STUFF ... Global VC funding for solar power spiked to $2.18B in 2Q13, over 2x 2Q12 ... EU Parliament voted to force comps to carry out enviro studies before fracking ... OECD head calling for global effort on climate change. "World should elim all emiss from fossil fuels before century over." ... GAO: shortage of lithium for 2/3 of US nuke reactors looming. Lithium 7 made now only in Russia, China. US shut down its facilities to make it in '63. Would take 5 yrs, $10-12M for US to rebuild ability ... EPA considering scaling back '14 targets for corn ethanol, advanced biofuels production ... BLM cancelled NM oil/gas lease sale due to shutdown ... Key Antarctic research shut down from shutdown ... FBI investigating power line attacks in Ark ... Honda challenging Prius hybrid market with Fit ... Complete transformation of utilities biz model on tap because of distributed generation ... Colo officials finding no evidence of spilled oil in flood-ravaged waterways ... Cal bill now law extending net metering, RPS ... Individual shale gas well decline rates 80-95% after 3 yrs in top 5 US plays ... E85 retailing for ~$2.50/gal in Cleveland ... Petronas (Malaysia) to invest $30B more in Canada LNG industry. BC LNG export terminal, pipeline, NG extraction, processing ... Global uranium demand predicted to rise up to 48% by '23. Arena (FR) says to buy now. U prices in Aug lowest in 7 yrs ... UK revealed strategy to install up to 20Gw solar capacity over next 10 yrs ... Gamesa to supply 202Mw to Iberdrola for S TX wind farm. Online by '15 ... Indian wind farm developer backed by IFC halted plans to expand this FY citing govt subsidies came too late. 150Mw planned. 800Mw planned by '17 ... 1st US-Indonesia geothermal project to be developed by Ormat ... GE to supply 60Mw Ontario wind farm turbines ... Wermuth expects to close 250M Euro Russia green gateway fund by 2Q14 ... Solar City (SCTY) buying Zep Solar for $158M ... Fisker assets auction Friday ... Norway's new govt to end grid monopoly, boost renewables, NG ... GDF selling 28% stake in Australia power assets to Mitsui. 5 power gen assetsincluding 46Mw wind farm.