Wednesday, September 30, 2015

WEDNESDAY CLOSE .... Market up 235/102/36. WTI over $45, Brent over $48 .... US natgas $2.53 .... Russia allegedly bombing ISIS enemies for Assad .... (stock #s in %) BLQN up 62 on 200 shares. AWSL up 25, up 2x from bottom. JUHL up 25 with volume. BFRE up 25. SZYM up 15. FCEL up 10. EFOI up 9. BBLU up 8 with news. SUNE up 7 with news .... FNVRF down 30 with volume. ACFN down 20. PTOS down 19 with volume. XDSL down 16. CERE down 14. OPTT down 11 with volume. CHGT down 10. WEST down 6, new low with volume. OESX down 3, new low. GLBL down 2, new low with news. ASYS down 1, new low after reporting. FSYS, NANO down 1, new lows. BWEN flat, new low with volume.

UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR PROJECT COSTS DOWN 50% SINCE '09 TO $3.10/W: LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB. Solar powergen hit 5 cents/Kwh in '14 .... Bank Of England head warning insurers, investors, markets of mounting climate risks .... 500-yr flood events in NYC now may occur several times in lifetime: study .... NYC mayor wants city pension funds to divest coal holdings .... Africa Renewable Energy Fund reached $200M target .... Japan to consider emissions trading: enviro minister .... 2.1M Audi vehicles outfitted with emissions cheat devices .... Tesla unveiled, delivered 1st of Model X SUVs .... Fossil fuel industry $20M prize to turn captured CO2 into sellable products .... China-built hydropower plant started up in Guinea. 965Gwh/yr. China Ex-Im Bank lent $335M .... AEP Energy to build 3.6Mw solar plant in Ohio .... Siemens 151Mw wind turbine order .... EBRD to finance 18B Euro of "green" projects over 5 yrs.

WEDNESDAY OPEN .... Market up 237/94/30. WTI over $45, Brent ~$49 .... 200K new US private jobs: ADP .... Senate passed spending bill .... Euro area deflation in Sept .... German unemployment up .... UK wage growth .... Russia airstrikes in Syria .... (stock #s in %) BLQN up 50 on 100 shs. BFRE up 25 with volume. SUNE up 7 with news. SEDG up 4 .... XDSL down 33 with news. FNVRF down 30 with volume. CERE down 12. BWEN down 11, new low with volume. CHGT down 11. SENY down 7, new low.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

TUESDAY CLOSE .... Dow up 47, Naz down 26, SP up 2. WTI over $45, Brent over $48. US natgas $2.61 .... (stock #s in %) BLQN up 135 on 400 shares. DPSM up 29. CERE up 27 with super volume, news. XDSL up 20. HQCL up 16 with volume. XSNX, JUHL up 15. BLSP up 12 with insider buy. BSRC up 11 with news. CCGI up 9. AETI up 4 off new low. AMRS up 3 with super volume, news .... ALTI down 35. ABAT down 30, new low with super volume. CCTC down 23 with super volume, news, up 20x off bottom. PSON down 18. PALAF down 17, new low. GTATQ down 15 with super volume. RNWEF down 15. SKYS down 14 with volume. LYSDY down 13. ENZR down 12, new low with volume. ZAAP, MGPHF down 11. PTOS down 11 with volume. BOPO, VSPC down 10. BWEN down 9, new low with volume. FCEL down 9 with volume. RBCN, CLNT down 8, new low with volume. QTWW down 8, new low with super volume. ADES down 7, new low. BLDP down 7 with volume. ACPW down 5, new low. YLCO, RVLT, GLBL, TERP down 4, new lows. SUNE down 4, new low with volume. KNDI, PEGI, CAFD down 3, new lows. WEST down 3, new low with volume. ASYS, ERII down 2, new lows. SENY down 1, new low ..... (Is the debacle over? Is the "lets kill the new energy companies" ride over? Yea, lots of them lose money year after year and into the future. But good profitable companies too are being taken down with this killing spree. And great promising tech. I think the market is testing the bottom of August and last October and will rise from here. We shall see. Anyway, pards, onward and upward.)

SIX MILLION COMPANIES SUPPORT STRONG CLIMATE DEAL IN PARIS: WE MEAN BUSINESS COALITION .... France, UK to increase climate funding for poorer nations. France to 5B Euros/yr by '20 .... Britain goal of 100% organic ag .... Half of US seafood goes uneaten. (And the overfished oceans and seas, oy.) .... UK began cutting clean/renewable power subsidies .... 92% of biophysical scientists believe global warming man-made .... Peru wants to stop Amazon deforestation .... $10M raised privately to protect Monarch butterfly .... Arizona utility dropping request to increase grid access charge for rooftop solar .... Brazil pledged to cut GHG emissions 37% .... Russia to launch wind tender next month .... Fossil fuels divestment now up to $2.6T .... Tuvalu lost 4 islands to rising ocean since '00. Islets gone in Marshalls, Papua New Guinea .... Glowing sea turtle found near Solomons. (Fukushima?) .... DOE focusing labs research on top cyber, grid priorities .... US oil spills up 20% in '14 v. '13 .... New oil find in deepwater Gulf of Mex .... 4 Texas oilfield comps filed bankruptcy .... AES to securitize $100M of US solar projects .... China coal comp cutting 40% - 100K- of workforce .... China econ ~15% of global econ .... Chevron JV $1.2B to drill 23 onshore oil wells, 13 offshore in Nigeria .... Total accused of manipulating NG price in US southwest .... 46 major LNG projects deferred worldwide (price differentials) .... 70 ships worldwide of all sizes now powered with LNG .... US LNG exports now unprofitable before even 1st project online ($5 to freeze, ship, let alone thaw) .... Automakers conduct their own emissions tests in US. In Europe, makers pick whom conducts tests where .... US oil rig count down 4 last week.

TUESDAY OPEN .... Market up 73/22/8. WTI over $45, Brent over $48 .... Taliban took Afghan city .... India interest rate cut .... (stock #s in %) CERE up 26 with super volume, news. AETI up 18. BSRC up 11 with news. CSUN up 11. BLSP up 10 with news. HYSR up 8 after report ..... GTATQ down 28. XDSL down 20. VSPC down 17. ABAT down 15, new low. PALAF down 12, new low. ZAAP down 12. QTWW down 8, new low. CCTC down 7 with volume, news. RBCN down 6, new low. YLCO down 2, new low. CAFD, ADES down 1, new lows.

Monday, September 28, 2015

MONDAY CLOSE .... Market down 312/142/49. WTI under $45, Brent under $48. US natgas $2.67 .... Iraq, Russia, Syria, Iran to co-op to fight ISIS .... (stock #s in %) .... CCTC up 25, new high with super volume. APGMF up 10. HQCL up 9. AMRS up 7. FCEL up 6. BLDP up 4 with volume, news ..... JUHL down 45, new low. AWSL down 21. XSNX down 19. SUNE down 18, new low with volume. CHGT down 15, new low. PTOS down 15 with volume. GTATQ down 13 with volume. WEST down 12, new low. SEDG down 12. AETI down 11 with volume. CCGI, CLNE, EVSI down 10. GLBL down 10, new low. TERP down 9, new low. QTWW down 9, new low with volume. CSUN down 9. KNDI down 8, new low. CSIQ down 7. PEGI down 7, new low. ENPH down 7, new low after reporting. BWEN down 5, new low. CAFD down 5, new low after reporting. OESX down 4, new low with super volume. SENY down 4, new low. ERII down 3, new low with news. RBCN down 3, new low after reporting. FSYS down 2, new low. VECO down 2, new low.

