Posts Tagged ‘renewable’
5 August 2011
The private equity arm of Indian infrastructure giant IDFC has announced a further INR800m ($17.9m) investment in renewable energy company Green Infra, according to news reports.
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20 July 2011
Power Finance Corp, an India-based financial institution which serves as the country's biggest lender to utilities, said it will set up a unit dedicated to funding renewable energy projects.
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3 June 2011
The former North Scotland Industries Group has launched a new organisation that aims to provide a voice for energy-related issues in the north of Scotland.
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25 May 2011
The European Renewable Energy Council has warned that Europe must strengthen its renewable energy consumption to meet its ambitious emissions targets.
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23 May 2011
Two months on from the natural disasters that ravaged Japan’s infrastructure and economy, its government has said it is determined to plough forward with efforts in the field of sustainable development through trilateral cooperation.
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20 May 2011
China-based wind company Huaneng Renewables has reinvigorated its plans to make an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange at a lower premium than it had initially planned, according to reports.
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12 May 2011
With gas at $4 per gallon and oil prices reaching $121 in 2011, US legislators need to get serious about a coherent energy plan to support the country's growing demand for fuel, both federal representatives and trade bodies concur.
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28 April 2011
Major power utility Exelon is about to merge with US-based sustainable energy producer Constellation in a deal that could change the shape of renewable electricity delivery in the nation.
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21 April 2011
Purveyor of modern computer design Apple has been ranked at the bottom of an environmental group table that positions major internet and computing companies in terms of their coal intensity and clean energy usage.
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12 April 2011
The Olympic Games’ organisers have abandoned the use of renewable energy to help reduce the emissions of the 2012 London event by 20 per cent, instead choosing to invest in an alternative Mayoral waste energy programme.
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11 April 2011
The share of renewable energy in the European energy mix has nearly doubled, from representing five per cent of gross inland energy consumption in 1999 to accounting for nine per cent in 2009, according to new official statistics.
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6 April 2011
Applied Superconductor has commissioned an engineering study from London-listed superconductor technology company Zenergy Power that could pave the way for the safer adoption of more renewable energy on the UK grid.
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6 April 2011
Global energy service provider E.ON said it will look to canvass €2.6bn of investment for renewable energy by 2013.
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29 March 2011
Cornwall Council has urged the UK government to use the south-west region as a model on which to base its ambitions of a big green society, calling for a joined-up approach to renewable energy planning and economics.
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29 March 2011
Rototec Geothermal Energy, a provider of systems in Finland and Sweden, has joined the first quotation board of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange after the reverse takeover of Rototec Oy and the acquisition of Rototec Sverige.
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21 March 2011
Germany’s Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle has reportedly proposed to accelerate the planning process for transmission projects to bring more green power online.
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17 March 2011
South Africa’s Energy Director General Nelisiwe Magubane has reportedly said the government plans to supply 42 per cent of its new power capacity with renewable energy in the next 20 years as it attempts to shore-up its power supplies.
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16 March 2011
Renewable energy company Ameresco has signed an agreement with Maine's largest city to provide energy conservation measures to a number of Portland facilities.
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9 March 2011
Renewable oil producer Solazyme has signed agreements with Dow Chemical to advance its algal oils for use in next generation insulating fluids that are key to electrical applications.
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8 March 2011
The Energy Technologies Institute, a public-private partnership between six global industrial companies and the UK government, has invested £62m in renewable energy projects.
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