STUFF ... RWE selling 49% stake in their largest onshore wind project - 67Mw - to Town of Bedburg. Will still build project ... Opower (VA) registered for IPO. Software to enable customers to monitor their energy use ... Strata Solar (NC) target 300Mw scheduled for completion in '14 ... Mainstream (Ireland) expects to close Eur3.1B finance for 1Gw wind, solar this year ... Lockheed $208M deal with OPTT subsidiary to build world's largest wave energy plant in Australia ... Equis Funds (Singapore) targets $500M for solar in Japan ... Theolia - French wind developer - revs rose 41% in '13 to Eur95M ... Tectev (Belgium) subsidiary bidding for Electrawinds (Belgium), up to Eur184M ... India to add 30Gw clean/renewable cap by '17 ... Hindustan Cleanenergy may IPO to finance 1Gw of solar by '16 ... EIB mulling Eur600M investment in London Green Fund ... First Wind (US) raised $206M for 150Mw TX wind farm. Morgan Stanley in on finance ... Germany to raise value of exemptions for heavy industry for green energy surcharge to Eur5.1B in '14 from Eur4B ... EU state aid investigations could hamper UK's effort to award 9 clean energy projects with early form of Contracts for Difference subsidy ... Senvion (Germany) OK'd to build 600Mw wind farm in Australia. $1.34B ... UK radar mitigation deal could unlock up to 2.2Gw wind development ... NREL: parabolic trough, dry-cooled towers deliver similar value for concentrated solar plants ... Iran's sole geothermal power project halted by budget deficit ... India investigating US policies supporting solar panel makers ... Europe's wind farms have minor impact on climate: study ... Solar jobs in GA up 225% Sept12 to Nov13 ... OR House unanimously passed bill to make it cheaper for small utilities to comply with state's clean/renewable energy mandates, potentially allow large utils to sell clean/ren power to industry under special green tariff ... First Energy completed sale of 11 hydropower plants to Harbor Hydro Holdings for under $400M. 527Mw total. Includes 451Mw pumped storage plant in PA ... DOE official: initial carbon capture/storage tech est. to increase wholesale el costs up to 70-80% ... NC enviro agency creating task force to review coal ash ponds in state. Feds launched criminal investigation into Duke spill. NC warning residents not to fish near spill site (or downstream) ... DOI released 1st national interactive map of onshore wind turbines. Over 47K locations ... Solar Reserve's 110Mw NV concentrated solar plant with advanced molten salt storage entering commissioning phase. Fully online later this year. $737M debt plus DOE loan guarantee ... National Ignition Facility at LLNL made fusion advance last fall. More energy produced than used. Only 1% of initial laser energy, though, reached the hydrogen. $330M from DOE this FY, $5.3B invested since ops began in '09 ... GHG reductions from bioenergy vary greatly depending on raw material, tech used: study ... Lawsuits filed v. DOI over approval of 250-mile NV water pipeline project ... (Thought: California should get busy with seawater desalination plants.) ... US calling for shift in path of climate negotiations ... WA to consider climate impacts of proposed coal terminal ... Many groups denying climate change funded with billions in "dark money": study ... Toyota recalled 1.9M Prius on programming glitch ... Germany's clean/ren boom creating havoc for Austria grid ... Economist says carbon tax is tough but crucial climate solution ... Lobby for US investor-owned el utilities, NRDC both support new state-level rate regimes that allow continuing expansion of solar power while keeping utils financially whole, able to maintain grid. Urge grid payments for rooftop solar ... Petroleum-fired backup plants bailed out N east grid operators last month: report ... Cal commission seeks more say over fracking in Fed waters ... Bakken pipeline spill could take 2 yrs to clean up ... ND rail comp promising to clear logjam caused by oil shipments ... Crude train derailed in PA ... China villagers attacked factory in enviro protest ... TEPCO took months to report high strontium levels at Fukushima ... Renewable Energy Generation (Britain) to build 6 waste-to-power plants with partners, including Caterpillar. Already building 1st 18Mw plant for ~$10M. Waste cooking oil feedstock. Total investment est. 36-40M Pounds. All online in '17 ... EIA lowered forecast of US oil production to avg. 8.42Mb/d in '14 (down 130K), 9.19Mb/d for '15 (down 100K). Due to this winter weather that delayed well completions ... China's Jan oil imports record 6.7Mb/d, up 12% yoy ... OPEC production up 28Kb/d in Jan from Libya increase ... Shell Eco-Marathon winners (Thai students) went 2,730 miles on 1 liter of ethanol. Race even held in Phillipine streets, not track ... Merchants Research, Consulting: world ethanol production down 2.3% in '12 yoy, under 70M metric tons. Up to over 72.5M in '13. Likely to hit 100M by '18. '13 production capacity ~95M tons. US, Brazil, China, India, Canada ~90% of production. EU gaining ... EIA est. current US ethanol production 908Kb/d ... AREVA opened 50Mw biogas plant in Netherlands. Waste wood feedstock ... Yamaha launched 2nd flex-fuel motorcycle in Brazil. All blends of ethanol OK ... S Korea to issue payment to Iran for crude imports. Japan has already. S Korea imported ~132Kb/d Iran crude in Dec, up 5% from Nov. India, China payments expected soon. Iran econ showing signs of recovery. French auto, av comps eyeing Iran trade deals "within weeks" ... Paz gas stations in Israel to recharge Nissan Leafs ... GCL-Poly buying 68% stake in Same Time (Hong Kong) for $186M. Same time to shift focus to clean/ren projects.