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Google and Clean Power Finance partner to create $75 Million residential solar fund

Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Internet search giant Google and Clean Power Finance, a provider of financing for the solar industry, have created a new $75 million (€55.3 million) fund to finance residential solar projects.

British firm brings pay-as-you-go to solar sector

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Eight19, a Cambridge, England-based solar firm specializing in off-grid applications, has kicked off the launch of IndiGo, a pay-as-you-go, personal solar electricity system for the developing world.

Increase in renewables and energy efficiency, not offsetting growth in demand for fossil fuels

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 According to figures published this month in the report "Long-term trend in global carbon dioxide emissions", prepared by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and PBL Nether...

Siemens brings renewables-based power to Majorca

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Siemens has delivered high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) technology that allowed Red Eléctrica de España (REE) to link Majorca with the Spanish mainland via an electricity highway laid in the Medite...

Asian governments encouraged to embrace aviation bio-fuel development

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Speaking at the Green Skies 2011 conference in Hong Kong, Paul Steele, executive director of the Air Transport Action Group encouraged governments across Asia to kick-start development of their own av...

Agricultural group in western Canada eyes industrial crop oils for jet-engine bio-fuels

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Ag-West Bio, a federally- and provincially-funded bioscience investment fund in Saskatchewan (Canada), has begun a study looking at feedstock production, processing requirements and potential commerci...

Government attracts wind turbine manufactures with new £35 million fund

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 A £35 million fund to support production of new offshore wind technology in Scotland was unveiled by First Minister Alex Salmond today at the opening of the second Scottish Low Carbon Investment Conf...

Tech development firm announces plans for innovation city in American west

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 Pegasus Global Holdings, a Washington, DC-based technology development firm, is building a full-scale town on 20-square miles of New Mexico desert in the US that it says will be an incubator and labor...

European demand driving up North American wood pellet production

Monday, 26 September 2011

North American wood pellet capacity is set to increase to serve markets in Europe and Asia, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review.

Exhaustive worldwide solar installer survey kicks off

Monday, 26 September 2011 Currently the market research institute EuPD Research is carrying out the world’s largest installer survey in the field of photovoltaics (PV). During the survey, more than 750 installation companies...

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