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Falling Clean Energy Costs Create Opportunity to Boost Climate Action

Wednesday, 10 June 2020 REM As COVID-19 hits the fossil fuel industry, a new report shows that renewable energy is more cost-effective than ever - providing an opportunity to prioritize clean energy in economic recovery packages ...

Tokio Marine HCC completes GCube Acquistion, boosting global availability of renewable energy insurance

Tuesday, 02 June 2020 Robin Whitlock Tokio Marine HCC has announced it has completed its acquisition of specialist renewable energy underwriter GCube, in order to create a new ‘centre of excellence’ in renewable energy insurance. ...

YouTube removes controversial Michael Moore film Planet of the Humans after copyright infringement complaint

Friday, 29 May 2020 Robin Whitlock YouTube took down Planet of the Humans on Monday (25th May) and the reason for this move seems to have been a copyright infringement by the film, judging by a complaint to this effect lodged by British ...

Sungrow to hold an online Smart Energy Virtual Show in June

Wednesday, 20 May 2020 Robin Whitlock

Chinese clean energy company Sungrow is to hold an online Smart Energy Virtual Show during 15^th to 19^th June, the period of time that the cancelled Intersolar Europe 2020 event would have run.

Just Plain Wrong: The false claims, errors and outdated information that is Planet of the Humans

Wednesday, 13 May 2020 Robin Whitlock As many readers will have observed, Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore’s new film looking at the renewable energy industry, Planet of the Humans, has become very controversial, receiving a considerable amount ...

Scale-up of solar and wind puts existing coal and gas at risk

Wednesday, 29 April 2020 Robin Whitlock Solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest sources of new-build generation for at least two-thirds of the global population with battery storage now the cheapest new-build technology for peaking purposes ...

Grenergy donates 55,000 pieces of Personal Protective Equipment to Madrid City Council

Friday, 27 March 2020 REM Grenergy, the Spanish company that produces energy from renewable sources, has donated 55,000 Personal Protective Equipment (IPE) to the Consistory of Madrid to contribute to the fight against the coronavirus ...

Pakistan Falling Short of Meeting the Targets Set in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2030

Monday, 09 March 2020

Guest Post by Naila Saleh,Research Officer, Institute of Policy Studies - Islamabad

Multinationals pushing governments to enable renewable energy deployment

Monday, 02 December 2019 Robin Whitlock

Multinationals are pushing for governments to make way for 100 percent renewable electricity according to new report assessing the most ambitious global companies.

EBRD Supporting Access to Renewable Energy in Egypt

Tuesday, 26 November 2019 REM The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is supporting the development of a more resilient and robust electricity grid across Egypt with a €182.9 million loan to the Egyptian Electricity ...