Europe
3 May 2013
UK-based Colour Synthesis Solutions has secured a grant from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) as part of an international collaboration on advanced solar cell research and development.
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3 May 2013
Vattenfall chief Øystein Løseth said outlook remains week as the company ends the first quarter by continuing to focus on improving the efficiency of operations and cutting costs.
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3 May 2013
Infracapital and Citi Infrastructure Investors are looking to sell a £1.5bn stake in Kelda Group, the owner of the UK’s fifth largest UK water and sewerage company Yorkshire Water, according to reports.
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3 May 2013
Environmental infrastructure investor Foresight Group has refinanced a portfolio of UK solar plants through a £60m bond, the largest of its kind to be issued in the country.
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3 May 2013
The UK’s Renewable Energy Association has hit back against Greenpeace, the RSPB and Friends of the Earth for a joint letter they published in The Times claiming biomass activities were impacting wood products industries and environmental sustainability.
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3 May 2013
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets’ has closed its fourth European infrastructure fund on €2.75bn.
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2 May 2013
German solar developer Centrotherm Photovoltaics has completed restructuring of its solar business by selling off a number of its subsidiaries.
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2 May 2013
Wagner Solar UK has struck a distribution agreement with European solar module manufacturer Voltec Solar.
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2 May 2013
Solar Impulse’s solar-powered plane is about to take-off for a trip across the US, piloted for up to eighteen hours at a time, with the company telling NewNet it is capable of indefinite flight.
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2 May 2013
German utility Stadtwerke München has bought a 144MW wind farm being developed by RES Group’s subsidiary Nordisk Vindkraft, with Siemens winning the contract to supply the turbines.
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2 May 2013
A consortium led by SITA UK has been selected as the preferred bidder for a £900m waste-to-energy plant with the West London Waste Authority.
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2 May 2013
A number of UK energy companies including British Gas, Drax and GDF are to be investigated by industry watchdog Ofgem for failing to meet one or more of their energy efficiency targets.
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2 May 2013
Tidal Energy has received a £1.6m European Union grant for its deployment of Wales’ first full-scale tidal energy generator in Ramsey Sound, Pembrokeshire.
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1 May 2013
New research revealed today shows that UK voters are more likely to vote for candidates in favour of building wind farms.
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1 May 2013
The answer to combating illegal Chinese solar dumping is to impose a 100 per cent tariff on Chinese solar glass imports, according to the president of trade association EU ProSun Glass.
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1 May 2013
Early-stage businesses MabLyte and Watertronix have each received investment of £150,000 from Mercia Fund Management through its Growth Fund One vehicle.
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1 May 2013
Up to one third of Scotland may be deemed off-limits to would-be wind developers under proposed reforms to planning rules.
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1 May 2013
Wasabi Energy, a clean technology company dual listed in Australia and London, said preparations for a listing of its Asian subsidiary are well underway with it about to hit the fundraising trail.
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30 April 2013
SolarWorld, which today said it recorded losses of €492.4m in 2012, has come to agreements with creditors over 80 per cent of its outstanding loans.
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30 April 2013
FTSE Group’s newly-launched ET100 index has been immediately adopted as the benchmark for the £402m, 25-year old Jupiter Ecology Fund.
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