Total US wind power capacity brought up to 61.2Gw in 1Q14. 1Q installs fell to 427Mw from 962 1Q13 ... UK approved 4.5Gw clean/renewable energy projects for early Contracts for Difference subsidies. 3.18Gw new offshore wind ... Offshore wind installers need continuous pipeline to lower costs: A2SEA ... Siemens to form JV with PAIC (China) to make inverters, el motors for hybrids, EVs ... Chaori Solar (China) ceased production at Shanghai plant amid multiple order cancellations ... Google buying 407Mw of wind power from Mid American to power Iowa data center ... Boralex (Canada) Euro unit secured near Eur65M finance for 2 wind farms in France ... Global geothermal industry brought 530Mw online in '13. Most since '97. Total world geo cap now 12Gw. Steady 4-5%/yr growth. Another 12Gw in pipeline. 30Gw in development. 1.9Gw now under construction in 15 countries. Indonesia way out in front of world with near 4.4Gw in development. US added ~85Mw in '13, down 40% from '12. Total now 3.4Gw, 1Gw in pipeline, ~3.1Gw in development. ~50% of Calif geo resources still untapped. 60% ea. in Utah, Nev ... 9 of 10 Americans favor more solar deploy: Hart poll. More solar brought online in US in past 18 months than in 30 prior yrs combined ... Kerry making climate change a new top intl priority ... US tornado season got safest start in nearly a century ... Drones monitoring Amazon deforesting ... Moving coal ash from NC waters would cost $10B: Duke ... Near 60% China groundwater polluted. (Poor folks.) ... Musk says Panasonic likely partner for TSLA batt "gigafactory" ... American Vanadium (Canada) to install energy storage system at MTA bldg in NYC. 3 vanadium-flow batts. 130Kwh ea. Vanadium dissolves in sulfuric acid. To charge at cheapest el rates (night). AV paying $.7M, NYSERDA $.5M ... Number of China wind turbine makers may be cut 2/3 next 5 yrs from oversupply issues. Foreign turbine makers may see their mart share fall to 1% from 5% now. Equipment supply 40% more than demand at end of last yr. Goldwind biggest supplier to China in '13. Est. will have 30% of mart by '17, 23% now ... Total 885 clean/ren energy projects across all US armed forces branches at end of FY13. 511 solar ... Army to start DOD's largest solar project to date in AZ. Online late '14. 18Mw. E.ON building. To be owned, operated by Tucson El Power. Will gen 25% base el. DOD goal 25% of el from clean/ren by '25 ... EIA est. Marcellus to lose 352MCF/d of production from legacy wells in May. Was 200MCF/d loss May '13. Est. gain of 605MCF/d from new wells. 256MCF net gain. Total production to reach 14BCF/d in May ... Total didn't renew its only shale gas exploration license in Poland near Ukraine border. Not economical ... US admin finalized rule to halve amount of coal dust miners can be exposed to ... EDF, China Datang to build, op 2Gw ultra-supercritical coal-fired power plant in China. Online '16. 43% efficient v. 35% for conventional coal. Almost elims NOx, SOx, slightly less CO2 emiss v. conventional ... Brit comp, China comp to work together on energy efficiency projects in China. Part of planned $200M UK/China E efficiency fund ... Marubeni completed 82Mw solar plant in Japan. Now building 28.3Mw solar project.