WALL STREET BANKS CALLING GHG EMISSIONS "SIGN OF RISK", PROMISE TO FINANCE SOLUTIONS .... Asia Development Bank pledged to double annual climate change spending .... Even national pledges to reduce GHG emissions won't be able to stop catastrophic climate change: scientists .... India, Brazil won't follow China pledge to donate to poorer nations' climate change efforts .... Wall Street assessing carbon footprints of stock portfolios .... Calif board backing new limits on carbon from gasoline, diesel emissions .... Global wind power production 90x more than 20 yrs ago. 5.66Gwh/yr to 520 .... African Development Bank seeks $55B for energy development .... Clean/renewable power overtook coal in UK power mix for 1st time .... India targeting 33Gw clean/ren on green corridor backbone .... El Nino could be strongest on record .... Skypower Global to invest $4.3B in Bangladesh solar .... Total's $500M/yr pledge to target solar, biofuel investment .... Boeing deal with China to produce avfuel from ag waste .... Ballard (BLDP) $17M deal for 300 fuel cell buses in China .... Pattern Energy's (PEGI) 200Mw wind farm in Texas started ops .... Shell halted Alaska offshore exploration. Not enough oil .... Oil pipe from Kurdistan through Turkey back online .... AGL Energy began ops at New S Wales 53Mw solar plant with 26Mw 1st phase. All online by yearend. $150M project .... Sunpower (SPWR) turned on 7.5Mw solar in Calif .... Ground break of $300M, 200Mw wind project in N Dakota. Xcel Energy. Online late '16 .... 20Mw solar farm planned in Jiangsu by China Smarter Energy.

MONDAY OPEN .... Market down 170/75/23. WTI ~$45, Brent under $48 .... (stock #s in %) CCTC up 10, new high ..... PTOS down 15. PSON down 14, new low. XSNX down 14. SUNE down 12, new low. CCGI down 12. LEDS, DPSM down 11. CSUN down 10 after reporting. ABGB down 10. ENPH down 6, new low. TERP down 5, new low. SENY down 4, new low. KNDI down 3, new low. CAFD down 2, new low after reporting. BWEN, RBCN, VECO down 1, new lows.

Friday, September 25, 2015

CHINA LAUNCHING CAP-AND-TRADE SYSTEM FOR GHG EMISSIONS. Also to work with US on Paris climate deal .... 4 more jurisdictions joined intl alliance pledging lower emissions .... Surprising record cold "blob" in N Atlantic. May be from slowing of Atlantic circulation from melt of Greenland ice (losing over 100B tons of ice/yr). Blob persistant over last 1.5 yrs .... Calif regulators planning "major enforcement action" v. VW over diesel emissions cheat. EPA to alter diesel emissions tests .... UN climate chief calling for carbon trading phase-out by '50 .... Russia rejecting calls to beef up its emissions pledge .... "Most are starving": global warming climate change hiting Calif seabirds .... Tropical storm Bill may have brought corn disease to Midwest: USDA .... Texas warning EPA its new rule to reduce methane pollution from oil/gas production not tough enough .... Europe demand for clean/renewable power up 11% in 2Q15 to 25TWh .... Bumblebee tongue shrinkage from climate change: study .... Air pollution killed 7M people globally in '12 .... Bloodsucking fish rained from sky in Alaska. (Whaaa?!) .... Asia Development Bank to double investment to fight global warming climate change to $6B by '20 .... US Fed $22.5M to reduce bus emissions .... DOI plans November auction for offshore NJ wind power .... N Dakota giving oil industry short-term break on NG well flaring .... Norway interst rates slashed to prop up oil producers .... Batt storage may curb utilities' sales by cutting peak rate usage: Moody's .... UK Crown Estate launched offshore leasing for marine power testing, demos for projects under 3Mw .... Petrobras at risk for bankruptcy. $90B debt .... Iberdrola to build 850Mw combined-cycle power plant in Mexico for $400M. Construction start in '16, online in '18. Mitsubishi/Hitachi turbines, Foster Wheeler boilers. Iberdrola plans $5B investment in Mexico power projects next 5 yrs. Currently building 2 combined-cycle plants, 3 cogen plants, 2 wind farms. Their current installed cap in Mexico 5Gw of combined-cycle, 230Mw wind power .... Duke plans to invest ~$2B next 7 yrs to improve system reliability .... Scot council scrapped 49Mw wind power proposal .... Trans Alta C$442M bond for 397Mw wind project in Ontario .... EC OK'd 400Mw German-Denmark offshore power link .... REG curtailing onshore wind, solar investment citing "considerable uncertainty".

FRIDAY OPEN .... Market up 183/20/11. WTI over $46, Brent ~$49 .... Yellen switched to clarity on rate rise .... US 2Q GDP revised up to 3.9% from 3.7% .... (stock #s in %) FNVRF up 49 with volume. DPSM up 29. FCSMF up 16. EVSI, PTOS up 11. EFOI up 8 with news. MXWL up 6. HMGLF up 2, new high, up 48x from bottom .... JUHL down 20 with volume. NANX down 15, new low with super volume. ABGB down 8. RBCN down 4, new low.

Thursday, September 24, 2015

THURSDAY CLOSE .... Market down 78/18/6. WTI ~$45, Brent over $48. US natgas $2.61 .... US, Russia "tacit" agreement to end Syria war .... Colombia, FARC vow to end their war .... Kurd offensive v. ISIS stalled .... (stock #s in %) AWSL up 12. HMGLF up 11, new high. (Buy). CBAK up 10 with volume. PSPW up 10. CSUN up 9. FSYS up 1 after new low .... JUHL down 44, new low with super volume, news. EVSI down 15. NFEC down 13. WNDW down 6. (Buy). CAFD, YLCO down 4, new lows. RBCN, BWEN down 3, new lows. SENY down 1, new low with news. GLBL down 1, new low.

NEW PIPE OPENED FROM LAKE MEAD TO VEGAS. LAKE MEAD 38% FULL .... Bipartisan Senate bill intro'd to reduce GHGs that cause 40% of global warming .... Judge struck down NYC's ban on foam food containers .... VW emission cheat up to 19M cars .... BMW, Mercedes, GM could be cheating emissions tests too .... US utilities' cyber defense lags behind retail, govt: report .... Sierra Club suing EPA over lack of Louisiana haze plan .... Xi'an Longi MOU for $1.2B solar in Andhra Pradesh India .... Total plans $500M/yr clean/renewable power spending .... Amur Sirius to build $110M solar in Russia.

