STUFF ... US drought level down to 2-year low ... Climate change behind steady 60-yr slowdown of westerly winds blowing off N Pacific that play key role in carrying precip into western US mountain ranges: research ... Spending on management tools for boosting data center efficiency to increase 7x: study ... New US cold records over Thanksgiving ... Australia warmest-ever spring ... EU carbon market prices down 9.4% lately on expanded supply ... TX oil output up 1/3 this year led by Permian Basin ... UK wind power rose to record over 6Gw today. 14% of total el supply. 7.8Gw of NG power halted. Demand down ~2Gw ... EU, China agreed to end solar panel trade dispute. China to curb exports to Europe ... ~1.75Gw solar to be installed in India in '14. 420Mw concentrated solar ... Raizen broke ground on 10M gal/yr $100M cellulosic ethanol plant in Brazil using Iogen Energy tech. Online by '15 ... Cambrian Innovation (Mass) installed EcoVolt system at Cal brewer. World's 1st bio-enhanced wastewater treatment system. Organisms convert pollutants into el, then microorgs convert el, CO2 into methane, clean water ... Petro China to buy 25% of Exxon 60% stake in S Iraq oil field. 3Mb/d potential, now producing ~500Kb/d ... Statoil says Arctic drilling decades away ... Japan comp wants to install solar panel belt around Moon equator, beam power back to Earth ... Japan shipping comps to spend over $17B on 90 new LNG tankers through '20 ... ~2Gw to be added to Iran's power capacity next summer ... Hanwha Solar (HSOL) $574M Bank of Beijing 3-yr loan to build solar farms in China. 250Mw in development ... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) got $33M loan for Ontario project ... New German offshore wind rules to protect N Sea porpoise ... Stem (Cal) - energy storage provider - got $15M to expand in N Am. GE, Iberdrola invested. N Am market potential $45B, global market up to 3x that ... Japan's domestic solar shipments up over 3x yoy in fiscal 2Q. Exports fell to 53Mw ... Southern pine beetle taking hold in NJ forests ... 1st BP Deepwater Horizon criminal trial started ... EIB lending 200M Euro to Enel Green Power for Romanian wind portfolio. 15-yr loan ... Dane pension fund, Northland Power (Canada) supplying 200M Euro debt finance for 600Mw offshore wind project ... Consortium raised 305M Pound bond finance for transmission line for 504Mw offshore wind farm to UK grid ... GDF Suez consortium submitted 1Gw bid in French offshore wind tender ... Enel Green Power won contracts to sell up to 4.1Gwh el in Chile at $128/Mwh. Dec '13 to '24 ... Australia Bank providing 20M Pound to finance rooftop solar next 3 yrs by UK comp ... Vantage Capital (S Africa) created $217M debt finance fund for renewables.