STUFF ... Branson and Total (GEVO) to challenge US ethanol pumps next year with butanol. $26B market. Far higher energy density, easier to refine with gasoline ... TSLA has now sold in all 50 US states. Miss was last ... EDF PPA from S Cal Ed for 20Mw wind project ... KGAL (Germany) raising Eur750M clean energy infra fund ... Dane parliament approved Eur1.74B Goldman-Sachs-led investment in DONG Energy ... Gothaer (Germany) investing Eur150M in juwi Renewable ... Lightsource closed finance for 45Mw UK solar portfolio. Also got 40M Pound loan from RBS ... Siltronic (Germany) investing Eur150M more in solar wafer JV with Samsung ... Northland Power secured Eur1.1B debt finance for 600Mw offshore wind project. Now closed on over Eur2.22B for it ... Abengoa's $1.4B US govt loan connected to AZ concentrated solar plant under investigation for labor issues ... Sinovel may post $496M net loss for '13. (They're the ones that "reverse-engineered" AMSC's superconductivity tech back a couple years ago) .... Community Windpower cancelled 2 wind projects - 70Mw total - due to UK "shifting positions" on clean/ren ... Xcel Energy seeks to limit solar rebates in Boulder unless city pays for disproportionate use ... TX energy storage comp that provided batt system at wind farm that burnt in '12 filed for bankrupt ... Jordan farmers can now apply for low interest personal loans to replace diesel-powered equip with solar ... Facing crit, legal trouble, Bakken comps to work harder to cut flaring. They want regs, pipes ... Shell halted plan to drill Arctic. Cited 9th Circuit rule. Also unloaded $1B stake in Brazil oil fields ... NY Gov ordered oversight of oil by rail ... Groups want EPA to declare Uinta Basin (UT/CO) out-of-comply with ground-level ozone standards from oil/gas production ... Calif set to tap depleted Lake Mead. Also closed rivers for fishing (Does that make sense to you?). Drought conditions worsening ... US forests could be carbon source by '60: USFS chief. (Whatever that means.) ... Spread of deserts destabilizing nations: report ... Major US cities launched plan to cut energy emissions with efficiency ... Shrinking fish in N Sea tied to warmer waters ... Monarch butterfly numbers hit record low: study ... EPA to finish coal ash regs by yearend ... 1st Porsche was EV. EVs led Norway late '13 auto sales ... Formaldehyde in WV taps (near spill): scientist ... 1,400 filed suit against makers of Fukushima reactors ... Sluggish to declining retail el sales reported by 2 of US' largest owners of el utilities ... IL ordered utilities to ensure smart meter compatability. (With what?) ... AEP raised $500M for Utica shale development ... Major US philanthropic orgs to shift from climate change mitigation to adaptation. (Think about that one, kids.) ... Despite Chevron, Exxon, Shell spending $.5T last 5 yrs, their oil/gas production down. Together will earn ~$70B in '13, down from $100B in '12. Caspian Sea project now up to $40B cost from $10B and little to show. Exxon capital spending hit $41B in '13 ($27B in '09) ... Baghdad decided to share more oil revs with provinces after provinces threatened to stop oil production. Go fig ... Assad refusing to let humanitarian aid into areas surrounded. US has resumed non-lethal aid to rebs. Frak Assad ... Renewable Energy Group to provide biodiesel for Super Bowl, events ... Mercedes Benz, partners to demo E20 cellulosic effectiveness. 12-mo trial in Germany ... Ontario Biodiesel Ass launched to promote B2, industry ... Defra cited competition for lower expectations of UK wheat ethanol production ... Airbus, Malaysia partnering to assess local solutions for sustainable biomass production ... OPEC set 30Mb/d production target (12 members). No individual quotas ... Low foreign interest in Pakistan's new oil blocks ... AWE (Australia) downsized offshore Tasmania assets for $74M from Indian Prize Petroleum ... Seabed carpet. Rubber carpet moves up down on seabed with waves. Pumps, cylinders, hydraulic pressure makes energy onshore. UC Berkeley team. Gets 90% of wave energy. Hay mister President. Did you miss something in State of Union? ... London plans to use heat from Underground to heat local homes. Other places working on it too ... Westinghouse liked Poland decision to go nuke. '24 maybe ... FL comp proposing $500M NG power plant for Middletown OH ... Indian regulator threatened to fine utility $32/d for breaking clean/ren energy rules. Managing director told to pay $320 ... Tokyo Electron to stop making solar panel production equipment end of March. TE to be bought by Applied Materials (AMAT, I think.) ... NSK (Japan) wants to 3x market share of wind turbine bearings to 20% by '17. Supplies Vestas, Mitsubishi ... Gamesa plans to close wind turbine blade factory in PA end of March. Cites US incentives. 62 jobs ... Tyson Foods to farmers: give pigs more space ... Leaders at Davos agreed climate change is real (I guess that gave the President OK to say it in SOT) , unabated coal has no future ... Intel, MSFT, Kohl's lead EPA green power ranking ... Ceres (CERE) may be faved horse in cellulosic eth race. Sorghum, switch grass, miscanthus feedstock ... New big-headed fish found in MT, ID rivers ... MBAs most wanted by comps ... Happy trails, pards.