STUFF ... World large-scale solar installs this year already over 6Gw, on track to top 8Gw. 5.6Gw in '12. 3.6Gw in '11 ... Solar City (SCTY) major Calif expansion. 10 new ops centers ... Cal's carbon permits raised $297M in latest auction. All permits sold. 5 auctions raised $1.4B ... Syrian rebs captured large oil/gas field from govt ... 2 last-minute deals at Warsaw clime talks. Broad outlines of system for pledging emission cuts, support for new treaty mechanism to tackle human cost of effects of global warming. Also forest preservation progress. Next stop Paris in '15 ... Political turbulence threatens long-term investment in clean energy: Ernst & Young ... Underwater "cap" of Arctic permafrost melting, releasing more methane to atmos than previously thought: study ... Norway military fighting climate change with meatless Mondays ... India to put climate research station in Himalayas ... S East leading US in coal-to-NG switch at utilities ... Iran oil embargo still intact despite uranium deal ... NG flowing again in pipeline from Libya to Italy. Est. 200-300Kb/d being exported from Libya lately ... China to stop accumulating foreign-exchange reserves - mostly $ - now totaling $3.66T ... Sauds to extract NG from Red Sea. Up to 100B bls oil equivalent. Would increase Kingdom's reserves 38% ... Tullow Oil made another oil discovery in Kenya, their 5th ... Apache Oil says cost only 29 cents/bl to treat used frack water. $2.50/bl for proper disposal ... Job openings for N Am oil/gas industry exceeds qualified applicants. Unprecendented # of workers to retire next year ... VW new plug-in-hybrid-diesel concept car gets 214 MPG ... Afren Oil found more oil than expected offshore Nigeria. Up to 800M bls ... Bolivia developing nuke power industry. Working with Argentina ... Ecuador spent $2.8B on fuel subsidies 1st 9 months of '13, up 13% over '12 ... Fukushima cleanup est to take 30-40 yrs. TEPCO planning coal power plants on site ... At least 10 new large oil discoveries recently in Gulf of Mex. '14 deepwater production est. 1.5Mb/d. 1.9M by '20 ... Costa Rica plans to build 3 geothermal plants with Japan funds. They want 95% clean el gen by next year ... Oil pipe explosion in China killed over 50, shut off supply to area refineries ... 1st US criminal sentence for bird deaths at 2 WY wind farms. Duke (?) fined $1M for kill of over 150 migratory birds including eagles ... Exelon big winner in court ruling ending DOE fees for nuke waste removal/storage ... Judges ordering utilities to refund ratepayers for San Onofre shutdown costs ... Los Angeles oil field shut down over health complaints ... Cal to halt monitoring of hundreds of underground fuel leaks ... Big 5 oil comps $23B windfall from EPA rollback of RFS ... Ben-Gurion U researchers invented process to make oil from water, CO2 ... MIT researchers found way to boost lithium-air batt performance with virus-built nanowires ... Hong Kong group bought DOE loan, assets of Fisker Auto. Paid $25M on $168M loan ... Enel unit started on 36Mw solar farm in Chile. $60M. Chile has 6.9Mw of solar online from 5 plants ... Duke developing 30Mw solar in NC, online this year. ReneSola panels ... Brazil to auction 180Mw solar Dec 20. Max price $109/Mwh ... Pepsico recycling snack food waste into biogas, fertilizer in Turkey ... 3rd-party rating for climate bonds could unlock $22T of institutional investment ... Spain govt to revise renewable energy legislation to avoid lawsuits ... Green Plains (GPRE) closed on $101M deal for 2 ethanol plants with total 230M gal/yr cap ... Dutch grid operator needs 8B Euro to upgrade to adopt more clean energy ... UK to provide 50M Pounds climate finance for developing countries through '25 ... Statoil to build 30Mw floating offshore Scotland. 5 6Mw turbines ... Mahindra to build 150Mw solar in Tamil Nadu over next year ... KfW Bank (Germany) to loan $40M for Nigeria clean energy.