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Zayed Future Energy Prize opens submissions for 2014 award in US

Monday, 04 March 2013 REM The Zayed Future Energy Prize, the world’s preeminent award for innovation in renewable energy and sustainability, opened for submission in the US this morning, 4 March 2013. The closing date for 2014 ...

Ernst & Young report finds UK Energy Bill falling short of expectations

Thursday, 28 February 2013 Robin Whitlock

Questions emerge over support for renewables while the decarbonisation delay casts doubt on the government’s commitment to emissions reduction

US President speaks at length about renewables, climate change in State of the Union

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 Dan McCue Declaring that the US is " finally poised to control our own energy future," President Barack Obama last night used the occasion of his annual State of the Union address to speak at length about ...

COMAC, Boeing collaborating on cooking oil-to-biofuel effort

Thursday, 25 October 2012 REM The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of china (COMAC) and Boeing have established a new technology center that, among other initiatives, will explore opportunities to refine waste cooking oil, often described ...

Gamesa intensifies diversification strategy

Thursday, 04 October 2012 REM Gamesa has unveiled plans to diversify its business through subsidiary Gamesa Electric by pursuing opportunities in the hydroelectric, solar photovoltaic, energy quality, electric traction and marine propulsion ...

Extreme weather raises boardroom awareness of climate change

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 REM Following increasing incidents of extreme weather events which disrupted business operations and supply chains around the world, climate change has climbed the boardroom agenda, according to the Carbon ...

Germany and Denmark top green economy index

Tuesday, 11 September 2012 Toby Price Results from the 3rd edition of the Global Green Economy Index (GGEI) show that expert practitioners in the green economy rank Germany as the top national green performer while an index defined by 32 datasets ...

Green tech market to double by 2025, with Germany sharing helm

Monday, 10 September 2012 REM The consultancy firm Roland Berger has published the GreenTech Atlas 3.0 for Germany's Federal Ministry for the Environment, which concludes that the market for green technology continues to grow rapidly ...

china continues domination of renewables market

Wednesday, 29 August 2012 REM Having quadrupled its solar capacity target to 50GW by 2020 and begun an accelerated domestic installations program to tackle the oversupply of solar panels, china looks set to continue its domination ...

Investments in small-scale renewables surge

Wednesday, 18 July 2012 REM Asset finance of wind farms and solar parks was up strongly and small-scale PV installations ran at record levels in the second quarter of 2012, says Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The clean energy sector ...