STUFF ... Water rationing outside Malaysia capital because of drought ... GE to spend $10B through '20 on developing waterless fracking with turbines using flared NG. Also to lower cost of wind power production ... Oil/gas comps won't be allowed to estimate GHG leakage using nonstandard methods under proposed EPA rule ... Colo 1st state to limit methane emissions from oil/gas production ... Supreme Court declined to review FERC approval of tariff system for cost of transmission lines for clean energy plants in Midwest ... Longer growing seasons may not expand trees' ability to store carbon: study ... Near 1/2 of RGGI carbon proceeds went into efficiency: report ... 6th carbon auction netted Calif $130M ... Rhode I created panel to assess, coordinate climate actions ... Volcanic eruptions partly behind global warming "pause": study ... Cattle industry topped NG sector as primary methane emitting source in US in '12. (So do we develop "gas bags"?) ... US GHG emissions down 3.3% in '12 ... BP started Phase 3 ops at deepwater Gulf of Mex project ... 2 US lease sales in GOM scheduled for March could unlock 1.7B bls, over 4TCF ... Bakken shale oil has much higher vapor pressure than other crudes: analysis ... Danish, Iraqi researchers using rice husk acid to make ethanol ... Devon Energy selling bulk of conventional oil/NG assets in Canada for ~$2.8B to Canadian Natural Resources. Production over 380MCF/d, 10.8Kb/d light crude, 12Kb/d NG liquids ... Tesla (TSLA), with partners including Panasonic, to build world's largest batt factory. Cost $2-5B for 30Gw/yr capacity. Will more or less match all global output combined. Solar City (SCTY) would purchase batts for its solar systems. Plenty of solar, wind to power factory ... NG prices serving NYC briefly topped $90/MBTU last week of Jan ... Scatec Solar (Holland) , Gigawatt Global (Norway) building 8.5Mw solar plant in Rwanda for $23.7M ... Abengoa (ABGB) to build 30Mw solar plant for EDP Renovaveis (Portugal) in Cal ... Podesta says regs due this year on limiting carbon emissioins from power plants will be "flexible" ... Yingli supplying 54Mw solar modules for 7 UK projects ... Acme Solar started up 25Mw solar plant in central India ... GE developed new 2.85Mw wind turbine designed specifically for Japan weather ... Algerian wind exports to Italy could be cost-competitive without subsidy by next year ... Russia to intro annual clean/renewable energy auction system ... UK's Green Investment Bank and finance partner to provide 50M Pounds for energy efficiency projects ... GE bought 51Mw of Irish wind projects from Element Power (US). 2 projects ... Sun Edison (SUNE) expects 90% growth in completed solar systems this year. 500-650Mw ... Heliovolt suspended ops, seeks investor. Makes CIGS thin-film solar ... Solar City (SCTY) 4Q13 installs more than doubled 4Q12 to 103Mw. '13 total installs 280Mw ... Dongfang got 75Mw order for Swedish 250Mw wind farm. $92M ... Sinovel to save up to $425M by reducing investment in production, supply chain capacity ... All but 1Mw of 325Mw new energy installs in US in Jan was clean/ren.