to protect. Iraq exports dropped for 3rd month in row. North pipeline sabotage. 273Kb/d exports in May went to 179K in June. S Sudan resumed crude exports to N Sudan. US ethanol production dropped 22Kb/d.

EPA OK'd Arundo (giant reed) and napier grass for renewable fuels. Even tho invasive species. New registration, record keeping, reporting requirements.

USDA restarted BioPreferred Bioproduct Certification, labeling.

Point: BP world energy review had total US crude oil production at 8.9Mb/d in '12. DOE/EIA had it at 6.5M. Huh.

Ethiopia ignoring Egypt's threats, continuing building Africa's largest dam - 6Gw. Near Sudan border. Completion in '17.

PNNL, Bonneville scientists thinking of using subterranean volcanic rock formations for E storage. Compressed air. East Washington.

Saud museums, schools, wildlife protection projects to be solar powered. Solar Village converted to city by '14. NASA there too for solar readings.

PPA approved for 7Mw giant king grass fueled biogas power plant on St Croix. VSPC.

PNM to add another 23Mw solar to system in '14. Buying another 102Mw wind starting in '15.

Gulf states planning $155B of solar projects. 84Gw by '17. UAE, Saud lead.

Sumitomo to supply batt storage for Hokkaido. 60Mwh capacity.

Idemitsu (refinery) to survey geothermal power at national park in N Japan.

Panasonic to close Hungary solar panel plant in Sept. To consolidate production in Malaysia, Japan. 550 Hungary workers to be hungry for new jobs. Panasonic to keep production at 900Mw/y. Plant in OR ended solar wafer production, still making silcon ingots.

SE Blue Renewables to invest up to $860M in Dane wind.

NM launched auction for 1Gw wind.

Teralys Capital investing C$50M in Quebec cleantech VC funds.

GDF Suez, AREVA lining up bids for French offshore tender.