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.)