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June of 2009

 

Rate ADB doubling clean energy investments

Original at Inquirer.net external link    Wed, Jun 17

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ADB's clean energy investments included the energy efficient lighting for low income households in the Philippines; wind power projects in China; hydropower development in Bhutan, and a biomass power plant in Thailand. ADB said it also supported the ...

Rate Pakistan to add 3000MW to power grid soon

Original at Gulf Times external link    Wed, Jun 17

 Qatar The government had fixed a target of 3858MW power generation during the year 2009-10. The increase in power generation includes 1381MW of rental plants, 1949MW of IPPs, 478MW of hydropower and 50MW of wind power from biomass to be added in Pakistan ...

Rate Clever Financing Gets California Back On Track

Original at Reuters external link    Wed, Jun 17

Besides solar, eligible projects include wind energy, closed-loop biomass, open-loop biomass, geothermal energy, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, marine and hydrokinetic energy, and some hydropower facilities. ...

Rate Green focus goes with climate risk

Original at Business Mirror external link    Tue, Jun 16

 Philippines He said there is a need to invest more on renewable-energy sources which include biomass, wind, geothermal, hydropower and solar power. According to the ADB report on climate-change programs, under a business-as-usual scenario, energy demand in ...

Rate The Top 10 European Utility Companies: Growth strategies ... - PR-Inside.com

Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung) external link    Tue, Jun 16

Investment in hydropower, wind farms and biomass have reduced coal/fuel oil-based power generation from 44% of total European power generation in 1995, to 37% in 2007. European power generation is undergoing a steady shift from fossil fuels towards ...

Rate USDA accepting applications for renewable energy and energy ...

Original at EmpireStateNews.net external link    Sun, Jun 14

 New York Grants are available for up to 25 percent of a project's cost, not to exceed $250000 for energy efficiency improvements and $500000 for renewable energy systems. Eligible renewable energy projects include biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower ...

Rate Power generation target fixed at 3858MW in 2009-10

Original at Daily Times external link    Sun, Jun 14

 Pakistan The increase in power generation includes 1381 MW of rental plants, 1949MW of IPPs, 478MW of hydropower and 50MW of wind power from Biomass to be added in the Water and Power Development Authority/Pakistan Electric Power Company system. ijaz kakakhel.

Rate Skewing Rep. Hastings Skewed Poll

Original at Daily Kos external link    Sun, Jun 14

 CA The Republican authored all-of-the-above energy solution that encourages development of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, hydropower, nuclear and biomass, while also producing more American-made oil and natural gas? ...

Rate Local Industry News & Notes for Sunday, June 14, 2009

Original at Lihue Garden Island external link    Sun, Jun 14

 HI The program can be used to purchase and install renewable energy systems: solar, bioenergy (biomass, biogass), geothermal, wind, hydropower, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), and hydrogen. USDA Rural Development's mission is to ...

Rate Energy-efficiency projects eligible for USDA funding

Original at Watertown Daily Times external link    Sat, Jun 13

 NY Grants are available for up to 25 percent of a project's cost, not to exceed $250000 for energy efficiency improvements and $500000 for renewable energy systems. Eligible renewable energy projects include biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower ...

Rate USDA Offers Loans For Renewable Energy Projects

Original at CleanTech Brief external link    Fri, Jun 12

 New York Eligible renewable energy projects include biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower and hydrogen. The program can also provide funding to conduct feasibility studies of proposed projects. Eligible applicants may seek loan guarantees to cover up to ...

Rate UNEP & NEF Reveal Worldwide Renewable Energy Investment Trends

Original at RenewableEnergyAccess.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

 NH Of the $155 billion, $105 billion was spent directly developing 40 GW of power generating capacity from wind, solar, small-hydro, biomass and geothermal sources. A further $35 billion was spent on developing 25 GW of large hydropower, according to the ...

Rate Daniel von Preyss Joins Impax

Original at Private Equity Hub external link    Thu, Jun 11

 MA Impax defines the core of the New Energy Sector as comprising solar, wind, and other commercially proven renewable power generation (such as hydropower and biomass-to-energy) and infrastructure assets related to renewable energy transmission and ...

Rate Reportlinker Adds the Top 10 European Utility Companies: Growth ... - Business Wire

Original at businesswire.com external link    Thu, Jun 11

Business Wire (press release), CA Investment in hydropower, wind farms and biomass have reduced coal/fuel oil-based power generation from 44% of total European power generation in 1995, to 37% in 2007. European power generation is undergoing a steady shift from fossil fuels towards ...

Rate Renewable energy can supply America's new demand

Original at The Johnstown Breeze external link    Wed, Jun 10

 CO Solar power's potential is many times greater than that if we deploy panels on less than 1 percent of our land. Add to that the potential of geothermal, hydropower, and biomass – and fossil fuels begin to look like a dinosaur of the 20th century that ...

Rate Greenhunter Energy stock jumps 61.7 percent

Original at google.com external link    Tue, Jun 9

Greenhunter works on wind, hydropower, geothermal solar and other renewable energy projects. It has the nation's largest biodiesel refinery in Houston and a biomass-fired power plant in Brawley, Calif.

Rate Clean Tech Fund's First Financing Goes to Turkey Renewables

Original at RenewableEnergyAccess.com external link    Thu, Jun 4    3 related articles

 NH It intends to tap Turkey's renewable energy potential including hydropower, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and other resources. The program funds include loans to Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi, a private industrial development bank, ...

Rate 2009-06-03 Nevada ratchets up RPS, modifies incentives for r... - New Energy Matters

Original at newenergymatters.com external link    Tue, Jun 2

transmission facilities, as well as facilities generating process heat from solar energy with an output capacity of at least 25.8MMBtu per hour. Qualifying renewable energy resources include biomass, fuel cells, wind, solar, and certain hydropower. ...

Rate Observations and recommendations on energy questions

Original at Watertown Daily Times external link    Mon, Jun 1

 NY There would be prices for solar, wind, biomass and hydropower. The price for FIT solar power in Vermont is 30 cents per kilowatt hour, up to 20 cents per kilowatt hour for wind; in Canada, yes Canada, the proposed FIT solar power price is US 64 cents ...

May of 2009

 

Rate KfW: Leading the way for renewables

Original at finchannel.com external link    Thu, May 21

 Georgia The renewable technologies covered by this support include wind parks, solar energy, biomass, hydropower plants and geothermal energy. Most of the funding delivered comes from the budget of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and ...

Rate Renewable energy rising in Chile

Original at Renewable Energy Focus external link    Sun, May 17

 UK Of this 347 MW of installed capacity, the largest share comes from biomass, which accounts for 55%, followed by mini-hydropower (39.2%) followed by wind power (5.8%). This will likely change however as several large scale wind parks become operational ...

Rate 7 amazing facts about green jobs

Original at mnn.com external link    Thu, May 14

 GA that worldwide the solar thermal industry employs at least 624000 people, the wind power industry 300000, and the solar PV industry 170000; more than 1 million people work in the biomass and biofuels sector while small-scale hydropower employs 39000 ...

Rate McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted (May 1, 2009)

Original at Utility Automation & Engineering T&D Magazine external link    Fri, May 1

Tim Faust, DFL-Mora, it would have allowed nuclear power to be considered along with other energy sources such as coal, hydropower, wind, solar and biomass. "Nuclear power certainly has its drawbacks ... but it is a very good source for baseload power ...

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