UK launches new energy saving advice line
Monday, 02 April 2012 REM The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change has launched new telephone line to give the public advice on how to save energy in their homes and businesses, while bringing them updates on renewables ...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 30/03/2012
Friday, 30 March 2012 REM • Floating Windmills in Japan Help Wind Down Nuclear Power Bloomberg • Feds, 5 states to push for Great Lakes wind farms Ohio.com • Burning biomass for energy could release more carbon emissi...
Part four of an on-going series
Potential investors in renewables are everywhere, but debt finance is hard nut to crack
Thursday, 29 March 2012 Dan McCue Why should energy-intensive corporations invest in green power plays like wind and solar farms? According to Fintan Whelan, corporate finance director and co-founder of Mainstream Renewable Power, be...
From pine forests to blue skies, new jet biofuel passes rigorous testing
Thursday, 29 March 2012 REM Virent and Virdia, formerly HCL CleanTech, have announced the successful conversion of cellulosic pine tree sugars to drop-in hydrocarbon fuels within the BIRD Energy project, a joint program funded b...
Scotland
Scottish commitment to renewables starts paying dividends
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Toby PriceScotland clean energy drive has been given a massive boost after it was chosen as the site of a new multi-million pound offshore wind base by the Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, Gamesa.
Part two of an on-going series
Policy needs to be 'loud, long and legal' to support renewable investment
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 Dan McCue In August 2011, a group of experienced finance practitioners gathered at Chatham House in London to discuss the then-pending creation of a $100 billion Green Climate Fund and what they wanted to contr...
Brazil, Nicaragua and Panama best for low-carbon investments
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 REM A new Multilateral Investment Fund-Bloomberg New Energy Finance report assesses the investment climate for climate change-related investment across Latin America and the Caribbean, finding that Brazil...
No global clean energy transition without Supergrid
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 REM Five grid initiatives, representing a range of global energy actors, called on decision makers to accelerate the transition to a pan European electricity infrastructure last week, warning that there w...Boeing, Airbus and Embraer to collaborate on bio-fuel development effort
Friday, 23 March 2012 REMBoeing, Airbus and Embraer signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on the development of drop-in, affordable aviation bio-fuels.
United Kingdom
Charging faster than Usain Bolt at Olympics this summer
Tuesday, 20 March 2012 Toby Price The first GE electric charge points have been installed at the Olympic Venue in London (England) to support the 2012 Games fleet. After the event, the fast charging points will become part of the capi...
Could Scotland become a global wave and tidal energy leader?
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