OVER 2GW SOLAR ADDED IN US IN 2Q LED BY UTILITY PROJECTS COMING ONLINE. UP 43% YOY.

Argentina October auction got proposals for 6.3Gw of wind, solar power. Over 6x that govt plans to sell: 600Mw wind, 300Mw solar, biogas and other.

India plans 1Gw rooftop solar power tender for govt buildings.

Hottest summer nights ever in US in 121 years: NOAA. Avg. lows
~2.4*F above normal.

Louisiana flooding to cost US econ over $10B.

Clean energy comps lobbying US Congress as much as dirty energy comps.

Solar City (SCTY) raised $305M for new projects.

Sharp entered New Mexico solar power/storage market.

Canadian Solar (CSIQ) China unit raised CNY400M.

Hudson Clean Energy Partners, Sky Solar (SKYS) partnership to develop projects, etc. in US. Bought 22Mw portfolio.

Insolight broke solar cell efficiency record - 36.4%.

DONG Energy installed world record 8Mw Vestas turbine offshore England. 1st of 32.

Eolfi got E85M toward financing floating wind power offshore France.

Vattenfall won 350Mw wind tender offshore Denmark at E.06/Kwh.

California OK'd $133M for clean energy vehicles program.

Construction start on Iran's 2nd nuke power plant. Russia help.

US Feds stopped work on oilpipe project from N Dakota to Illinois over Native Nation protests.

Norway cancelled Arctic oil drilling plans.

Libya National Army took 3 oil export terminals from Petroleum Facilities Guard.

Mexico to cut over $5B from Pemex budget.

"Very significant" oil find offshore UK.

China oil imports hit 4-month high in August.

Fed appeals court upheld $200M penalty for '00-'01 California power crisis.

Masked men attacked Greenpeace activists in Russia.

Edible food packaging a few years away: USDA.

World molybdenum stocks nearly gone.