STUFF ... US tight oil (shale) production est. to peak ~ '20 @ ~ 2.8Mb/d, hold ~2M out to '40 ... Fast food employees in US get $7B/yr in govt aid, obviously a subsidy to fast food industry ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) started construction on 100Mw plant in Ontario ... First Solar (FSLR) to build 250Mw plant for Next Era in Calif. Online late '16 ... US fed judge hearing Chevron v. Ecuador $18B case ... Gov vetoed bill to make Cal 1st to hunt regularly for pump price manipulation ... Germany delaying higher EU car emission targets ... 1366 Tech (Mass) got funds from Tokayama (Japan). Ready to scale up 250Mw PV solar wafer plant in US. Laser cutting 1/3 cost of saw. 10 cents/w. 17.2% efficient ... Hawaiian El got PUC OK to buy 10M gal biodiesel ... Euros Energy (Japan) getting 40B Yen finance for 115Mw solar project in Japan. Online late '15 ... Daiwa unit to develop, op 20Mw solar plant in Japan. ~ 6B Yen. Construction start June '14 ... Charge Point launched $100M leasing fund to spur EV charger installs. Systems $6-12K. 5-7 yr leases to own ... Wal Mart leads 40% 2Q yoy solar surge among US comps. Wal Mart world's largest commercial solar user with 89Mw at 215 locations. Over 3.3Gw total comm installs worldwide. Costco 47Mw, Kohl's 45, Apple 41, Ikea 38 ... Brazil biomass power developer to build $109M plant with Dow Chem. Ethanol from bagasse. 46Mw. Online in '14 ... XsunX (XSNX) rolling out solar power project development services this week (up 11% more today) ... Clean Energy Collective (Colo) powered up 3 more community-owned solar plants. 10 now op in state. 10 more - 5Mw total - in pipe ... Sardine stock collapsed off Canada coast ... Statoil abandoned DOE-backed offshore Maine $120M floating wind power project ... Tight permitting limiting size of Finalnd wind projects ... Renova Energia (Brazil) approved $183M of notes to finance wind projects ... Next Era's 485Mw $1.13B Calif solar project hit permit setback over enviro issues.