Panorama

DOE says clean tech industry at risk from rare earth shortages

Thursday, 05 January 2012 Toby Price Rare Earth may be the name of an American rock band affiliated with Motown's Rare Earth record label (which was named after the band), but the US is concerned that a shortage of rare earth metals may squeeze ...

World Future Energy Summit is just around the corner

Wednesday, 04 January 2012 REM

One of the world’s foremost gatherings of renewable energy experts, the World Future Energy Summit, will be held 16-19 January in Abu Dhabi.

Another black year for green shares

Tuesday, 03 January 2012 REM The 2011 stock exchange year once again disappointed the investors in green shares. The IWR, a renewable energy institute, reported in Muenster (Germany) that the RENIXX World (Renewable Energy Industrial ...

IEA says action needed now to sustainably enhance energy security, stem climate change

Tuesday, 06 December 2011 REM Maria van der Hoeven, executive director of the International Energy Agency, has called on countries to step up efforts to avert climate change, noting that to do so requires addressing their energy security ...

Europe

Is EU energy research funding announced yesterday enough?

Thursday, 01 December 2011 Toby Price The European Commission presented a package of measures to boost research, innovation and competitiveness in Europe yesterday. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn announced Horizon 2020, an €80 billion ...

KPMG Director upbeat about COP17 outcomes

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 REM Neil Morris, Director of Climate Change and Sustainability Services at the consultancy firm, KPMG, Neil Morris, believes COP17 has greater potential to have practical outcomes than COP15 and COP16 combined, ...

Renewable capacity to double by 2020, 15.7% of total energy production by 2030

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 REM The annual value of renewable energy capacity installed will double in real terms to $395 billion in 2020, rising to $460 billion in 2030, compared with $195 billion in 2010 – according to the latest ...

IEA World Energy Outlook 2011 published

“World locking itself into an unsustainable energy future,” says IEA

Wednesday, 09 November 2011 Toby Price Without a bold change of policy direction, the world will lock itself into an insecure, inefficient and high-carbon energy system, the International Energy Agency warned as it launched the 2011 edition ...

President Obama weighs into US solar industry’s trade dispute with china

Thursday, 03 November 2011 Dan McCue The White House has fired the first presidential salvo in an escalating trade dispute with china over alleged unfair competitive practices the nation has engaged in to gain an advantage in the solar energy ...

Offshore wind star of the show in third quarter financing activity

Tuesday, 25 October 2011 REM June to September saw a surge in wind farm and solar park financings, as well as in merger and acquisition activity, despite the unfolding European financial crisis and a slump in clean energy share prices ...