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Sensus £5 million investment in Navetas secures exclusive US license to smart grid technology

Thursday, 05 April 2012 REM US-based smart grid infrastructure firm Sensus has invested £5 million in Navetas, a technology spin-off from research first performed at Oxford University, in exchange for a 15 percent stake in the ...

Part five of an on-going series

The long and short of it is good projects do get funded, but it's not easy

Tuesday, 03 April 2012 Dan McCue

Like the expression "all the good ones are taken," the proposition that all good renewable energy projects are bankable is both vague and frustrating.

Research and innovation in US wind will not die with expiration of PTC

Tuesday, 03 April 2012 Dan McCue While one might be tempted by headlines to assume that wind energy-related activity in the US will come to a screeching halt at the end of the year, with the seemingly almost certain expiration of the...

Part four of an on-going series

Potential investors in renewables are everywhere, but debt finance is hard nut to crack

Thursday, 29 March 2012 Dan McCue Why should energy-intensive corporations invest in green power plays like wind and solar farms? According to Fintan Whelan, corporate finance director and co-founder of Mainstream Renewable Power, be...

Part three of an on-going series

Want to finance big wind? Look at how they do nuclear

Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Dan McCue Writers take an idea and commit it to the page. Painters gaze upon an scene and apply brush to canvas. But it's a decidedly rarer sort who can look at an open field or expanse of water, envisage a wi...

IEA ocean energy technology initiative publishes tenth annual report

Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Toby Price The Executive Committee of Ocean Energy Systems (OES), an International Energy Agency (IEA) Technology Initiative, announces the publication of its most recent Annual Report that presents the activiti...

Part two of an on-going series

Policy needs to be 'loud, long and legal' to support renewable investment

Tuesday, 27 March 2012 Dan McCue In August 2011, a group of experienced finance practitioners gathered at Chatham House in London to discuss the then-pending creation of a $100 billion Green Climate Fund and what they wanted to contr...

No global clean energy transition without Supergrid

Tuesday, 27 March 2012 REM Five grid initiatives, representing a range of global energy actors, called on decision makers to accelerate the transition to a pan European electricity infrastructure last week, warning that there w...

Part one of an on-going series

Despite Europe's economic woes, hunger for renewables project investment remains

Monday, 26 March 2012 Dan McCue In the nearly four years that have elapsed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the global financial crisis, the economic news coming across the Atlantic from Europe to American has ...

Cabo Verde

African island goes green with solar micro-grid

Monday, 26 March 2012 REM A new rural solar photovoltaic (PV) micro-grid has been commissioned on the island of Santo Antão (Cabo Verde) financed under the ACP-EU Energy Facility programme and led by local private water compa...

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