STUFF ... November warmest in recorded history: NOAA ... Solar City (SCTY) launched foundation to provide solar powered lighting to schools without el. To donate school install for every Mw of equipment sold in '14 ... Sao Paulo city buses using AMRS biodiesel now 400, up from 300 ... ~24% of all oil rigs in world are in TX ... US propane exports up 100% since May to 288Kb/d ... FSLR got 48Mw deal in France ... Singapore fund closed $164M clean energy fund. Looking at ~30 projects in SE Asia, focus on P.I., Indonesia, Thailand ... Solargiga (China), Savannah Accelerated Development Authority to develop 200Mw solar in Ghana ... Ming Yang Wind (China) got order for 150Mw in India. Also 200Mw in Romania ... New South Wales govt selling 2.1Gw of power gen assets to raise $700M for infrastructure projects ... Thailand fund to finance 61Mw rooftop solar at state agencies ... Solar Frontier (Japan) record 12.6% efficiency for CZTS cells - copper, zinc, tin, sulphur, selenium ... World's highest wind farm - 50Mw - going up in Tibet ... Asia Dev Bank $150M loan for 50Mw concentrated solar project in China. China General Nuclear Power, Ex-Im Bank of China managing finance ... NRC cleared Neb nuke plant flooded almost 3 yrs ago for restart ... Wolverine Power Co-op dumping plans for 600Mw coal power plant ... ~80K acres proposed for wind development offshore MD ... Colo biomass plant to burn 250 tons of wood/day ... Climate change likely to confront 40% more people with chronic water scarcity within a few decades. Severe supply shortfalls predicted in lower Rio Grande ... Engineers developing geothermal plant that sequesters CO2, generates more energy ... Arctic sea ice volume 50% more than last year: ESA ... Guangdong sold $30M of carbon permits in 1st auction ... New Zealand failing to meet climate policy targets: report ... Caribou face major threat from climate change: study ... Study links sick dolphins to BP spill exposure. Jury convicted former BP engineer for deleting spill-related texts ... Pesticides may affect brain health: EU study ... BP-led group got $45B NG deal in Azerbaijan. Pipeline to Europe ... UK Prime Minister urging EU not to limit fracking ... UK approved $736M project to build manufacturing, port facilities for offshore wind industry in England ... Cargill investing $82M in 50K CM/yr wheat-based ethanol plant in Germany ... REGI buying SYNM in $40M stock deal ... Russia promising Ukraine $15B in loans, cheaper NG by ~1/3 ... TSLA's Model E (E for everyone) to be released in '15. Model X SUV next year ... Global offshore wind industry secured ~$2B of debt project finance in '13, same as '12, off from $2.8B in '11 ... Hydro-Quebec issued 450Mw wind energy tender ... UK Energy Act now law. Provides framework to reach carbon reduction target for '30 ... Saudi firm investing 20M Euros for 34% stake in Archimede Solar Energy (Italy) ... Innergex (Canada) LOI to develop 210Mw wind power in BC ... Romania reducing subsidies for new wind, solar, small hydro starting Jan 1 ... 50 Hertz (Germany) applied to build 6 subsea powerlines in Baltic to enable construction of up to 1.5Gw offshore wind capacity.