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Indian Solar Market Ready to Takeoff

Mercom Capital Group, a global clean energy communications and research firm, released its quarterly update on the Indian solar market.
 Mercom’s forecast for solar installations in India for calendar year 2015 now stands at about 2,500 MW. Solar installations year-to-date are approximately 1,400 MW. Cumulative solar installations in India have now crossed 4.5 GW.
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UPDATE 1-Premier Oil sacrifices shareholder payouts for relaxed debt terms

LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Premier Oil has agreed to not pay dividends for two years under a renegotiation of agreements with banks and bondholders designed to increase its financial flexibility against a backdrop of sharply lower crude prices.

RPT-UPDATE 2-Kazakhstan floats tenge, currency tumbles

ALMATY, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's under-pressure tenge lost more than a quarter of its value on Thursday after the oil producing central Asian nation, hit by a sharp fall in world crude prices, introduced a freely floating exchange rate for the currency.

UPDATE 2-Dutch Boskalis sails past first half profit forecast

* Company warns full year profits will be less than in 2014 (Updates with quotes from CEO, shares rise)

UPDATE 2-Kazakhstan floats tenge, currency tumbles

* Tenge also pressured by rouble fall, yuan devaluation (Adds quotes, details, background)

UPDATE 1-Oil prices dip further after U.S. stock-build, Saudi export rise

* Saudi June exports up 430,000 bpd (Adds Canadian supplies to U.S., updates prices)

Australia's Origin Energy flags spending jump, flat earnings; shares skid

MELBOURNE, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Origin Energy, Australia's top gas and power retailer, flagged a 44 percent jump in forecast spending on its flagship gas project and flat earnings from its core business this year, sending its shares tumbling to 7-1/2-year lows on Thursday.

To ease climate change, U.S. should end drilling on federal land - study

TORONTO, Aug 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Up to 450 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases would be kept out of the atmosphere if the U.S.

Australia shifts investment from wind projects to other renewable sources

(Thu, 20 Aug 2015) Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) last month was directed to stop investing in future wind power projects. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott stated that CEFC should be investing in the development of new technologies rather than in technologies that are currently established, such as large-scale wind farms.

COLUMN-Glencore caution, Rio optimism over China? You decide: Russell

--Clyde Russell is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own.--

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