Sunday, 20 May 2012
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...
Japan
Solar and wind power to benefit from new Japanese FiT
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 REM The new Japan feed-in-tariff (FiT) scheme offers attractive returns for solar and wind projects, setting the stage for renewables to become an important source of electricity, says Bloomberg New Energ...
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 ...
Cabo Verde
African island goes green with solar micro-grid
Monday, 26 March 2012 REM A new rural solar photovoltaic (PV) micro-grid has been commissioned on the island of Santo Antão (Cabo Verde) financed under the ACP-EU Energy Facility programme and led by local private water compa...
Germany
Country needs to protect solar leadership, warns analyst
Monday, 26 March 2012 REM As a global leader in research on the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, Renewable Analytics feels compelled to address political leaders in Germany regarding several key points to put emphasis on the ...
Chile
juwi and Kaltemp construct Chile's largest PV array
Friday, 23 March 2012 REM The sunny Región de Coquimbo in northern Chile is becoming an electricity producer. On unused land close to the City of Vicuña, German renewable energy specialist juwi and Chilean engineering compan...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 23/03/2012
Friday, 23 March 2012 REM • Eurus Energy Considering 40-Megawatt Solar Project in Japan Bloomberg • Leith chosen for wind turbine factory by Gamesa BBC News • U.S. Army to Invest $7 Billion in Renewable-Energy Projects...
United States
Renewables create jobs, expand businesses in Nevada says Senator Reid
Friday, 16 March 2012 REM United States Senator Harry Reid released a new report this week that puts a bright spotlight on the importance and benefits of federal and state policies to support the development of renewable energ...
Why aren't UFOs drawn to renewable energy sites? Or are they?
Thursday, 15 March 2012 Dan McCue Witnesses says they've seen them near nuclear facilities, oil rigs and even hovering above active volcanoes. But UFOs -- whatever they are and whomever may be controlling them -- seem to have turned a...