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STX launches renewable energy certificate auctions
08 May 2012An electronic platform for buying and selling renewable energy certificates in Europe has sold 100 gigawatt hours of electricity at its first auction.
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Renewables 'deadline' insurance hard to find
08 May 2012Renewable energy project developers and investors, skittish about missing deadlines that could cost them US federal tax incentives and grants, are asking about the possibility of insurance to cover the risk – but options are extremely limited.
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Morgan Stanley backs major US solar finance facility
08 May 2012Morgan Stanley is investing in a $300 million fund to finance residential solar projects in the US.
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Lenders drive demand for renewables insurance
08 May 2012Demand from lenders is driving insurance purchases for renewable energy projects, even though the risk of a major pollution event for these projects is relatively slim, and the premiums are extremely attractive for buyers, according to providers.
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Staring at the sun
04 May 2012The good news: solar PV is fast approaching the holy grail of grid parity. The bad news: getting there means yet more cost-cutting, restructuring and consolidation. Can investors make money on the way? Mark Nicholls reports
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Making clean energy cheap
03 May 2012It's long been the prescription of environmental economists that those who pollute should bear the costs of that pollution – that so-called environmental externalities should be borne not by society as a whole, but by those responsible for them.
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PACE bonds back on the table?
03 May 2012US federal regulators will likely have to retreat from their objections to municipal bond programmes that pay the upfront costs for renewable energy and efficiency retrofits, experts said, allowing the financing mechanism to be more widely utilised.
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Forests' inflation, correlation appeal attracts pension funds
03 May 2012Pension funds are increasingly attracted to forestry investments because of their low correlation with equity and bond markets, and because of the inflation hedge they offer, according to fund managers and investors.
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Korea passes emissions trading bill
03 May 2012After more than a year of delays, South Korea passed a law on Wednesday that mandates the 2015 launch of an emissions trading scheme (ETS), making the country the third in the Asia-Pacific region, and the first in Asia, to pass such legislation.
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US closes in on 50GW of wind
03 May 2012The US wind sector is inching closer to the 50GW mark for total installed capacity after a strong first quarter, with developers rushing to take advantage of the production tax credit (PTC) ahead of its pending expiry, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).