JAPAN CUT SOLAR TARIFFS BY 1/5 ... California, Mexico signed pact aimed at reducing GHG emissions ... Water may run out in Sao Paulo in 100 days ... New Jersey launched $200M bank to develop microgrids ... Panasonic to help Tesla (TSLA) build battery "gigafactory" ... US crude production down 122Kb/d last week to 8.44Mb/d: EIA. (May be EIA effort to realign estimates with actual output.) ... 2 comps to build world's largest cellulosic biofuels plant in China. Will use 1-1.3M tons/yr of ag residues. To use Novozymes enzymes. ~$325M investment ... Over $192M worth of natgas lost in '11 from leaks in US pipelines. (Plus the emissions.) ... Iberdrola to build 202Mw wind farm in TX. $400M. Complex capacity 606Mw when completed ... Boralex unit bought 14Mw wind power project in France. Online by '16. 25M euros ... NYSERDA to fund $250M of clean/renewable power projects ... Brazil development bank will allow solar developers to import solar panels until '20. Then local content rules will apply ... GEVO sold $18M of shares at 60 cents each to fund renovation of MN biofuel plant ... Sun Edison (SUNE) got $46M construction loan for 18Mw solar project in Ontario. Online this year, then selling to Firelight. German bank also to provide up to C$63M long-term debt for the project ... India could save itself $42B in solar imports by helping develop its own solar industry: KPMG. Indian solar factories operating at 1/5 of capacity ... Tata unit completed 2Mw rooftop solar project in India. Another 1Mw next year at same location ... Demand for solar power credits in India rose to 4-month high this month after a utility entered the market to comply with govt clean power targets. Credits cleared at minimum price of $154/Mwh. Wind, hydro, biomass credits trade separately ... Japan fabric maker to build 6.2Mw biomass plant for $29M. Wood chip fuel ... Deutsche Bank funding Gestamp Solar's 31.5Mw solar project in Japan ... American DG Energy aims to raise $20M in public offering ... Centrica, DONG halted development of 2.2Gw wind project ... Municipal waste could provide 12% of US electric, heat tens of millions of homes, businesses: Columbia U. center. Also would keep 123M tons of GHG emissions/yr out of atmos, reduce coal use ~100M tons/yr. Non-recyclable plastic could be converted to oil - 6B gal gas/yr ... Smuckers committed to sourcing only deforestation-free palm oil ... Tighter ozone limit would shutter 1/3 of US coal power plants: NAM study ... BLM leasing Colo tract for coal mining for $2.9M.