STUFF ... Billionaire Steyer enlisting donors for $100M fund for climate change ads for '14 election ... Global stocks have erased '14 losses. $3T restored ... DOE to finish $6.5B loan guarantee, plus another $1.8B one soon, to help GA Power build 1st nuke in US in 3 decades. Total est. cost $15.5B. Only other new nuke project in US 2 reactors by SC El&Gas ... Australia preparing reverse auction approach to replace carbon tax (highest in world) ... Trailer rules expected in new truck efficiency standards ... Time-of-use billing produces more satisfied customers: report ... Kansas officials probing tie between drilling, quakes ... EON, DONG, Masdar scrapped plans for phase 2 of 630Mw London Array (world's largest offshore wind farm) on concern birds may be harmed. EON says will take until '17 to collect necessary enviro data. The Red Throated Divers. 6th UK offshore wind plan in 3 mo to be cancelled or reduced. UK has more offshore wind cap than rest of world combined. 3.7Gw of 6.9Gw. 16.5Gw in world pipeline ... UK startup to make biofuel from London coffee grinds ... George Mason U students launching EcoMow. Mower powered by its own cut grass ... Exxon started production in new Malaysia offshore NG field. Projected production cap 200MCF/d. Malaysia has ~83TCF proven NG reserves. 3rd largest LNG exporter behind Qatar, Indonesia ... WY coal production down 3.3% to 388M tons in '13. 4th year in row of decline. WY over 40% US coal production. Powder R. Basin prices up to $12.35/ton in Jan from $10.15 Jan '13. Appalchian coal $64-68/ton ... OH's energy efficiency mandates costly, ineffective: industry report. $1B extra in customer fees since rules took effect in '09 ... Excess wind power getting turned into NG in Denmark. Hydrogen from 1Mw Hydrogenics (HYGS) electrolysis system powered by excess wind power converts biogas from sewage sludge into NG ... 4 biggest US shale comps spent $133B to develop shale '08-'12. Got $80B back in cash flow before $43B of write downs. Bakken well decline rate 40% /yr v. avg 4-5% for world's existing oil fields. Marginal cost of US oil production up to $114/bl in '12 from $89 in '11. Shale gas profitable at $4-6/ThousandCF. Some argue $8 ... US has 48% of world's 3,713 oil/gas rigs. Produces 9% of world's oil, 20% of world's NG ... UK startup STOR Generation to raise 10M Pounds for el demand response expansion ... Renewable Energy Trust Capital raising $125M in Series C round ... French fuel cell developer Symbiofcell in drive to expand manufacturing cap ... UK govt doesn't plan to review FIT for anaerobic digestion this yr ... Iberdrola to invest Eur9.6B through '16. Over 40% for UK offshore wind ... Ferrostaal (Germany) raising project finance after taking majority stake in $120M 52Mw Mongolia wind project ... Meridian Energy (New Zealand) to cease investing in Australia clean/ren energy projects if Australia terminates Renewable Energy Target ... US bankruptcy court approved Wanxiang's Fisker assets purchase ... Dominion Resources requested to bid to develop wind farm offshore MD. BOEM intends to auction the area in 2 separate leases ... Offshore wind installer Gulf Marine Services (Abu Dhabi) to raise $100M through London IPO ... Bureau of Reclamation notified senior water contractors on Sacramento, San Joaquin Rivers to expect 40% of normal deliveries this yr. (Desalination plants, people!) ... DOI OK'd 2 "milestone" utility-scale solar projects on public lands ... Moniz touting plan for building "grid of future" ... Nun sentenced to almost 3 yrs in prison for TN nuke facility protest break-in ... Senator calls for probe of DOE after firing of Hanford whistle blower ... Prosecutors expanding probe of NC coal ash spill as another leak showed up ... Activists dumped coal in front of French president's palace.