First released in 2005, REN21's Renewables Global Status Report (GSR) has grown to become a truely collaborative effort of over 400 authors, contributors and reviewers, and is today the most frequently referenced report on renewable energy market, industry and policy trends. It provid...
Even as many of the renewables industries struggle through a slowdown period exacerbated by a global economic malaise, a broader view shows a decade of consistent growth and persistent investment. The optimism, however, remains tempered as clean energy still represents a small fractio...
Chinese products imported into the United States are already being hit with both countervailing duties and anti-dumping tariffs in a series of rulings that have sparked fears of a U.S.-China trade war. A similar move in Europe, which remains a far larger market despite its recent down...
Even as many of the renewables industries struggle through a slowdown period exacerbated by a global economic malaise, a broader view shows a decade of consistent growth and persistent investment. The optimism, however, remains tempered as clean energy still represents a small fractio...
The photos above from around my neighborhood illustrate various forms of spectra in a rich, but sometimes bafflingly complex, way—obtained by placing a transmissive diffraction grating film in front of the lens. The combined-light (un-dispersed) scene is visible in each, but stretchin...
The announcement came just several months after a thin film expert publicly cautioned AQT about making empty promises and “giving another technology a bad name.” It was not hard to see why the expert, Rommel Noufi at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was wary of any company ma...
Exide's Sundancer Electric Car. Photo by Frank Lodge, EPA. Public Domain NOTE: Since this article was first published , Exide Technologies (NASD: XIDE ) stock has risen 22% from $2.31 to $2.82, but much of that rise was due to media confusion about a positive Credit Suisse research re...
If one takes a broader North American perspective, the changes in the supply picture are even more striking. The output of Canadian oil sands has tripled since 2000 and is now greater than Libya’s output before its civil war began in February 2011. This adds up to a very different out...
In the next two years, the U.S. may get a lot less solar and wind power than it could. It’s not a shortage of solar panels or the cost of turbines. Rather, it’s a problem of the perverse nature of federal incentives for renewable energy. Right now, the owner of a solar or wind energy ...
Revision to last year’s total coincides with publication today of major report, Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2012 London and New York, 11 June 2012 – Bloomberg New Energy Finance has today revised up its figures for clean energy investment in 2011, to a record $280bn. ...
There's alot of ideas out there about ways in which to finance clean energy projects providing investment options for normal Americans. I've got money in a money market that's paying less than 1% and would welcome investment opportunity into clean energy projects with higher returns. ...
IKEA Aims for 100% Renewable Energy 02/16/2012 from Energy Boom Tweet Swedish furniture manufacturer IKEA has released its 2011 Sustainability Report, which reaffirms the company’s status as a global leader in the increasingly important area of corporate sustainability. The annual rep...
By David Pospisil, Guest Blogger, Energy Efficiency Markets Energy benchmarking can help you better understand your commercial property’s energy use and monitor performance over time. It allows for comparisons among similar building types and helps identify which ones could operate mo...
TUCSON, Ariz.--Global Solar Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of flexible solar technology, announced today it has engaged FTI Capital Advisors, LLC (FTICA), member FINRA/SIPC, the wholly owned investment banking subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc., to pursue new investor participat...
Hamburg Laut einer neuen Studie des Öko-Instituts im Auftrag von Greenpeace und dem WWF gefährden überschüssige Emissionszertifikate einen wirksamen europäischen Emissionshandel. Laut der Studie werden im Jahr 2013 rd. zwei Milliarden überschüssige Zertifikate das europäische Emissi...
Cottbus Der Energieversorger Vattenfall und die Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus haben ein gemeinsames Forschungsprojekt zur Speicherung von Strom in Elektromobilen gestartet. Dabei wurden 15 Kleinwagen zu intelligenten Elektrofahrzeugen umgerüstet. Die Besonder...
North American Natural Gas is Fueling an International Political Power Shift North American exports of natural gas threaten the dominance of gas exporting giants like Russia, Qatar and Algeria who currently control much of the world’s gas supplies. First U.S. natural gas exports are s...
Vestas wins yet another V90 order from Longyuan in Fujian 10:10 CET - 11 Jun. 2012 Article keywords: Wind markets Orders Vestas has received an order for 24 V90-2.0 MW turbines for China. Interactive services Send articles Print articles Vestas has received another order consisting of...
Duisburg Das Solarunternehmen Soventix will ab dem Jahr 2013 gemeinsam mit dem Unternehmen NewDev Südafrika fünf Solarprojekte mit einer Gesamtkapazität von 100 MW realisieren. Jedes Teilprojekt soll eine Leistung von 20 MW erhalten und durch vorhandene Reserveflächen auf bis zu 75 ...
Münster - Der RENIXX stand zum Ende der letzten Woche nahezu unverändert bei 166,21 Punkten (Schlusskurs Freitag, 08.06.2012). Dies entspricht gegenüber der Vorwoche einem leichten Rückgang um 0,68 Prozent. Nach kräftigen Verlusten zu Wochenbeginn hatte das regenerative Börsenbaromete...
San Francisco, June 06, 2012 - The Professional Women in Solar group is a grassroots community, where professional women gather to learn how to truly change the world through solar energy. The group also facilitates the matching of hiring companies with female solar experts. “While th...
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