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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 The effect of wind energy on spot prices - IJ Online

Original at ijonline.com external link    Wed, Jun 17

The effect of wind energy on spot prices It is Denmark's close link to the German electricity market that has allowed the volume of wind power to be effectively absorbed. The Scandinavian market - which has ample hydropower capacity - mirrors this trend as the system allows power to be ...

Rate Rounds pleased with energy discussions

Original at KTIV external link    Wed, Jun 17

 IA He says energy was a big topic. Rounds says many Western states can produce energy such as wind and hydropower, but the challenge is in finding ways to export it. Other issues discussed during the 3-day meeting were climate change and clean water. ...

Rate Rounds pleased with energy discussions | kxnet.com North Dakota News

Original at KXMC external link    Wed, Jun 17

 ND He says energy was a big topic. Rounds says many Western states can produce energy such as wind and hydropower, but the challenge is in finding ways to export it. Other issues discussed during the three-day meeting were climate change and clean water. ...

Rate Akkok-CEZ to invest USD 3bn in energy until 2013. - ISI

Original at securities.com external link    Wed, Jun 17

General manager of Akenerji, Ahmet Umit Danisman, says that the company's installed capacity is 358 megawatts at present but when the company's 9 hydropower plants and one wind power plants will become operational in 2011, the installed capacity will ...

Rate Are Clouds Dissipating on the Solar Energy Industry 0 comments

Original at Seeking Alpha external link    Tue, Jun 16

 NY The high price of oil in the past year was a catalyst for development in other alternative energy sources, not just solar. Advances in wind, geothermal, and hydropower energy are reducing the cost of wind power to a point at which it is becoming ...

Rate Alternative Energy Markets Waiting for

Original at Metal Center external link    Tue, Jun 16

 IL The federal New Energy for America plan sets a goal of 10 percent of all electricity coming from renewable sources by 2012, increasing to 25 percent by 2025. Renewable sources include wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower—technologies that are all ...

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 Hundred Gather in Rockport for Ocean Energy Conference - 6/16/09 ...

Original at MPBN external link    Tue, Jun 16

 ME Presenters include off-shore wind and hydropower promoters. In April, President Obama announced that the Interior Department had finalized the framework for renewable energy production on the US Outer Continental Shelf. Conference oganizers plan to ...

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 Research: Support needed for wind power

Original at DesMoinesRegister.com external link    Tue, Jun 16

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Non-hydropower renewables accounted for 3.4 percent of US electricity in 2008, up from 2.5 percent the year before, the study said. The study's conclusions echoed findings by earlier reports on the prospects for and barriers to renewable energy, ...

Rate Siemens Sees US Stimulus Plan Spurring Wind-Energy Growth

Original at Bloomberg external link    Tue, Jun 16

Siemens is also in talks with clients outside of Germany who are interested in buying the lines, which are also used to transmit electricity generated by hydropower stations, Niehage said, without being more specific.

Rate Using the Sun to Provide Light at Night

Original at eGov monitor external link    Mon, Jun 15

 UK The other is a twin micro-hydropower system in Balbalan, Kalinga Province. The Philippines promotes NRE systems-solar, wind, and small-scale hydroelectric power-for rural electrification. While most projects provide reliable and cost-effective ...

Rate Mexico: Seeking a Low-Carbon Growth Path

Original at World Bank Group external link    Mon, Jun 15

 DC Along these lines, the CTF money will support large-scale wind power projects with a capacity of 500 megawatts in Oaxaca and the development of small-hydropower projects with an estimated capacity of 325 megawatts. On energy efficiency, the Clean ...

Rate We'll export clean energy - Sweden

Original at edie.net external link    Mon, Jun 15

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 UK I foresee that Sweden will export electricity, clean electricity because we have a good situation where we have a lot of hydropower, we have a lot of nuclear power, we are now investing heavily in wind power and we also have combined heat and power ...

