REMINDER: UNTIL WE GET more clean energy onto grid or dedicated clean energy chargers, EVs basically running more on coal, natgas than clean power ... AustrianSolar got permit for 100Mw solar farm in Chile. ~$216M cost to build. (Great number, if true.) ... Vestas got 148Mw wind turbine order from First Wind for Maine project. 3Mw turbines ... Aleo Solar (Germany) sold module factory to Asian JV SCP Solar ... El Salvador got 32 offers for 100Mw clean energy tender ... Yield Co (UK) closed $100M Foresight Solar Fund for acquisitions of solar PV projects ... DONG Energy awarded CT Offshore contracts for 582Mw offshore wind project cable ... Brazil solar industry to get boost by govt easing local content ... Scotland approved 51Mw Scottish Power Renewables wind farm, rejected similar RWE Innogy project ... Black Sea oil/gas potential may rival N Sea. Offshore areas Russia got (claimed) with Crimea takeover may be worth trillions. Potentially "the best" of Sea's deepwater oil reserves. Russia can also take more direct route for proposed NG pipeline under Black Sea to Europe. Also, onshore NG facilities in Crimea. (Quite the grab, Vlad. Richest guy in world yet?) ... MD governor to veto bill designed to delay, maybe kill offshore wind project ... NC coastal regulators to take 30-yr view on sea level rise ... Deep valleys found under Greenland ice sheet could raise sea level estimates ... More water falling as rain v. snow reduces overall amount: study ... Climate change will damage sovereign credit ratings: S&P ... Manufacturers backing OH energy efficiency mandates ... Europe's fossil fuels in short supply: report. Britain has 5.2 yrs worth of oil, 4.5 yrs of coal, 3 yrs worth of natgas left. Italy less than 1 yr of NG, coal, 1 yr of oil. France under 1 yr for all 3. Germany 250 yrs of coal, 2 yrs NG, under 1 yr oil. Russia 50 yrs oil, over 100 yrs NG, 500 yrs coal ... Vietnam riots over China oil rig in Vietnam territorial water. Several dead. Taiwan factories burned (thought Chinese.) ... $3M USDA grant toward solar grid at U of Virgin Islands. ~3Mw. 1/2 of energy demand of campus. To save up to $1M/yr. VI el costs over 50 cents/Kwh ... Germany says no deal made on dismantling nuke plants ... Brookfield Renewables (Bermuda) to buy remaining 67% interest in 417Mw PA hydropower plant on Susquehanna. 1 of largest hydro plants in PJM grid. ~$613M ... Coal ash pond leaking arsenic, boron, lead, mercury into KY aquifer, lake: enviros. "Properly permitted, regulated." KY has 48 coal ash ponds, ~9M tons/yr coal ash made in KY. 50% of KY powgen from coal ... EDF unit to sell 50% stake in 143Mw Cal solar farm to TIAA-CREF ... $5M plan to fight coffee fungus in Central Am from hot, dry weather ... Raptors' breeding rates suffering in Cal drought ... US Supreme Court won't hear challenge to DOI coal export fee ... New Fisker owner plans to start US EV production. "Burn as much cash as it takes." (Cuz EVs a nascent game changer.) ... Olympic sailors wary of contaminated Rio bay. Govt cleanup coming up short ... At least 3 coal mine execs arrested in Turkey ... Ancient statues in China damaged by air pollution getting restored. (How about all the lungs?)