STUFF ... Climate change leading agenda at Davos ... Active power control of wind turbines can improve power grid reliability: NREL ... Everpower to build large-scale wind projects for US Army bases ... Larger dedicated installation vessels key to offshore wind cost reduction: Rabobank ... Kilowatt Financial (NY), Citi launched $100M home energy efficiency fund ... Goldpoly (China) completed purchase of 400Mw project portfolio from GD Solar ... Areva, Gamesa to form JV to focus on offshore wind ... EIB, Masdar (UAE) signed renewables financing framework agreement ... German econ minister to propose cutting renewables subsidies 1/3 by '15 ... Extreme El Ninos to become more frequent with climate change: study ... DOE, biotech firm joining forces to capture, use methane from drilling ... Soaring finance costs slowing buildout of clean energy in developing countries ... Climate change drying up Andean farming in Peru. Melting Tibet glaciers flooding downhill pastures ... Great Lakes, St Lawrence communities got climate adaptation funding ... Rich countries "outsourcing" CO2 emissions to rising econs ... Rise in quakes prompting Dutch to limit NG production ... 1,600 fields providing 70% of today's global oil supply show decline rate of 6.2%: IEA. Tripled oil industry investment since '00 has increased oil supply just 12% ... Fossil fuel subsidies $544B/yr globally ... European Court of Justice rejected BP's request to avoid biodiesel duties on US imports ... Indian oil comps set ethanol benchmark price too low for mills ... Blue Sun Energy (MO) implemented its enzymatic biodiesel processing tech. Refinery the most advanced biodiesel production facility in world ... Zarya (Ukraine) investing $59M in 30M ton/yr ethanol plant. Cereals, including corn, rye feedstock. Online in '15 ... Praj (India) cellulosic ethanol demo plant expected online by yearend. 5M liters/yr ... Turkey found high grade oil on Iraq border, near Iran border. Energy imports cost Turkey $60B in '12. IMF est. to surpass $70B by '17. Turkey oil reserves 270M bls. Oil production peaked in '91 at 85Kb/d, bottomed in '04 at 43K ... Shell sold $1.1B stakes in 2 Australian NG/LNG projects to Kuwait's energy comp ... Eni planning to pull out of Poland shale gas project. Would be 3rd major to give up on Poland shale since '12. Reserves est. down to 350-750BCM from earlier 5.3TCM ... Turkmenistan moving to limit amount NG it gives citizens for free. World's 4th largest NG reserves. They also give citizens free el, water. Subsidies cost $5B/yr. NG meters to be installed. Govt est. 80B bls oil in their part of Caspian, so far unexplored ... Iraq '14 budget will collapse without Kurd oil income: head of Parliament treasury committee ... U of TX researchers using windmills the size of a grain of rice to charge portable devices ... Wartsila got order to build 200Mw dual-fuel power plant in Indonesia. Will run primarily on NG, heavy fuel oil backup. Fully online May '15 ... Suzlon may raise up to $750M by listing German unit by Aug to repay lenders ... Panasonic, Epco to form JV to sell power from residential rooftop solar in Japan ... 43Mw solar plant to go online Feb 1 in Japan. Built by Softbank, Mitsui ... Macmillan working to reduce carbon emissions 65% by '19.