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In a small English village a local health centre has placed its first patient on its network of smart electricity meters, highlighting the breadth of potential the smart grid space holds, writes sector specialist Memoori. 
Company heads in the cleantech industry claim that there is a knowledge gap between innovators and investors, which sometimes slows down and even blocks money from flowing into the sector. 
UK waste-to-energy specialist Bio Group has this week broken ground on a new renewable gas facility. Here, CEO Steve Sharratt says that while political wrangling in Durban is all very well, governments should focus on how sustainable technology can drive economic opportunities. 
While developed countries remain focused on slowing demand and cutting costs, a growing requirement for energy within the emerging markets now appears to be the main driving force behind renewable energy and cleantech investment. 
With a growing focus on decentralised energy generation and private power generation in emerging economies, biomass gasification could provide a timely solution to South Africa’s beleaguered energy industry. 
Many countries are seeking to move in a greener direction for their energy needs and incorporate more renewable energy sources into their energy portfolio. But with countries such as Germany turning away from nuclear, there is now a ticking clock counting down efforts to deploy critical clean technologies, writes digital prototyping specialist Autodesk. 
As we move to a low carbon energy system we need to decide who are the best agents for efficiently deploying the vast amounts of capital required, as well as how those agents should receive the information that tells them what to do and how to do it, writes Ian Temperton, head of advisory at Climate Change Capital. 
The recent EMR White Paper from the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change introduces the most sweeping and ambitious reforms of the British electricity markets for 30 years, including up to £110bn of new investment over the next decade, writes Adam Langridge, a partner in Squire Sanders’ Energy Industry Group. 
The UK government’s plans to fast-track the development of a number of nuclear plants may prove too expensive and they go against progress made by the renewable energy sector as well current world opinion about the safety of the technology, writes Lee Summers, director of EOS Energy. 
In spite of initial scepticism surrounding the capability of electric vehicles (EVs) and concerns over range anxiety, they are more than capable of meeting the needs of drivers that require efficient urban transportation, a new study has found. 
There are a number of clean technology developers around the globe that seem to have accomplished the unthinkable, and none more so than those developing technologies that produce energy or fuel from nothing but air. 
Environmental problems extend across international boundaries, but there are no effective international institutions to deal with them properly. The result is that problems worsen and attempts by countries to solve them fail due to the lack of an institutional framework within which to build the necessary international consensus and trust, writes Stephen Hockman QC. 
With subsistence farmers considered to be the most vulnerable community to the effects of climate change, a majority of whom are women in poor countries, climate justice should be classed as a human rights issue, according to Reid Professor of Law and former Irish stateswoman Mary Robinson. 
As the true financial impact of the Deepwater Horizon crisis on BP becomes clearer, including plans potentially to reduce the regular dividend from next year, an inconvenient truth about the exposure of our pension funds (and pensions) is emerging. Quite simply, the funds we hope to rely on when we retire are highly dependent on the dividends paid out by high-carbon sectors, especially oil and gas, writes Climate Change Capital's Vivienne Cox.
With liquid fuel accounting for approximately two-thirds of global energy demand and question marks surrounding the short-term viability of many electric vehicles, biofuels look set to provide important alternatives to incumbent sources of fuel for several decades.
The European Union (EU) will press for country leaders to agree on concrete decisions that will pave the way for a legally-binding global climate framework, calling for expanded and reformed carbon market mechanisms and a settlement on governance of the green fund at this week’s Cancún climate talks. 
Despite some well-documented commercial struggles, fuel cells are beginning to prove themselves as a genuine alternative to traditional energy technologies, with US investors taking a second look at this next generation of opportunities.
The battle for the electric vehicle (EV) market has begun to intensify with many of the auto giants announcing low-carbon strategies or launching new models in recent weeks. 
History is filled with innovators who made less money than the people who sold their inventions, as they lacked distribution methods or sales infrastructure to supply their product to market. Oil super majors look set to make history repeat itself as they begin to pick the winners in the biofuel arena. 
Treating water is a power-intensive and expensive business. It's also one that can only become more costly as the price of fossil-fuelled electricity in social, environmental and economic terms becomes even greater. Dr Keith Bowen of Circadian Solar says, however, that concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) may provide the answer to water treatment. 
