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11 June 2010
Just a day after announcing that the wife of UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Miriam González Durantez, will become a non-executive director, Spanish renewable energy company Acciona said ten financial entities have signed financing agreements for its Eurus windpark in Mexico.
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11 June 2010
US political and corporate heavyweights including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt have formed an alliance to lobby government into investing more than $16bn a year of clean energy innovation.
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10 June 2010
KEMA, a global authority in energy consulting and testing and certification, has appointed three new members to its supervisory board.
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10 June 2010
Renewable industry experts Eric Briar and Toby Mead, both former members of environmental advisers Metoc, are set to join UK marine and offshore engineering specialists SeaRoc, part of the Natural Power group.
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8 June 2010
Clean technology project developer Clenergen's board of directors has approved three changes to the company's management team which will take immediate effect.
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7 June 2010
Climate Change Capital (CCC), the environmental investment manager and advisory group, has set up a new European renewable energy infrastructure asset management team and has appointed Stephen Lilley to head it up.
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2 June 2010
International bolting and joint-integrity service Hydratight has appointed Juergen Schimohr as its account manager, who will be responsible for promoting the company's wind product range.
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2 June 2010
German private equity firm Ventizz Capital Partners, which has a portfolio encompassing clean technology, has expanded its team of partners with the promotion of Björn Söndgerath as a fourth member.
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2 June 2010
Publicly-listed wave-energy producer and developer Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has appointed former CFO of global manufacturer Power Medical Interventions and certified public accountant, Brian M Posner, as its new CFO.
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2 June 2010
Solar Trust of America, an integrated industrial solar solutions company, has appointed John Clapp as chief financial officer, effective immediately.
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1 June 2010
Hydrogen battery producer Environmental, Revolutionary, Reliable; A Clean Alternative to Fuel Dependence (ERRA), based in San Antonio, Texas, has appointed former US Air Force three-star General Robert R Dierker as its first COO.
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28 May 2010
Renewable energy project developer juwi Group has named Michael Rucker as CEO of its US wind division and has appointed Dr Frank Finzel to the executive team of its wind subsidiary.
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27 May 2010
Dr Klaus Rave has been elected as chairman of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) for a two-year term, replacing Arthouros Zervos who had been chairman since 2006.
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27 May 2010
The Coakley Group, the Glasgow-based company behind a £22.5m biogas, waste management and renewable energy facility being constructed next to Scotland's M74 motorway, has appointed a new management team to oversee its development.
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26 May 2010
Tokyo-headquartered Showa Shell subsidiary, Solar Frontier, has hired energy veteran Wolfgang W Lange as its new European managing director to push its expansion in the continent forward.
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26 May 2010
Future Capital Partners (FCP), a UK-based alternative investor with £6bn under management, has hired former Scottish Widows account manager, Alan Cross, as business development manager to develop the firm's relationships with intermediaries in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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25 May 2010
US-based geothermal energy project developer Vulcan Power Company has strengthened its executive team with two new key appointments, including naming Richard Atkinson its new CFO and Joseph Lessard as its new senior vice president of development.
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25 May 2010
Professor Fred Schubert, Wellfleet senior constellation professor of physics at the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New York, US, has joined Magnolia Solar's technical advisory board.
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25 May 2010
Clean technology-focused Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures has hired former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as a senior adviser.
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24 May 2010
Former ABB executive and power technology expert Joseph Baker has become the new CEO of global wind turbine generator manufacturer ACCIONA Windpower.
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