MILLENIALS DEMANDING SMART TECH, CLEAN/RENEWABLE POWER FROM UTILITIES: STUDY

World Bank updated enviro rules.

Air pollution exposure could shorten lives of lung cancer patients: study.

German solar tender 2.5x oversubscribed.

NTPC raised $300M for green bond to finance offshore wind power.

White House directing Fed agencies to consider climate change in decisions.

Clinton pitched "modern grid" in Las Vegas.

Melting Arctic ice sheet could expose Cold War-era nuke waste: study.

Smelly algae on FL coast reviving fight for Okeechobee, Everglades balance.

DOE boosting whistleblower protections.

Sun Edison cancelled yieldco payments.

Vivent Solar (VSLR) closed on $313M finance.

Solar World (SRWRF) had bad 2Q, bankruptcy rumors.

Apple OK'd to sell excess power from its solar plant to grid.

Westinghouse to build nuke fuel production plant in Ukraine.

Storm Pulse E motorcycle to go from Europe to China.

$40B more investment planned for Canada oil sands.

$800B investment planned for offshore oil/gas through '25: Global Data. Brazil to lead.

China to open up foreign investment in its pipelines sector.

Chevron to sell $5B of Asian upstream assets.

Bankrupt Peabody wants court OK to pay execs $12M of bonuses.

Researchers developing microbial el generators.

"Ripening" yields high efficiency perovskite solar cells.

105-year-old Orca spotted in Pacific.

FRIDAY OPEN .... MARKET UP 146--52--14

WTI under $42, Brent under $44.

255K new US jobs in July.
German factory orders down.

(stock #s in %; new highs/lows over last 12 months):

CSUNY up 12.
SSNI up 11 after reporting, above all lines.
AETI up 7 with very heavy volume, above all lines.
NTCXF, OPTT up 7.
ASYS up 6 after reporting.
SENY up 6.
GEVO up 5.
INVT up 4.

ENZR down 18 with volume, under all lines.
OLED down 12 with heavy volume after reporting.
RGSE down 11 with heavy volume.
CCGI down 9 on 520 shares.
EMKR down 5, new low after reporting.
ASTI, PRHL down 5.
MGPHF down 4.

THURSDAY CLOSE .... DOW DOWN 3, NAZ UP 6, S&P FLAT

WTI over $41, Brent over $44. US natgas $2.82.

(stock #s in %; new highs/lows over last 12 months):

RGSE up 43 with extreme volume, over top lines.
MKTY up 41 with extreme volume.
AMLM up 14.
ERII up 14 with volume.
AMRS up 10 with heavy volume after reporting.
AETI up 7 with heavy volume, over all lines.
MEEC, SKYS up 7.
TPIC up 6, new high.
LIME up 5 with heavy volume.
CDTI, MYRG up 5.
LEOM up 4 with volume.
SIEGY up 3, new high with volume, news.

ALTI down 50 on 257 shares.
ASTI down 20.
XSNX down 16.
CABN down 14.
LYSDY, OCLN down 13.
FSLR down 11 with extreme volume after reporting.
RNWEF down 10 on 185 shares.
FCSMF down 9.
CCTC, NVIC down 7.
ENOC, PRHL down 6.
BSRC down 5 with extreme volume.
SEDG down 4 with volume.

533 CITIES REPRESENTING 621M FOLKS AROUND WORLD HAVE OK'D CLIMATE STRATEGIES, UP 70% FROM '15: CLIMATE DISCLOSURE PROJECT

Scotland GHG emissions cuts 2nd only to Sweden in EU. Scotland down 40% '90-'14. Sweden 54%.

Morocco RfQ for up to 380Mw concentrated solar, PV solar hybrid.

Spanish island OK'd 108Mw new wind power.

EV charge stations to surpass gas stations in UK by '20: Nissan.

First Solar (FSLR) net down 86% in 2Q from 1Q.

Tesla (TSLA) 13th straight Q loss. $575M loss in 1H. Est. 50K X, S model sales in 2H.

TerraForm Power (TERP) setting up Sept share auction.

Aegon Asset Mgmt to invest several billions in clean/renewable power.

RWE (German utility) to take clean/ren power division public.

Enviros suing to keep oil wastewater out of California aquifer.

13 states suing EPA over oil/gas fracking methane emissions rules.

Navy fuel storage above Hawaii aquifer angering farmers, officials.

