Suzlon Group wins €90 million German community wind farm projects
Wednesday, 15 May 2013 Dan McCue Wind turbine manufacturer REpower Systems SE, a Suzlon Group-subsidiary, has secured a €90 million contract to supply 27 wind turbines to Germany's Bürgerwindpark im Kirchspiel Medelby GmbH & C...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 15/05/2013
Wednesday, 15 May 2013 REM • Climate change may be baring Mount Everest The Los Angeles Times • Brazil: Wind gathers force in mix of renewable sources Financial Times • 10,000 jobs could come from islands' renewable ene...
Small Hydropower, a promising technology for rural electrification
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 By Marcus Wiemann, Secretary General of the Alliance for Rural Electrification It is not difficult to agree that a lack of access to energy, and more specifically to electricity, is very likely to be...
For some corporations, fighting climate change is good business
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 Richard Crume Tackling climate change is one of America’s greatest economic opportunities of the 21st century – Climate Declaration It is no secret that the U.S. has fallen behind many other nations in the fig...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 14/05/2013
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 REM • Carbon dioxide passes symbolic mark BBC • Renewable Al Gore’s Golden Years New York Magazine • Obama Might Actually Be the Environmental PresidentNew York Magazine • IEA Lowers U.S. Bio...
IBA Hamburg opens the first algae biomass building
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 Robin WhitlockThe world’s first building shaded and heated by algae biomass has been officially opened in Hamburg’s Wilhelmsburg Central, district in Germany
Finland
WELTEC Biopower constructs 1.8MW plant in Finland
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 Robin WhitlockThe company from Lower Saxony in Germany is implementing this project jointly with its Finnish project partner, Doranova
REA rejects DECC biomass cap as a flawed concept
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 Robin Whitlock“The entire concept of capping new dedicated biomass capacity is wrong” says REA Chief Executive Gaynor Hartnell
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 13/05/2013
Monday, 13 May 2013 REM • Chile looks to volcanoes for renewable energyAl Jazeera • Renewable energy policy Japan Times • Breakthrough Renewable Energy Forecasting Coming to Grid by 2015The Energy Collective • Cap...
Anti-dumping tariffs will promote jobs and growth, study says, others skeptical
Monday, 13 May 2013 Robin WhitlockEU ProSun says it expects tariffs on Chinese imports to have a positive effect on solar jobs and growth after publication of PwC report