Panorama

IEA continues with energy efficiency, renewables drive

Tuesday, 15 May 2012 Toby Price After unveiling an early excerpt of its Tracking Clean Energy Progress report – Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 (release date June 2012) at the third Clean Energy Ministerial in London in April, ...

Africa

JRC shares knowledge on renewables in africa

Tuesday, 08 May 2012 Toby Price The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's in-house science service. It has released a report entitled “Renewable energies in africa: Current knowledge”, with contributions from Institute ...

All eyes turn to Abu Dhabi as MENASOL 2012 approaches

Monday, 30 April 2012 REM

Scores of renewable energy industry insiders and government officals are poised to gather in Abu Dhabi 16-17 May to discuss future for solar in Middle East and North africa at MENASOL 2012.

23 governments commit to clean energy in London

Friday, 27 April 2012 Toby Price Leaders from the 23-government Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) and the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative yesterday outlined specific commitments by ...

A shower of news on Germany bioenergy and Spanish CSP this time last year

Friday, 13 April 2012 Toby Price In our regular look back at news this time last year, two themes stand out: Germany’s domination of the biogas market and the rise and rise of solar thermal electricity worldwide, especially in Spain. ...

Former CEO of BP says distributed power generation becoming a real alternative

Tuesday, 10 April 2012 REM Colin Sworder from Kraft Maus Ltd, a manufacturer of off-grid, clean energy power solutions, recently attended the Commonwealth Business Council’s second Energy Summit in London. He reports back on the ...

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 wind ...

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 contribute ...

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 been ...

Japan

Desertec signs MoU for Asian renewables super grid

Monday, 12 March 2012 REM A year after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, the Desertec Foundation and the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF) will start to co-operate on promoting an Asian Super Grid necessary for the expansion ...