ISIL/IS REPORTEDLY GOT FIGHTER PLANES, HELICOPTERS, MORE TANKS, ARTILLERY PIECES (and ammo, missiles) after taking Syria air base ... Iran forces crossed into Iraq to help Kurds drive ISIL/IS out of key town close to Iran border ... NATO insists Russia giving artillery support from inside Russia for separatists in Ukraine ... Tripoli gas stations empty. Little food. Benghazi much the same ... Iraq oil production down to 3.1Mb/d in July. 3.6M in Feb ... EIB to lend up to $93.3M to Polish energy comp for clean power projects, including refurbishing several hydropower plants, grid upgrades ... India vowing to buy domestic solar content, asking domestic industry to start up idled capacity. Didn't announce dumping duties on US, Asia imports ... Verizon investing $40M to triple its solar power use this year. Sunpower (SPWR) to install 10.2Mw at 8 sites in 5 states. Verizon invested $100M in '13 for ~5Mw solar, 10Mw of fuel cells at 6 sites ... Bakken production up 53Kb/d in June to over 1Mb/d ... EIA puts US distillates exports now at 1.2Mb/d ... Statoil launched new offshore oil platform, 1st since '05. $1.9B. Initial production est. 30Kb/d ... Rosneft deal to acquire stake in Norway drilling comp in exchange for drill rigs. Also started exploration in Barents Sea with Statoil. Norway approved Statoil to move rig to Barents ... Siluria Tech says it can make fuels from natgas at cost of ~$1/gal at today's US NG prices. Chem catalyst extracts methane from NG, combines into ethylene, then another catalyst to get fuels ... S Asia econs will be badly squeezed by global warming climate change by '50 if no action taken on GHG emissions: Asia Development Bank ... EU imposing ban on high-powered vacuum cleaners. Motors must be below 1.6Kw by Sept 1 for manufacturers, importers ... At least 10% of fracking fluid is toxic: LBNL. No idea for another 33%. From voluntarily provided industry list ... Duke Energy to sell non-regulated Midwest power gen biz to Dynergy for $2.8B. 11 power plants - 6.1Gw, Duke Retail Sales (OH) ... TVA to replace 741Mw Memphis coal power plant - built in '59 - with new $975M 1Gw combined-cycle NG plant in next 4 years ... Finavera Wind (Canada) buying Solar Alliance of America (US west coast residential solar marketer) for $6M. FNVRF selling Ireland wind project to raise the money ... Mexico regulator received requests for 10.5Gw of clean power projects ... ConAgra joined deforestation-free palm oil movement.