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...
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 ...
Northern Ireland
Multi-million pound wind power agreement signed
Monday, 26 March 2012 Toby Price The Northern Irish wind energy company, Simple Power, has announced an exclusive agreement with global manufacturer Vergnet SA to deliver the company’s wind turbines throughout the province. The dis...
Chile
juwi and Kaltemp construct Chile's largest PV array
Friday, 23 March 2012 REM The sunny Región de Coquimbo in northern Chile is becoming an electricity producer. On unused land close to the City of Vicuña, German renewable energy specialist juwi and Chilean engineering compan...
Alstom inaugurates largest offshore wind turbine in the world
Monday, 19 March 2012 REMFrench infrastructure and energy giant Alstom has debuted the largest offshore wind turbine in the world, at Carnet in the Loire-Atlantique.
OriginOil's algae-to-crude oil technology to be deployed in Paris
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 REM OriginOil, Inc., developer of a technology to convert algae into renewable crude oil, will supply its Algae Appliance™ harvester and other components to a joint venture in Paris that is exploring ...
Siemens takes stock one year after Fukushima
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 Toby Price Coinciding with the first anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Siemens has published a paper examining how the Fukushima nuclear disaster has changed opinion in Germany and what the new ene...
Italian designer spreads climate change message through clothing
Wednesday, 07 March 2012 Dan McCue Pasquale Bilancio is a clothing stylist with a cause. A native of Naples, Italy, he's recently undertaken a series of designs based on social themes, "creating clothes that try to launch messages to t...
Spain
Wind energy output reaches record high
Monday, 05 March 2012 REM Wind energy broke a record in February in Spain with wind turbines achieing their highest-ever electricity output, generating a total of 4.890 GWh. According to provisional figures from Red Eléctrica...
“Renewable energy is the future: nuclear energy is the past,” says Greenpeace
Monday, 27 February 2012 REM According to Greenpeace, renewable energy is a viable option for replacing the world's dirty, dangerous and terribly expensive nuclear reactors. Indeed, the conservation organisation highlights that r...
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