LATE THURSDAY OPEN (Yahoo wasn't working.) .... Market down 206/65/21. Volume light. WTI over $44, Brent ~$48 .... US durable goods orders down 2% in Aug .... US new home sales up 5.7% in Aug .... 6 developing countries deserve junk bond status: Model (Moody's) .... Putin planning ISIS strike with or without US .... 40% in US want wall on Canada border too .... Over 700 dead in Mecca stampede .... Diesel fuel glut .... (stock #s in %) XDSL up 20. PTOS up 19. HMGLF up 12, new high. (Buy it.) GTATQ up 12 with volume, up 10x from bottom. AWSL up 12 with news. ZNNMF up 12. CSUN up 9 .... JUHL down 16, new low with super volume, news. BOPO down 16. PSON down 13, new low. CABN down 12. XSNX down 11. VSPC down 10. SUNE down 7. SCTY down 6 with news. ENPH down 6, new low. YLCO, CAFD down 4, new lows. BWEN down 3, new low. TERP down 2, new low. FSYS, SENY down 1, new lows.

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

WEDNESDAY CLOSE .... Market down 50/4/4. WTI under $45, Brent under $48 .... Muslims fleeing ISIS "in droves". A caliphate prob .... Iran holding up it's end of the nuke deal so far: IAEA. (Eyes of world still upon them.) .... (stock #s in %) ABGB up 25 on snapback with news. GTATQ up 20 with super volume, up 9x off bottom. NFEC up 11 after reporting. WNDW up 10 with news. SKYS up 9 .... XDSL, PTOS down 16. WEST down 14 with volume. AXPW down 12. EFOI down 11 with volume. LSCG down 10 with volume. SUNE down 10 with news. JUHL down 10. TERP down 9, new low. CSUN down 9. SCTY down 7. GLBL down 6, new low with news. WPRT down 5, new low. CAFD down 4, new low. CCTC down 3 with volume off latest high. BWEN down 3, new low. FSYS down 1, new low.

POPE ENDORSED US CLEAN POWER PLAN IN WHITE HOUSE SPEECH .... Notre Dame U. to phase out coal power use ....El Nino driving humpbacks into Columbia R. .... Chicago R. brimming with fecal bacteria: data .... Childhood cancer risk rises with insecticide exporsure: study .... Ivory takes a week to burn: FWS .... Oil/gas industry reduced CO2 emissions 55.5M metric tons '13-'14: API .... Total cut oil output target. Cutting capex $3B more by '17. Project delays in Australia, Norway, Italy. Says "everybody" in shale losing money .... Sage grouse removed as threat to 3Gw, $5B wind farm planned in Wyoming .... 800 fossil fuel subsidies globally: OECD. $160-200B/yr '10-'14. Clean/renewable power gets $121B .... Est. $1.5T worth of oil/gas investment "out of the money" at $50: Wood MacKenzie. 10-11 new upstream projects expected in '16. 50-60 in normal year .... US Navy buying 25Mw solar power for Norfolk station .... Tianwei (China solar polysilion maker) filed bankruptcy. "Shocking" China solar stocks indiscriminately today, of course .... Global fossil fuel divestment pledges now over $2.6T.

WEDNESDAY OPEN .... Market flat/mixed. Volume weak. WTI over $46, Brent over $49 .... China factory gauge down, lowest since March '09 .... (stock #s in %) ABGB up 23 in rebound. SKYS up 6. WNDW up 4 off flat line with news .... AXPW, PTOS down 12. CCTC down 11 off latest high with volume. WPRT down 4,new low.

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

TUESDAY CLOSE .... Market down 179/72/24. WTI under $46, Brent ~$49 .... Asia Dev Bank lowered econ growth forecast for Asia econs driven by China, India .... (stock #s in %) PTOS up 56. PSON up 33 with super volume after new low. CCTC up 22, new high with super volume, up 18x from bottom. ALTI up 20, up 3x from bottom. CDTI up 19 with super volume. EVSI up 14. BOPO up 13, up 4x from bottom. LSCG, JUHL up 11. ENZR up 9 after new low. CREG up 8 with volume .... BSRC down 13. NTCXF down 10 with volume. SRWRF down 10. HQCL down 9. ASYS down 7, new low. FSYS down 6, new low. SUNE down 6. AVAV down 4, new low with news. CAFD down 4, new low. GTATQ down 2 with super volume, up 7x from bottom.

500 YEARS SINCE THIS DRY IN CALIFORNIA: TREE RINGS .... Hazardous haze in SIngapore, Indonesia from forest fires .... Calif air pollution regs led to 76% drop in cancer risks: study .... Scientists found unexpected carbon sink on Antarctic seafloor .... 20 regional, state govts in world pledged to reduce carbon emissions 7.9 gigatons over 15 yrs. Equal to 1 yr of US emissions .... Idaho PUC cut solar, wind power PPA contracts to 2 yrs from 20 at utilities' request .... N Carolina failed to extend clean/renewable power tax credit .... NRG Energy to form clean/renewable unit, sell wind assets to yieldco .... Rate of growth in global trade trailing world econ growth 3rd year in row: WTO .... Est. 894M bls of oil in US central, eastern Gulf of Mex. Auction next spring for 40M acres .... About 900 wells in N Dakota await fracking. 1-yr completion rule may be waived .... Texas oil/gas drilling permits off 65% in August YOY. Well completions 14,665 YTD v. 20,657 in '14. TX NG production still increasing .... Gazprom NG pipe project through Turkey on hold. Late '16 launch a no go .... Exxon unit started new oil/gas production off Nigeria .... World's 1st subsea gas compression plant now online in Norwegian Sea. Statoil. Raises resource recovery ~20% - 306M bls ....Fuel Cell Energy (FCEL) got $24M from DOE for '16 install of 2Mw molten carbonate fuel cell customized for carbon capture at power plant. 1 of 8 carbon capture projects funded by DOE .... US duped out of $51M of subsidies for "clean diesel" VWs. Now 11M cars affected. Owners want money back.

TUESDAY OPEN .... Market down 242/76/26. (On way to retest of recent lows.) WTI under $46, Brent under $49 .... ISIS threatening cyber attack on UK tomorrow. (Hubris enough to warn.) .... (stock #s in %) PTOS up 25. CCTC up 7. CREG up 7 with volume .... XDSL down 16. ABGB down 10. PSON down 8, new low. ENZR down 4, new low. ASYS, FSYS down 3, new lows. AVAV down 3, new low with news.

Monday, September 21, 2015

MONDAY CLOSE .... Market up 125/1/9. WTI over $46, Brent over $48 .... Israel, Russia to co-op on military action in Syria .... Russia surface-to-air missiles, fighter jets now in Syria .... 60-day Congressional review period for Iran deal expired. Implementation work started .... (stock #s in %) BFRE up 40 with volume. GTATQ up 27 with super volume, up ~8x from bottom. WEST up 20. SKYS up 14 with news. PLUG up 14 with super volume, news. CCTC up 13 with volume, rehit top. DPSM up 13. QTMM up 12 with volume. AETI up 12. HQCL up 8. AXAS up 1 after new low. AVAV flat after new low .... URRE down 38 with volume. AWSL down 21. PSON down 20, new low. FCSMF down 14. LYSDY down 12. PALAF down 11. JUHL down 10 with super volume. AXPW down 10 with volume. EFOI down 9. CREG down 3, new low. BWEN down 2, new low with news.

