STUFF .... GA regulators ordered GA Power to add 525Mw of solar to portfolio next 3 yrs ... Earthworm poop could be key in predicting climate change. (Go figure.) ... 50 dead in China's worst flooding in decades ... NG still seeping from busted Gulf of Mex well ... Offshore wind investment to hit E18B/yr by '16. Avg E15B/yr next 10 yrs. Installs to avg 3.2Gw/yr ... Europe biomass/biogas power market E3.3B/yr. 2.5% CAGR predicted through '17. Analysis: subsidy cuts eroding growth ... Cal rooftop solar grew 391Mw in '12, up 26%. 1.6Gw installed capacity through 1Q13. Avg cost down ~1/3 since '07 ... IEA: wind power to double, solar to triple next 6 yrs. Total clean/renewable installed capacity to go from 1,580Gw in '12 to 2,350Gw in '18 ... OPEC production down 370Kb/d in June - 1.2%. Disruptions in Libya, Nigeria, Iraq. IEA says demand est record 92Mb/d in '14 ... Colo joined oil/gas industry suit seeking to invalidate voter-adopted citywide fracking ban ... Alberta will pay up to $5B in tolls to use planned TransCan oil pipeline to east Canada. Commitment to ship 100Kb/d for 20 yrs. 2,700-mi pipe cap to be 500-850Kb/d ... Stanford researchers using nanotech solar cooling panels to radiate unwanted heat out to atmos. Nanostructured quartz, silicon carbide ... German university researcher has biofuel cell that uses tree fungus to gen cheap el ... March TX crude production 74M bls. Highest level since '84. Output doubled in last 3 yrs ... Netherland researchers discovered titanium oxide coating on sidewalk halves level of local air pollution ... Developers of proposed 250Mw Kansas wind farm signed $250M tax equity funding deal ... Bluefield solar income fund completed 130M Pound IPO ... Australia launched 3-yr clean/renewables investment plan ... US court rejected EPA rule that deferred GHG emissions standards for biomass industry ... Navy moving to demolish its last coal power plant ... Report: geothermal power plants set off earthquakes ... AEP to shutter OH coal power plant rather than switch to NG ... Valero plans new $700M petrochem plant in Louisiana ... Scientists link soot with 2M deaths/yr ... Happy weekend trails, pards.