Thursday, February 18, 2016

JAPAN SOLAR INSTALLS TO HIT UP TO 14.3GW THIS YEAR: BLOOMBERG.

Japan solar installs 12.3Gw in '15. Bloomberg expects fall off after this year to 9.8-12.4Gw in '17.

Australia energy storage market under 500 systems installed by end of last year, already over 5K systems installed in '16: IHS. Estimating over 30K Aussie homes to have solar + energy storage by '18.

UK installed ~3.5Gw solar in '15.

SSE got over 3Gw of agreements in latest UK auction.

MISO grid in US moving ahead with modeling for Clean Power Plan.

Amazon Web Services to invest up to $200M in 100Mw Ohio wind power project. Online in May of '17.

Canadian Solar (CSIQ) raised '15 guidance. Also got 3-yr $300M credit facility.

Recurrent Energy got $300M of new credit.

Apple (AAPL) to issue largest-ever green bond.

Solar City (SCTY) to use Tesla (TSLA) powerwalls for Hawaii project.

Hawaii El cancelled 3 Sun Edison (SUNE) solar projects. Sun Ed plans to close Texas panel factory, sell Malaysia factory, cut jobs.

Panasonic suspending ops for ~1/2 of '16 at solar PV cell factory citing "slowing demand".

IKEA no longer selling solar panels in UK.

Venezuela raising gasoline prices 6,200%. 1st raise since '96.

Bakken wellhead price now ~$16/bl.

Sinopec closing down 4 oil fields because of oil prices.

More oil discovered offshore Brazil. Petrobras, Shell, Total, CNOOC, CNPC in consortium.

EIA projects record high oil production in US Gulf of Mexico in '17 of 1.79Mb/d from 1.63M this year.

Production to resume at giant oil field in Kazakhstan by yearend.

Over 100 climate scientists being fired in Australia.

Flint Michigan water rates near double national avg.

Salmon hatcheries quickly change fish DNA: study.

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