ANTARCTIC GLACIERS LOSING EQUIVALENT OF MT. EVEREST (161 GIGATONS) IN WATER WEIGHT every 2 years. Melt rates in some parts of continent tripled over last decade. NASA, U of Cal Urvine analysis .... Warming effects of CO2 emissions can appear in just 10 years: study .... Climate deal needs more than just emissions cuts: developing nations .... Kurds, Iraq reached deal on Kirkuk fields, to support war against ISIS. Kurds, Kirkuk can export up to 550Kb/d .... EU lending Ukraine over $180M for improving natgas pipeline from N Russia to Europe. Larger loan coming from Europe Bank for Reconstruction, Development .... US House to vote on extending wind power tax break .... UK to set up natgas sovereign wealth fund .... Record-breaking rainfall in S Cal. .... Typhoon ready to hit Philippines .... German cabinet voted for CO2 emissions cut of up to 78M tons by '20 .... China prepping $8B fund to fight air pollution .... Graphene breakthrough could make it possible to fuel cars with air .... Venezuela - with 256B bls reserve - importing oil. Can't refine their extra-heavy crude enough .... Accident at Ukraine nuke plant. No radiation leak. Temp power disruption. Malfunc not in reactors .... $60B price tag for US crude-by-rail rules .... Finland's largest utility to increase stake in Russia hydropower plants from 29% to 75%. JV with Rosatom. Also taking up to 15% stake in Finn nuke project .... Soitec, partners new world record solar cell. 46% efficient. Broke their Sept. '13 record. Target 50% .... Edeniq (Cal) joint development agreement with Global Bio-Chem (China) for 50K metric ton/yr cellulosic biofuels plant in China. Online in '15 .... Noble Americas bringing Indiana ethanol plant back online by yearend after $40M refurb to exit 2-year mothballing. To use 35M bushels/yr of corn .... Vertimass (Cal) got $2M DOE grant to help commercialize catalyst tech to convert ethanol into other fuels .... USDA $5.6M of grants to 220 comps to further production of advanced biofuels. $4M more to advance bioeconomy, reduce US dependence on foreign oil .... India oil marketing comps cancelled buy tenders for 1.2B liters of ethanol due to lower oil prices .... Proposed Idaho ethanol plant to use barley, potatoes for feedstock. (Really?! More food for fuel?! There are starving kids in the world. Even in US. This has to stop.) .... US shale drilling permit aps falling .... Namibia faces power shortages over next 4 yrs. Delays in major NG power project. Small clean power projects may help plug 400Mw deficit .... Indonesia comp plans to build up to 1.2Gw of coal, NG power plants for $1-1.50B for their industrial complex .... Brazil contracted 4.98Gw from 51 power projects at auction. Avg. price ~$78/Mwh. 4Gw from 12 fossil fuel, biomass plants. 926Mw wind. 43.8Mw hydro. Total cost est. near $6.1B. 20-30-year contracts. Wind price lowest at $54/Mwh. Brazil total power gen cap 126.7Gw end of '13 .... Intl Finance Corp to loan Africa comp $80M toward 450Mw NG-fired power plant project in Nigeria. Also short transmission line, NG pipe spur .... EON tapped FirstFuel Software to help medium-sized Brit comps benefit from energy saving analysis, tools usually available only for big biz .... Hanwha Solar (HSOL) delivered 20MW to China last month. ~30% HSOL 3Q shipments to China, up 5x from 2Q .... Itochu began selling home power storage systems in Japan. 7Kwh cap. Also can store cheap night grid power for day use besides storing solar roof power. $20K. Sony lith-ion batts .... BNDES loaning EDP Brazil $119M toward 120Mw wind complex project. Online in '16 .... Celsia bought 535Mw of power assets from GDF Suez .... SMA Solar reduced '14 forecast, cut 600 jobs .... First Flight Wind offshore project cancelled ....Abengoa (ABGB) $680M funding from Gulf banks.