STUFF ... KIA announced plans for their 1st EV for US ... Waves of jellyfish shut down Swede reactor. 1 of world's largest reactors ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) sold 2 solar plants - 16Mw - to TransCanada. $92M. Part of 86Mw buy for C$470M ... Electric rickshaws in Katmandu ... Calif, Quebec to merge cap-trade programs ... Poland leading opposition to new EU carbon cuts ... Wisc county spending $1M to launch climate adaptation projects ... Indian farmers returning to traditional flood-resistant rice crops ... BP-Dupont JV broke ground of retrofit of MN ethanol plant for biobutanol ... Flesh-eating bacteria killed man who waded in FL river ... 14 Greenpeace activists charged with piracy in Russia. Despite Putin's opinion ... Chile offering up to $14M of grants for marine energy projects. ~200Gw potential from coast, over 10x their grid now ... Conoco putting 1st commercial drone to work in Arctic ... NY fracking opposition at record high in latest poll ... $60M NG liquids pipeline slated for OH ... Sauds, Kuwait, UAE exported record high of crude in Aug. Still didn't offset OPEC .8% decrease (Libya, Iran, Nigeria). Saud highest rate in 32 yrs ... Again, Shell shutting down oil shale project in W Colo after 31 yrs. 800B bls potential. Needed dedicated power plant to heat rock, lack of water to cool plant. This "oil shale" actually organic maristone containing kerogen ... eBay, Ormat (Israel) JV to build 5Mw waste heat to el plant for eBay's new data center in Utah ... Energy innovation suffering with US govt shutdown ... US Army Corps Engineers awarded 11 contracts - $600M - to provide design/build support for energy, energy conservation projects worldwide ... Cool Planet licensing tech for biofuel plants in Malaysia ... Brasil Solair building Brazil's 2nd solar panel factory. $4M for 300K panels/yr capacity. Online Dec ... Solar developer BNRG exiting Balkans, E Europe ... China 3 Gorges, Thai comp targeting 4Gw of wind power in Myanmar ... Abengoa closed $570M finance for solar thermal plants in US ... Canada to invest up to $38M for Enerkem's waste to ethanol plant in Quebec ... S Africa to mandate biofuel blending starting Oct '15 ... Negev Energy to build 110Mw $1.1B solar thermal plant in Israel ... Good Energy Group approved for 30Mw wales solar plant.