Rate DOE seeks investors for renewable energy

Original at Inquirer.net external link    Sun, Jun 14

 Philippines According to the DOE, Aklan has the capacity to produce 53 megawatts (MW) of wind power; Antique, 309 MW; Capiz, 7 MW; Iloilo, 85 MW; and Negros Occidental, 169 MW. In terms of hydropower, Region 6 can also produce a combined 117.4 MW, DOE data showed. ...

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 Greens: Replace dams with wind, gas

Original at Canada Free Press external link    Sun, Jun 14

 Canada And what's this, the Sierra Club wants to replace low greenhouse gas emitting hydropower with fossil fuels? Are they serious? What about the planetary emergency? Is saving salmon more important than saving the world from the dreaded global warming? ...

Rate Coal's only alternative: nuclear

Original at Fairbanks Daily News-Miner external link    Sun, Jun 14

 AK The problem with renewable energy sources, hydropower excepted, is that the energy sources are intermittent and diffuse and have their own environmental impacts. Wind turbines are touted as a source of electric power, but the wind doesn't always blow. ...

Rate Govt allocates Rs 154.7bn for energy sector

Original at Daily Times external link    Sat, Jun 13

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The increase in power generation includes 1381 MW of rental plants, 1949 MW of independent power producers, 478 MW of hydropower and 50 MW of wind power. The target set for total electricity generation in 2009-10 is 107116 gigawatt hour (gwh) with an ...

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 Facts on Energy: Solar

Original at Canada Free Press external link    Fri, Jun 12

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 Canada In Europe, it is estimated that 1.2 trillion Euros ($1.55 trillion) would be needed to build a super grid that captures offshore wind, hydropower, and solar panel arrays. [9] It would require a new network of cables and interconnectors to bring ...

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 REN Alliance embraces bioenergy

Original at Biofuels International external link    Fri, Jun 12

 UK The agreement ensures that all the leading international renewable energy organisations are now part of the REN Alliance. The Alliance already represents agencies concerning the geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind energy sectors respectively. ...

Rate Let's adopt wind power now

Original at The Salem (Mass.) News external link    Thu, Jun 11

 MA Energy production in the United States is largely fossil fuel-based, and it's pushing the limit on the amount of carbon dioxide our atmosphere and oceans can handle. Wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower have dwelled in the realm of the possible for ...

Rate As Wind Power Grows, a Push to Tear Down Dams

Original at New York Times external link    Thu, Jun 11

 United States By balancing wind power with hydropower, the Bonneville Power Administration says it believes it can limit the use of natural gas and coal plants across the West, even as the region's demand for electricity rises. Around the country, dams provide 6 ...

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 China Begins Transition To A Clean-Energy Economy

Original at WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future external link    Wed, Jun 10

billion to $660 billion—dedicated solely to new energy development over the next decade, including generous investments in wind, solar, and hydropower. ... and more »

Rate UK Government encourages public sector to invest in energy ...

Original at Energy Efficiency external link    Wed, Jun 10

 UK According to the organisations, the UK public sector could generate up to 3 GW of power – enough to supply 1.5 million homes – by installing renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines or hydropower on the land it owns. ...

Rate China in action on climate change

Original at European Voice external link    Wed, Jun 10

Thirdly, between 2000 and 2008, China increased its wind power generating capacity from 340 MW to 10 GW, hydropower from 79.35 GW to 163 GW, and nuclear power from 2.1 GW to 9.1 GW. It has also made great efforts to reduce agricultural and rural ...

Rate My Interview With Henry Waxman

Original at Huffington Post external link    Wed, Jun 10

 NY This domestic energy could come from coal or oil, but more importantly from wind, solar, hydropower, or other renewable sources. MB: Although the American economy is showing signs of slight improvements, many would agree that the recession is far from ...

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 Coal: What Happens If It Isn't Cheap and Plentiful?

