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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc
reported its first quarterly net profit in more than three years
on Wednesday, buoyed by nearly $139 million in sales of clean
car credits, and Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company
could turn a profit again in the fourth quarter.

NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - During his
free time on the job as a Google employee, Carl Elkin began
tinkering with the company's 3D mapping program, wondering if it
could identify rooftops that receive enough sunlight to make
installing solar panels worthwhile.

ABUJA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Oil firms operating in Nigeria
have sacked about 3,000 workers, a labour union official said on
Wednesday, calling on the government to file a protest with
foreign oil operators.

SAO PAULO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A London-based executive at
Dutch trading company Trafigura Beheer BV was
detained at an airport in Brazil as part of a corruption
investigation into state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA
, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on
Wednesday.

SAO PAULO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A London-based executive at
Dutch trading company Trafigura Beheer BV was
detained at an airport in Brazil as part of a corruption
investigation into state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA
, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on
Wednesday.

UMM GUDAIR, Kuwait, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Kuwait began
operating its first-ever solar power plant on Wednesday at the
Umm Gudair oil field, a landmark for the OPEC member country as
it seeks to diversify its sources of energy to meet fast-rising
local demand.

ABUJA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Oil firms operating in Nigeria
have sacked 3,000 workers, a labour union official said on
Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp and
accounting firm PwC must turn over documents related to
the oil major's representations of the impact of climate change
on its business and assets, the New York Supreme Court ruled on
Wednesday.

Jenn Runyon, Chief Editor of Renewable Energy World and Paula Mints, Chief Market Research Analyst with SPV Market Research discuss three hot topics in the global solar industry for three minutes each. Today’s topics are the Tesla/Panasonic announcement, Solana's $1.5M in fines and SolarReserve's new Sandstone project.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-controlled
oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA is studying with
authorities how to start working again with contractors who were
snared in a vast corruption probe, governance director João Elek
said on Wednesday.

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