GLOBAL ANNUAL PV SOLAR MODULE REVENUES TO HIT RECORD $42B IN '16: IHS .... UK can be 85% powered by clean/renewables by '30: Greenpeace .... 437 large global comps now setting internal price on CO2 emissions, up from 150 in '14 .... Carbon pricing will be "backbone" of global agreement to cut GHG emissions: World Bank .... Miami-Dade funding more sea level rise adaptation .... Syria war spurred 1st withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vault .... Twice as much trash has been/being sent to US landfills than estimated by Feds .... About 8T plastic microbeads/day entering US aquatic habitats: study .... Sky Solar (SKYS), Hudson Clean Energy partnering to fund up to $100M of projects in Latin Am, Japan .... VW admitted diesel emissions cheat. Emissions control software designed to only work during EPA testing .... Hilcorp moving ahead with Beaufort Sea drilling plans .... 400Kb/d of US oil being produced by comps in financial trouble in risk of being shut down: Bloomberg .... Iraq warned oil comps it won't have much money to pay for drilling in coming year .... US pledged $89M humanitarian assistance to Yemen. (What happened in '89? Berlin Wall?) .... China coal use 14% more than previously reported from '00 to '13. (So.... emissions.) .... New Zealand to help India with clean/renewable power development .... Mexico fastest growing wind power producer .... Malaysia to build 1Gw of solar next 4 years.

MONDAY OPEN .... Market up 178/41/15. Volume heavy. WTI over $45, Brent over $48 .... Putin OK'd building airbase in Belarus .... (stock #s in %) WEST up 23. BFRE up 20. PLUG up 14 with super volume. AETI up 13. SKYS up 9 with news .... URRE down 40 after Friday jump. XDSL down 16. LYSDY down 12. PALAF down 11. ABGB down 9 with news. BOPO, XSNX down 9. CREG down 4, new low. BWEN down 3, new low.

ISIS CONTROLS PHOSPHATE MINES IN SYRIA, IRAQ. (Think fertilizer, food.) About 3/4 of world phosphate rock reserves are in Morocco, former Soviet states. Canada has over 70% of world's potassium (potash) reserves .... Ozone (O3) a very powerful antiseptic. Can kill any virus, dangerous bacteria, fungi instantly and they never become resistant. So, maybe EPA should explain why ozone in air is harmful. .... Goldman: oil to stay ~$50/bl through '30 .... China company plans to build hi-speed rail between LA, Vegas .... Mexico volcano erupted.

Friday, September 18, 2015

ONE-HALF OF US COUNTIES WOULDN"T BE ABLE TO COMPLY WITH TIGHTER OZONE STANDARDS: API .... Solar power "backbone" of future energy system: Shell CEO .... Four wild bee species listed under Canada Species At Risk Act .... EU renewed anti-dumping duties on US biodiesel for 5 more years .... USDA contest for wooden skyscraper designs. (Really!? Um, fires? Why not hemp and bamboo? Oy) .... DOE $100M for solar power research .... DOE $7M for 5 projects to use CO2 to get fresh water from underground salty water .... Germany using excess wind power to make hydrogen for fuelcell-powered vehicles, etc .... Southern to test, eval 1Mw ((2Mwh) lith-ion batt power storage project in GA .... Norway has given ~$900M to Brazil Amazon Fund. $100M more coming this year .... Washington State water taxis to run on B10 .... Shale oil production retreat could leave US short on natgas. (Yes, pards, it is that tight to meet demand with power comps switching to NG and all. And some want to export LNG, go fig.) .... OPEC forecasts $80 oil by '20 .... China still filling its oil strategic reserves .... Russia putting Arctic oil/gas development on hold until '20. (Sanctions hurt.) .... NRG Yield bought $210M wind power portfolio .... Sunpower (SPWR) to build 20Mw plant for co-op.

FRIDAY OPEN .... Market down 219/35/19. Volume very heavy (options Friday). WTI under $46, Brent under $49 .... (stock #s in %) PLUG up 5 with volume, news. QTMM up 4. AXPW up 3 with volume. CCTC, QTWW up 3 .... ALTI down 28. AWSL down 25. CCGI down 23. BFRE down 16. BWEN down 15, new low with volume after reporting. DPSM, ZNNMF down 11. ABAT down 8. ABGB down 7 with news. FSYS down 2, new low. WPRT down 1, new low.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

THURSDAY CLOSE .... DOW DOWN 65, NAZ UP 4, SP DOWN 5. WTI over $46, Brent over $49 .... Fed stood pat on rates, said inflation too low .... Russian tanks, atillery, helicopters spotted in Syria .... (stock #s in %) BLQN up 25. GTATQ up 18 with super volume, up 6x from bottom. ALTI up 16. HYSR up 14 with volume. ZNNMF up 11. XDSL up 9 with volume. SKYS up 9. CSUN up 8. SOPW up 6 .... WEST, PTOS down 14, new lows with volume. PSON down 14. HMGLF down 11 off new high with news (TSLA contract), super volume. CABN, CHGT down 11. LMRMF down 10. LEOM down 9 with volume. EFOI down 6 with volume, news. CREG down 1, new low.

AUGUST, SUMMER, YEAR-TO-DATE ALL SMASHED GLOBAL HEAT RECORDS: NOAA. 6 of 8 months broke records .... Exxon knew about global warming in '78 .... World's 2 largest GHG emitter nations must lead at Paris: Biden .... NREL, China research institute signed clean power MOU .... Investment in clean/renewable power in Canada up 88% in '14 to $8.3B. Most for solar, hydropower .... 8.3 quake off Chile, 4.0 quake at Big Bear Calif .... Czechoslovakia in drought .... Forest fires raging in Ecuador. Asking region for help .... Tax credits driving solar boom in VT. Clean power jobs there up 9.8% since '13 .... USDA, EPA target 50% cut of food waste by '30 .... Sweden aims to be fossil fuels free with new investment program .... Estrogen exposure driving female frog boom in US suburbs .... Fracking under 1% of industrial water use: study. 250B gals used over past decade (last 7 yrs, really) .... Rise in coal consumption in China .... Shell bid to extend Arctic drilling season denied .... Too little money to increase Iraq oil production in '16: Baghdad .... 3.1M barrel draw of US oil stockpiles in latest report .... Eagle Ford production off 17% from March peak .... Brazil ethanol production to reach 44B liters/yr by '24. 29B now .... Nordex turned on 75Mw wind farm in France .... Ukraine withdrew from nuke power construction deal with Russia .... Kenya plans 200Mw solar park with $425M investment .... DOI to lease NC waters for offshore wind .... Pure Energy lithium supply deal with Tesla (TSLA).

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

WEDNESDAY CLOSE .... Market up 140/28/17. WTI over $47, Brent over $49 .... (stock #s in %) PSWW up 36. DPSM up 35 with volume. PRXM up 31. GTATQ up 25 with super volume, up 5x from bottom. PSON up 21. EFOI up 14 with super volume. AETI, ASTI up 13. FCSMF up 12. LSCG, CLNE up 11. XDSL up 10. QTWW, JUHL, CCGI up 9. AMTX up 8. GLBL up 7. ABGB up 6 with volume. ASYS up 6. TERP up 5 .... HYSR down 26 with super volume. WEST down 11 with super volume. PSPW down 10 with volume. RGSE down 10. CREG down 8, new low with volume. LYSDY down 5 with volume.

