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Data released at the end of last year by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations show that in 2014 wood pellets production increased a record 16 percent or 3 million metric tons.

* Cites stronger dollar, currency swings (Adds detail, quotes)

JAKARTA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Indonesian energy company Lapindo Brantas plans to resume drilling for gas near the site of a mud volcano, its CEO said, referring to a disaster that some scientists say it helped to create around 10 years ago.

MADRID, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Spain's High Court on Tuesday increased the pressure on two former managers of troubled engineering and energy firm Abengoa, giving them 24 hours to deposit millions of euros in bonds as it investigates mismanagement allegations.

JAKARTA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Indonesian energy company Lapindo Brantas plans to resume drilling for gas near the site of a mud volcano, its CEO said, referring to a disaster that some scientists say it helped to create around 10 years ago.

PARIS, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Shares in French utility EDF sank to all-time lows on Tuesday after the country's Andra nuclear waste agency said that storage costs could be higher than EDF's estimates.

Patricia Farley, lead author of a bill authorizing Nevada regulators to revise state solar policies, didn’t expect the new rules to prompt two major solar companies to cut jobs and leave the state.

LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - European companies' earnings are expected to grow at their fastest rate in four years, significantly outpacing their U.S.

Coming on the heels of the celebration–inducing 5-year extension of the solar investment tax credit (ITC), today jobs numbers were released by nonprofit organization, The Solar Foundation (TSF).
The six annual National Solar Jobs Census shows that the U.S. solar industry today employs 208,859 people, having added 35,052 in 2015 alone. This is a 20 percent increase in job growth compared to the overall national employment growth of 1.7 percent.

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