STUFF ... Solar installs slump in UK - down almost half, year on year - after recent changes to incentives ... Kenya to scale up wind power program. Country's current total power generation capacity 1.7Gw. Hydropower 60%. The rest wood and diesel ... US House majority leader wants to tack RFS reform onto debt ceiling package ... NREL: wind, solar will be cost competitive without subsidies by '25 ... U of MD oceanographer: if all heat energy absorbed by oceans from '55 to '10 were released into atmos, global air temps would rise over 18 Celsius ... Recent slow down in rising atmos temps from more heat being absorbed deeper in oceans, reduction in solar activity, more active volcanos ... Eurus Energy (Japan) building 115Mw solar plant in N Japan. Mitsubishi, Sunpower subsid panels. Online late '15. ~49B Yen ... DOE giving $16M to 17 developers of tidal, wave power projects ... Japan govt wants 62% more for FY14 clean energy budget to 198B Yen. 46B to upgrade grid to accomodate more clean energy, up 29%. 84B for tech R/D, up almost 100% ... Solar City (SCTY) $223M raised from offering shares, notes ... True Green Capital (US) secured $64M credit for 39Mw US solar portfolio ... Ujaas Energy targeting 100Mw of solar power in India by next March ... Yingli Green Energy 2Q loss narrowed to $54M ... Rene Sola 2Q loss fell to $21M on 62% more revenue ... Washington Supreme Court upheld permission unanimously for $150M wind farm ... Kazakhstan to launch $7B energy efficiency initiative through '20 ... Trans Alta Renewables (Canada) IPO raised $210M ... Enel Green Power got 20-yr PPAs for 3 wind farms in Brazil auction. 88Mw total ... MIT study: pollution causes 200K/yr early deaths in US ... Dallas County Medical Society asking TX agency to force 3 east TX coal power plants to cut emissions.