AMERICANS SAVED $14B ON FUEL SALES IN '14 v. '13. $75B savings possible this year .... US oil drilling rig count down 37 in week ended Dec 26 to 1,499: Baker Hughes .... US must drill ~6K new oil wells/yr (~$35B) to maintain current production: geoscientist. He sees US production peak in '17, '12 levels by '19 .... Venezuela in recession after 3Q GDP negative 2.3% .... Ample US natgas supply. Price spikes highly unlikely .... EPA to delay power plant emissions rules to midsummer .... Utilities terminated power deals for Cape Wind offshore project .... Global small, medium wind power (under 500Kw/turbine) installs est. to total over 3.2Gw '14-'23: Navigant .... 3.4M "green" jobs in US at end of '11: BLS .... Solar City (SCTY) $350M solar install fund with JP Morgan .... Toyota to share its fuel cell car patents with world .... Indonesia scrapping gasoline price subsidies tomorrow. But pump prices to be cut to ~$.61/liter. Will continue to subsidize diesel .... Shenzhen China 4th large China city to restrict car license plates .... Brazil ethanol exports up 44% in Dec v. Nov, down 47% in '14 v. '13 .... REG to supply B20 for 78 Ames Iowa buses .... Xcel Energy to more than double its clean power mix by '30. Est. 40% cut of carbon emissions from '05. To add 600Mw wind power by '20, 1.2Gw more by '30 to bring all wind to over 3.6Gw. 187Mw solar by '17, 2.2Gw more by '30. 2 nuke plants licensed through '30. A 3rd to gradually wind down .... Areva to supply Iberdrola with 70 5Mw turbines ($738M) for offshore Germany wind farm. Installs as early as '17. 1.4B Euro project .... German wind farm re-turbined. 8 Vestas turbines installed in '99 replaced with 8 Enercon 2.3Mw turbines. Old turbs to be relocated .... Yingli went beyond GHG emissions '15 targets by '14. Climate Savers program. Reduced emissions ~22%/Mw of solar module production; 12% cut from purchased goods, services; ~17% cut from upstream transportation .... Egypt comp to build 6 NG power units for $706M. 980Mw. Also can run on diesel. Online by August. Conversion later to combined cycle .... Connecticut water authority turned on 1Mw solar array. Will supply over 80% of power needed for water treatment plant. Solar City installed, financed, maintaining. Saves $1M over 20 yrs .... Hawaii PUC OK'd 24Mw wind project on Oahu. HECO to buy power at 15 cents/Kwh for 20 yrs. 10 turbines. Local, fed permits to go .... Shell $83M settlement for '08 Nigeria oil spills .... EnBW sold 50% of its stake in 288Mw wind project offshore Germany for $853M to Macquarie. Online 1H15 .... Trina Solar sold 13.2Mw project to Foresight.