Posts Tagged ‘renewable energy’
25 May 2012
UK energy storage company Atraverda has been selected to partner with Sharp Laboratories Europe and Sharp UK Manufacturing for the Intelligent Solar Energy Storage project.
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24 May 2012
Goldman Sachs will pump $40bn into the renewable energy sector over the next decade to tap into what it sees as one of the biggest profit opportunities since the rise of the emergence of the emerging markets.
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16 May 2012
Africa Finance Corporation, a hybrid investment bank and multilateral development financial institution, has revealed it is looking to invest in a number of energy projects across the continent.
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14 May 2012
Under encouraging legislation, a generous feed-in tariff and strong procurement programme Ontario has fast become a leader in Canada’s cleantech revolution.
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10 May 2012
A UK-based renewable energy company will look for partners as it looks to leverage the roll-out of the government’s Green Deal scheme.
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9 May 2012
Global corporations are taking an increasingly active role in building renewable energy capacity, developing projects to support their operations, rather than selling the power to a utilities.
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8 May 2012
Private equity and infrastructure investors are looking to buck the trend of a wider slowdown in M&A activity and increase their deal activity in the renewable energy sector over the next 18 months.
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2 May 2012
Uncertainty over US cleantech policy is making it hard for cleantech innovators to attract finance and commercialise their products and services.
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30 April 2012
The flexibility and potentially vast storage capacity for hydrogen gas makes it the ideal choice for utility-scale energy storage, according to one expert.
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30 April 2012
Confidence in the cleantech sector is returning within the financial community, with attractive opportunities in a range of technologies, according to one investor.
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19 April 2012
The New Democrat Party, the opposition government in the Canadian province of Alberta, is pushing for the launch of a renewable energy fund to support clean power and energy efficiency developments.
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12 April 2012
The US Department of Defense will look to deploy 3GW of renewable energy by 2025, creating a wealth of opportunity for project developers in the country.
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12 April 2012
Global clean energy investment grew 65 per cent in 2011 to $263bn, according to new research by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
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11 April 2012
TV chef and personality Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has thrown his hat into the renewable energy ring and is set to offer financing to five would-be clean power developers.
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3 April 2012
A US renewable energy developer has revealed $1m fundraising plans and has secured $195,000 so far.
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2 April 2012
From the start of 2009 to the end of 2011, renewable energy sources in the US expanded by 27.12 per cent, according to new figures from the US Energy Information Administration.
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30 March 2012
Renewables accounted for 9.5 per cent of the UK’s electricity production in 2011, up from 6.8 per cent in 2010.
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30 March 2012
The US’ Overseas Private Investment Corporation has approved finance worth $250m to India’s Infrastructure Development Finance Company.
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29 March 2012
The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change has unveiled plans to reduce emissions from heating homes, businesses and industry.
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28 March 2012
Danish energy company Dong has announced that former CEO Anders Eldrup was in breach of his duties as CEO and will not receive a termination payment.
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