WORLD'S MAMMAL, BIRD, FISH, REPTILE POPULATIONS DOWN 50% OVER LAST 4 DECADES .... Incentives work better than "sticks" like carbon tax for clean power development: study .... Solar industry could face sharp decline without full tax credits: studies .... Arctic Sea ice 4th lowest on record .... El Nino in Pacific expected to peak at yearend .... Rural Nebraskans want state to prepare for climate change: poll .... Asia Dev Bank, Japan banks to invest $1B more in clean/renewable power. Primarily in China, India .... 5 developing countries ditching fossil fuels .... Obama admin $160M for "Smart Cities Initiative", $120M for new clean power funding .... Indonesia volcano eruption .... 100Gw opportunity for US wind power under Clean Power Plan: AWEA .... China wind turbine orders from overseas 494Mw in 1H15 .... Sunpower (SPWR) lawsuit v. Sun Edison (SUNE) dismissed .... Hyperloop plans to demo test track in 2yrs .... 3.1M bl draw from US stockpiles last report .... Waterborne crude/condensates shipments down over 200Kb/d yoy.

WEDNESDAY OPEN .... Market flat/mixed. Volume light. Fed wait. WTI over $45, Brent over $49 .... China market rebound .... S&P cut Japan rating .... (stock #s in %) PSWW up 33. XDSL up 20. CABN up 15. LSCG up 11 with volume. ACFN up 8. QTWW up 7. ABGB up 5 with volume. SUNE up 3 with news .... HYSR down 15 with volume. LYSDY, XSNX down 12. WEST down 12, new low. PSPW down 10 with volume. QTMM down 7.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

TUESDAY CLOSE .... Market up 228/54/25 .... China admiral claimed S China Sea .... N Korea restarted nuclear complex .... GE to Congress: your fault we're moving 500 jobs out of US (ExIm Bank) .... Israel forces reportedly stormed Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque .... Russia launched proton rocket .... (stock #s in %) HYSR up 49 with super volume, news. LSCG up 33, up 3x from bottom. ZAAP up 27 with super volume. MXWL up 18 with super volume, news. RGSE up 16 with volume. BFRE up 9. RBCN up 7 after new low. SUNE up 6 with news. BSRC up 3, up 28x from bottom. FSYS up 2 off new low .... BLQN down 54 with volume. PSWW down 25 on 100 shs. PTOS down 16. CHGT down 15 with news. EFOI down 15 with volume. SENY down 12, new low. BLSP down 10. ASTI down 9 with volume. LTBR down 8. AXPW down 7 with volume. ASYS down 2, new low.

LEADERS OF LA, BEIJING, OVER 2 DOZEN OTHER US, CHINA CITIES ANNOUNCED SWEEPING CLIMATE CHANGE COMMITMENTS TODAY ....'15, '16 to be hottest years on record: Brit Meteorological Office .... Calif's Sierra Nevada snowpack lowest in 500 yrs .... New Australia PM said their climate policies won't change .... Land degradation exacerbated by warming, costing world trillions: report .... Link between airborne particulates, mortality strengthened in new research .... Fed scientists may have found link between '89 Valdez spill, deline of herring, pink salmon in Prince William Sound .... White blankets covering Swiss glacier to halt ice melt .... Sun Edison (SUNE) started building 2.7Mw community solar project in Mass .... SUNE also buying VSLR (Vivent Solar) for $2.2B in cash, stock .... US shale oil producers lost over $30B in 1H15 .... S Cal Edison wants fee on new solar customers to maintain grid .... Tech to convert forest waste into NG demonstrated in Cal. Empower Energies. Developed by G4 Insights (Canada) .... ABB India to support 850Mw of solar projects in grid overhaul .... Hanwha Solar (HQCL) expanding in France .... US Navy to limit sonar training to protect whales .... Cal wildfires damaged geothermal power plants .... Toyota rolled out hydrogen-fueled sedan .... Hyper Solar (HYSR) surpassing critical voltage threshold to split water with solar for hydrogen .... Graphene being turned into superconducting material.

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TUESDAY OPEN .... Market up 135/23/9. Volume light. WTI over $44, Brent over $46 .... US manufacturing down most since Jan '14, retail sales up .... UK inflation zero in Aug .... Merkel call for refugee summit .... (stock #s in %) HYSR up 44 with super volume, news. ACFN up 16. MXWL up 14 with volume, news. RGSE up 12. BLSP up 11. CCTC up 9 with volume. WEST up 9. SUNE up 4 with news .... ASTI down 18 with volume. CHGT down 13, new low with news. QTMM down 11 with news. BOPO, ZAAP down 9 with volume. PSPW down 9. SKYS down 6. SENY down 5, new low. ASYS down 2, new low. AETI down 1, new low.

Monday, September 14, 2015

MONDAY CLOSE .... Market down 62/16/8. WTI over $44, Brent over $46. US natgas $2.76 ... (stock #s in %) DPSM up 123. AXPW up 26 with super volume. ADES up 17. BRSC up 16, up 26x off bottom. GTATQ up 16 with super volume, up 4x off bottom. CCTC up 12 with volume. BLSP up 12. XSNX up 11. URRE, AMTX up 9. CSUN up 8 .... JUHL down 30 with volume. CABN down 18 with volume. LMRMF down 18. XDSL down 16. ZNNMF, BBLU down 9. BLDP down 8. SUNE down 6. FSLR down 5. ERII down 5, new low. WEST down 2, new low with volume. LTBR down 2 with super volume, news. AETI down 1, new low.

CHINA'S LAWS NOT WINNING CLIMATE, POLLUTION "WAR": EXPERTS .... France vowing to end their export aid for coal projects without carbon capture/storage .... Enviro group suing BLM, USFS for OK'ing Utah lease of 40M tons of coal .... Calif lawmakers passed 50% clean/renewable power standard, energy efficiency package. Also spending more cap-and-trade money, but holding back $1.7B .... Record number of fires burning in Indonesia. (We are pretty much aware of US western fires by now, yea? Oy) .... Volcano shooting off in S Japan. (A lot more ash into atmos) .... UK rejected 970Mw, $8.3B offshore wind project by EDF, Enoco saying it would harm views from designated World Historical Site. Original plan was for 1.2Gw .... US oil rig count down 10 last week .... China powgen output up just 1% in Aug (not stated if yoy or over July) .... OPEC lowered its '16 global oil growth projection to between recent EIA, IEA estimates: down 50Kb/d to 1.29Mb/d growth .... BMW to go all EV or hybrid drivetrains over next decade .... PSC of Oklahoma plans to add up to 200Mw solar. Also expects to finish installing smart meters by '17. Coal powgen to go from 55% now to 16% by '24. NG powgen from 13% to 47%. Wind powgen from ~15% to 28%. (I know. 9%, then, for solar and other (nuke?)) .... DHL, A-Busch stepping up alt-powered vehicle fleet investment .... China Everbright won bids for $103M of waste-to-energy projects .... Euro comps proposing $630M of Indonesia clean power investment .... Solar City (SCTY) unveiled multi-tech smart energy homes project .... Viridian dumping SCTY, joining Sungevity to sell residential solar systems.

