Results for: solar

January 18 2016

Mitsubishi Research Institute to Set Up Solar Fund With Partner

Mitsubishi Research will be in charge of asset management for the fund and help select solar power plants, the company said in a statement Tuesday. The security firm will solicit investors. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

January 18 2016

Japan Approved 85,550 MW of Renewable Energy Projects Since 2012

Of the approvals, 23,650 megawatts, or about 28 percent, have gone online as of the end of September, according to a document provided by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. That’s more than equal to the 20,600 megawatts of clean energy capacity Japan had before the program began.

January 18 2016

Liebreich: 10 predictions for 2016: Sunny with a hint of Götterdämmerung

Chairman of the Advisory Board Bloomberg New Energy Finance Twitter: @MLiebreich It’s January, and that means it’s time for my annual predictions for the clean energy sector. At the start of 2013, I wrote: “The smoke is clearing from the energy sector’s equivalent of the Battle of Borodino. The battlefield is littered with dead clean […]

January 15 2016

Itochu, Kyudenko to Build 21MW Solar-Power Station in Japan

A venture set up by the two companies signed a loan agreement with the Bank of Fukuoka Ltd., Itochu said in a statement. No financial details were available.

January 14 2016

Clean energy defies fossil fuel price crash to attract record $329bn global investment in 2015

View this press release in PDF. 2015 was also the highest ever for installation of renewable power capacity, with 64GW of wind and 57GW of solar PV commissioned during the year, an increase of nearly 30% over 2014. London and New York, 14 January 2016 – Clean energy investment surged in China, Africa, the US, […]

January 8 2016

AU Optronics’s M.Setek Unit to Stop Making Polysilicon for Solar

The board decision was made because of changes to supply and demand in the market that left M.Setek without a competitive advantage, AU Optronics said in a statement to the Taiwan stock exchange Friday. M.Setek will focus on production of ingots.

January 7 2016

Takara Leben Said to Plan Solar Investment Unit IPO, Nikkei Says

The company recently applied to the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s new market for infrastructure investment vehicles and the screening process may take at least three months, the paper said.

December 24 2015

Orix, Sharp Complete 46MW Solar Power Station in Northern Japan

The plant will start operations on Jan. 1 and will produce enough electricity to power 14,100 homes, according to the statement.

December 18 2015

Marketplace: Big boost for wind and solar in budget bill

  https://s3.amazonaws.com/first.bloomberglp.com/multimedia/bnef/mp_20151217_seg_17_64.mp3   via Gigi Douban, Marketplace Some big energy industry news is included in the more than 2,000 page document that is the omnibus spending bill under consideration by Congress. One provision would end a decades old ban on exporting crude oil from the U.S. But the bill also includes a five year extension on […]

December 17 2015

Impact of tax credit extensions for wind and solar

See our five-year outlooks for wind and solar growth here. Congress is on the verge of a making a historic move today that will be a major boon for clean energy over the next five years and beyond. What’s potentially at stake: approximately $73bn in new investment and 8 million more households to be powered […]