Europe
30 April 2013
A partnership between Abu Dhabi’s state-backed renewables investment company Masdar and the UK’s Green Investment Bank may result in up to £2bn of investment into the country’s alternative energy schemes.
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30 April 2013
Illegal Chinese solar dumping will destroy the European solar industry if it is not stopped, industry lobby group EU ProSun told NewNet as the European Commission launches an investigation into complaints of the practice.
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30 April 2013
Green banking firm Triodos has launched two Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds, giving retail investors the opportunity to invest in ethical stocks.
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30 April 2013
Abu Dhabi’s state-backed renewable investment company Masdar has confirmed it will invest up to £1bn in alternative energy schemes alongside the Green Investment Bank.
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30 April 2013
SolarWorld’s 2012 revenues dropped by 42 per cent compared to 2011 due to massive price declines and decreasing shipment volumes.
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30 April 2013
UK mid-market private equity firm FF&P Private Equity has backed portfolio company Efficient Energy Management Group in the buy-in management buy-out of specialist energy efficiency business Food Industry Technical.
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30 April 2013
Abu Dhabi is in talks with the UK government to invest up to £1bn in alternative energy schemes alongside the state-owned Green Investment Bank.
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30 April 2013
Compositence, a European business that specialises in solutions for serial production using carbon and glass fibres, has secured growth capital with early-stage investor Zukunftsfonds Heilbronn as lead investor.
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30 April 2013
Gamesa ended the first quarter of 2013 back in the black with attributable profits of €7m in the first quarter.
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29 April 2013
Archipelago Investment Partners told NewNet a fund launched in partnership with UK engineering group Red7Marine to target opportunities in the offshore marine space will be sub-$100m.
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29 April 2013
Good Energy Group, the UK’s only 100 per cent renewable electricity supplier, has agreed a £7.5m revolving credit facility with Lloyds.
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29 April 2013
Emerging markets focused private equity firm Actis is reportedly looking to raise $750m for its third energy fund.
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29 April 2013
Cleantech IPO activity in the UK remains virtually non-existent but a look at the past-12 month valuations of a number of listed green businesses is enough to put even the bravest of businesses off taking to the public markets.
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29 April 2013
UK households may have to choose between over 1,000 types of energy bill, despite Prime Minister David Cameron’s promise to remove complexity from gas and electricity marketing.
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29 April 2013
Alpha ventus, which became Germany’s first offshore wind farm in April 2010, has exceeded output expectations for 2012.
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26 April 2013
Neste Oil will invest €42m on improving energy efficiency and operational reliability at its Porvoo, Sweden refinery.
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26 April 2013
A family-owned diversified cleantech project developer in Germany told NewNet it is reaching out to long-term ethically minded investors to progress its renewable energy ambitions.
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26 April 2013
REpower, the German wind turbine arm of Indian group Suzlon, will cut 750 staff as it aims to streamline operations to cut costs by €100m.
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25 April 2013
At less than 24-hours old, the private sector is already expressing an interest in matching a £15m Scottish Enterprise fund today to support solutions for the development of offshore wind turbine foundations.
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25 April 2013
The development of solar farms on agricultural land provides stability for farmers whilst also improving the amount of clean energy flowing into the UK grid, says Lightsource Renewable Energy.
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