Original at Seeking Alpha external link    Tue, Jun 9

 NY Elsewhere on the generation side of energytech, alternative baseload power candidates (such as wind, wave- and hydropower, solar-plus-storage, geothermal, etc.) would be more attractive. But the big winner would be energy efficiency technology, ...

Rate Multinationals look to grow in the wind

Original at China Daily external link    Sun, Jun 7

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 China By about 2020, wind power will likely surpass nuclear power as China's third-largest source of electricity, after thermal and hydropower, the analysts said. Today the world's top wind energy companies - including Vestas from Denmark and Gamesa from ...

Rate Macroeconomic Review - ISI

Original at securities.com external link    Fri, Jun 5

ISI - Emerging Markets, New York Skundric reiterated that investments in the construction of two wind farms, each worth EUR 200mn should be launched this year as well. The works on the EUR 65.5mn overhaul of the hydropower plant Bajina Basta were launched at a ceremony in Bajina Basta ...

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 Clean Energy Funding Trumps Fossil Fuels

Original at New York Times external link    Wed, Jun 3

 United States Large hydropower projects, wind, solar and geothermal were among renewable sources covered by the report. Fossil fuels included projects like building new coal plants in China. Even so, the long life of power plants meant it would be “some time” before ...

Rate China acting on climate change

Original at Gulf Times external link    Wed, Jun 3

 Qatar Thirdly, between 2000 and 2008, China increased its wind power generating capacity from 340 MW to 10 GW, hydropower from 79.35 GW to 163 GW, and nuclear power from 2.1 GW to 9.1 GW. It has also made great efforts to reduce agricultural and rural ...

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 Weekly Climate Change Policy Update - June 1, 2009 - Mondaq News Alerts

Original at Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) external link    Tue, Jun 2

The report also predicts that renewable energy, primarily wind and hydropower, will reach only 21% market penetration by 2030. Energy demand is projected to increase by 44% by 2030, with energy demand in developing countries increasing by 73%. ...

Rate 2009-06-01 Chinese wind project fails to secure CDM status - New Energy Matters

Original at newenergymatters.com external link    Mon, Jun 1

New Energy Matters (subscription), UK The project is being developed by Dalian Tuchengzi Wind Power. Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corp had agreed to purchase the CDM credits from the wind power project. Eight hydropower projects in southwestern China were also recently denied CDM ...

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 ...

Rate Weak coal demand may lead to overcapacity - Mr Jiang Zhimin

Original at SteelGuru external link    Sun, May 31

 India He said China should take the economic slowdown as an opportunity to adjust the energy mix. We need to develop more clean energy, including hydropower wind power, solar power and biofuels. Coal comprises 70% of China's total energy consumption. ...

May of 2009

 

Rate US firms keen to invest in coal mining in Bangladesh

Original at SteelGuru external link    Sat, May 30

 India He said we've sought cooperation in renewable energy sector's development, like hydropower, solar and wind. They can help us through providing renewable energy technology. A number of US companies, including oil major Chevron have been operating in the ...

Rate Energizing the movement

Original at Petoskey News-Review external link    Sat, May 30

 MI This would involve strategies such as improved energy efficiency; use of renewable power sources including wind, solar and geothermal; existing carbon-free generating methods such as hydropower and nuclear power; and fossil-fuel plants that capture and ...

Rate Italian companies eye renewable energy investments. - ISI

Original at securities.com external link    Fri, May 29

According to head of Italian Institute for Foreign Trade Francesco Vitelli the southern part of the country offers great opportunities for wind power generation, while the hydropower energy production could be further expanded in the northern part. ...

Rate Clean energy industry a new growth engine

Original at Xinhua external link    Sun, May 24

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Some positive changes have emerged in China's new energy policy, pushing the country's hydropower, wind power and nuclear power to a new development stage. The country's enormous hydropower potential is yet to be fully tapped. China now boasts a water ...

