CLIMATE CHANGE A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE: LAWYERS .... UN report says climate damage costs for Africa alone could reach $100B/yr by '50 .... PJM - US' largest grid operator - analysis puts price on CO2 emissions, concludes regional solution less costly than state-by-state .... KY top power comp embracing state regulators' proposal for claiming credit for coal plant closures already in process as means to comply with EPA clean power plan .... Oil prices to stay low for 2 yrs barring geopolitical trouble: Exxon chief .... New Oregon clean fuels standards waiting gov's sig .... US crude inventory up 10.3M bls last week. Production up 39Kb/d (may be just EIA est.) .... US crude storage @ 60% of capacity in late Feb. Was 48% this time '14. (EIA) .... Global oil production growth grinding to halt. World total liquids production down 40Kb/d in Jan v. Dec .... Friends of Earth, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, 2 other orgs teaming on push to enlist more Americans to join movement for fossil-free, nuke-free clean power future. Video at www.MakeNuclearHistory.org .... El Nino finally made it to US west coast. Weak, weird, late .... Solar closing in on cost of coal power: Deutsche .... Southern Comp to pursue EV charging stations .... S Korea $30M for EV charging infra. Partnering with Hyundai .... PA Gov wants to reinvigorate clean power investment, boost natgas enforcement .... BP CEO got 25% raise. (Pretty sweet, A? How about the guys at the bottom?) .... New solar projects in Japan told they may be unable to sell all the power to utilities. Kyushu El Power cancelled ~5K solar projects, ~1.4Gw .... Pakistan $1.4B contract for 720Mw hydropower in Rawalpindi to Pakistan, China investors. Online '20 .... U Cal researchers inventing pretreatment that cuts biofuels production cost 30% or more using less enzymes .... DOE $10M continuation contract to make/test high-efficiency CO2 hot gas turbo expander, compact heat exchangers for CSP (concentrating solar plants - the ones with mirrors) plants .... Hanwha, 1366 Tech teaming to develop low-cost solar wafers .... New material captures CO2 with high capacity. NM State U research .... Guatemala launched E5, E10 pilot trials. They mostly export all of 65M gal/yr of ethanol production. E10 would use 36M gal .... Sun Edison (SUNE) launched plan for UK homeowners to save up to 15% on el bill with zero upfront cost. Also bought Solar Grid Storage. Lith-ion batts up to 10Mw. Intends to complete 2.1-2.3 Gw solar, wind this year, 2.8-3.8 in '16, 3.8-4 in '17 .... Solar 3D (SLTD) raising over $12M for new acquisitions with share offer. $20M revs in '14, est. $40-45 in '15 .... SPI Solar (SOPW) secured $1.6B new credit lines .... China continued to get more el from wind than nuke in '14 despite below-avg wind speeds. 16% more wind gen v. '13. Installed wind near 115Gw, ~84% grid connected.... Onward and upward, pards. Onward and upward.