HUMAN ACTIVITY CAUSING RISE IN WATER VAPOR in atmosphere: scientists ... 2 months worth of rain in 2 hours on Long Island yesterday. Recent deluge in Detroit. And many more stories just this year ... Brazil to encourage domestic solar industry with cheaper loans ... Florida PSC OK'd FL Power & Light plan for $9/month voluntary fee for building up to 2.4Mw of solar power ... NRG Energy buying portable solar generator maker Goal Zero ... Tata completed 3Mw solar plant for fertilizer, chem plant in India ... ~30M homes in US suitable for rooftop solar ... ET Solar (China), Geenex closed finance, started on 30Mw solar project in N Carolina. Plan to sell it to Duke Energy. Online this year ... IEA '14 oil demand growth forecast now 1Mb/d - down 180Kb/d - on weaker econ growth. 1.3Mb/d growth forecast for '15. 2Q14 demand up annualized rate of 700Kb/d ... OPEC produced 300Kb/d more in July, much of it from Libya ... Loaded oil tanker left Libya ... Juhl Energy (JUHL) bought 3.2Mw wind farm in Iowa for $4M ... Germany's bank KfW financed more onshore wind in 1H14. Solar loans dropped. Loans to all clean/renewable development up 4.5% (over '13) to 2.3B Euros. Enviro, climate protection finance down 18% on year to 4.2B Euros ... Iberdrola started on $120M 66Mw wind project in Mexico. 33 Gamesa turbines. Mex comp co-developing ... Denmark OK'd 120Mw wind project in Aarhus Bay ... Fulcrum BioEnergy got over $30M in latest funding round. They convert muni solid waste into fuel ... Tidal Energy plans to raise 50M Pounds for 10Mw Welsh project ... Wave, tidal power costing more than forecast ... UK developer started on $5M 750Kw hydropower project in Scotland ... Sumitomo to add 2 geothermal units - 110Mw - at Indonesia power plant ... Grid Share launched fundraising platform for clean/ren projects.