US SOLAR POWER INSTALLS ~6.2GW IN '14, 30% OVER '13. ~$18B investment. Residential installs ~1.2Gw, ~3.9Gw utility-scale, ~1Gw commercial. Solar almost 1/3 new powergen capacity in '14. Over 8Gw expected in '15 .... Canada's winter temps up 4.5*F '51-'05, near 3x global avg increase .... Fossil fuel prices don't reflect true cost of carbon: report .... China air pollution could be cause of US east coast bad winter: NASA .... Oil palm expansion threatening Peruvian Amazon .... At least 2 coal mining comps scrapped major mining plans in west US in recent weeks .... Venezuela giving US 15 days to come up with plan to drastically shrink embassy staff .... Sierra Nevada snowpack could be lowest in 25 yrs .... EU needs more aggressive policies to meet '50 GHG emissions goal: report .... Bulgaria, Estonia, Sweden already hit EU clean/renewable '20 target .... Clean/renewable power 13% of US powergen in '14. (~33% with nuclear) .... Japan may more than double geothermal powgen cap by '30. 520Mw now. May add 350Mw-3Gw hydropower. 47Gw now. Biomass may increase to over 4Gw from 2.5Gw now. No estimates for wind, solar .... FERC OK'd natgas pipeline to New England. Online late '16 .... Whiting - big Bakken oil producer - on auction block .... First Solar (FSLR), Sunpower (SPWR) joint yieldco to hold 432Mw, 39Mw of it residential rooftop .... Exxon ignoring sanctions, snapping up oil drilling rights in Russia, boosting rights to 64M acres in '14, up from 11.4M at end of '13. Holds rights on 14.6M acres in US .... Door opened to Turkey to explore oil in Kurd Iraq .... Egypt plans to repay $3.1B debt to energy comps by mid-'16, pushing it forward a year .... Nigeria delay settling over $1.4B debts owed fuel importers. Deeper gasoline shortages from drastically cut imports .... US drillers idled 64 more oil rigs last week. Now 922 operating .... Over 3K US wells drilled, but holding off fracking until prices recover .... US Gulf of Mex oil production to reach 1.52Mb/d in '15, 1.61M in '16. 5 deepwater projects started up in 4Q14: EIA .... US petrol products exports record avg 3.8Mb/d in '14, up 347K from '13: EIA .... Occidental agreed to out-of-court settlement with Peruvian Amazon tribes after 8 yrs of litigation .... China wind farms produce more power than US nuke plants. 115Gw to 98 .... China crackdown on coal-related air pollution to take toll on N Korea econ. Coal, iron ore 60% of N Korea's exports to China .... Fuji El, German partner to supply equipment for 45Mw geothermal project in Iceland. $42M for equipment. Plant online late '17 .... Areva, Gamesa forming JV to build, install offshore wind. 2.8Gw pipeline in development. Wants to control 20% of Europe market by '20 that may reach 39Gw offshore wind .... Gestamp Solar to build 25Mw plant in Japan .... Walmart, Cargill, Tyson, McDonald's joined sustainable beef roundtable .... BLM, Cal to rework desert solar plans after public criticism .... China commission OK'd 2 new nuke reactors .... Japan PM vowed new 5-yr Fukushima recovery plan.