STUFF ... Sluggish solar activity lately surprising scientists. Prolonged period of almost no sunspots could spark "little ice age" in N hemi ... Nissan agrees with Tesla: hydrogen cars won't work ... First Solar (FSLR) started on 1.4Mw plant in Japan. Online 1Q14 ... Bosch selling German solar panel ops to Solarworld (SRWRF) ... Mw-scale solar PV ops/maintenance market to reach 146Gw by '17: GTM Research ... Xcel Energy, Sun Share to develop 4.5Mw community solar gardens in Colo. 3 projects. Xcel plans 6.5Mw more in '14 ... Solar panel factory opened in Mozambique with $13M loan from Ex-Im Bank of India, other Indian help ... Bloom Energy completed 1st intl project with Soft Bank in Japan. Over 100Mw installed in US ... Last 100Mw of 300 of Apex wind project in OK sold to Western Farmers El Coop ... Vestas announced "Wind for Prosperity" to bring low-cost power to rural populations around globe. Partnering with Masdur (Abu Dhabi), Dane equity comp. Start next year in Kenya. Refurbed turbs with diesel backup to cut costs up to 30%. Goal $150-200M for next 3 yrs. Vestas est. ~50M people living without sufficient el in high wind zones ... Pakistan broke ground on 2.2Gw nuke plant near Karachi. China help. 6-yr build. Est. cost ~$10B ... Methane emissions ~1.5x greater than EPA est. in US in '07-'08: 15 climate scientists. Emiss from TX/OK 2.7x greater. Emiss from oil/gas ops could be 5x greater. EPA, others say methane emiss has been in slow decline since mid-'90's ... 39% of pension funds investing in clean/renewable energy infra ... Oil driller fined $1M for WY spill ... RWE (Germany) scrapped plans to build $7.3B wind farm offshore Britain. "Market conditions, (seabed) challenge." ... Colo rules to reduce fracking emiss. A 1st for states ... ND data shows far more wells drilled in '13 than '12 to maintain comparable production increase ... Est. would take 5% of world annual GDP each year to get to zero GHG emiss by '50. World now spends ~3% of GDP on fossil fuel subsidies. Industry creates ~30% of total emiss, agri 25%, bldgs 20%, trans 15%, power supply 5%, split another 5% between them ... New FERC rule to expedite, reduce cost of solar connects while maintaining grid reliability, safety ... Sauds started algae project on Red Sea. Up to 30K tons/yr production by '14 ... Indonesia palm oil production est. to grow 6% in '14 to 27M metric tons. Prices up to $950/ton ... Toshiba 20Mwh batt energy storage system for pilot project. Lith-ion batts. Early '15 install ... Cleveland Browns stadium turning food waste into el, fertilizer ... Tata planning acquisitions of wind, solar power as part of $260M/yr investment in "renewables" ... Ireland's state-owned energy comp Bord Gais got 3 acquisition bids ... Mytrah to raise $400-600M from Indian assets IPO ... Sun Ed to raise $300M in solar spin-off IPO ... Uganda selected 8 clean/ren energy projects for $56.7M FIT. Maybe 85Mw.