US gasoline inventories - 238M bls - 10% higher yoy.

US crude imports up 10% yoy over last 4 weeks.

Iran OK'd new oil contract rules. OMV: Iran contracts unfit for investment.

ISIS attacks on Libyan oil terminals may have reduced exporting capacity down to 100Kb/d.

Venezuela now forcing folks to agri labor.

Russia oil production up to 10.85Mb/d, up 1.8% in July.

4th oil spill in Saskatchewan in 8 months.

Bat-killing fungus spreading westward.

More ranchers needed to raise bison.

Lack of progress on Flint waterpipes replacement.

Sewage poured into river after Ellicott MD flood.

THURSDAY OPEN .... MARKET DOWN 23--6--2

WTI under $41, Brent under $43.

Bank of England 1st rate cut in 7 years, QE boost.

(stock #s in %; new highs/lows over last 12 months):

MKTY up 33 with heavy volume.
MEEC, ERII up 14.
OPTT up 13.
GEVO up 8 with volume.
LEOM up 8.
AMRS up 6.
ACPW, CLNT up 5.
NFEC up 4 with very heavy volume.
MYRG, NTCXF up 4.
SIEGY up 4, new high with news.

WWPW down 17.
XSNX down 16.
OCLN down 13.
NGLPF down 12.
FSLR down 9 with very heavy volume after reporting.
NVIC down 7.
PRHL down 6.
ASTI, MXWL, PALAF, SENY down 5.
BWEN, FCSMF, SEDG down 4.

WEDNESDAY CLOSE .... MARKET UP 41--22--6

WTI ~$41, Brent over $43. US natgas $2.84.

ISIS oil revs down up to 90% recently.
Khamenei says US failing to uphold its part of nuclear deal.

(stock #s in %; new highs/lows over last 12 months):

ALTI up 100 on 821 shares.
ASTI up another 45.
PNPL up 25 on 200 shares.
GEVO up 23 with volume.
CHGT up 22.
OPTT up 21 with heavy volume.
CABN up 21.
WWPW up 17.
NFEC, OCLN up 13.
ENZR up 10.
GRPH up 8.
PRHL up 6.
NVIC, RGSE, ULBI, WPRT up 5.

CSUNY down 15.
BSRC down 11.
CCGI down 9 with volume.
LSCG down 9.
AMLM down 8 with heavy volume.
MKTY, ESPH, NTCXF down 7.
MNGA down 6.
MXWL down 5 with heavy volume.
SKYS down 5.

EARTH SHATTERED MANY CLIMATE RECORDS IN '15, INCLUDING HOTTEST EVER ON RECORD

Oxygen levels crashing in Chesapeake Bay.

Anthrax outbreak in Russia linked to climate change.

Some fish adjusting body defenses to deal with ocean acidification.

California issued 1st state EPA Clean Power Plan compliance plan.

Norway goal to become carbon neutral by '30. (Glacier National Park's glaciers to be gone by '30.)

Global solar market to install 73Gw this year. '17 to start multi-year slowdown.

Solar elgen beat out coal in UK in July.

Massachusetts legislature passed bill to contract 1.6Gw offshore wind power by '27.

NY regulators OK'd ~$.5B subsidies next 2 years for 3 nuke power plants. Focus now on same help for 2 nuke plants in Illinois.

S Africa utility placed 1st unit of 1.3Gw pumped hydro power storage project into commercial ops. Other 3 units coming online in 1H17.

First Solar (FSLR) sold 121Mw of community power plants in US.

EIB OK'd Euro72M geothermal power expansion in Kenya.

Solar Frontier opened Nagasaki's largest solar plant.

Vestas (VWDRY) got 120Mw order from Morocco.

Chev Volt sales boom in July. 2,406.

Solar City downgraded '16 guidance.

Trina Solar to go private. $1.1B.

Utah car dealers pushback on Tesla (TSLA).

Toyota delaying Prius Prime.

Arson suspected in damage to Bakken pipeline project.

Italian group to invest $450M in ethanol plant in Iran to use 1M metric tons/yr of inedible wheat feedstock. (They sure grow enough inedible wheat, yeah?)

OPEC July output down 80Kb/d.

Sinopec to sell most of NG pipeline biz to boost clean/renewable power investment.

US utilities' growth averaged 20% in 2Q.

"Artificial leaf" turns CO2 into fuel.

Australia moves north 5 feet every 20 years. 2.8"/yr.