DOE SUN SHOT INITIATIVE HAS REACHED 70% OF '20 GOALS TO SLASH SOLAR POWER COSTS

US clean energy finance market shrank 45% in 1Q.

Global solar power market facing slowdown next few years: GTM Research.

China made almost 1/2 of new global wind power installs in '15: Global Data. 30.5Gw.

Australia launched largest trial of rooftop solar with power storage. ~15% of all Australia homes have rooftop solar.

Neoen got 104M Euro finance for solar, wind projects in France.

Masdar, Statoil, Statkraft secured 1.3B Pounds for 402Mw wind power project off England now in construction.

Iran inaugurated 160Mw combined cycle natgas power plant.

Tesla plans to raise $2B for Model 3 production. $1.4B raised from selling shares.

Work started on Trans-Adriatic natgas pipeline.

Norway granted oil/gas drilling licenses in Barents Sea.

China deferring payments on $50B of loans to Venezuela.

Rebel bomb shut down 2nd largest oil pipeline in Colombia. Crude spilled into river.

Falkland Islands a billion barrel basin: audit.

Australia GHG emissions up 3% since '00.

Lake Mead at record low level.

$7.2B needed to save Great Barrier Reef: research.