CLEAN POWER WILL SAVE WORLD $1.8T BY '40: CITIBANK. CLIMATE CHANGE WILL COST WORLD $44T BY '60 UNLESS WE REIN IN EMISSIONS .... Bank of England governor: number of weather-related loss events has tripled since '80's. Avg losses $10B/yr in '80's up to $50B/yr in past decade .... EDF has new $1.25B green bond .... Wind powers 65% of Scot homes: WWF .... Total global corp funding for solar industry $6.2B in 3Q15, up from $5.9B in 2Q: Mercom capital. VC funding up to $257M in 3Q (15 deals) v. $142M in 2Q. 346 large-scale solar project announcements in 3Q totaling 11.7Gw .... New Zealand superfund to invest NZ$540M in Green Investment Bank .... China raised this year's solar target 30% .... California sinking 2"/mo from drought .... New Calif climate law: 50% clean/renewable el, double energy efficiency in existing buildings by '30 .... Key Calif reservoirs 24% full: report .... $100B fund to help poorer nations deal with climate change halfway there .... Warm waters causing 3rd global coral bleaching event on record: NOAA .... Maryland county banned lawn products over health concerns .... Poachers poisoned 14 elephants in Zimbabwe .... Greenpeace wants to buy German coal power plants to shut them down .... United Technologies, Siemens, 4 other comps working together on utility-scale power storage system using vanadium flow batt tech. Vionx Energy to market, service .... 1366 Technologies to build polysilicon wafer factory in NY. Eventual 3Gw/yr cap. $97M in state grants, incentives. 1K jobs. Initial $100M investment .... US crude inventories at new all-time high .... EIA projecting global oil demand to increase in '16 at fastest rate in 6 yrs .... Libya reopened major oil export terminal .... Kazakhstan now top uranium supplier for US nuke power plants .... Irish bookmaker: Hillary 11/8 odds to win presidency. Bush, Trump 9/2. Sanders, Biden, Rubio 8/1 .... Investments in new, expanded oil projects to be down 22.4% to $521B this year: OPEC. Down $130B from '14 .... Talen Energy selling NG power plant, 2 hydropower projects for $1.51B. Combined 996Mw. All in PA .... Brazil comp to invest $992M in 800Mw Brazil wind project .... E.ON Russia turned on 800Mw steam lignite coal unit in Russia .... Helena, MT homeowners now can borrow up to $12K from city for home alt energy systems .... SkyPower to invest $440M in 200Mw solar project in Djibouti. 4 phases .... Schneider El to build 50Mw solar plant in Sinai .... Statkraft (Norway) to build 35Mw wind farm in Scotland. Vestas turbines .... Scientists turning algae into biofuel at $50/bl.