IEA FORECAST RELIES ON IRAQ providing 60% of OPEC production growth this decade ... Lord Stern (not Howard. The UK one) warned current econ models fail to take latest climate change science into account ... World Energy Council reported world energy system threatened by global warming climate change. Power plants more vulnerable from droughts ... Low water levels on US Great Lakes threatening regional econ: report ... First Solar (FSLR) got $290M of loans for 141Mw Chile solar farm ... Zurich Insurance Group closing US climate change office after 6 yrs. To help persuade biz to press public officials for solutions to climbing disaster losses ... Maryland Energy Admin released road map for microgrid deployments. Part of strategy to withstand future storms ... Toyota expediting FCVs rollout ... Soft corals may help protect reefs from acidic oceans ... Researchers pinpointed virus strain that causes bee deformities ... India NG pipeline explosion killed 15, destroyed houses ... TX pipeline explosion injured 1, damaged power plant ... EPA moving on regs to cut GHGs used in refrigeration ... EPA science advisors endorse tighter ozone standards ... NC ordered Duke Energy to fix more leaking pipes at coal ash dams ... US Ex-Im Bank under Republican attack ... German lawmakers voted to reduce clean/renewable energy subsidies. Limits onshore wind, biomass; lowers targets for solar, offshore wind. Merkel plan to shut down nukes by '22, increase clean/ren to at least 80% by '50 ... Brazil ethanol production up 14% 1H June. 1.72B liters. Dry weather helped harvest, harmed crop ... Impending US bumper corn harvest pushing prices down to $4/bushel. (Maybe we can afford to eat some again, though it's GMO'd.) ... 1st commercial biofuels-powered flight from Sweden ... UK biofuel consumption up 22% on year. Q1 387M liters. Biodiesel most of increase ... Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) only interested in small-scale cellulosic ethanol plants. No more than 10M gal/yr each ... Thai energy price reform may in end force ethanol plant closures ... Nigeria offering to step in if Russia NG to Europe interrupted ... Golf ball dimples reduce drag. Cut air resistance in half at low speed. Affect reverses at high speed. (Um, wondering what reversal speed is.) MIT coming up with changing dimples. Stiff outside, soft inside. ( I can envision a dimpled Aeronca Champ.) ... Boralex closed $194M finance for 75Mw Quebec wind projects. (Kinda pricey.) ... Caribbean needs $30B investment to cut fossil fuel use ... UK audit questioning $28B clean/ren power projects ... Russia solar auction outstripped wind, hit 470Mw target ... 6-8Mw turbines to dominate UK wind market within a few years: Carbon Trust ... Domestic, legal action open to Italian PV investors after retro FIT cut ... UK overpaid for early CfD contracts: Natl Audit Office ... Statkraft offering 6B Euros of medium-term notes ... Clean/ren almost 20% of UK power gen in 1Q14. Up 9% yoy ... Brazil's Ancel got requests for 286Mw of wind farms ... Bright Source, Alstom got $808M finance for Israel CSP plant ... Windiga (Canada) got govt backing for $50M Burkina Faso solar plant ... Denmark to launch new $1B green fund ... Avantha (India) got 150M Euro offshore N Sea wind project contract.