Wednesday, May 6, 2015
WEDNESDAY CLOSE .... Market down 86/19/9. WTI over $60, Brent over $67. US natgas up to $2.82 .... Tesla (TSLA) narrower loss than projected. (Oh. Nice valution for losing money. God love it.) .... Greece made IMF payment .... ISIS attacked Syrian Kurds, now has 5-star hotel in Mosul for fighters .... (stock #s in %) ALTI up 196 with volume. (Don't ask me.) PSPW up 59. PSON up 20. DPSM up 14. LMRMF up 11. WEST up 7 with news. PLUG up 2 after new low .... GPRC down 60. WSGP down 37. BFRE down 28 with volume. AWSL down 21 with volume. CABN down 15. ENPH down 12 with volume after reporting. PTOS down 12 with volume. NTCXF, LYSDY down 10. HYGS down 7, new low with volume. SENY down 7 with volume. CREE down 3 with volume. MXWL down 2, new low.
"ANY SERIOUS PLAN" TO CURB GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHANGE WILL REQUIRE "MASSIVE EXPANSION" OF SOLAR BY '50: MIT EXPERT. (What about transportation emissions?!) .... Clean power investment needs to triple to keep global temps manageable: IEA .... Scientists linking ocean hot spots to '30's Dust Bowl .... Pollen's surprising effect on clouds could influence climate models: study .... TX plans to sue EPA over Clean Power Plan. (Gotta love the cowboys. Happy trails.) .... World's largest sovereign wealth fund dropped more coal investment .... EPA reportedly sent RFS proposal for '14, '15, '16 to White House .... Calif ordered 25% cut of urban water use .... Forest loss threatens hundreds of rare endemic species: study .... Indonesia authorities seized rare birds stuffed into water bottles .... MD judge halted NG pipe under enviro review .... Duke requested coal ash lawsuit delay brought by shareholders .... EPA issued guidelines for toxin that caused Toledo drinking water crisis .... EPA new concerns over AZ copper mine .... (I guess EPA employees watching less porn during biz hours.) .... Industry protests Calif bid to list styrene as carcinogen. (Let's do rid oursleves of carcinogens, folks. What thinketh thou of that? Enough, already.) .... Neb Senate filibuster halting wind energy tax credit. (Yea, that's really thinking right.) .... China lead poisoning lawsuit testing "war on pollution" .... Arctic Ocean export route an optioni for tar sands: Canada official .... EPA cited Calif oil-by-rail terminal for emissions violations .... Global oil/condensates production up 1Mb/d in March. OPEC up 890K. N Am up 80K. Asia up 60K. Russ up 40K. New record 95.24Mb/d .... Statoil, Conoco deal to explore oil/gas off Myanmar .... First Solar (FSLR) completed 102Mw solar plant in New South Wales .... IKEA completed 730Kw rooftop solar in Kansas. SoCore installed. 41st IKEA roof install in US .... Vestas 72Mw order from Kansas .... Allete to buy 100Mw wind farm from AES .... Building Energy 140Mw wind order from S Africa .... Mex offshore oil rig collapse killed 2 .... Koala wandered into Australia ER .... Tesla's (TSLA) new batt doesn't work all that well with solar: Solar City (SCTY). (Rut Roh.)
WEDNESDAY OPEN .... Market down 33/8/1. Volume a little heavy. All indeces below 50-day lines. WTI ~$62, Brent over $69 .... 169K new private jobs US April, March revised down 14K: ADP .... 1st back-to-back US productivity drop since '06 .... Poland held rates at record low .... (stock #s in %) EWRL up 18. CSGH up 17. LMRMF up 11. PSON up 10. WEST up 7 with news .... GPRC down 60. BFRE down 28 with volume. HYGS down 17, new low with volume after reporting. ENPH down 11 after reporting. LYSDY, AWSL, CCGI down 10. BWEN down 4, new low. CREE below $30.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
CALIF ALIGNED GHG EMISSIONS REDUCTION TARGET TO THAT OF EU: 40% BELOW '90 BY '30 .... Patents for clean/renewable energy products down 42% last 3 yrs .... 166 projects in P.I. clean/ren pipeline .... US Supreme Court to review state powers over wholesale grid power demand response rules .... Money flowing into sustainability growth .... Urban farms now producing 20% of world's food .... Millions of dead trees adding to Cal wildfire risk .... 