Part one of an on-going series
Despite Europe's economic woes, hunger for renewables project investment remains
Monday, 26 March 2012 Dan McCue In the nearly four years that have elapsed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the global financial crisis, the economic news coming across the Atlantic from Europe to American has ...
Chile
juwi and Kaltemp construct Chile's largest PV array
Friday, 23 March 2012 REM The sunny Región de Coquimbo in northern Chile is becoming an electricity producer. On unused land close to the City of Vicuña, German renewable energy specialist juwi and Chilean engineering compan...
CSP experts share their outlook on the state of the industry in 2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 REMCSP Today has released a series of interviews with experts in solar thermal electricity on what the future holds for the industry in 2012.
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 21/03/2012
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 REM • Solar’s 80% Plunge Hurts Utilities From Hawaii to Spain Bloomberg • Reluctant Russia wakes up to energy waste Reuters • Why electric cars are losing their aura The Inquirer • Investors ...
Siemens takes stock one year after Fukushima
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 Toby Price Coinciding with the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Siemens has published a paper examining how the Fukushima nuclear disaster has changed opinion in Germany and what the new ene...
Leading CSP companies form advocacy alliance to bolster US market
Thursday, 08 March 2012 REM Three of the world's leading concentrating solar power companies -- Abengoa, BrightSource Energy and Torresol Energy -- have formed an alliance to advocate for the technology to US regulators, utiliti...
Europe
EU wind market grows, but slowed by flagging onshore segment
Thursday, 08 March 2012 Toby Price EurObserv’ER has released its latest wind power barometer showing that cumulative wind power capacity in the European Union (EU) at the end of 2011: 94.1 GW, up on the figure of 85.0 GW registered a...
India
Renewable energy, grid parity – myth today or tomorrow’s reality!
Wednesday, 07 March 2012 Ritesh Pothan Ritesh Pothan provides an exhaustive analysis of the cost of renewable energy and the path towards grid parity. "There is a tremendous amount of benefit that renewable energy can provide to a nation a...
Spain
Green miracle: from toilet to tank bioenergy
Tuesday, 06 March 2012 REM aqualia has launched a new EU-backed algal biofuel demonstration project, ‘All-Gas’, constructing the first algal culture ponds at a waste water treatment plant in Southern Spain. According to the...
Spain
Wind energy output reaches record high
Monday, 05 March 2012 REM Wind energy broke a record in February in Spain with wind turbines achieing their highest-ever electricity output, generating a total of 4.890 GWh. According to provisional figures from Red Eléctrica...