MONDAY OPEN .... Market down 19/15/7. Volume light. WTI over $44, Brent over $47 .... Euro-area industrial production up in July .... FNVRF up 15. LTBR up 13 with super volume, news. ADES up 10. AXPW, FCSMF up 9. WEST up 8 with news. LEDS, LIME up 8. CCTC up 7, up 12x from bottom. EFOI up 4 .... JUHL down 27. PSPW down 19. XDSL down 16. HYSR, ZNNMF down 9. SUNE down 4 with news. FSLR down 4.

Friday, September 11, 2015

TWO NEW STUDIES DEEPENING WORRY THAT GLOBAL WARMING WOULD SHUT DOWN OCEAN CIRCULATION .... Southern ocean soaking up more carbon than thought over past decade: study .... Study shows how man-made mercury emissions enter food chain on US west coast .... Columbia MD now 100% clean/renewable powered with latest solar buy from Sun Edison (SUNE) power plant .... Court ruled EPA erred in OK'ing insecticide linked to killing honeybees. (Yes! I long regretted spraying field of Colorado sunflowers knowing I had killed bees.) .... Energy Focus (EFOI) 3M share offer at $17/share .... Pickens selling 3M shares of Clean Energy (CLNE). (Or has.) .... Duke to pay $975K fine, spend $4.4M on enviro programs for power plant emissions violations years ago .... USDA $100M to boost use of gasoline-ethanol blends .... PJM elected to require Exelon to keep Illinois nuke plant ready to run at least until mid-'18. Exelon had considered shutting it down .... Current El Nino now expected to be 3rd strongest on record .... Nevada regulators kept status quo on net metering rate .... TX fracking ban lawsuit dismissed. 1 more suit .... Cal university system divested coal, oil sands assets .... Oil prices could hit $20: analysts .... Duke finished 4 solar plants in NC. 30Mw. 132Mw more in construction, online by yearend .... Duke also got regulators' OK to buy 20Mw solar in Indiana. Online by'16 .... India railway going B5 .... San Diego G&E invented, makes, sells device that cuts cost of residential solar, especially for older electrical systems .... DTE Energy installed solar-powered trash compactor/recycling units in Detroit .... Kyocera, Century Tokyo to build another 29Mw solar plant in Japan. Online early '18 .... China Longyuan to launch 450Mw of wind, solar projects .... Spain comp OK'd for $282M solar project in Australia .... GCL to raise $180M for solar investment.

FRIDAY OPEN .... Market down 52/21/7. Volume slightly light. WTI under $45, Brent under $48 .... US producer prices unchanged .... Tighter conditions after market sell-off equals 3 Fed hikes: Goldman .... China "financially out of control": Citi economist .... Russia left interest rates unchanged .... (stock #s in %) ACFN up 19. PRHL up 18. CCTC up 13 with news. BLSP up 12. BSRC up 6, up 26x from low .... EFOI down 25 with super volume, news. XDSL down 16. AXPW down 10. SUNE down 3 after reporting. RBCN down 1, new low.

FED APPEALS COURT DENIED INITIAL BID TO BLOCK CLEAN POWER PLAN .... US on track for record solar installs this year, up to 7.7Gw. 1.4Gw installed in 2Q, up 8.7% on year. Residential installs up 70%. 40% of 16.7Gw of utility solar projects in development beat coal, natgas on price. Total US solar capacity now over 20Gw .... Calif Dems removing part of climate bill that would cut petrol use 50% by '30 .... NAM ad blames China for US ozone levels .... US sagebrush restoration helping songbirds: study .... Seals messengers of mercury contamination: study .... France to close oldest nuke power plant .... Suburban waste may turn frogs female: study .... 18th typhoon this year to hit Japan .... 5 African nations moving to curb illegal timber trade .... Australia $246M boost for solar .... Bangladesh land reclamation plan to fight rising sea .... US national labs pilot programs to get clean tech ideas to market by working with regional tech comps .... TX utility proposes fee hike on rooftop solar .... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) module supply contract with Vivent Solar (VSLR) .... Sun Edison (SUNE) net losses more than 5x deeper in 2Q .... India to start offering offshore wind blocks for development .... Guangdong China to speed development of nuke, NG, wind, solar power. $23B investment '15-'17. Nuke, NG to get most .... Public finance for geothermal power must increase 7-10x in developing countries: report .... Zawahiri declared war on IS. (Um, wonder why US hasn't found Zawahiri?) .... US oil production expected to fall to 8.6Mb/d by next August: EIA. Peaked at 9.6M in April .... Global oil production to remain unchanged at 96.5Mb/d this year. 97.3M expected in '16 with more from Iran (assuming nuke deal approved). EIA says WTI to avg ~$53, Brent ~$58 in '16 .... Kurds in Turkey say they will stop bombing pipelines .... Emera (Canada) to buy Teco Energy (Florida) for $6.5B .... UK rejected 4 onshore wind power plans in Wales. 300Mw .... Enel Green Power finished 50Mw wind project in Uruguay .... Investment in public, low-emission transportation, bldg efficiency, waste management in cities could save $17T ('15 $s) by '50: research. Also would cut GHG emissions equivalent to India's present annual level - 3.7 Gigatons .... Cities emit 70% of global GHG emissions .... TSK Group $385M solar deal in Kuwait .... France to subsidize clean/renewable power projects abroad .... Jinko Solar $1.6B new credit line .... Israel updated clean/ren power plan.

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

WEDNESDAY CLOSE .... Market down 239/55/27. WTI under $44, Brent over $47. US natgas $2.66 .... China producer prices down .... Japan machinery orders down .... S&P cut Brazil to junk .... New Zealand cut rates 3rd time in 3 mo .... Turkey deployed forces into Iraq to hunt down Kurd PKK .... (stock #s in %) CCTC up 41, another new high with super volume, up 15x from bottom. PSPW up 38. ASTI up 37 with super volume, up 3x from bottom. JUHL up 19. CBAK up 12 with volume. BLSP up 10. EFOI up 4, new high with volume .... PSWW down 20. APGMF down 14, new low. VSPC, WWPW down 14. DPSM down 13 with volume. ACFN down 12, new low. AXPW down 12. WEST down 11, new low with super volume. LEDS down 10. SUNE down 7. AVAV, AETI down 1, new lows.

US NORTHWEST GLACIERS COULD LOSE 5-10% OF VOLUME THIS YEAR. ACCELERATION OF 50-YEAR DECLINE. Volumes down 25-40% since mid-'80s. Lack of snow this winter .... Amazon states joined Cal, 17 other govts in intl emissions cuts pledge .... Commerzbank sees 10% drop in clean/renewables power finance this year .... US shale industry ran up $32B deficit in 1H15. About equal to all of '14 .... Number of active, producing US coal mines lowest in recorded history .... China Power Inestment Corp started up 50Mw phase 1 of China wind project .... El Paso Electric wants to increase charges on solar-powered homes .... Cosmo Oil, Showa Shell, Development Bank of Japan finished 8Mw solar plant near Tokyo .... Enerkem raised C$152M, initiated production of biomethanol from non-recyclable household garbage at Alberta plant .... Sun Edison (SUNE) to develop 2Gw of solar in Tamil Nadu India .... India OK'd 1st offshore wind policy .... World's 1st solar-powered airport in India. Gens more power than it uses. 12Mw. Bosch built for $9.5M. (Hunh?!) Another Indian airport planning 15Mw solar.

