UK: Miles Thomas, operations director for Savills Energy, welcomes Queen Speech confirmation of sustainable incentives to green energy projects...
16 May 2012
Long a region of vast potential - but lagging in concrete action - Latin America’s renewable landscape is finally starting to take shape.
16 May 2012
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A bitter and long-running legal challenge to block a world-first standard to reduce the carbon intensity of transport fuels will be ruled on by a Californian appeals court this summer...
15 May 2012
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March 2012: Our regular column, written by the Energy Industries Council, reports on project development in the renewable energy marketplace.
10 May 2012
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Research over the past two years – undertaken by CambridgeIP – has shown steady progress in making desalination technologies more energy efficient, as well as increasing the maturity of direct integration technologies.
09 May 2012
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Water systems around the world are under increasing pressure due to demands from continued industrialisation and urbanisation; growing populations; and increasing pressure on agricultural systems. This is driving the early stages of a revolution in the technologies and business models used in the water industry. Desalination is already part of this mix, but could the technologies' high demand for energy open up a new market for renewable energy technologies?
08 May 2012
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Comment: Solar Energy has the potential to re-energise India’s economy by creating millions of new jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce the trade deficit and propel India forward as a ‘green nation’. In short, solar offers too many benefits for India to ignore or delay its development.
02 May 2012
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Part 2. Could a new type of insurance provide a helping hand for emerging renewable projects?
01 May 2012
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Our regular column, written by the Energy Industries Council, reports on project development in the renewable energy marketplace...the latest installment covers developments in January and February.
30 April 2012
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THE ADANI Group, one of the fastest growing business houses in India, has commissioned a 40 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Gujarat, India.
29 April 2012
America's wind industry is simultaneously on course for a record-breaking year of installations and on the brink of catastrophe – and a lot has to do with the boom and bust of the Production Tax Credit (PTC).
28 April 2012
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The UK has seen announcements worth £4.7 billion into renewables, supporting 15,000, in the period April 2011 to February 2012, and more is underway.
27 April 2012
The German energy turnaround, the financial crisis and rising electricity prices are leading to the development of decentralised structures in the energy sector. All over the world, municipalities, medium-sized companies and private households are becoming independent from public supply networks thanks to solar power, according to solar tracker provider DEGERenergie.
24 April 2012
Renewable energy development on farmland is not easy money, and there are many examples where farmers have got it horribly wrong - leading to hugely inflated construction costs - because they did not do their homework.
23 April 2012
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As First Solar becomes the latest company to feel the European solar squeeze, closing its European manufacturing base in the face of Germany’s woes, Paula Mints gives us an up to date picture of PV industry dynamics.
19 April 2012
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The news that the UK’s nuclear power programme was once again facing difficulties will not have come as a surprise to anyone that has followed energy policy over the past year.
18 April 2012
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Long a region of vast potential - but lagging in concrete action - Latin America’s renewable landscape is finally starting to take shape, reports Colin Bennett.
04 April 2012
Solar Energy has the potential to re-energise India’s economy by creating millions of new jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce the trade deficit and propel India forward as a ‘green nation’. In short, solar offers too many benefits for India to ignore or delay its development, believes Darshan Goswami.
04 April 2012
The buzz at the recent EcoBuild Conference at London’s ExCel was all about what the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will do next about renewable energy Feed In Tariffs (FiTs)?
04 April 2012
America's wind industry is simultaneously on course for a record-breaking year of installations and on the brink of catastrophe – and a lot has to do with the boom and bust of the Production Tax Credit (PTC).
28 March 2012