STUFF ... Tepco says over 200K tons of radioactive water in tanks vulnerable to leaks at Fukushima. No reliable way to check, nowhere to transfer water to ... Norway approved $3B for wind power plants. To triple capacity to over 2Gw by '20. 8 new onshore farms. Also new power line. Target 67% clean/renewable of total el by '20 ... Zambia drilling 1st geothermal exploratory well. Potential up to 1Gw in basin. Country has power deficiency of 180Mw. $750M coal plant being built. Now 2Gw total gen capacity almost all from hydropower ... Eagle Ford TX shale production down 4.5% May to June. Probably from lack of water to frack ... Export pipeline in N Iraq blown up for maybe 31st time this year. Major oil spill in Tigris. Baghdad water supply threat ... Exxon allowed to sell Iraq oil field stake to Petro China, Indonesia's Pertamina ... Another LNG shipment to Egypt from Qatar last week. Cairo not furthering talks for more ... Libya currently pumping ~700Kb/d, down due to lower export capacity with strikes, etc ... India's crude oil production down 2.3% in July. NG production down 16% ... N Sea oil/NG productioin could fall up to 22% this year ... Less crude exports in June from Sauds, Iraq, Kuwait, Nigeria ... US says over $1T required to clean up Niger Delta area ... France's Technip to work on install of world's deepest underwater NG pipeline planned for Shell in Gulf of Mex. 9,500 ft deep ... Cuadrilla resumed fracking in Britain after protests ... Argentina's YPF next deal will be with group including China's CNOOC ... Decline rate for Bakken oil wells ferocious. More wells each month just to keep production stable ... US's biggest oil refinery largely out of service in TX after several fires past 2 wks after mechanical failures. Doubled in size last year with $10B expansion ... US crude imports dropped to 7.7Mb/d in July, down 10.5% from '12 ... China manufacturing picked up in August ... Record temps in China boosted energy use earlier this month. 15% higher than last year. Drought in S China ... Cool Planet Energy Systems to build 3 biorefineries in Louisiana with $168M. Wood waste to gasoline. Says operating costs $1-$1.15/gal, but that was based on miscanthus feedstock. 10M gal/y capacity at each plant ... Fiberight going ahead with $20M solid waste to compressed biogas plant in Iowa. $25M USDA loan guarantee. $2.9M grant from Iowa. 400 tons garbage/day ... Darling buying Maple Leaf Foods rendering, biodiesel biz for $613M. 7 plants across Canada ... Columbia airline completed biofuel flight with A320 using camelina fuel ... Europe wind turbine giants - Vestas, Nordex, Gamesa - poised to have pretax profits 1st time since '10 ... Romania pulled plug on $11.4B, 2,050 mile NG pipeline from Caspian. Too expensive ... India developing first ever floating solar power plants ... S Africa to allow shale exploration in Karoo semi-desert, ~40% of country ... Hilton Ft Lauderdale to soon power up 6 wind turbines on roof. $500K. 24Mwh. Will save $25-50K/yr on el bill ... First Solar (FSLR) sold 3 power plants in Ontario, total 50Mw, to partnership of GE, Alterra ... Windreich signed 650Mw turbine deal with Areva for Baltic Sea wind farms ... Westar Energy issued RFP for 80Mw of clean/renewable power ... Sun Ed unit buying Enfinity, Belgian solar developer ... Smith EVs to form 5K-vehicle JV with Taiwan manufacturer ... Australia record week for wind power generation this month.