Features: wind
6 August 2009
US energy holding company NV Energy, through its two Nevada-based utility subsidiaries have issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for renewable energy resources.
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28 July 2009
At this year's Private Equity and Venture Capital Clean Energy Investor Forum, former CalPERS CIO and founder of green investment firm C Change Investments, Russell Read, highlighted the scale of opportunity for investors in renewable energy and clean technologies.
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15 July 2009
The UK has released its Low Carbon Transition Plan to plot out how it will meet the cut in emissions set out in the budget of 34 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020. A 21 per cent reduction has already been delivered - equivalent to cutting emissions entirely from four cities the size of London, according to the Department of Energy And Climate Change.
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15 July 2009
Shortly after securing the contract for a 90MW Turkish wind farm, Danish wind turbine supplier Nordex has received a separate order for ten turbines from As Makinsan, a group of Turkish companies.
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13 July 2009
In a new report, UK business lobby organisation CBI has urged a significant shift in the direction of UK energy policy, warning that the current approach is hindering energy security and endangering the country's ability to meet climate change targets.
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19 June 2009
Energy and materials technology advances are likely to be centre stage in the world from an investment and basic research perspective, according to Russell Read, former CIO of CalPERS and CEO of green investment firm C Change Investment, in this presentation originally delivered at the Private Equity and Venture Capital Clean Energy Investor Forum.
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2 June 2009
Private investment in energy innovation is vital, with commitments also required from corporations and public pension funds going forward, according to speakers and delegates at the NewNet Private Equity and Venture Capital Clean Energy Investor Forum.
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1 June 2009
The St James's Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium brought together scientists and leaders to concentrate on solving the climate challenge. This effort is an example of the growing worldwide awareness of the severity of the threat to our very way of life from a changing climate, according to US Energy Secretary Steven Chu, here highlighting President Obama's commitment to improving America's energy policy and addressing the global climate crisis.
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15 May 2009
In an interview with FOX Business Network, energy tycoon and wind investor T Boone Pickens predicted oil prices will hit ‘$70 before $50' and that oil will be at ‘$75 a barrel by the end of the year'.
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21 April 2009
Over the past four years, there have been more than 260 M&A transactions in the renewable energy sector. A new comprehensive guide to the industry prepared by commercial law firm CMS Hasche Sigle provides an annotated overview of the market situation and M&A strategies within the renewable energy sector.
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9 March 2009
UK renewable energy trade association the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has welcomed UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's endorsement of the potential of renewable energy to create employment in the UK.
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9 February 2009
Per Regnarsson of corporate finance group Clean World Capital discusses opportunities in cleantech and the wind energy scene in Denmark.
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22 January 2009
President Barack Obama's inaugural address call to ‘harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories' signals a welcome commitment to renewable energy, according to Brent Erickson, executive vice president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) Industrial & Environmental Section.
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27 November 2008
With the US on the brink of change following Barack Obama's historic triumph in the presidential election, those in the clean energy space were left considering what this would mean for the US' burgeoning green economy. In a web video released last week for the Bi-Partisan Governors Global Climate Summit, the President-elect pledged new leadership to address global climate change.
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