Sunday, 20 May 2012
Part four of an on-going series
Potential investors in renewables are everywhere, but debt finance is hard nut to crack
Thursday, 29 March 2012 Dan McCue Why should energy-intensive corporations invest in green power plays like wind and solar farms? According to Fintan Whelan, corporate finance director and co-founder of Mainstream Renewable Power, be...
FAO provides new tools to help policymakers develop bioenergy sustainably
Thursday, 29 March 2012 REM The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has just released a suite of guidance documents and policymaking tools that governments can use to help rural communities benefit from bio...
From pine forests to blue skies, new jet bioFuel passes rigorous testing
Thursday, 29 March 2012 REM Virent and Virdia, formerly HCL CleanTech, have announced the successful conversion of cellulosic pine tree sugars to drop-in hydrocarbon Fuels within the BIRD Energy project, a joint program funded b...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 29/03/2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012 REM • Japan Unveils Deregulation Plan to Boost Clean Energy Use Bloomberg • RoboJelly, the Hydrogen-Powered Robot Jellyfish Popular Mechanics • UK energy plans in 'tatters' after Npower and E. ON ...
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 wi...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 28/03/2012
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 REM • UK: Ocean energy firms wants more state energy funds Google News • Solar power towers overpower PV panels by 20X The Register • China Now World's Leader in Wind Power OilPrice.com • Qanta...
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 contr...
No global clean energy transition without Supergrid
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 REM Five grid initiatives, representing a range of global energy actors, called on decision makers to accelerate the transition to a pan European electricity infrastructure last week, warning that there w...
Clock ticking towards Earth Hour
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 Toby Price WWF’s Earth Hour takes place at the end of the month and has been praised by the most recognised leaders and influential organisations in the world from the United Nations to the World Organization ...
Northern Ireland
Multi-million pound wind power agreement signed
Monday, 26 March 2012 Toby Price The Northern Irish wind energy company, Simple Power, has announced an exclusive agreement with global manufacturer Vergnet SA to deliver the company’s wind turbines throughout the province. The dis...