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US Energy storage company talks of future funding plans - 23 May 2012
Application developer for the solar industry outlines future financial plans - 23 May 2012
US biofuel developer seeks $2m in investment - 22 May 2012
Australian government opens door for green business with A$10bn fund - 23 May 2012
UK boosts funding for commercial marine developments - 23 May 2012
Environmental energy prize fund tops $4m in Middle East - 23 May 2012
US Energy storage company talks of future funding plans - 23 May 2012Application developer for the solar industry outlines future financial plans - 23 May 2012US biofuel developer seeks $2m in investment - 22 May 2012Advanced materials developer announces possible fundraising opportunity - 22 May 2012Smart home system developer plans £2m fundraise - 21 May 2012
Italian wind developer to raise between €4m and €5m - 21 May 2012 Australian government opens door for green business with A$10bn fund - 23 May 2012
UK boosts funding for commercial marine developments - 23 May 2012
Environmental energy prize fund tops $4m in Middle East - 23 May 2012
India solar rooftop project up for sale - 23 May 2012
Brazilian bio unit of Louis Dreyfus Commodities files for IPO - 22 May 2012
Chinese solar company undertakes IPO, stocks hold steady - 22 May 2012
As a small, maritime trading nation Britain has always been quite a way away from key international markets. Our ability to visit far off places and people, and their access to us, has always been at the very heart of the UK’s ability to ‘punch above our weight in the world’, whether that’s commercially, culturally or diplomatically, writes Ben Caldecott, head of European policy at investment firm Climate Change Capital.
The most active investors in the cleantech, renewable energy and sustainability sectors share their views on the market at the fourth annual LP-GP Forum: Clean Energy & Sustainability.
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US biomass developer OriginOil has partnered with the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory to establish industry standards for algal biomass, a move aimed at making algae-based biofuel a competitive alternative to petroleum. 
The US Navy has placed a biofuel order of 450,000 gallons from Dynamic Fuels, a joint venture between Tyson Foods, the Syntroleum Corporation and Solazyme. 
UK waste-to-energy specialist the Bio Group has broken ground on a new renewable gas facility in Stockport, North West England. 
UOP has won a $1.1m contract from the US Federal Aviation Administration to develop and demonstrate technology that will produce renewable jet fuel from alcohols found in natural feedstocks. 
Creating a sustainable feedstock chain for biomass is the crucial challenge in advancing the adoption of the technology and one expert has argued to NewNet that it is intrinsically linked to the way food is produced. 
US bioenergy developer Sundrop Fuels has agreed to purchase around 1,200 acres of land in Louisiana for the construction of the company’s first production facility. 
Israeli alternative fuel developer FuturaGene has been awarded a $1.2m grant from the government in Brazil for its advanced plantation forestry for bioenergy research programme. 
The last few months has seen many of the world’s largest airlines begin trials of flights powered by biofuels in a step towards reducing reliance on traditional jet fuel and reducing the industry’s emissions. 
Chinese biofuel company China Clean Energy has acquired feedstock supplier Handan Guanxin Technology for around $13.1m. 
US agricultural business the Archer Daniels Midland Company is set to build a 265 million litre biodiesel plant in Lloydminster, Canada, increasing the company's biofuel processing capacity in North America by 50 per cent. 
US airplane manufacturer Boeing has partnered with Hawai'i BioEnergy to develop a new sustainable jet fuel. 
UK engineering consultancy Amec has been selected by bioenergy developer Ineos Bio as global license support manager for Ineos’ planned roll out of its licensing programme for bio technology.
US aviation company United Airlines has flown a commercial flight from Houston to Chicago utilising a biofuel derived from algae and supplied by alternative fuel developer Solazyme. 
US aviation company Alaska Airlines is set to launch 75 commercial flights powered by biofuel commencing on 9 November. 
A European association of biofuel producers has called on the European Commission to act against what it has described as ‘unfair’ imports of fuel ethanol from the US. 
US bioenergy specialist the Reneable Energy Group has been contracted to supply biodiesel for a three-year period to the Hawaii Electric Company for use in a 110MW combustion turbine generator at the Campbell Industrial Park Generating Station. 
Aviation company Air China has launched an airplane demonstration test powered by biofuel as part of a collaboration project with Boeing, PetroChina and Honeywell UOP. 
Airplane manufacturers Boeing and Embraer have entered into a collaboration with Brazil’s Sao Paulo State Research Foundation, forming a long-term agreement to investigate the potential use of biofuels in the aviation industry. 
Israeli bioenergy feedstock developer FuturaGene has entered into a three-year collaboration with China’s Beijing Forest University to work on the research, development and commercialisation of sustainable technology in the field of advanced plantation forestry for biofuels. 
US bioenergy developer Algenol Biofuels has commenced construction of a pilot-scale refinery that will produce ethanol through the use of blue-green algae, carbon dioxide, sunlight and saltwater in Lee County, Florida. 
