STUFF ... Gazprom facing $15B fine in EU antitrust case ... Avg fuel econ of vehicles sold in US last 2 yrs exceeded govt expectations ... Govt shutdown of websites access, data making climate research difficult ... Mississippi Power announced costly delay to carbon capture coal plant completion ... IMF calling for energy subsidy reform ... Noble hit NG-rich zone near future LNG export project ... Crude by rail terminal unveiled in Philly ... South leg of Keystone pipeline near opening. 700Kb/d capacity. Cushing to Gulf coast ... Iran facing NG shortage in next 2 yrs. Development of giant field not proceeding quickly enough. Already importing 40M cubic meters/day from Turkmenistan, but still forced to burn oil for power gen ... 1K Iraqis killed in terror attacks last month ... Inspectors now in Syria to oversee destruction of chem weapons, capacity to make them ... Venezuela tossed out 3 US diplomats accused of plotting to sabotage grid, econ ... Bluefire Renewables (BFRE) added wood pellet plant onto Miss ethanol plant ... India oil marketing comps set to miss 5% ethanol mandate this year and E10 set to begin in Dec ... Argentina, Indonesia not standing for EU anti-dumping duties ... MIT accidently discovered making energy from condensation. Could lead to drawing power from atmos ... Cost of production of UK shale NG expected to be much higher than in US. Unlikely to bring down power bills ... Thin film solar (mostly from FSLR) topped India panel performance in 1st year of ops. Avg capacity utilization factor 19.6% v. 18.5 for competing techs. Thin film performs better at high temps ... Hewlett Packard asking suppliers to slash emissions ... Marubeni closed 100M Euro investment in Mainstream Renewables (Ireland) ... EDP Renewables got 20-yr PPA for 100Mw Calif wind project ... World Bank's IFC to fund up to $300M of Middle East clean/ren power this year ... Standard Bank, Norfund to finance $150M for 60.8Mw Kenyan wind project ... Allied Irish Banks 200M Euro fund to finance Irish wind projects ... India cabinet approved 750Mw solar auction for this month ... Serbia subsid of Fintel (Italy) approved to build 117Mw wind farm in Serbia ... PG&E to offer targeted el rate deductions to promote econ development ... TVA generated most el ever in FY13 from its 29 hydro dams in 80 yr history.