STUFF ... S Carolina utilities group stopped solar energy forum ... LDK Solar 2Q loss wider than expected ... Malaysia hydropower to go to Indonesia with new 145km transmission line. Online by '15. $101M for Indonesia part. $49.5M from Asia Development Bank, $49.5M from French development agency. $2M from clean energy fund. 230Mw. Will replace oil-fired power ... Libya oil exports fell to 200Kb/d this week. Western export terminal workers joined striking workers in east ... US crude production now up to 7.61Mb/d ... Deepening econ crisis in India. Rupee down 20% this month ... Enviro Entrepreneurs' annual assessment of advanced biofuels industry: there will be sufficient supply to meet RFS through '16. '13 capacity 1B gal gasoline equiv. '15 1.4-1.6B gal. 160 commercial scale facilities planned, in construction, completed. Private investment total over $4.8B since '07. Fed loan guarantees over $1.1B since '08 for 9 projects ... Gazprom subsid in Serbia invested $100M in biodiesel plant to export to Europe. Production start within months ... Indonesia to boost biodiesel use, reduce fuel imports to stave off currency crisis. Aiming for B10 blend quickly ... Iran secured long-term deal to supply Oman with NG. Undersea pipeline to be built. Iran also looking to sell NG to Ukraine, Moldova ... IAEA: Iran recently installed 1K advanced uranium enriching centrifuges to add to 15K centrifuges already operating. New ones 3-4x more powerful. Plans also begun for heavy water reactor to produce plutonium ... Ford could reduce fuel consumption 22.6M gal/y by replacing side mirrors with cams on F150 and 2 other aerodynamic changes ... Norway invited oil/gas comps to bid on Arctic waters including east Barents ... Emera buying 3 combined-cycle NG-fired power plants in New England from Capital Power. Over 1Gw total for $541M ... APR Energy (FL) got 147Mw of contracts from Mozambique, Senegal, Indonesia. 40Mw NG power plant in Mo. Rest diesel fired ... India renewable energy credit trades down to record low this month. States failing to enforce rules requiring utilities, steelmakers, mining comps to buy creds ... Japan ministry requesting 43.5B Yen in next year's budget for clean energy. Also asking for 70B Yen for clean energy fund budgeted at 1.4B this FY ... Power grids in south Japan near capacity for solar, wind projects. Room for less than 1Gw left ... Goldpoly (China) to buy 100Mw of rooftop solar from Singyes Solar (China) ... ReneSola signed 69.5Mw solar module supply deal with Light Source Renewable ... US bike sharing fleet more than doubled in '13: Earth Policy. Over 18K. 34 programs. To dub again in '14 ... GCL-Poly Energy (China), world's largest polysi maker, still crying foul. Yoy loss near 3x in 1H13. Cites dumping by foreign competitors ... Quebec draft regs for 450Mw wind power ... UN ruled UK wind policies illegal. Public denied decision making power, info ... LDK Solar missed another debt payment ... Germany installed 1.14Gw wind power 1H13. Subsidy cuts expected after Sept election ... Study found no negative impacts on home values from neighboring wind farms ... NY's version of cap and trade brought in almost $500M since '08 inception ... Mercury fingerprint of Pacific fish points to Asian coal power plants.