STUFF ... 5-comp consortium - including 2 Chinese comps - got license to develop offshore Brazil deepwater. $7B sign fee ... World Bank est. 80% of Peru's rain forest logging illegal. Corruption ... Warm winter last year helped US carbon emissions drop to lowest since '94: EIA ... Global funding behind amount needed to meet energy sector emissions targets ... 155 Iowa scientists affirmed climate change real, dangerous, man-made ... Utah's oldest coal-burning plant to close next year ... Ukraine poised to develop it's shale gas ... Dubai turned on its 1st solar plant. 13Mw, $33-35M built by First Solar (FSLR). Plans for 100Mw next ... China Solar Energy Holdings directors, chairman detained in fraud probe ... EPA fining DOE over asbestos cleanup at Hanford ... US Chamber president renewed call for gas tax hike ... Indian researcher getting 1 liter of biodiesel from 6 poultry carcasses ... Shell: global liquid fuel demand to peak in '35 ... UK - EDF deal for 1st nuke plant to be built in Britain in last 20 yrs. UK guaranteeing to buy the power for 92.50 Pounds/Mwh for 35 yrs, 2x current wholesale market price. Plant cost ~ 14B Pounds. Online in '23 ... EDF authorized for 24Mw wind project in Quebec ... Trans Alta buying 144Mw wind farm in WY for $102M from Next Era unit ... DOE awarding $60M to accel solar development. ~ $16M grants to 4 projects to boost cell efficiency. $12M to 17 solar tech, service comps. ~ $8M to utilities to help integrate solar into grid. Other ed, job train efforts, more reliable component development. All part of Sun Shot Initiative ... Australia comp, Japan comp to launch $1B solar JV in Japan to develop projects ... UK withdrew 169M Pound funding for 500M Pound waste-to-energy plant ... Vattenfall (Sweden) awarded over 100M Pounds of wind farm contracts to Welsh comps.