CHINA ADDED 5GW SOLAR IN 1Q, ALMOST EQUAL TO ALL OF FRANCE'S TOTAL SOLAR CAP. On track for record installs. Total cap now 33Gw .... HQCL got more than 1.5Gw solar order from Next Era. World's record single solar order. Deliveries over a year .... Japan solar boom spurred by low interest loans from local banks, credit unions, utilities .... Iowa's largest utilitiy suing 3 rural counties, charging they've done too little to prevent nitrates from farms from getting into drinking water .... Europe expected to charge Gazprom with antitrust, overcharging E Europe .... Nebraska utility swapping coal power out for hydrogen. Will cut Nebraska Public Power District's overall carbon footprint ~10% .... DOT emergency actions on crude-by-rail .... BP shareholders pushing for disclosures on climate change strategies .... Yemen LNG stopped production, exporting ops. Evacuating workers .... Sauds, Egypt navies blockading Yemen ports. Power out in much of Yemen, hospitals running out of backup power fuel. Sauds agreed to $273M humanitarian aid .... China exports down 15% in March. Govt cut bank reserve requirements. Econ slowed by downturn of property values, industrial overcap, massive local debt growth .... Est Russia GDP down 2-4% in 1Q .... Increased fighting in E Ukraine last week .... NG price discounts to Ukraine out of neighborly love: Putin .... In 3 yrs, Eni has doubled production in W Egypt to 70Kb/d .... US oil rig count down 26 last week. NG count down 8 .... GE chose Jacksonville for 6-mo pilot program for LED bulbs in 50 street lights .... EDF, BlackRock cut ribbon on 200Mw TX wind farm. GE, Vestas turbines. (Wouldn't it be nice if tornadoes become less powerful or less frequent from all the wind power installed.) .... Molycorp to supply rare earth materials for Siemens wind generators next 10 yrs. Calif mine, China processing .... NEXTracker to supply Grosolar with 105Mw of axis systems over next 3 yrs .... TRIG (UK) raised 110M pounds for clean power pipeline. Sold 107M shares .... Sumitomo investing in US power storage systems. Toshiba batts. Bought RES unit. System max output 6Mw. Construction start in Hamilton County OH , online in Dec .... Toshiba demonstrating solar/hydrogen hybrid powergen in Japan .... TBEA, Sheen Tai to build at least 1Gw solar PV .... Thai ivory bust .... Adidas to use marine plastic .... NG pipe explosion in Fresno .... Phillips 66 diesel pipeline leak near Miss R .... Drought decalred in parts of Washington State. Low snowpack .... Dominion to close all VA coal ash ponds within 3 yrs.