STUFF ... Gazprom raising NG export prices ... Surge in demand for climate bond: EIB ... CSIQ got $45M finance for 10Mw Ontario solar project ... Suzlon to raise $1.7B in offering at least 20% stake in German unit in London ... Vestas won 194Mw deal for EDF TX wind projects. Latest of '13 master supply deal ... SUNE closed finance for 50.7Mw Chile solar plant ... Vestas increased revolving credit Eur150M to Eur1B ... Foresight Solar Fund (UK) added 39.6Mw solar to portfolio. 51M Pounds ... Algonquin Power (Canada) bought remaining 40% of 400Mw wind portfolio from Gamesa for $115M ... Expected over $1B private clean energy investment in Honduras after new legislation ... Borrego, San Diego Airport partnering on 3.3Mw rooftop solar project. $3-8M savings over 20 yrs ... NY, auto dealers, TSLA agreement to allow TSLA to op on its own terms ... 4 governors urging renewal of wind production tax cred ... EPA issued 1st-ever CO2 injection permits ... Exxon: climate policy "highly unlikely" to keep oil/NG reserves from selling next 30 yrs ... EPA planning certification system for comps that reduce methane emissions ... 1st China deepwater NG operation started pumping ... Paraguay exporting 5M liters ethanol to Brazil. Paraguay's pump blend 25% eth ... Brazil starting cane harvest early over El Nino fears ... 9 US oil refiners paid $1.35B for RINS in '13. RIN prices up 3x last year ... "Big 4" oil/gas comps total development costs up 15% in '13 (over $10B). Up near $30B since '11. From $25/boe to $45 cost. (We all know retail 2x wholesale rule of thumb. Business 1/3 labor, 1/3 materials, 1/3 finance. Rules of thumbs.) ... Floating offshore oil production ship lost power, drifted, spilled some oil in Gulf of Mex. (Can't they have back up power?) ... TX wind power hit new gen record night of Mar 26. Over 10Gw. 29% of TX power. Helped by new $7B power line to connect west wind with east peeps ... China, Germany joint program for energy efficiency in buildings, cities ... National Lineman Appreciation Day. Yesterday. (Good Glen Campbell song.) ... Private investment in US clean energy over $100B '12-'13 ... Avg cost of wind power down 43% last 4 yrs. US on track to gen 20% of power from wind by '30 ... Dominion buying 139Mw solar in Cal from Sharp's Recurrent Energy. 6 projects. Quadruples Dominion's solar ops ... KIOR stock price surge on $25M from Khosla. (Known about.) May get KIOR to Sept. Maybe no bankruptcy ... Ocean Power (NJ), DOE cancelled OR wave power project over finance. Moving on with Australia 62Mw project. A$5M Australia grant, govt pledged up to A$66M. OP working with Lockheed ... 5 banks to loan 6.6B yen ($64M) for 20Mw N Japan solar project ... Showa Shell Solar, partner to build 29Mw solar plant in SW Japan. Showa spending 30B yen to build 10 solar plants by yearend ... World Bank accused of destroying traditional farming to support corporate land grabs. Example: 20% of Sierra Leone arable land (bought) from poor folks, leased to foreign sugarcane, palm oil producers. Liberia, Malaysia, Indonesia cases over big palm oil ... Forecasted increased adaption of wide band gap semiconductors in EVs. Inverters. Up to 4x more powerful, 1/2 cost, 1/4 size, weight of current inverters ... US House plan slashes energy, research without defense purpose near half. Duller axe to enviro spending. Promotes more oil/gas drilling on fed lands ... Grids seeing "greatest fuel shift in history": operators ... McConnell amendment to strike down climate, mining rules for coal. (He's got a tough primary election in KY to win. And, as we know, winning is far more important than doing what's right.) ... FWS dropped protection for Cal lizard. (Aw, poor lizard. Adopt a Cal lizard today.) ... Panel rejected drilling permit near FL wildlife refuge. (Great! But how about the drilling near PEOPLE!?) ... Italian energy exec found guilty of enviro crimes ... Satellite images helping measure climate change effects on ag ... Wood building construction lowers GHG emissions, cuts fossil fuel use: study ... Fukushima quarantine lifted. Families trickling home ... 4 more workers exposed to radiation at NM nuke waste repository.