OVER $5T OF $7.7T POWER GEN INVESTMENT next 15 years to go into clean/renewable power gen capacity globally: Bloomberg. Will help global CO2 emissions to peak by '30. 1/2 of investment to be in Asia. Investment in clean/ren power surpassed fossil-based 1st in '11. Fossil-based to shrink to 46% of total from 64% now. Est. 5K Gw gen cap to be added by '30. Fossil will get ~1.1K Gw. Solar to be fully competitive with other sources by '20 ... Russian hackers targeting oil/gas, power comps. "Ambitious" cyberattack hijacked energy control system updates ... New, stronger evidence that man-made climate change affecting US: McCarthy (EPA) ... Supreme Court declined to take up challenge from ethanol producers, others fighting California's low-carbon fuel standard ... Court taking case on gas manipulation that sparked crisis ... Fed appeals court threw out challenge to FERC approval of NG pipeline into NYC ... Colorado high court scuttled ballot proposal for right to clean air, clean water ... 9 states joined Murray Energy lawsuit against EPA rulemaking ... TX not liable for whooping crane deaths in parched refuge: appeals court ... Canada Supreme Court expanded ability of First Nation tribes to potentially veto proposed land use plans. (May stop oil sands pipeline to west coast.) ... Remote Alaska early-warning radar system could be at risk as region's coastlines erode from climate change: govt watchdog ... NASA canceled launch of 1st satellite to measure global CO2 ... Volcanoes may pack more atmos cooling power than had been thought: research ... U of Maine system creating degree programs in climate change ... Mountaintop coal mining linked to declining fish populations: USGS ... Beetle sending N American ash trees to the ash heap of history (extinction) ... States protesting EPA plan for beach contamination warnings ... Mysterious pollutant fouling NJ lake ... Lead exposure linked to depression in Chinese children: study ... Researchers attempting to breed heat-resistant "super chicken" ... FERC questioning New England's latest power gen capacity auction results ... BLM oil/gas permitting times "very long", accountability lacking: IG ... Top US fed agencies jobs vacant (200) in Senate confirmation limbo. Some waiting years ... Cheneire's latest 20-year LNG deal boosted US price point in Asia ... If we can't reduce offshore wind costs, quickly, we don't have an industry: OREC ... Statoil, Statkraft going ahead on building offshore Britain wind project ... Cape Wind getting $150M conditional DOE loan guarantee for offshore Mass project. Must first secure balance of ~$2.6B finance, ~1/4 from equity sales. Denmark's export credit agency pledged $600M loan guarantee in Feb ... Softbank unit, partner to build 100Mw 1st phase wind project offshore Japan. 5Mw turbines ... Canada JV to buy stake in 100Mw Quebec wind farm ... Ecotricity (UK) filed for 58Mw Scot wind project ... Northland Power OK'd to build 100Mw $356M wind project in Ontario ... Nautricity, Fundy Tidal teaming up on 500Kw Nova Scotia tidal power project. Summer '15 deployment ... Poet S Dakota plant hasn't been able to ship ethanol since last week because of flooded rail track ... Thai comp to build 600 metric ton/day biofuel plant in Myanmar to serve both countries ... China biodiesel production at 1/2 of capacity: study ... Rice U researcher converting biodiesel waste (glycerol) into chems with palladium-gold nanoparticles ... Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) added to Russell 3000, Russell 2000, Russell Global Indexes ... Researcher at U of Liverpool found magnesium chloride can be substituted for cadmium chloride (toxic, expensive) in solar cells. Mag chloride extracted from seawater, edible in tofu ... World Bank $78.4M finance for 480K more solar home systems in Bangladesh. Program currently installing 70K systems/mo. 3M already installed ... China commercial solar group formed to tackle trade wars ... NRG Yield completed buys of 2 solar plants, natgas plant in California for $349M cash. Total 590Mw ... Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, partners providing $62M loan for 18Mw wood biomass plant in Japan. Also 2.2B yen loan for smaller, similar plant ... GE to buy UK anaerobic digestion comp ... Philippine comp to invest $100M in clean/ren projects in next 2 yrs ... Intelligent Energy (UK) plans 40M Pound IPO. Fuel cell developer.