STUFF ... Most volcanic eruptions ever in '13 since records started. 84. Avg 50-60/yr. Doesn't include undersea eruptions. More ash, gases in atmos. Increase could lower global temps 2 degrees Celsius or more: some analysts ... New leak of radioactive water at Fukushima ... RBS to focus clean energy finance on UK, US markets ... Smart meter provider Smart Impulse seeking capital to beat French energy monopoly ... Global biomass project finance down 6% in '13 to $9.6B ... Photon Energy (Netherlands) targeting '15 IPO, 1Gw solar portfolio by '17 ... Solar World (SRWRF) targeting 40% growth this year ... Tidal turbine maker Atlantis Resources raised over 18M Pounds in IPO and EC project grant ... Siemens, Technip, Marubeni named preferred suppliers for Mainstream's proposed 450Mw offshore wind project off Scotland ... China Supreme Court separated Sinovel copy infringement case from arbitration claims in American Superconductor (AMSC) case ... Energy Capital Group (UT) got county permit for 300Mw solar plant in Utah ... EDF to sell 70% stake in Italian subsidiary's 600Mw wind assets ... Tesla (TSLA) cut '13 losses to $74M. Revs up 500% to over $2B ... BLM approved 2 First Solar (FSLR) projects. 550Mw total ... Sun Edison (SUNE) lost almost $614M in '13 v. $148M loss in '12. Launched Yieldco to unearth, leverage solar asset values ... Farmers El Coop in Iowa this year to have over 1,500 watts of solar per customer on their system. Near 2x next utility. Global clean/renewable energy grid project could use HVDC, centralized storage. West hemisphere to connect to East via Greenland, Iceland ... US Supreme Court to consider limits of exec authority in GHG emissions case Monday ... Some conservation areas have no more fish than unprotected areas. Reserves tend to be set up in areas with low biodiversity: studies ... German village resisting plans to strip it away for coal underneath ... Japan FIT changes reflect end of residential PV program, delay in non-res projects ... Shale oil output from Bakken down 50Kb/d in Dec from weather ... Concerns NG production during summer will be insufficient to get US through next winter. Inventories lowest since '04 ... Venezuela riots, opposition leader arrested. US imports 800Kb/d from Venezuela ... 50 utility-scale clean energy projects so far on US public lands. Total 14Gw. 27 solar, 12 geothermal, 11 wind. Part of plan for 20Gw by '20. DOD plan 3Gw clean/ren on military bases by '25 ... China to loan $6.5B for 2 Pakistan nuke plants ... World's largest fuel cell plant finished in S Korea by Fuel Cell Energy (FCEL). 59Mw. Also provides heat. Recent groundbreak on another 19.6Mw FC plant in SK. Sun Edison (SUNE) completed DOD's largest solar install. 16.4Mw on AZ AFB. $500K savings/yr. 35% of base's el ... TransAlta (Cal) to sell its 50% stake in CE Generation, Blackrock development, Wailuku to partner Mid Am Renewables for $193M ... Toray unit, Fujipream to build 5.8Mw solar plant in Japan. $20M. Online in Oct ... Vitec (Japan), Renesola to set up 80Mw/yr solar panel factory in Japan ... Cal Senate leader to propose carbon tax on transportation fuels, partial cap and trade changes ... Climate-caused changes in ocean require different fishery management, more concern ... Warming Arctic spurs cyclones ... BLM advanced Conoco bid to be 1st oil producer in AK reserve ... Cal governor proposing $687M bill to combat water shortage ... Heavy rains bypassed Cal. 15% of state at "exceptional drought" level ... Panel set up to save Monarch butterfly ... Audit faults DOE for lax efforts to commercialize research ... Monitors detecting airborne radiation near NM nuclear repository ... CDC links contaminated water to cancer death rates at Camp Lejeune ... Uranium waste on Navajo land displacing residents ... EU suing Britain for exceeding air pollution limits ... Beijing issued 1st emergency air pollution alert ... New project to make Rwanda 1st E Africa nation with utility-scale solar ... Large Brit manufacturers powering down to avoid spiking el prices ... Enviros to sue govt over Hudson R. crude traffic ... OH governor no longer supports fracking in state parks.