Despite numerous adverse conditions, MAKE Consulting has made a slight upgrade to the long-term global wind power market outlook. MAKE Consulting, one of the world’s leading renewable energy analytics firms, released its Q4/2015 Global Wind Power Market Outlook Update on Thursday, providing an analysis of global and regional wind power installation … [continued]
Despite an overall gloomy outlook for the renewable energy sector across Europe, with the possibility of taxes and withdrawal of subsidies, at least some private investors are looking to keep up the investment in the sector. Quercus Assets Selection, a private equity fund, announced that it will launch two funds … [continued]
A new environmental campaign from Sony Pictures Television Networks will help promote conservation and preservation issues across the globe, and in the United States these efforts will focus on the needs of our iconic National Parks. The company’s US networks, Sony Movie Channel and getTV, along with streaming network Crackle, … [continued]
Originally published on Icebike. So, right off the bat, if you don’t know what a bikeshare is, it’s a program in which many bicycle stations are set up and people can rent a bike to use for a certain timeframe and return it at the same or a different station. … [continued]
The first utility-scale CIS thin-film photovoltaic (PV) facility in the country of Turkey was recently commissioned, according to recent reports. The commissioning of the project followed a fairly rapid development period of around 3 months, which saw the solar modules supplied by Solar Frontier installed at the one-megawatt (MW) facility … [continued]
Wind power generated 140% of Denmark’s electricity demand last Thursday, which allowed the country to export some of its power to neighboring Norway, Germany, and Sweden. News of the record-breaking generating figure has been swimming around news outlets and social media. The Guardian appear to have broken the news, at … [continued]
A new report from the European Commission has concluded that wind power is the renewable energy technology with the largest and most successful deployment over the last 20 years. The European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) released the third edition of its annual report on wind energy technology, market, and … [continued]
Originally published on EnergyPost. By Karel Beckman Fully one-third of electricity produced in Europe last year came from renewable energy, reports ENTSO-E (the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity). Four years ago this was just 24%. The increased share of renewables has come at the expense of fossil … [continued]
A ten-day meeting to hone the draft text of the Paris 2015 universal climate agreement has begun in Bonn, Germany. Presidents of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Lima COP20 (Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, the deft and diplomatic Environment Minister of Peru) and the upcoming Paris COP21 meetings (Laurent Fabius, who is … [continued]
In The Guardian, Arthur Neslen and Rob Evans recently wrote that new rules intended to combat air pollution from EU power plants could be weaker than coal standards currently in place in China, a nation both ashamed of and reviled for its poor urban air quality. A Greenpeace study has found that … [continued]
