energy efficiency
18 April 2012
Japanese electronics giant Mitsubishi has unveiled its Seventh Environmental Plan, a three-year strategy to make the company more sustainable.
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17 April 2012
Data company Essess has closed its $6m Series A funding round, with Vocap Ventures the largest investor in the round.
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17 April 2012
Hitachi Consulting, IT consultant and subsidiary of the Japanese electronics giant, has acquired the Prizim, a US management consultancy dedicated to sustainable audits, training and managed service solutions.
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17 April 2012
A Dallas, US-based finance group said it has a 2012 investment appetite of £2bn and plans to dedicate the funds to the energy sector.
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17 April 2012
US power company Constellation Energy has completed a 1.8MW photovoltaic array for the spice manufacturer McCormick, at its distribution centre in Maryland.
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17 April 2012
The European Union has made €50m available for clean energy projects in developing countries, as part of a United Nations plan to spread the use of sustainable energy.
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17 April 2012
Japan-based Mitsui has secured a 25 per cent stake in Global Energy Group (GEG) in what has been rumoured as a multimillion-pound deal.
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16 April 2012
US agribusiness Bunge has completed the acquisition of UK sustainable asset manger Climate Change Capital.
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16 April 2012
An early stage India-based venture fund is looking to raise $25m, having secured an initial capital injection from the International Finance Corporation.
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16 April 2012
The US Department of Energy has selected three groups of companies to make up the $125m US-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center.
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16 April 2012
Danish renewable energy company Greentech Energy Systems has made a cash tender offer for Spain’s Fersa Energia Renovables at €0.40 a share.
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13 April 2012
Greenhouses gases such as nitrous oxide will continue to rise unless global fertiliser use is cut and meat production is reduced, Eric Davidson director of the Woods Hole Research Centre has said.
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13 April 2012
US start-ups are set to benefit from a $9m funding pool to be distributed among 50 budding company companies.
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13 April 2012
Senator Bob Brown has announced that he will be stepping down as the leader of the Green Party as the party welcomes new leader Christine Milne as his successor.
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13 April 2012
An energy efficiency advocate based in the US has raised $1.64m of a $7.88m Series A financing round.
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13 April 2012
EuroSite Power, a subsidiary of American DG Energy, and UK-based The Ability Group have joined forces in a £4.1m agreement to supply clean energy to the Doubletree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro hotel.
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13 April 2012
The UK’s Royal Bank of Scotland has unveiled ambitious environmental targets that could save the organisation £200m by 2020
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12 April 2012
German development bank KfW is set to provide support and experience to the creation of the UK’s Green Investment Bank.
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12 April 2012
UK start-up Homaetrix told NewNet it is targeting the social housing market to commercialise its innovative device that combines energy management, home automation and security tools within a single platform.
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12 April 2012
The UK needs to marry green energy and economical growth in order to combat the difficulties of a rocky recession, said the UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
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