STUFF ... EPA proposed to limit new gas-fired power plants to 1K pounds CO2/Mwh, new coal plants to 1.1K. Avg advanced coal plant now emits 1.8K. Combined-cycle NG plant can easily reach 1K ... Admin to revive DOE loan guarantee program. Up to $8B to help coal, oil make cleaner energy/power ... Halliburton pled guilty to destroying evidence after BP GOM spill. 3 yrs probation, $200K fine .... UK wind, marine power sectors employ 3x as many as coal industry ... Clean Coal Tech (CCTC) starting construction phase of pilot plant in OK ... Comp secured finance for 1st US oil sands mine ... New fracking design seen helping Eagle Ford oil output ... NJ town passed fracking ban. 1st in state ... Commercial solar energy storage to overtake residential, utility-scale solar by '17. To grow to 2.3Gw/y from 3.2Mw in '12 ... US govt says EVs need to be louder under 18MPH ... ORIX to develop 2 rooftop solar plants in Japan. Total 2.7Mw ... Sweden has run out of enough trash for waste-to-energy industry. Now imports 80K tons/y, most from Norway, to add to 2M tons/y ... Reliance Power, Areva 100Mw $338M solar thermal power plant to startup in Oct after 5-mo delay. All of India's proposed sol-therm plants - 500Mw - missed startup deadlines ... UK comp to turn abandoned quarries, mines into pumped water storage for wind, solar plants. 1st project $160M for 50Mw ... India offering lines of credit to Cuba for biomass projects. Biogasse feedstock for power plants ... Abengoa to get $33M loan from US Ex-Im Bank to buy Dow Chem heat-transfer fluids for sol-therm projects in Spain, S Africa ... Sea bass stocks at lowest point in 20 yrs ... GIB-backed energy efficiency fund increased investment program to 200M Pounds ... ADP Renewables (Portugal) 250Mw wind project in Maine got 15-yr PPA. Online in '16 ... Rajasthan to build world's largest solar plant. 4Gw. $4.8B ... Iberdrola got OK to build 1Gw wind farm in NM ... Wind Capital Group to sell 150Mw OK wind project to Trade Wind Energy (Enel) ... Jinko Solar priced offering of 3.8M shares @ $16.25. Each share equal to 4 ordinary shares ... New Zealand plans to raise $1.5-1.8B with 49% stake in Meridian ... Turkey's 1st public bank to invest $96M in 5 wind power projects. Total cap 68Mw. $120M ... NREL reported record 31.1% efficiency for 2-junction solar cell under 1 sun illumination. Gallium indium phosphide cell on gallium arsenide cell. Grown inverted, flipped during processing. Covered on front with bilayer anti-reflecting coating, on back with highly reflective gold contact layer. Aiming for 48% ... DOE's Moniz launched clean energy research facility at NREL focused on grid integration. Also new collab with Toyota, Army, Peregrine supercomputer for how to integrate all the new clean energy. Also integration of plug-in EVs to grid. Army's interest FOB power.