S. CAL HEAT WAVE SHATTERING POWER USE RECORDS ... More floods in US S west from 3rd hurricane ... N. Cal still burning ... "Red Tide" in Gulf of Mex threatening Florida econ ... Moves to cut HFC emissions by US. Used in cooling, refrigeration. Voluntary agreements from some of largest comps to scale down, phase out use with reductions of 700M tons CO2 equivalent through '25 ... Arctic Sea ice cover 6th lowest on record. Antarctic ice may set growth record. (Nature doesn't move in straight lines.) ... TX school board proposes textbook revisions to deny global warming climate change. (You know, what's going to happen is going to happen whether denied now or not, kids. And if deniers are wrong, life will get pretty dang bad which we could have prevented. Why gamble on civilization?!) ... Global offshore wind installs to reach 40Gw by '20: report ... EPA denied N Carolina petition to change baseline for power plant emissions allowances ... Cal issued 1st permit for driverless car ... Renault Ecolab said to get 235MPG ... Northeast Utilities joining Spectra in $3B bid to expand New England NG pipelines ... Shell's revised Arctic plan calls for 2 rigs, 6 wells ... More flex-fuel vehicle sales in UK driving biofuels use: Frost & Sullivan ... 25M gal/yr ethanol plant back online in S Dakota. Idle 18 months ... NFR BioEnergy to invest $312M to install biorefineries at over 10 sugar hubs in Louisiana. To convert bagasse into fuel pellets for power plants. Torrefaction process ... New oil discovery by Eni offshore Angola in deepwater. Est. 300M bls. Production capacity over 5Kb/d ... Baltimore G&E customers achieved $2B in energy savings over lifecycles of efficiency equipment installs. Smart Energy Savers Program. Participants got over $380M in incentives ... Bright Source Energy got Cal Energy Commission OK for 2nd thermal solar plant in Mojave. Partnering with Google, NRG Energy. CEC scaled project back, though, to 1 tower, 1,900 acres of mirrors. Near migratory bird corridor ... Minas Gerais in Brazil preparing Nov. solar auction. Ceiling ~$111/Mwh. 15-yr PPAs. Seeking solar panel factory for state. Developers must buy panels made in state ... Blue Earth to buy $10M stake in battery maker Power Gemix Systems. Nickel-zinc tech ... UK solar institutional investors to benefit from new opportunities under CfD ... Hareon Solar got $619M in share sale ... Gaelectric Group entering biomass sector with Imperative Energy purchase ... Egypt to offer bids to generate 8Gw new power ... FERC deadlocked over fairness of power market rules in power-starved New England.