STUFF ... Exxon delaying Ukraine NG project. NG fields in E Ukraine, Crimea now. Chevron has $10B shale gas deal in W Ukraine. Est. ~3TCM. Similar deals already with Shell, Exxon ... Duke buying 2 20Mw Cal solar farms from Infigen Energy ... CSIQ got $44M for Ontario plants ... India approved 3B Rupees subsidies for solar water pumps ... RES (UK) abandoned 100Mw, 300M Pound biomass plant plans due to govt policy ... Mainstream (Ireland) got enviro OK for 88Mw, $160M Chile solar plant ... Europe's energy giants warning Scot govt that restricting development on wild land could affect country's ability to meet EU clean/ren energy targets. (It's probably political. Scotland to vote on independence in fall.) ... Wind power met over 4% of US energy use in '13 ... Queensland to remove A$.08 solar FIT ... TSLA targeting Europe ... Canada to allow oil sands bitumen, conventional oil to use Enbridge pipe across US to Quebec refineries. 300Kb/d ... Judge ordered Duke to immediately eliminate sources of groundwater contamination at its coal ash dumps. From '12 complaint. NC regulators failed to enforce: judge ... Hawaii utility put limit on rooftop solar ... UPS $70M for propane trucks ... China to speed up nuke plant expansion ... As temp goes up, so does malaria: report ... Researchers see rivers as "tape recorders" of long-term climate shifts ... Palm oil competing with food production in Indonesia ... Californians turning to rain dances ... US forecaster predicting emergence of El Nino in summer-fall ... Oklahoma quake largest ever linked to fracking: USGS ... NJ project turns fracking emissions into liquid fuel ... Ambri - Boston startup - developing liquid metal batts for energy storage. Under $500/Kwh. Under 1/3 cost of some current techs. Li-ion ~$1K. Gates, Khosla some of backers. 1st installs next yr in Mass, HI. Planning new plant ... Avg US home used 903Kwh/mo in '12: DOE ... ~23.4Gw pumped hydro E storage in US. 304Mw batt storage: DOE ... Lawsuit brought upon Hawaii, Hawaii utilities over delay of geothermal contracts expected last yr to develop 50MW on Big Island. At least 900Mw geo resources in state. Estimates up to over 2Gw (enough to power most of islands) ... New US shale wells fizzling out in 1st year. Avg flow drops 50-75% in 1st year for NG, up to 78% for oil ... Neste Oil (Finland), DONG teaming on developing renewable diesel, av fuel. Biomass-based ... Calif start-up got ORNL license for ethanol-to-HC tech for trans fuels ... S Africa-Brazil JV to build $119M sugarcane ethanol plant. 1.5M cubic liters of ethanol, 94MW el (84 to grid) ... Drought in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand to reduce palm oil yields for up to 2 yrs ... Gross US petrol products exports record 4.3Mb/d in Dec ... Marathon Oil taking 50% stake in Ethiopia block from Africa Oil (Canada). $3M cash, $15M for development ... GDF Suez over $13B '13 loss. $20B writedown. "Over solar, wind subsidies" (Deterioration of NG storage, thermal power in Europe.) Europe has lost ~50Gw NG-fired powgen cap last 5-6 yrs. Rising prices (Russia, LNG), less demand, rise of clean E. GDF gave up 10Gw. More in consideration. E.ON wrote down assets in recent yrs. RWE has $4.5B coming ... Eni challenging Europe's oil-linked NG prices with renegotiated Statoil deal, suspended $10B lawsuit over high prices. Eni to pay mart prices for NG ... UK petrol operating costs up 15.5% in '13 to $14.8B. $28/bl. Totalo cap spend $24B. All fields over $50/bl cost. 10% increase seen for '14 ... Canada oil sands exports to US 40-57Kb/d Dec. Industry had projected 200K ... LNG boom may turn to bust: Rice U expert ... RGGI carbon prices jumped in 1st event with fewer permits ... Vestas got 99Mw turbine order from Finland ... Wuxi Suntech to enter Japan retail el mart ... GEVO licensing isobutanol tech to Argentina comp ... Hubble captured 1st-ever pics of distant asteroid disintegration ... Capital Stage (Germany) bought 40Mw solar from Aquila for Eur140M ... Canada consortium plans $1B, 500Mw solar plant, panel plant in India ... $2.3B for clean E, E efficiency (EERE) in DOE $27.9B '15 budget ... Capstone Infra (Can) '13 profit up over 46% to C$67.2M ... Chaori Solar 1st China comp to default on onshore bond. Solar panel maker ... Brammo - OR el motorcycle maker - raised $9.5M in 1st close of series D ... Covanta closed $400M senior note offer ... Ireland-UK powerline link talks collapsed.