** According to FracTracker Alliance (an association that tracks drilled wells), the total number of active wells in the US are 1,666,715.
** The Russian subsidiary of Japan’s Honda Motor said it would stop supplying new cars to official dealers in Russia in 2022 as part of the company’s efforts to restructure its operations. Honda has no plants in Russia and sold 79 vehicles there last month.
** Fiat Chrysler will invest $203.99 million in its plant in Tychy in Poland, where new hybrid and electric Jeep, Fiat and Alfa Romeo models will be built, Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Gowin said on Tuesday.
** Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure Trust has acquired nearly 12 MW of solar capacity through two projects in the U.S. It paid nearly $11 million in total for 100% cash equity interests in a commercial rooftop solar facility in California with a capacity of 4.8 MW and a ground-mount solar installation in Massachusetts with a capacity of 7.1 MW.
** E and E News reports U.S. biofuel producers seeking federal relief will shift their focus from Congress to presumptive incoming Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
** New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory will get a hefty funding boost — including for its work on plutonium pit production — in the military spending bill held up by a presidential veto. Many predict the veto will be overridden, and if it is, the lab’s budget will increase to $3.3 billion from the $2.3 billion allocated last year reported the Santa Fe New Mexican.