RUSSIA STOLE $1B of natgas when it annexed Crimea: Ukraine interim president ... RusHydro started up new 640Mw hydropower unit at Russia hydrodam. 8 other units operating at plant. 2 more units to start up this year, taking total power gen to 6.4Gw ... Solar installers submitted near 1,200 aps for 57Mw in Georgia Power program ... "Global warming" much scarier to Americans than "climate change": poll ... USAID to back $133.8M loan guarantees for sustainable forest use ... Missouri energy efficiency program exceeded its goal in 1st year ... Xcel Energy signed PPA for Sunpower (SPWR) 50Mw Colorado solar project. Construction start in '15 ... Tata Power (India) boosted solar module plant capacity 60% to 200Mw ... CSUN net loss $14.7M 1Q v. $22.9M 1Q13 ... Next Era Energy cancelled large wind project in Kentucky. Cited new state siting regs ... US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management launched tender for offshore NY wind projects ... Renova Energia (Brazil) to install 350Mw clean energy/yr to '16 ... 100Mw UAE clean energy tender coming ... New coal power plants emit avg. 2K lbs CO2/Mwh. New NG plants emit avg. 850 lbs/Mwh ... Current construction costs of power plants: nuclear $5.30/w, solar $4.75, coal $2.84, wind $2.44, NG $1. Mississippi "clean coal" project will likely reach $6 by time completed (now est. in '15). Still will emit 618 lbs CO2/Mwh ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) supplied S. Carolina's 1st solar farm. 2.5Mw. Online Dec '13 ... WTO set up panel to examine US-India solar power dispute ... West Penn Power prices to jump up to 50% June 1 for some customers ... Alberta would see el rates rise more slowly in coming decades if clean energy use increases v. coal/NG: Pembina Institute. Alberta has Canada's sunniest weather, only 1% of potential wind power harnessed so far. Poll found 68% of Albertans want coal power plants phased out. Another poll found majority willing to pay higher prices for el from wind, solar ... HASI bought $107M portfolio of land, leases from American Wind Capital for solar, wind projects/farms ... Shunfeng PV planning $774M share offer to raise funds for solar projects/farms ... New Calif blaze threatening 100 homes. Alaska fire settling down ... DOE granted NuScale $217M for small modular nuclear reactor project ... NM biofuel plant fire, evacuations ... 2 leaking oil pipes in ND linked to spill ... Flame retardants associated with hyperactivity, lower IQs in children: study.