US SOLAR PV MARKET $13.4B IN '14. (Previous report put '14 US solar investment near $18B.) Forecast to grow 31% more in '15. US solar industry now has more employed than Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter combined .... China will meet its '15 solar target by adding 5Gw more this year .... Japan wants to add 24Gw solar by '20 .... Abengoa (ABGB) closed $660M finance for 100Mw CSP project in S Africa .... Trina Solar got 48Mw of solar project supply contracts in India .... Global GHG emissions flat in '14 v. '13 despite econ growth. "Haven't seen this before": IEA official. China coal use, overall emissions down in '14. But Japan could see 7.6Gw new coal power cap next 10 yrs .... International shipping 3-4% of global CO2 emissions, let alone SOx, NOx, particulates, etc. By '20, sulfur emissions from ships must drop to 1/3 of current standard for US road vehicles. LNG propulsion may be future. Ports have to build infra 1st. Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE) (Pickens) building infra in Jacksonville, online by yearend. United Arab Shipping amassing huge fleet of LNG-powered ships, est. 36 now in construction. Forecast globally over 1K by '20, 600-700 more retrofits .... India oil stockpiles expected to reach 6.5-7M bls this year. Capacity may increase to 28M bls this year .... N Dakota Jan oil production avg. 1.19Mb/d, down 3.3% from Dec record. Well completions dropped from 183 to 47 .... Vanuatu "completely devastated" by super cyclone .... Strawberries top list of pesticide-laced foods.