Shortly after the IMF released details of a paper concluding that oil prices may double over the coming decade, twenty of the world's leading off-grid clean energy entrepreneurs have sent a letter to World Bank Group President, Robert Zoellick, requesting $500 million in financial commitments to help them deliver on the world's energy access goals.

The US Dept. of Interior has concluded that there is of "no competitive interest" for the proposed Mid-Atlantic offshore wind energy transmission line, clearing the way for the $4 billion Google-backed Atlantic Wind energy project to proceed to environmental review.

China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation (CGNPC), the nation's largest nuclear power company, has begun construction of a rooftop CSP-biomass power plant at its new regional headquarters in Singapore.

Biopower, which uses biomass for electricity generation, is a niche market but one that is expected to grow rapidly in Europe as utilities turn to the technology as a source of reliable and cost-competitive renewable power, according to a new market study from IHS Emerging Energy Research.

The University of Minnesota is the US has launched a startup it says will provide renewable energy more economically than existing technologies by using sequestered CO2 rather than water to extract heat from geothermal wells.

The energy ministers of the 27 EU Member States have agreed to cut the energy savings targets for 2020 outlined in the proposed Energy Efficiency Directive by almost 62%. For Spain’s Renewable Energy Foundation, this sharp reduction confirms that the criteria of the major utility and consumer lobbies have been imposed on these savings and efficiency targets.

Electric cars are popping up on streets around the world, as different cities promote the vehicles in a variety of ways. In order to keep up with best practices in rolling out electric vehicles (EV) in urban environments, the International Energy Agency has backed the publication of the “EV City Casebook”, which sets out cutting-edge electric vehicle programmes worldwide, city by city.

As should already obvious from the first installment of REM's exclusive interview with Michael Liebreich, CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, he is an energetic man -- and no less energetic talker -- who you'd believe lives in two world's at once.