NON-HYDROPOWER/NUCLEAR CLEAN/RENEWABLE POWER ESTIMATED TO BE OVER 9% OF TOTAL US POWER GEN BY YEAREND, UP FROM 7.6% IN '15: EIA

US powgen from geothermal, solar, wind up 24% this year v. '15 in 1st 9 months: EIA.

US coal powgen down over 20% in 1H16 v. 1H15, down over 13% in 1st 9 months. 6.5Gw of coal power plants retired so far this year.

US natgas powgen up 7.4% so far in '16, at ~35% of total.

EU policies aim to cut CO2 emissions 40% by '30.

New global PV solar capacity ~70Gw this year, total up to ~295Gw.

China to invest $174B in hydropower, wind power over next 4 years.

Almost all energy, enviro provisions removed from final version of US defense authorization bill.

EPA stayed with vehicle fuel econ (CAFE) goals through '25.

Pence chose to keep Indiana's energy efficiency standard intact 2 years ago, affecting Carrier, other manufacturers.

Obama admin leaving HFC deal to Trump admin.

Solar City to open Florida facilities.

TERP, GLBL aim to be "operationally independent" by '17.

PSE&G OK'd for $80M solar investment.

Comp OK'd for 399Mw Oregon wind project.

Russia planning 60Mw offshore wind project.

Alberta to auction 5Gw wind power.

Vestas got 210Mw of wind turbine orders from Australia in November.

Tesla OK'd to open stores in Richmond Virginia.

'17 Chrysler Pacifica hybrid to get 84 MPG.

All new single-decker buses for center of London to be zero emission.

Building new nuke power plants can hurt utilities' financial rating.

Nebraska shut down 1 of 2 nuke power plants last month.

Shell plans more clean/renewable power acquisitions.

300Kb/d oil production cut agreed to by Moscow. "All producers on board."

Indonesia suspended from OPEC.

Big oil failed to pay billions of taxes: Australia.

US forecasted to be world's 3rd largest natgas exporter by '20.

US crude production down 1.9% in Sept to 8.58Mb/d.

Oklahoma earthquakes (from oil/gas drilling ops) could mostly stop in 5-10 years: study.

Melting Arctic permafrost could affect weather worldwide: study.

Utah counties suing DOI, BLM over coal mining ban.

Sundance launched enviro film division.

New Jersey probing mass blackbird die-off.

Amazon deforestation rate up 29%.