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Monday, 21 May 2012

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Uruguay

Agro-industrial waste to generate 30% of energy in 2015

Thursday, 29 March 2012 Toby Price The target was announced recently by Uruguay’s Director of Energy, Ramón Méndez, who said efforts will focus on transforming waste generated through wool washing, dairy operations, pig breeding an...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Cabo Verde

African island goes green with solar micro-Grid

Monday, 26 March 2012 REM A new rural solar photovoltaic (PV) micro-Grid has been commissioned on the island of Santo Antão (Cabo Verde) financed under the ACP-EU Energy Facility programme and led by local private water compa...

Germany

Country needs to protect solar leadership, warns analyst

Monday, 26 March 2012 REM As a global leader in research on the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, Renewable Analytics feels compelled to address political leaders in Germany regarding several key points to put emphasis on the ...

Solomon Islands

Kentor Gold sees bright future for geothermal in the Solomon Islands

Wednesday, 21 March 2012 REM Kentor Gold, an emerging Australian-based gold mining company is looking to dial in to the geothermal energy sector in the Solomon Islands, after being granted a three year prospecting license by th...

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 ...

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