Wednesday, November 12, 2014

US, CHINA AGREEMENT ON NEW CO2 EMISSIONS TARGETS. China commitment to stop emissions growth by '30 .... US shale boom masks threats to world oil supply: IEA .... Satellite data may underestimate planetary warming 30%: study .... East Europe countries "categorically reject" IPCC climate goals .... Solar roadway test in Netherlands. 230-ft of bike path. Solar panels set in concrete topped with heavy glass. Square meter generates 50-70Kwh/yr. $3.7M test to run 3 yrs .... Think tank calling on Australia to cut emissions 40% .... Colo city can't enforce fracking moratorium during appeal: judge .... Residential solar power, storage market could near 1Gw by '18: IHS. 90Mw this year .... Avg. price of lithium-ion batts down 20% this year .... US oil imports from OPEC down from 6Mb/d in '08 to over 3M this year. Imports from Mideast down just 12%. Most reduction from Nigeria, Algeria, Angola, Venezuela .... SAS Air, Norwegian Air flew with 48% biofuel blend. Want to get to forest feedstock. These flights with used cooking oil .... Scania to deliver 1.5K biodiesel trucks this year .... Russia intro'd reduction of export duties on oil, light oil products over 3 yrs. Increase in mining, oil/gas extraction tax, export duties for fuel oil. Small, medium refiners will close. Belarus to benefit from changes. (A way for Putin to start getting Belarus back.) .... Kazakhstan using National Fund to stabilize its econ with lower oil prices. (Surprised Putin not helping.) .... Magnesium-ion to replace lithium-ion batts soon. 12x energy density of lithium, 5x charge-discharge efficiency .... Britain facing winter brownouts, blackouts .... Vestas to supply 200Mw First Wind project in TX. 2Mw turbines. Late '15 deliveries. $254M financed .... CB&I contracted for Calpine 760Mw combined-cycle natgas plant in PA .... GE to start building 100Mw Kenya wind farm in '15. $300M. 18-month build. Kenya target 5Gw more powgen by '17. 1.7Gw now .... Enel Green, Endesa Chile $2.3B contract. $611M to develop 307Mw wind, solar power. Then green certificate sales. 2 wind, 3 solar farms .... Pattern Energy (PEGI) buying 182Mw TX wind farm for $123.8M from Pattern unit .... Sky Solar (China) delayed US IPO 2nd time, cut amount sought 2/3 .... China planning to install up to 8Gw small solar systems this year. Over 10x of '13 .... Distributed power market est. to grow to $182B by '23 .... CSIQ record high 3Q .... DONG got lease to build 700Mw wind farm offshore Isle of Man .... Aalborg, NEST developing concentrated solar direct steam power storage system .... Kandi (KNDI) 3Q. Revs up 157% yoy to $44M. EV parts sales up 107% over 2Q to $35M. GAAP net up 274% to $13M, adjusted to $5M, 12 cents EPS .... Coal, oil will plateau by '40: IEA .... E85 sales to at least double over next 10 yrs: report .... Cal record tomato harvest defying drought .... Hyundai, Kia to expand fuel efficiency lineup.

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