STUFF ... '13 37th consecutive year of above-avg global temp. Temp avg'd 58.3F, ~1F warmer than 20th century avg. Since '70, each decade avg. .28F warmer than previous decade. CO2 in atmos broke through 400ppm in '13. Last time was over 3M yrs ago ... Sun Ed Saud feasibility study for 3Gw solar manufacturing complex ... Tres Amigas grid project, National Renewable Solutions agree to transmit 500Mw NM wind power to Cal ... Sharp solar unit 9mDec revs up 86% yoy ... Natifa (Israel) got $100M bank loan for Ethiopian sugarcane ethanol plant ... Solar City (SCTY) expanding to Del, MD ... Vestas issued 20M more shares after profitable 4Q. Installed record 8Mw turbine prototype at Dane National Test Center ... Spain outlined plan to cut ~Eur1.8B/yr clean/renewable subsidies ... Israel shifting 350Mw clean/ren quotas to solar PV ... Upsolar (China) $20M investment in $300M Luxembourg clean/ren investment fund to support up to 200Mw low-carbon el techs ... New EU wind installs off 8% in '13 to 10.9Gw. Germany, UK 45% of total ... DOE announced new energy efficiency standards for external power supplies for laptops, cellphones, game consoles to convert el to lower voltage ... Study projects net increase in range, risk for malaria from climate change ... Rising sea damage to be more expensive than defensive walls: research ... No point in stopping climate change because "we're not God": Nestle chairman ... Tunisia included climate change in new constitution ... Prince Charles calls climate change deniers "headless chicken brigade" ... Japan utilities raising rates to cope with losses from nuke shutdown ... Leaking GOM NG well contained ... Most TX Railroad Commission candidates unconvinced on quakes link to fracking ... GA Power procured 50 of 60MW utility-scale solar targeted for '13, 6.6Mw of 11Mw for small-scale distributed gen solar, 26.4Mw of 34Mw for medium-scale dist gen solar. Remaining cap to rollover into '14 - 10Mw for utility scale, 12Mw for dist gen ... 3 new geothermal plants came online in US in past month. 2 in NV, 1 in NM. 3.44Gw in US now online in 8 states ... Bankrupted biodiesel plant in Spain set for Eur1M auction sale. Cost Eur70M to build near-new plant ... Est. over 6.3B next-gen biofuels cap now in development in world for projects complete in '19. 334 projects ... US Farm Bill removes subsids for rural biofuel blending pumps ... ePure (Belgium) filed complaint with EC v. US ethanol imports via Norway ... ~1M of 8mb/d oil produced in US are condensates. Oil export ban covers those coming out of ground as liquid. But not those stripped from NG. Now more condensate than chem plants, refineries can process. Stands good chance of getting export OK ... Nigeria mulling $20B project to pipe NG to Europe. They flare 2nd most NG in world - 10% of total - after Russia ... Hess to invest $5.8B in development this yr. Focus on shale in US, drilling in Ghana, Kurdistan, Malaysia, Norway, Denmark, Equitorial Guinea, Thailand, GOM ... Shell selling 23% stake in Brazil oilfield to Qatar for $1B. Field producing ~50Kb/d, 2nd phase 35K more, 3rd phase 28K ... Study shows no coal ash threat to drinking water at MO Ameren plant ... NC coal ash spill ... National Cooperative Bank (US) financed $82M for solar projects in '13. Worked with Strata Solar (NC) on 15 projects in NC for 94Mw ... Siemens to supply 64Mw for Blackrock TX wind project. 2.3Mw turbines built in US. Farm online this year ... Primus Power (Cal) got another $20M in round led by Anglo American Platinum (S Africa). Zinc-based flow batt tech. Primus expects to deliver systems next 12 mo ... Greenko Group (India) bought 70Mw hydropower project from India comp for $104M ... Boehner hinting at tying Keystone XL approval to debt ceiling. Or elim of health care provision said to bailout insurance comps ... Oil sands study found higher emissions than industry est.