Sunday, 20 May 2012
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 30/03/2012
Friday, 30 March 2012 REM • Floating Windmills in Japan Help Wind Down Nuclear Power Bloomberg • Feds, 5 states to push for Great Lakes wind farms Ohio.com • Burning biomass for energy could release more carbon emissi...
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...
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...
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...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 27/03/2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 REM • Vestas Falls as Suzlon Takes Gode Wind Order Bloomberg • Renewable Energy in Germany Facing Cuts? PR-Canada.net • Energy-starved Pakistan eyes Solar power The Windsor Star • UK: Renewable...
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 ...
India
Siemens wins first Solar receivers order for Indian Solar power plant
Monday, 26 March 2012 REM Siemens Energy has been awarded an order to supply UVAC 2010 (Universal Vacuum Air Collector) Solar receivers for a parabolic trough power plant to be built in Rajasthan, India. Purchaser is Shiram EP...