WEDNESDAY OPEN .... Market up 35/17/6. Volume normal. WTI over $45, Brent under $49 .... Canada kept key rate at .5% .... 55% risk of global recession made in China: Citigroup .... (stock #s in %) PRXM up 31. ASTI up 19 with volume after reporting. BLSP up 15 with news. PSON up 11. ZAAP up 9. CCTC up 7, another new high with volume, up 12x from bottom .... BFRE down 15. APGMF down 14, new low. DPSM down 13. AXPW, XSNX down 11. VSPC down 10. XDSL down 8 with news.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

TUESDAY CLOSE .... Market up 390/128/48. WTI under $46, Brent over $49. US natgas $2.70 .... Trading halt in Russia .... (stock #s in %) DPSM up 96. ALTI up 45 with volume. BLSP up 42 with super volume, news. CCTC up 38, another new high with super volume, up 11x from bottom. BOPO up 25 with volume. ZAAP up 23 with super volume. ABGB up 22 with volume, news. ASTI up 20 with volume. XDSL up 20. GTATQ, JUHL up 17. ACFN, BFRE up 14. VSPC up 11 with news. SZYM up 11 with volume. BYDDF, SSNI up 10. HYSR up 9. SUNE up 8 with news. PEIX, AMSC up 7. SPWR up 5. FSLR, CREE up 4. EFOI up 3, new high with super volume .... MDDD down 26. PTOS down 20, new low with super volume. FNVRF down 20, new low with volume. PSWW down 18. AMLM down 17 with volume. AWSL down 10. GLBL down 7. AETI down 3, new low. WEST down 1, new low.

ARCTIC SEA ICE ON TRACK TO FALL TO 3RD OR 4TH LOWEST ON RECORD .... Global deforestation rates cut in half since '90: UN. But forest size of S Africa lost .... Global climate aid fund halfway to '20 target .... S New England lobster stocks at lowest levels ever recorded .... General Mills pledged to slash emissions, spend $100M on clean power .... Wind power investment down with power prices in Nordics. Investment in utility-scale wind down 76% '12-'14 to $1.2B .... Unseasonal sandstorm hit Lebanon, Syria .... 1/2 of world's crocodile species facing extinction: scientist .... Lake Erie algae choking off walleye fishing .... Russia ruled out cooperating with OPEC to cut oil production .... EU regulators OK'd GE buy of Alstom unit .... Sun Edison (SUNE) to buy 33% of Dominion's US 425MW solar portfolio for ~$300M. (Several stories on it gave different #s.) Plus partnering on 530Mw in 2 Utah projects. One 265Mw project for $400M. Also SUNE, J. P. Morgan strategic equity partnership. SUNE also installed 8 new systems in India .... Green Mtn Power to use 2 of pending order of 500 Tesla (TSLA) Powerwalls to build solar/power storage plant at Vermont state park. Will take park off grid. 10Kw solar. Cost ~20% less than rebuilding 1/2-mile grid line. Construction start in spring .... Resource-based countries' currencies down up to 25% last 12 months. Manufacturing-based down up to 20% .... RES Americas OK'd to build 150Mw wind power in Michigan (2 projects). Vestas turbines .... Yingli net loss widened 109% .... UK 25M Pounds for biofuels projects .... Exxon Valdez spill linked to defects in salmon, herring: NOAA .... NRC stopped studies of cancer risks near nuke power plants .... 17 miles of Mississippi River reopened after KY oil spill.

TUESDAY OPEN .... Market up 234/86/31. Volume a little strong. WTI under $45, Brent over $48 .... China stock rally despite bad trade data. China spent $236B so far to rescue stocks: Goldman .... Rupee drop to 2-yr low .... Bond mart sending Fed "all-clear" to raise rates .... German trade surplus hitting record highs .... (stock #s in %) BLSP up 42 with news. CCTC up 29, another new high with volume, up 10x from bottom. ABGB up 20. BOPO up 17. AMLM up 14. DPSM up 12. ASTI up 11 with news. AETI, SZYM up 11. BYDDF, SSNI up 10. LTBR up 9 with news. CBAK up 9. LEOM up 8, up 9x off bottom. EFOI up 6, new high, up 7x from bottom. SUNE up 5 with several news items .... MDDD down 26. FNVRF down 20, new low with volume. LYSDY, XSNX down 11.

Friday, September 4, 2015

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET LOSING 134B METRIC TONS/YR. GREENLAND LOSING 287B: NASA. '02-'14 combined land ice loss from Antarctic, Greenland over 5T tons - equivalent to a cube over 11 miles each side .... Citibank forecasting avg 53Gw/yr of new solar globally. IEA forecasting 33-34Gw/yr. Citi forecasting wind installs through '20 to avg 54Gw/yr. IEA forecasting 38-42Gw .... Aspen 3rd US city to go 100% clean/renewable power .... 3T trees on earth, 46% less than before humans .... Record low river level in Poland from drought .... 3 category 4 storms in Pacific last week 1st time ever .... Finland proposing to end wind FIT .... Fuel Cell Energy (FCEL) selected for carbon capture project by DOE .... Venezuela stock market up 445% since Jan '14 while folks fight in the streets for flour .... China loaned Venezuela another $5B .... Development Environment Arrand to build 48Mw wind farm in Iran for $46M .... EDF Renewable Energy bought Own Energy, developer of mid-sized wind projects .... OneEnergy seeking OK to build 6Mw solar farm in Maryland .... Sun Edison (SUNE) to build solar panel plant in Brazil .... Vestas (VWDRY) got 40Mw order from German comp.

FRIDAY OPEN .... Market down 229/26/20. Volume slightly light. WTI over $46, Brent over $50 .... 173K new US jobs in August. Wages up. July revised up to 245K .... Canada added 12K jobs in Aug .... (stock #s in %) JUHL up 50 with volume. FCSMF up 13. PSWW up 11. EVSI up 9. NTCXF up 8. SZYM up 7. SUNE up 3. ULBI up 2, new high .... BLSP down 25. ASTI down 20. OOIL down 11 with news. SOPW down 7 with news. WNDW down 7. WEST down 5, new low.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

THURSDAY CLOSE .... Market flat/mixed. WTI over $46, Brent over $50. US natgas $2.66 .... ISIS retook part of Baiji, Iraq .... Sweden thinking of joining NATO. Mad Vlad Putin threatening military response .... (stock #s in %) BLSP up 53. PSPW up 30. CBAK up 21 with volume. ABAT, BFRE up 17. DPSM up 16. LMRMF up 14 after new low with volume. AMTX up 14. PSON up 13. CERE up 10 with super volume, news. SUNE up 10 with volume, news. SZYM up 10 .... WWPW down 22 with volume. GTATQ down 17 with volume. AMLM down 17. ABGB down 12 with news. ASTI down 12 with volume. LYSDY down 11. ACFN down 9, new low with volume. EFOI down 3 after new high with volume. AVAV down 3, new low with volume.