Rate Implementing rules for Renewable Energy Act set to be signed today

Original at BusinessWorld Online external link    Sun, May 24

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Developers of hydropower, wind power, solar power and other renewable energy resources have welcomed the development, which Mr. Reyes announced during the Visayas Energy Investment Forum in Cebu last week. A series of consultations on the rules were ...

Rate UK's Scottish & Southern to build gas, wind, hydropower plants

Original at PennEnergy external link    Thu, May 21

 TX 21 May 2009 - UK utility Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) has announced plans to build a new gas fired power plant in Wales, a wind farm in Shetland and a pumped storage facility along its Sloy hydro station in Scotland. SSE said it would build two ...

Rate UK's Scottish & Southern to build gas, wind, hydropower plants

Original at pepei.pennnet.com external link    Thu, May 21

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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 Scottish Power calls for nuclear power U-turn, seeks hydropower as ...

Original at pepei.pennnet.com external link    Thu, May 21

BBC News  OK 21 May 2009 - The chairman of UK utility Scottish Power has suggested that the Scottish government should make a U-turn and give the green light to new nuclear power stations. Speaking at the launch of the 322 MW Whitelee wind farm in East Renfrewshire ... Winds of change The Herald

Rate Fresh wind blows through Brazil's energy sector - Your Renewable News

Original at yourrenewablenews.com external link    Thu, May 21

Latin America's largest economy, which has become a renewable energy leader in the field of ethanol, needs to double its energy capacity in 30 years to avoid shortages. But the hydropower dams that supply 85 percent of its capacity increasingly run ...

Rate Financial holding Elana to invest EUR 30mn in wind power complex. - ISI

Original at securities.com external link    Tue, May 19

The start of the project has been planned for the beginning of 2010 and by the end of the year the renewable energy generators should be connected to the grid. Elana might also attract a strategic investment partner in the project. The hydropower plant ...

Rate Bulgaria's Popsko hydropower plant to invest 58mn leva in wind farm - Balkans.com Business News

Original at balkans.com external link    Mon, May 18

Bulgaria's Popsko hydroelectric power plant will invest 58 million leva (29.65 million euros) in construction of a wind farm in the south of the country, the investbulgaria news agency reported. Ivaylovgrad Wind Park, which is to be located in the ...

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 China needs USD 190 billion in renewable energy spending

Original at SteelGuru external link    Wed, May 13

 India Mr Liang said the Asian nation, which is building wind turbines, solar plants and dams for hydropower, has set a goal to generate 15% of its total energy needed from such sources by the end of the next decade. By 2010, China expects low-polluting power ...

Rate German firm eyed in solar, wind energy deals

Original at Inquirer.net external link    Fri, May 8

Also, PNOC president Antonio Cailao said certain Korean companies were looking at the Philippines' wind power potential, while US-based firms were eyeing hydropower projects. “There are a lot of projects in the works. Prospects are good,” Cailao said, ...

Rate Ford's UK Technical Centre Renews Green Power Supply

Original at finchannel.com external link    Wed, May 6

 Georgia Since March last year, electrical power on the 270-acre site near Basildon has come from GDF's renewable division. The majority is sourced from hydropower and the rest from wind power and generation from waste, with sources based in the UK and on the ...

Rate Albanians use Facebook to organize protest against nuclear plant

Original at Utility Automation & Engineering T&D Magazine external link    Mon, May 4

The idea of transforming Albania into an energy park with all kinds of fuel stations, hydropower stations, wind energy facilities, and nuclear plants continues to remain on its agenda. What about the opposition" It has done nothing, ...

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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Rate Climate change experts lose faith in renewable technology

Original at The Guardian (UK) external link    Tue, Dec 9

By David Adam Support for renewable energy technology to fight global warming is weakening in the face of worldwide economic problems and the true scale of the carbon reductions required, a survey published today has suggested. The survey shows less support for wind energy, solar power, biofuels, b...

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