STUFF ... 400K Hiroshima bombs equivalent the GHGs going into the atmos every day: Al Gore ... Drastic weather changes weighing on Trinidad, Tobago farmers ... Icahn launched crude-by-rail JV ... Oil train derailed in Canada. Leaks ... Shell proposing $12.5B NG-to-liquids plant in Louisiana ... Afghanistan got meager bids for developing their mineral, fossil resources. Includes potential 1.5B bls oil. Security threats, regulatory lack, endemic corruption ... Former World Bank economist: some of more damaging potential impacts that could occur from climate change have been left out of scientific, econ models because too difficult to quantify ... Biotricity to build Ireland's 1st biomass-to-el plant. 90K tons/yr of straw feedstock. Online '15 ... DOE: US manufacturers have saved $1B, 11M tons CO2 with energy efficiency investments. They spend over $200B/yr to power their plants ... Demand for solar energy credits in India up over 2x this month. Regulators clamped down on rules ... Japan's large-scale solar market to contract 90% after FY14. Lack of space, fewer incentives ... TEPCO greenlighted to seek restart of 1 nuke plant ... ION Engineering getting $15M from DOE for 1Mw equiv carbon capture pilot project in Neb ... CT continuing moratorium on wind power ... Hale Community Energy plans to build world's largest wind farm in TX. 500-650 turbines. 122K acres. 1.1Gw. 5 phases. 1st online late '15. Rest by '18 ... PNM says nuke, NG, solar best combo to replace coal power ... LM Wind Power plans S Africa wind blade plant ... First Solar (FSLR) bought 250Mw solar project in US ... Duke announced 400Mw new wind farms buildout in TX. 2 200Mw farms ... Enerjisa (Turkey) plans 4Gw clean/ren energy online by '20 ... Sempra bought 75Mw wind project in Neb from Midwest Wind Energy ... LDK Solar got 30-day reprieve on missed bond interest payment ... India set 10Gw solar target for '17 ... UAE to provide $100M for Moroccan clean energy ... Etrion (Canada), Total to build 70Mw subsidy-free solar plant in Chile to supply spot el market ... Jinko Solar raised $67M from stock offering ... NV Energy shareholders approved $5.6B takeover by MidAm Energy (Buffett). NV has no significant clean energy assets, but buys power ... Westar Energy (Kan) priced $249M stock offering ... NRG Solar said Ivanpah solar farm (Cal Mojave) produced 1st output to grid. Largest solar thermal plant in world. 3,500 acres. 377Mw. 3 power towers ... NYSERDA hopes to boost solar power development by new unified permitting process ... Cargill, TEVA Energy commissioned large-scale solar thermal system at Fresno beef plant. Preheats water ... NREL has quantified significant value that CSP plants can add to grid.