WIND COULD SUPPLY 35% US POWER BY '50: DOE. (What % is it now? I don't know.) .... Asian Development Bank launched its 1st green bond .... Dubai 200Mw solar plant makes power cheaper than $10 oil, $5 natgas. 5.8 cents/Kwh .... 2nd OH drilling ban dropped by court .... DOE probing need for emergency stockpile of power transformers .... Myanmar push for ag expansion destroying forests, driving conflict: report .... Cal to work with Dutch province on climate, clean power advances .... First Solar (FSLR), partner ready to turn on 1st 25Mw of 102Mw, $220M plant in Australia. All online by July. Also building 53Mw plant in Australia. Australia has highest avg solar radiation per square meter of any continent. Up to 4Gw solar forecasted to be installed there by '22 .... US crude inventories up 4.5M bls last week. Production up 42Kb/d: EIA .... Brits developing urinal that feeds urine to stacks of microbial fuel cells to gen el. They want to use them to light up refugee camp bathrooms .... Suzlon commissioned 65Mw wind plant in Uruguay. 2.1Mw turbines. Uruguay had 700Mw wind power at end of '14, up from 59Mw end of '13. Expects to end this year with 1Gw .... Blue Earth (BBLU) got $10M finance for 40% stake in 2 combined heat/power plants in Canada, S Carolina costing $35M .... Next Energy Solar Fund (UK) to buy 21Mw solar plant in Essex for ~$34M. 3.2M Pounds for 2.6Mw more solar at Sussex. Rush to complete projects before govt subsidies end April 1. Then solar must compete with onshore wind. Solar ~$142/Mwh, onshore wind ~$82, coal ~$90 .... Copenhagen Infrastructure bought 39Mw biomass project in UK for $227M. (Seems expensive.) Local waste wood feedstock. Online in '17 .... Appeals court dropped manslaughter charges against BP supervisors in Gulf of Mex blowup.