1st big storm brewing in Atlantic. Yes, hurricane season has started .... Demand for alligator meat exceeds supply .... Sushi chef sentenced in whale meat sting .... FERC won't reconsider approval of MD LNG export terminal .... US solar subsidy spending should shift from installs to boosting grid: study .... Sierra Club texting service alerts people on bad air days. (NO, not bad hair days. Bad air days.) .... Kittens now affected by Cal drought .... Beijing coal-burning ban expanded to suburbs .... Mayor saying port of Seattle can't host Shell Arctic offshore drilling fleet without new land-use permit .... Up to 6% of powergen lost in transmission in US .... NY solar developer's lawsuit claims CT discriminates against out-of-state power. Harvard paper writer urges states to ease restrictions on out-of-state powergen developers .... Sauds to restructure Aramco .... Goldman Sachs pulling out of Colombia coal mines .... New oil discovery in Tunisia .... US coalition of refiners say repealing ban on crude exports would harm US energy security, boost prices .... US oil rig count down 24 in latest week. Down 58% from October. NG rigs down 2 last week .... Enterprise to build 540Kb/d oilpipe from Midland TX to near Houston .... Shell reduced est '15 capex $2B more to $33B .... BP boe production up 8.3% yoy in 1Q .... New brake systems required for trains hauling oil, ethanol. In how many yrs .... US coal stockpiles up 29% yoy .... US to be net NG exporter by '17 .... 4 countries plan to begin importing LNG in '15. Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt to use floating terminals .... SCHOTT unveiled improved photobioreactors for algae production .... Since '05, vast majority of oil producing nations have been in production decline. This year both US, Russia may be peaking .... Indonesia coal producers slashing production. Country may reduce coal exports greatly .... Possible US/Mex oil swap. Mex heavy crude for US light .... Europe expects to begin getting Turkmenistan NG through Turkey as early as '19 .... Finivera Wind entered US solar market with buy of Solar Alliance of America. US residential solar mart est to be 100Gw by '20 .... Mississippi Power, Origis Energy partnering on 52Mw solar project .... Fersa sold stakes in 4 Indian wind farms for 30M Euros .... TerraForm bought 25Mw solar in Ontario .... Clean power possible game changer for women in energy industry .... Energy issues key for Iowa, NH voters: poll.
TUESDAY CLOSE .... Market down 142/77/25. WTI over $60, Brent over $67. US natgas down to $2.78 .... Disruption in Libya oil exports reported .... Yemen rebs shelled Saud town .... Greece locked out of global markets? Greece blaming creditors for probs .... Meltdown in Euro bonds .... Venture capital heading to Brazil .... McCain, others want to boot China from intl naval exercises .... (stock #s in %) BOPO up 259 with volume. GPRC up 212 with volume, up 25x from 12-month bottom. CSGH up 84 with volume. BFRE up 40. AWSL up 28, new high with volume. CDTI up 13 with volume. EFOI up 12 with volume after reporting. WEST up 11. WPRT up 9 with volume, news .... ALTI down 50. DPSM down 41. DSTI down 39. PSPW down 37. EWRL down 27. ASPW down 23. LEOM down 12 after hitting new high. CREG down 10 with volume. RBCN down 4, new low with volume, news. PLUG down 3, new low. SCTY down 2 after reporting. CREE back to $30.
DEVELOPERS EXPECT TO INSTALL 4.2GW OFFSHORE WIND GLOBALLY THIS YEAR. 2.3Gw in German waters, 1Gw UK. World total installed to reach est 48Gw by '20. Cost now ~$179/Mwh, down from ~$202 last year (some from currency flux). Onshore wind costs ~$85 .... Make coal industry pay more for global warming climate change, western towns telling Interior Secretary .... NG fracking directly linked to contaminated drinking water: study .... TX bill would stop cities from banning fracking. Up to gov to sign .... Fjords trapping large, unexpected amount of ocean carbon: study .... Ocean warming may put 90% of world's reefs at risk of disease outbreaks by '20 .... Americans buying fewer fuel-efficient cars .... UK Supreme Court ruled UK must revise plans to tackle NO2 emissions. "E10 blend will deliver far better air quality, reduce GHGs." .... Clean The Air Chicago launched E15 campaign for fuel retailers .... US policy instability last 2 yrs cost $13.7B in lost biofuels investment, 80K jobs: report .... Some migration from Africa due to climate change in Sahel, sub-Sahara undermining farming, herding, fishing .... Power cap at Hoover Dam down 25% since '00 from drought .... "Touchy" study says France could be 100% clean/ren powered by '50 .... Ecotricity boss wrote plan to make 80% of UK powergen clean/ren by '30. Includes "cow tax" .... EPA Clean Power Plan could prevent over 3K premature deaths/yr: study .... Judges won't rehear TX challenge to Clean Power Plan .... 2*C global temp rise "prescription for disaster": former NASA scientist.
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