Category: News

December 19 2014

Rame Energy Planning $6.4 Million Sun-Power Plant in Chile

The company plans initially to install a 2.5-megawatt ground-mounted facility expected to start working by the end of next year, it said today in an e-mailed statement. It may scale that to 17.5 megawatts.

December 18 2014

BNDES Approves $222 Million in Loans for Brazil Ethanol Plants

Abengoa Bioenergia Agroindustria will receive 309.6 million reais for a project capable of producing 64 million liters (16.9 million gallons) of ethanol per crop, Brazil’s Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social, or BNDES, said in an e-mailed statement today.

December 18 2014

Obama Sets Guidelines for Climate Review in Agency Decisions

The Council on Environmental Quality in the White House issued the long-delayed plan for treating greenhouse-gas emissions today. It won’t exempt any individual project on the ground it won’t change overall trends of climate change.

December 18 2014

Norway Invests in Green Africa Power to Fund Renewables

The money will be used to fund renewable energy projects in African markets where it’s most needed, Vivian Nicoli, a partner at Eiser Infrastructure Partners LLP, an adviser to GAP, said in an e-mailed statement. GAP provides long-term loans to privately owned clean-power projects in Africa and it expects to start investing in the first quarter.

December 18 2014

U.K. Low-Carbon Electricity Generation Up 24% in Third Quarter

Renewables’ share of electricity generation reached 17.8 percent in the quarter, compared with 13.6 percent in the same period last year, according to statistics released today by the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change.

December 18 2014

Japan Toughens Rules for Renewable Energy Incentive Payments

Japan introduced a renewable energy incentive program in July 2012 after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, offering some of the highest rates for solar-produced electricity in the world.

December 17 2014

Cuomo to Ban Fracking; Health Officials Call It Unsafe

Acting Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said at a cabinet meeting in Albany today that studies on the extraction technique’s effects on water, air and soil are inconsistent, incomplete and raise too many “red flags” to allow.

December 17 2014

IADB Approves $125 Million in Loans for Clean Energy in Uruguay

The funds are part of a $250 million credit line the Washington-based lender is providing to promote investment projects, IADB said in a statement on its website yesterday.

December 17 2014

Southern Planning to Develop 131-Megawatt Solar Farm in Georgia

The power plant will supply energy for more than 21,000 homes, the Atlanta-based company said today in a statement. Construction on a 911-acre site in Taylor County is expected to begin in September, with commercial operation scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2016. First Solar Inc. is providing the panels and engineering services.

December 17 2014

National Grid Planning 16 Megawatts of Massachusetts Solar Power

This is the second phase of the company’s Connect21 program that already has 5 megawatts of solar capacity in operation, according to a statement on its website. The 16 megawatts will be spread among 19 locations and construction is expected to be completed by June.