News from Down to Earth EDITORIAL Rethink growth with forest capital (by Sunita Narain) ======================================================== Can you love tigers but hate forests? This is the question that troubled me as I visited the middle of India last fortnight. I was in Nagpur, where local politicians, conservationists and officials were discussing …
Smart grid company Landis+Gyr up for grabs
11 May 2011 DEAL NEWS Smart grid company Landis+Gyr up for grabs Rentech’s Olympiad jet fuel project secures Crown Forest biomass supply Cycleenergy’s €18m fundraising cements expansion plans QSolar launches on TSX after reverse-takeover Environmental Technologies Fund injects £4.5m in energy efficiency start-up 4energy Click here to read the newsletter
KGRA Energy company locks in $2.75m for waste heat recovery
10 May 2011 DEAL NEWS KGRA Energy company locks in $2.75m for waste heat recovery Innotech Solar bags €5.72m contract for Spanish solar plant Origin Energy acquires stake in Chilean geothermal explorer BP invests in renewable fuel start-up Verdezyne UK carbon capture company 2Co Energy acquires Powerfuel Power Nobao Renewable …
Gamesa seals China Resources New Energy Group supply deal
9 May 2011 DEAL NEWS Gamesa seals China Resources New Energy Group supply deal Vestas secures follow-on Brookfield order after Q1 losses Solar fuel developer Joule secures first project site in New Mexico US government injects $47m in bioenergy research and development Click here to read the newsletter
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ SUNDAY WORLD, 5-8: * Original reporting recap: Can You Run a Wind Farm From a Cell Phone? European wind engineering giant GL Garrad Hassan’s WindHelm does that—and could be worth a half billion euros a year. * Original reporting recap: American …
AMAT’s $4.9B Acquisition of Varian For Ion Implant Tech
AMAT’s $4.9B Acquisition of Varian For Ion Implant Tech The semiconductor equipment giant makes a big move with some impact in the solar manufacturing world. The Networked Grid: Making the Most of AMI California’s big utilities are mandated to look at a 10-year road map. Here’s some of what they …
FCC wins €322m waste management project deal
5 May 2011 DEAL NEWS FCC wins €322m waste management project deal US Bancorp makes its largest renewable energy tax equity injection Terra-Gen turns to loan to repay corporate debt General Catalyst invests further $5.6m in SustainX Click here to read the newsletter
2011 Global Roundtable now carbon neutral with new Green sponsor
A publication from UNEP UNEP FI and the African insurance industry took the first steps of a global journey to develop sustainability principles for the insurance industry at the regional consultation meeting for Africa in mid-March. Over 70 senior executives from the African insurance industry and its stakeholders attended the …
What about the wind windfall?
A newsletter from BusinessGreen What about the wind windfall? READ» Boards urged to boost CSR skills in response to green shareholder resolutions Ernst & Young report predicts half of all shareholder resolutions in 2011 will focus on green or social issues READ» Updated: Enecsys completes record £25m funding round for …
Suntrough Goes Small With Solar Thermal in Developing Nations
An article from GreenTech Solar Suntrough Goes Small With Solar Thermal in Developing Nations Five- to ten-megawatt CSP plants, pre-assembled and containerized might drive down the cost of this technology. Suntrough is a solar thermal plant builder and developer that believes smaller might be better. Contrast that with BrightSource Energy, …