WORLD HAS 53.3 MORE YEARS OF OIL: BP. (Transportation has to change. And then, if the world uses all that oil, we will probably warm more than we will want for our kids, grandkids for a lot of reasons.) ... Global clean power investment $63.3B in 2Q14, up 9% on year, up 33% from 1Q14. 2Q's largest project $3.8B for 600Mw wind project offshore Netherlands. Finance for rooftop, small-scale solar up 41% on year to $21.2B. China $19.3B, Europe $14B, US $10.6B ... Europe offshore wind installs down 25% in 1H14 to 781Mw: EWEA ... US states well positioned to implement EPA Clean Power Plan: report. States that already have experience regulating carbon pollution have seen net increases in econ output, jobs ... WTO sided with China in US solar dumping case ... US admin denied China wind power developer due process by blocking project: US appeals court ... White House not backing TSLA request for support for direct customer sales ... States asking Supreme Court to take up EPA mercury, toxics standards ... Chesapeake Bay area farmers not doing enough to keep fertilizers, sediment out of Bay ... China launched carbon labeling system for products. (Um, did I mention China has launched carbon labeling for products?) ... Australia winemakers moving south to Tasmania as growing regions heating up ... Exelon seeks order to keep NY nuke plant online ... N Dakota likely to use penalties to cut NG flaring at wells ... Whiting buying Kodiak in $6B Bakken deal ... Ocean Power (OPTT) canceled plans to build Australia wave power project. OPTT stock down 22% this morn ... Canada cement factory producing algae biofuels from CO2 emissions ... Beaver dams so far prevented 1M gal of spilled fracking wastewater from spreading too far down river. (How are those beavers doing?) Folks calling for more regs. Took days to discover spill from underground pipeline ... China's coal imports up only .9% in 1H14 on year ... Power rates from near 3,500 US utilities now online free courtesy Illinois State U, NREL ... Silicor (Calif) seeking funds to build silicon plant in Iceland. Expected online in '16. To make up to 19K metric tons/yr @ est. $9/kg cost. Secured supply contracts with wafer, solar cell makers. Will save production costs with clean power. (Maybe geothermal.) ... Solar Power (Cal) (SOPW) raised $22M from stock, bond sales for working capital, debt pay down. LDK Solar owns over 70% of SOPW ... Itochu, partners to build 45Mw solar plant in Japan. Online early '16. ~$148M cost ... Peru OK'd 97Mw wind project proposal by Spanish comp ... Utility customers don't always reap benefits of lower power production costs: survey. (Surprised?) ... DOE needs to boost maintenance of Strategic Oil Reserve: IG ... Shuttered NJ nuke restarted ... Appeals court quashed NJ bid to block offshore seismic testing (for oil/gas deposits) ... Committee on Climate Change (I assume EU's) urging UK to set '30 carbon intensity target ... Shunfeng (China) postponed $774M share issue. "Unstable stock market conditions." (Really? Unstable?) ... Bright Source, Alstom, NOY consortium closed $851M finance for Israel CSP project ... DOD awarded $334M for solar projects at 3 Hawaii military sites ... Solar Wind Energy Tower (SWET) to raise $100M from Arizona Alternative Energy Center to develop power tower in AZ ... Pakistan LOIs for 793Mw solar for grid. 24 projects ... China Recycling Energy (waste-to-energy) (CREG) to sell up to $50M equity ... Welspun to build 50Mw solar plant in Maharashtra India.