Qatar aims to raise the share of solar power in state electricity generation to 16% by 2018, an official told The Jordan Times , “We are working on a project to develop 1,800 megawatts of solar power,” said Fahad Bin Mohammed Al Attiya.  “That will be 16% of our total electricity output,” he then told Reuters.  MORE >>

On a wider matter, Whole Foods had previously announced that all food on its shelves from GM animals and crops would have to be labeled by 2018, an action that meets the intent of Proposition 37, as well as pending initiatives in other states, including Washington. Sightline declined to pay, so we cannot incorporate the photo into this post.  MORE >>

percent of their total output - by 2018. The solar industry in North Carolina isn't expanding without government help : Duke Energy, which earns billions from coal and nuclear power, has become sun-splashed North Carolina's biggest source of solar power - and, critics charge, an obstacle to expanding the new industry. MORE >>

At current rates, that means Morning Star will have to buy 100,000 allowances for both 2017 and 2018, by which time the prices may have doubled or tripled in an open market. It is a delicate balance. Cement plants near Los Angeles compete with plants across the Arizona border. The rules are relatively simple for producers like Morning Star. MORE >>

Founded in 2009, with its official Israel debut at Israel’s WATEC 2011 , a renewable energy and water technology conferenc, hosted last November, UniVerve has ambitions to take a central role in, what the company says will be, a $100 billion global biofuel industry by 2018. MORE >>