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Time to end the guilt on incentives and start fighting

The last month has brought another depressing piece of news: This time the potential demise of Suntech, a pioneer credited with helping scale up the PV industry, on the verge of bankruptcy. The recent turmoil being suffered by module and cell manufacturers in the PV industry is well documented (Pau ...

Posted 10 April 2013 by David Hopwood

tags: renewable energy , incentives

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Editorial Leader: New markets for a new era of power

AND WOW, there are certainly plenty of new markets for the renewable energy industry – and they are finally coming out into the light. Deployment of renewables is an “idea whose time has come”. These are the words of Adnan Amin, director general of the International Renewable ...

Posted 09 April 2013 by Gail Rajgor

tags: renewable energy , solar , solar energy , CSP , wind energy , wind power , renewables , alternative energy , EWEA , IRENA , IEA , blog , Editorial , renewable energy industry , energy markets

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An inconvenient truth

The global growth of renewable energy over the last few years cannot be disputed, but can it really play a major role in the world of large-scale electricity generation? Some would say it already is. Wind power is the obvious example. “If anybody had said we would be here talking about w ...

Posted 23 January 2013 by Gail Rajgor

tags: renewable energy , blog , wind energy , solar energy , CSP , EWEA , alternative energy

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Guest Blog: Tough times, tough actions - time for a greentech patent amnesty?

By Barry Johnston Given the increasing 6 degrees threat of global warming, and its appalling consequences, should there now be a global patent amnesty? Might it accelerate the worldwide rollout of clean and renewable energy technologies, along the lines of the medical patent amnesties granted to de ...

Posted 21 November 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: Blog , Cleantech , Alternative energy sources , Renewable energy , Renewable energy technology , Patents , global warming , Technology , clean energy , renewable energy technologies

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Surge in solar energy news from South Africa – Top 5 solar power project announcements this month (so far)

The solar power market in South Africa has ramped up a gear, with a stream of project news emanating from the country in recent days. Covering project financial close, contract awards and construction starts, the news covers both solar PV and concentrated solar power (CSP). Why this news flurry? W ...

Posted 15 November 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: solar , Solar energy , PV , photovoltaics , solar power , CSP , concentrated solar power , solar electricity , renewable energy , alternative energy , South Africa , South Africa solar , project news , construction , renewable energies , energy news , solar renewable energy , solar news , solar energy companies

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Guest Blog: Global Energy Access by 2030?

By Mathias Aarre Maehlum, EnergyInformative.org Electrical power is probably the most important factor for development and growth. According to International Energy Agency (IEA), there are almost 1.5 billion people in the world that lack access to electricity. The IEA has stated that half of those ...

Posted 12 November 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: renewable energy , electricity , solar , photovoltaics , PV , off-grid , rural electrification , india , IEA , Blog , renewables , energy

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Paradise lost?

Who doesn’t dream of a few weeks escape to a tropical island paradise like the Maldives? I know I certainly do. So I couldn’t wait to watch Indian Ocean with Simon Reeve on BBC Two last weekend. It was the fourth installment of what has so far proved to be an excellent six-part series (I ...

Posted 07 November 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: climate change , low carbon , ocean , oceans , coral , small island state , off-grid , off-grid renewables , clean energy , renewable energy , energy from waste , climate change , Advanced Conversion , renewable energy , energy , small island states , off-grid , off-grid renewables , waste , toxic , low carbon , ocean , oceans , environment , coral , environment , alternative energy

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Shocking wake-up call on global warming – report stresses renewable energy investment needs

Despite the billions of investment being ploughed into renewable energy and low carbon technologies across the globe, the world is failing dramatically in its battle to stem the tide of global warming, according to research published yesterday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). “Governments ...

Posted 06 November 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: renewable energy , low carbon , emissions , climate change , global warming , energy , alternative energy , shale gas , investment

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Guest Blog: Ahead of this week's US election the message is clear - the green revolution will be crowdfunded

The green blogosphere has been ablaze with posts, tweets, and comments about the second US presidential debate in which the two candidates squared off on their respective energy approaches. President Obama offered strong support for continued government-funded development in renewables, ...

Posted 05 November 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: renewable energy , US , alternative energy , renewables , biomass , energy from waste , EfW , Subsidies , energy , anaerobic digesters

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Guest Blog: Can petrol generated from the air become carbon neutral?

In the last week, a British company (Air Fuel Synthesis) introduced us to a potential breakthrough piece of technology which can create petrol using just air and electricity. One major benefit of this generated fuel is that it can be used in many of our transport options with no adaptation required. ...

Posted 29 October 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: renewable energy , electricity , renewable electricity , wind energy , wind power , hydrogen , renewable energy sources , low carbon , wind farm , wind electricity generation , blog , offshore wind

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Renewable energy at home - the 6 key steps to getting it right you need to know

As energy demand rises and consumer electricity bills increase, more and more attention is turning to renewables. Sometimes this is for the wrong reasons: Support for renewable energy is often unjustly blamed for energy price hikes – however analysis from the UK-based Renewable Energy As ...

Posted 26 October 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: renewable energy , renewable energies , renewable electricity , electricity costs , energy bills , reducing energy bills , renewable heat , solar energy , PV

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A startling fact for you...

For the decade 2002 to 2011 there were some 4130 natural disasters globally, resulting in more than a million deaths and an economic loss of at least $1.195 trillion. The figures come in a new report out today. The key message from that report is that environmental degradation increases the risk of ...

Posted 11 October 2012 by Gail Rajgor

tags: Renewable energy , renewables , wind power , offshore , wave , tidal , marine , solar , PV , environment , climate change , blog , editor

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Why did I not make the Zayed Prize shortlist...?

As your hard-working blogger, I thought that I would surely have made the Top 40 list for the Zayed Future Energy Prize, the biggest environmental prize on the planet. In fact, I was not even nominated but I hope you will all do better next year. How big is the grand prize, you ask? Well, it’ ...

Posted 16 December 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: zayed future energy prize , renewable energy , world future energy summit

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Leaks and politics enliven EFEF

Wow, another big conference in London. This time it’s the 2nd annual European Future Energy Forum, a Masdar-sponsored event that had its debut in Bilbao last year. And it lasts three whole days. So we have 3713 registered delegates, though fewer than 900 actually attended, and 112 speakers (m ...

Posted 27 October 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: renewable energy , Zayed Future Energy Prize , feed-in tariff , budget

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Who says there's no early money...?

Who says there’s no early money…? On Monday, 27 September, I went to Cambridge for the launch of the Low Carbon Innovation Fund (LCIF). This new fund has been set up by the Low Carbon Innovation Centre at the University of East Anglia with £8 million splashed out by the European ...

Posted 01 October 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: funding , investment , renewable energy

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What does it take to bring you your solar news...?

Following an April 2010 visit to Syria in which I became the first, OK, maybe the second person on the planet to express any interest in Syrian renewable energy, a local Arabic-speaking friend in Damascus emailed me that a notice had gone up at the Japanese Embassy there: a whopping $6 million to go ...

Posted 03 September 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: solar , syria , renewable energy

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