American solar company SunEdison announced Monday that, in collaboration with its subsidiary TerraForm Power, it is acquiring energy company First Wind in a deal worth $2.4 billion that will also result in SunEdison becoming the world’s largest renewable energy development company. The acquisition has led SunEdision to raise its 2015 … [continued]
The US Export-Import Bank has played a very important role in shaping the Indian renewable energy market into its current form. The bank now plans to provide further assistance to promote renewable energy infrastructure development in India. The bank has offered $1 billion in low-cost loan to India for aiding … [continued]
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]
Where are Canadian CO2 Emissions Coming From? I ended up digging a little bit into Canadian CO2 emissions after my last article, and thought that our readers might find it interesting…. This article relies heavily on the Government of Canada publication titled “Canada’s Emissions Trends,” which the government put together as … [continued]
Originally published on ilsr.org. Earlier this year, the state of California announced a $10 million loan-loss reserve to solve the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s severe restrictions on using property-tax based financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy on residential property. It’s a great concept, but evidence from on of California’s best … [continued]
China’s renewable energy ambitions are starting to become more clear thanks to a number of recent announcements — perhaps the most important takeaway of this new clarity is the revelation that the government there is aiming to install roughly 1300 MW of new renewable energy capacity a week, in order … [continued]
Negative impacts of rooftop solar will fall on investors: potential earnings could drop +40% in some scenarios. Ratepayers will be relatively unaffected.
Here are some more great solar stories from around the interwebs, to complement our own solar stories: For Consumers 1. Going Solar Made Easier By Online Shopping Site and Staples Gift Cards 2. New Financing Models to Drive Demand for Commercial Solar 3. Crowdfunding Solar Power for the World’s Poorest People 4. This Social … [continued]
Much has been made of Australian Prime Minister’s Tony Abbott’s backward (read: downright insane) environmental and energy policies, without looking further into the role that the individual Australian States are playing. A new report from the Australian Climate Council attempts to rectify this, by providing the latest research on which … [continued]
What is now the largest solar power plant in the whole of Africa — the 96 MW Jasper Power Plant, located in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, near Postmasburg — is now online, according to recent reports. This means that the project, which is composed of about 325,000 … [continued]
