EARLY STUFF ... SoWiTec to bid for 1Gw wind in Brazil auctions this year ... DONG to sell half its stake in 630Mw London Array for 644M Pounds ... Bolivia target 160Mw clean/ren by '25 ... Suzlon to sell $21M of shares to lenders ... First Wind to build 750Mw wind, solar next 2 yrs. Added 600Mw wind, 150Mw solar in '13 ... US wind installs down 92% to just over 1Gw in '13. '14 should be record year. 12Gw under construction at end of '13 ... Kenya to put 410Mw of geothermal power online this year ... Contour Global (US) buying Armenia hydro plant for $180M. To spend $70M to refurb over next 6 yrs ... Constellation to build, op 27Mw biogas co-gen plant for LA sanitation ... EPA, TX made deal over air permits after 4 yr fight ... Over 1.5Gw offshore wind installed in Europe in '13. 418 turbines. 1/3 more than '12. Total now 6.5Gw. Provides .7% of EU's el. 11 projects now in construction. Unclear govt support delaying planned projects, fewer new projects being launched. In '13, Siemens was lead turbine supplier (69%). DONG lead developer(48%) ... Link between Cal drought, changes to jet stream from Arctic warming ... New WH plan for Arctic warming ... DOE new standards for metal halide lamps. Cheaper to turn on stadium lights, shrink carbon footsteps ... US Senate vote to delay flood insurance rate hike joined conservatives willing to spend more with liberals abandoning enviro groups ... Rising methane emissions puzzling scientists: report. (Really?! Um, fracking, leaking NG pipelines, tundra thaw in summer, GOM blown-out well?) ... France preparing to rally world for '15 global climate agreement. (Just no semen on dresses, see voo play.) ... Drug traffickers driving Central Am deforestation: study ... Compared with cities, states, fed "late to climate table": McCarthy ... More foundations pledging to divest fossil, invest clean tech ... Climate change stresses creating more dangerous world: intel director ... U Conn to launch climate change institute ... Climate change affects all penguins: study ... Major oil/gas comps agreed to conserve Lesser Prairie Chicken ... Keystone enviro review due in hours. Ongoing IG probe ... IRS watchdog wants better oversight of potential double-dipping in green stimulus program ... NC joined pushback on EPA power plant rules ... Mexico wolf population almost double last 4 yrs: FWS ... Australia OK'd dredge dumping in Great Barrier Reef Park ... UN sanctions on Africa wildlife traffickers ... Everglades wading bird population rising ... DC circuit court rejected industry challenge to EPA, Cal offroad engine standards ... UN tapping Bloomberg for climate change envoy ... NG still flowing from blown-out GOM platform ... Wisc regulators OK'd coal plant's conversion to NG ... NYPA confirmed FBI probe ... EPA updated stormwater calculator, awarding grants ... VT lawmakers approved net metering expansions ... Maine lawmaker proposed pesticide ban to prevent lobster die-off ... High radiation levels at UK nuke ... DOE pushed loan guarantee deadline for Southern nuke again ... No NY fracking decision until '15 maybe ... Poland promising reform to stop exodus of shale explorers ... Last Jan Lake Mich hit record low. 29 inches below long term avg measured since 1918. Great Lakes 1/5 of world's above ground fresh water. Lake Mich predominately below long term avg since '90's. Trending down. As the lake warms ... less ice in water ... more evap ... Pakistan ethanol expansion set for March for sugar mills ... SZYM commenced ops at 500K liter ADM plant, ANP companion facility ... Brazil ethanol imports from US picking up during interharvest season ... Clarkson U finding biofuel potential in wastewater treatment lagoons ... IDB loaning Brazil bank $125M for biofuels, clean/ren projects ... Bill Gates, Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, others betting on Aquion. Batt costs the same as lead-acid, lasts 2x longer. Commercial launch expected this year. $55M working capital. Manganese oxide, water. Sodium ions. Enables salt water electrolyte. Carbon anode, NA-based cathode. Prices could drop to $300/Kwh. GE, Fluidic Energy competing ... NG prices to remain stable next 20 yrs: study.