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...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 29/03/2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012 REM • Japan Unveils Deregulation Plan to Boost Clean Energy Use Bloomberg • RoboJelly, the Hydrogen-Powered Robot Jellyfish Popular Mechanics • UK energy plans in 'tatters' after Npower and E. ON ...
Part three of an on-going series
Want to finance big wind? Look at how they do nuclear
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Dan McCue Writers take an idea and commit it to the page. Painters gaze upon an scene and apply brush to canvas. But it's a decidedly rarer sort who can look at an open field or expanse of water, envisage a wi...
IEA ocean energy technology initiative publishes tenth annual report
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Toby Price The Executive Committee of Ocean Energy Systems (OES), an International Energy Agency (IEA) Technology Initiative, announces the publication of its most recent Annual Report that presents the activiti...
Scotland
Inventor of Pelamis wave converter receives recognition
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Toby Price More news from Scotland today as Dr Richard Yemm, inventor of the Pelamis wave energy device, was honoured on Tuesday at the 2012 Scottish Renewables Annual Conference, entitled 'Scotland Unlimited: R...
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...
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...
Japan
Solar and wind power to benefit from new Japanese FiT
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 REM The new Japan feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme offers attractive returns for solar and wind projects, setting the stage for renewables to become an important source of electricity, says Bloomberg New Energ...
Nova Scotia unveils plan to have tidal energy meet 10 percent of its energy needs
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