Archive

  • Extend loan guarantee deadline, says solar developer

    28 September 2011

    Congress should extend the deadline for the US Department of Energy to evaluate and approve loan guarantees for renewable energy projects, according to a solar developer whose guarantee has fallen through.

  • If it ain't broke…

    28 September 2011

    Hans ten Berge says policy-makers should resist the temptation to fix the EU Emissions Trading System – it isn't broken

  • Google ploughs more cash into residential solar

    27 September 2011

    Google will spend $75 million to finance residential solar installations, raising its total investment in the clean energy sector to more than $850 million.

  • People moves

    27 September 2011

    The latest appointments

  • Taking a renewed look at risk

    27 September 2011

    Too many clean energy and carbon companies are relying on ad hoc, isolated risk management processes and procedures – putting their businesses at risk, says Jenya Khvatsky

  • Ontario election threatens renewables support

    27 September 2011

    The best chance of preserving Ontario's feed-in tariff (FiT) programme in its current form is if the governing Liberal Party maintains control after next week's provincial elections, according to a report by the environmental NGO the Pembina Institute.

  • Money flows to Ecuador's 'pay us not to drill' trust

    27 September 2011

    A trust set up to pay Ecuador not to drill for oil in Yasuní National Park is halfway towards its first fundraising target, thanks to contributions from the Italian government and an executive at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

  • LG to invest $6.8bn in green strategy

    27 September 2011

    South Korean conglomerate LG has said it will invest 8 trillion won ($6.8 billion) by 2015 in a 'Green New Business' strategy.

  • Fulcrum Bioenergy files for $115m IPO

    26 September 2011

    Fulcrum Bioenergy has joined the flurry of US biofuels companies hoping to raise cash from the public markets.

  • RAN finds fault with BNP Paribas coal policy

    26 September 2011

    BNP Paribas' policy on lending to the coal-fired power sector "contains loopholes big enough to drive a bulldozer through", according to the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) – although the activist's group's criticism of the French bank's new policy is comparatively muted.