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...
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...
Denmark
New energy agreement applauded, sets 50% Wind target for 2020
Thursday, 29 March 2012 Toby Price Denmark is continuing to make use of its EU presidency to lead by example in the clean energy space. It has just announced an ambitious energy agreement, taking it a decisive step closer towards a soc...
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...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 28/03/2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 REM • UK: Ocean energy firms wants more state energy funds Google News • Solar power towers overpower PV panels by 20X The Register • China Now World's Leader in Wind Power OilPrice.com • Qanta...
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...
Administration official to address future of fuel cells in US at D.C. conference
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