NEAR HALF OF 2K PUBLICLY-TRADED COMPS, MAJORITY OF FOSSIL FUEL COMPS WANT CLIMATE DEAL TO LIMIT GLOBAL WARMING: POLL .... Florida Supreme Court taking up solar choice law. 1 of 4 states denying citizens, businesses freedom to buy solar power from other than utility.... 40mw of battery storage deployed in US in 2Q, up 9x v. 2Q14 .... Coal ash contains high levels of radioactive contaminants: study .... US could replace up to 50% of its fossil transportation fuel with biogas, much of it from crop residues, waste streams ....150-250K NG vehicles in US .... Solar met 10% Japan power demand during summer peak .... 60K antelopes died in 4 days in Kazakhstan. No one knows why .... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) got 5 new projects in Brazil. Total 185Mw .... InvestBank bought 70% stake in 440Mw hydropower project in Nepal. Project cost $649M .... Tri-State, partners to build 30Mw solar plant in Colo. Juwi to build, operate. Online in spring. Tri-State also to buy power from 76Mw wind farm in Colo .... Minn Power to continue moving away from coal plants next 15 yrs. More from NG, wind, solar .... Iran's 1st pumped storage hydropower plant now online. Over 1Gwh. Iran's peak power use hits 50Gwh. 74Gw of power plants in construction, planning .... Yingli formed JV in W Africa .... REC Solar Egypt deal .... Adani Group plans $1B solar plant.

THURSDAY OPEN .... Market up 190/34/19. Volume normal. WTI over $47, Brent ~$52 .... ECB keeping QE total, interest rates unchanged. Promises more stimulus if needed .... Near half of NYC, DC homes losing value .... (stock #s in %) CERE up 15 with volume, news. FCSMF, PSON up 13. SUNE up 9 with news. AETI, SEDG up 8. EFOI up 1, new high .... MDDD down 28. WWPW down 14. ABAT down 13 on 200 shares. BBLU, ENZR, LMRMF, WEST, XSNX, ZNNMF down 8. ASTI down 6 with volume.

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

WEDNESDAY CLOSE .... Market up 293/113/35. WTI under $46, Brent over $50. US natgas $2.65 .... Australia GDP up .2% in Q2 .... ISIL says its new currency will destroy America's financial system .... Al-qaeda fighters could tackle ISIS: Petraeus .... (stock #s in %) ASTI up 42 with super volume. MDDD up 26. RNWEF up 24. LYSDY up 21. AXPW up 20 with super volume. AMLM up 20. BBLU up 18. GPHBF up 12. CLNT up 10. EFOI up 10, new high with volume. (How high EFOI will go?). SCTY up 7. WNDW up 4 .... VSPC down 20. FNVRF down 16. ADES down 12, new low with volume. PSON down 11. AVAV down 9, new low with volume.

WORLD ON TRACK FOR WARMING "FAR ABOVE" 2*C TARGET: ANALYSTS .... CO2 will forever alter key ocean microbes: study .... Colorado PUC ordered no changes to solar net metering .... Leading US info/com tech comps' power use 14% clean/ren .... Streamlined enviro review process for midwest wind farms takes effect right away .... Eni's new NG field off Egypt could hold 30TCF. (About 1 yr of US demand.) .... Alberta regulators ordered Nexen Energy (CNOOC unit) to shut down 95 pipelines for crude, NG, saltwater, freshwater, emulsion. Non-comply with safety rules .... Canada Oil Sands forced to shut down at oil sands project because of fire .... UK OK'd $4.5B plan to develop N Sea NG field. Could start producing in '19, meet 5% UK demand in '21. Expected to produce over 13 yrs .... Dutch court says Shell, Exxon must comp homeowners in quake zone of NG field .... Solar CIty (SCTY) new fund for $400M of solar projects .... Southern Power buying controlling stake in 300Mw solar project in Cal from First Solar (FSLR). All online in 3Q16 .... Duke filed with Florida PSC to reduce rates, citing lower than expected fuel prices .... TVA deal with NextEra Energy to buy power from 80Mw Alabama solar farm .... Duke unit bought 50% stake in 211Mw Texas wind farm in JV with Sumitomo unit. Mars Inc (candy comp) to buy the power, ren/en creds .... Hitachi plans to add production line for offshore wind nacelles by April .... Solar Frontier to supply 26Mw N Carolina solar project .... China $5B loan to boost Venezuela oil output.

WEDNESDAY OPEN .... Market up 109/40/13. Volume slightly light. WTI under $46, Brent under $50 .... 190K new US private sector jobs in August: ADP .... US productivity revised up to 3.3% for 2Q .... Brazil industrial output down .... China arrested over 200 in stock market crackdown .... (stock #s in %) RNWEF up 24. AXPW up 20 with volume. GPHBF up 12. AETI up 11. EFOI up 6, new high .... ZNNMF down 17. XSNX down 13. AVAV down 10, new low with volume after reporting.

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

TUESDAY CLOSE .... Market down 469/140/58. Volume new normal. WTI ~$45, Brent ~$49. US natgas $2.69 .... US construction spending up .7% in July .... (stock #s in %) ASTI up 107 with super volume. BLQN up 75 on 100 shs. GTATQ up 52 with super volume, yesterday's news. XDSL up 47. XSNX up 19. SUNE up 3 with volume .... AXPW down 27 with volume. PSON down 24, new low. BSRC down 20. LMRMF down 13. CHGT, DPSM down 11. AMTX, AWSL down 10. AXAS down 9. AMSC down 8 with volume. ACFN down 6, new low. WEST down 3, bottoming with super volume. FCSMF down 2, new low. BWEN, CREG down 1, new lows.

PACIFIC EL NINO STRONGEST SINCE RECORD IN '97-'98 .... France increased solar target to 8Gw by '20 .... US oil/gas rig count went from ~200 in '09 to ~1,600 in late '14. Now over 600 .... Westport (WPRT) buying Fuel Systems (FSYS) .... JA Solar (JASO), Essel to break ground in December on 500Mw solar cell plant in India. To follow with module plant of similar capacity. $150M cell plant to take 1 yr to build .... Indian Oil, Celanese to build 1M metric ton, $2.4B petcoke-to-ethanol plant in India .... IAEA OK'd Kenya to proceed with nuke power plant plan .... Hawaii governor opposed to importing LNG for electric powergen .... Costa Rica banned hydropower projects on 2 rivers for 25 yrs .... Vestas (VWDRY) got 33Mw order from Sweden comp .... Duke closed 50% buy of 211Mw wind project .... (News is usually sparse in last week of summer, pards.)

TUESDAY OPEN .... Market down 337/69/36. Volume slightly heavy. WTI under $47, Brent under $52 .... China factory production down to 3-yr low .... US factory production expanded slowest in over 2 yrs .... Canada GDP down in 2Q .... Euro unemploy down to 10.9% in July .... (stock #s in %) ASTI up 56 with super volume. XDSL up 25. GTATQ up 24 with super volume. ZAAP up 12. FCEL up 11 with news. ASPW up 7 with volume. SUNE up 6 .... AMLM down 42, new low. PSON down 24, new low. BSRC down 16. DPSM down 11. AXPW down 10 with volume. WEST down 5, back on bottom. AMRC, AMRS down 2, new lows.