Amidst national policies in Australia that seem to be growing ever further from reality, the City of Melbourne and several other local councils and businesses have made a stand to attempt to divest themselves from Victoria’s coal-fuelled energy grid. Led by Lord Mayor Robert Doyle of the City of Melbourne, the group … [continued]
Massachusetts’s clean energy investments and incentive programs are paying off handsomely in terms of economic stimulus and jobs growth, as well as reducing carbon emissions and environmental degradation. […]
Projects such as building the center are part and parcel of Element’s efforts to develop its business internationally and domestically, a business strategy that incorporates socially beneficial outreach aspects to its activities. Element views such initiatives as bi-directional in that it results in a give-and-take and exchange of information and opinions between the company and local residents.
The World Bank Group is providing $300 million in loans to co-finance Ouarzazate, a 500 MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant that would be one of the largest in the world upon completion. The World Bank Group’s IBRD and Clean Technology Fund are members of a public-private partnership with the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy that also includes includes four international lenders from Europe and Africa.
The World Bank’s International Development Association’s RERED program has brought solar power to more than 300,000 homes and small businesses in rural Bangladesh. With the addition of another $172 million credit facility, the IDA and its RERED partners intend to bring that to over a million.
