STUFF ... Global solar industry could reach 49Gw installed by end of '14: NPD Solarbuzz. Mercom says 43. Japan a "wild card". 4Q13 to exceed record 12Gw. 1Q14 could exceed that: NPD ... Trina Solar to develop 1Gw solar farm in Xinjiang China. 300Mw online by '15. All by '19 ... 1/6 of China's arable land - near 50M acres - suffers soil pollution. 13M tons/y of crops contaminated with heavy metals. 22M acres adversely affected by pesticides ... Brazil's Pernambuco held nation's 1st solar auction. Registered 122Mw. 34 bidders proposed ~1Gw. 6 winners. Avg price under $97/Mwh ... Enel Green Power connected 90Mw wind farm to Chile grid. Chile pipeline of approved solar projects 5.3Gw ... Mitsui buying 50% stake in EDF 160Mw wind project in Mexico. Online 1H14 ... Alstom got ~400M Euro of contracts to supply turbines for Brazil wind projects. '15-'17 deliveries ... $195M loan from Inter-Am Development Bank for 2 Chile hydro run-of-river projects online '18 ... Total, Etrion, Sunpower got $140M loan from OPIC for 70Mw solar project in Chile. $200M project. Online early '15 ... 3 hydro projects - 30Mw total - successfully bid at $58-60/Mwh in Peru ... Hanergy to build thin-film solar manufacturing plant in Brazil ... CSUN sold 5Mw solar farm to Lightsource in Britain. Another 5Mw farm online in '14 ... El futures trading to start in Japan ... ASTI to debut new product lines in '14 at Vegas show ... Mexico PV solar demand to over triple to 250Mw in '14: GTM Research. Mostly large-scale in Baja. Projected to surpass Chile in LatAm by '16. 300-400Mw market by '18. 70Mw installed in '13. Peru now has region's most solar online - 96Mw ... Pilot project between IADB, Global Enviroment Facilities to develop solar for 350 families in rural Amazon Ecuador where 1/2 have el ... LatAm el costs 3-8x more than in US. Options may be regional grid, expanding Carib clean energy ... Nevis Island in Lesser Antiles drilling geothermal sites. Up to 500Mw potential. 9K residents use ~10Mw/y, import 9.2M gal diesel/y ($12M. Really: just over a buck?!). Dominica building a small geo plant - up to 100Mw - to export to Guadeloupe, Martinique. St Vincent has $50M geo project, island's potential 890Mw ...