October has not been a particularly uplifting month on the climate front of the Green Energy War.  The worldwide financial freeze-up has sent summer soldiers across the globe scurrying for the presumed security of retreat.  Even the nominal master of ceremonies of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change puts it flatly:  "If industry is in a difficult pass, most sensible governments will be reluctant to impose new costs on them in the form of carbon-emission caps."

A surprise announcement last week by  Southern California Edison that it plans to adapt its 2009 Renewable Procurement Plan to include feed-in tariff provisions for projects under 20 MW in size could be a game changer.