WEDNESDAY CLOSE .... Market down 160/41/21. WTI over $53, Brent over $57. US NG down to $2.96. Italy prez resigning .... (stock #s in %) PSON up 38. GPRC up 35. LIME up 21 with volume. JUHL up 21 with volume. NGLPF up 20. RNWEF up 18 with volume after hitting new low. LYSDY up 17 with volume. CCGI up 17. AWSL up 15. ACFN up 13 with volume. DPSM up 11. CREG up 4 after new low. ASTI up 2 after new low .... BSRC, XDSL down 16. AQNM down 13 with volume. SWET down 11. ULBI down 11 with volume. UBRG down 10. CABN down 10, new low with volume. LSCG down 9, new low with volume. GSFVF down 7, new low with volume. AXPW down 7, new low. CSUN down 3, new low. Happy new year, pards. If you can make sense of it, let me know.

TESLA (TSLA) ROADSTER UPGRADED TO OVER 400-MILE RANGE. New batt cell has 31% more energy than original. New Roadster 15% more aerodynamic .... N Korea denied hack of S Korea nuke plant .... Gazprom buying out Europe partners of South Stream NG pipeline project to bypass Ukraine .... China court ordered 6 comps to pay $26M for polluting .... Bahrain $1B grid upgrade by '17. Part of $4B next 5 yrs for new power projects .... Trinidad, Tobago got $40M loan from Caribbean Development Bank for energy policy changes. Islands converting to compressed NG from diesel, gasoline .... Dominion closed on EDF 20Mw solar plant in Cal.

WEDNESDAY OPEN .... Market up 37/17/2. WTI under $53, Brent under $57 .... (stock #s in %) CCGI up 22. LIME up 21 with volume, news. RNWEF up 18. LYSDY up 15. MDDD, PSON up 13. DPSM, QTMM up 11. XSNX up 10 .... IFXY down 20. BLQN, XDSL down 16. ABAT down 12 with volume. GSFVF down 12, new low. CHGT down 10 with volume.

TUESDAY CLOSE .... Market down 55/29/10. WTI over $53, Brent over $57. US NG down to $3.08. Tax cut coming for Japan. Russians organizing v. Putin .... (stock #s in %) CHGT up 129 with volume, news. BLDW up 53. IFXY up 51. XDSL up 20. ULBI up 20 with volume. VSPC up 15. ASYS up 13. QTMM up 12. CABN up 11. SKYS up 9. HSOL up 5 after new low with volume. AMRS up 3 after new low with volume .... PSPW down 30. WWPW down 24. MDDD down 24 with volume. PSON down 23, new low with volume. NGLPF down 16. OOIL down 14, new low with volume. VOIL down 14. CCGI, LTBR down 12. BLQN, FNVRF down 11. GSFVF down 10, new low with volume. DPSM down 10 with volume. RNWEF down 8, new low with volume. LYSDY down 6, new low with volume. RVLT down 6 with volume. RGSE down 5, new low with volume. ASTI down 5, new low. NENE down 4. NTCXF down 4 with volume. ELON down 1, new low with volume.

GLOBAL UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR SETTING OVER 10GW RECORD IN '14. Projects over 4Mw each .... World crude/condensate production up 1.27Mb/d in Sept to near 79M: EIA. Non-OPEC countries 833Kb/d of increase to near 46M .... 8M tons/yr floating LNG export project in Texas put on hold over oil prices .... Could take over year to get Iraq refinery back online after retaking it from ISIS .... Canada unit of CNOOC halted oil production in Yemen over "security threat" .... S Sudan deal with CNPC to boost oil production in at least 3 blocks .... Nigeria oil exports set to fall to 1.87Mb/d in Feb from over 2M in Jan. Maintenance .... Prices of credit default swaps on Venezuela debt indicate over 60% chance of default .... Raizen (Brazil) to invest $930M through '24 to push cellulosic ethanol production to 1B liters/yr .... Mexico researchers finding biodiesel from used cooking oil reduces public transport emissions 90%. Engines better lubed, cleaner. (And smell yummy.) .... Doosan to build 1.33Gw coal plant in Vietnam for $1.6B. Online in '19. Vietnam powergen cap est. 35Gw by '17 .... 15Mw run-of-river hydropower plant now online in Zimbabwe. $30M cost. Operating at 20% of cap with low water .... Australia record emissions drop in carbon tax years .... Texas wind output 33.2M Mwh Jan-Nov .... Shanghai El MOU for clean power in Egypt .... CWE (China) $1.8B clean power deal with Kazakhstan .... Jordan awarded licenses for 150Mw solar .... Scotland installed solar up 32% in '14.

TUESDAY OPEN .... Market down 55/14/5. WTI over $53, Brent over $57. Gold jump. Russia econ shrank in Nov .... (stock #s in %) BLDW up 53. CHGT up 41 with news. DPSM up 33. XDSL up 20. LSCG, VSPC up 16. SSOL up 13. CABN up 11. ASYS up 9 .... PSON down 29. WWPW down 25. GSFVF down 16, new low. GPRC down 16. AMPD down 15. BSRC down 14. UBRG down 10. RVLT down 9. AMRS, LYSDY down 8, both with new lows. ASTI down 5, new low.

MONDAY CLOSE .... Market flat, mixed. WTI down under $54, Brent under $58. US NG up to $3.16. Yen continues slump started when US went off gold standard. ('73?) NATO ended Afghan war. 13 years. Duck and cover Afghans. Russia econ down in November; heading, some say, for 4% negative GDP next year .... (stock #s in %) AMPD up 21. FNVRF up 19. BFRE up 17. RVLT up 15 with volume, news. LEDS up 13 with volume. BLQN up 13. NGLPF up 12. CCGI up 11 with volume, news. BLDP up 10 with volume. NTCXF up 4 .... MGLT down 50 with volume. AMLM down 36 with volume. BLDW down 26 with volume. LSCG down 22, new low with volume. ALTI down 21. IFXY down 19. XDSL down 16. ACFN down 15 with volume. AMTX down 13. SSOL down 13 with volume. PSON down 11, new low. RGSE down 10 with volume. GSFVF down 10. ABAT down 10. HSOL down 9 with volume, news. XSNX down 1, new low with volume.