 Africa
Africans slow in opening up to renewables, but capable of creating a “Green Africa”
Europe, North America and some other major economies such as India and China are already well on their way to a clean energy future, but Africa, however, is lagging. Evidence of this is that there is currently one only clean energy investor event in Africa: Viridis Africa. Nonetheless, its organisers are confident that with investment, renewable energy can bring about poverty eradication and sustainable development. That’s why they will be holding a “matchmaking platform” for investors in October. | Investments in small-scale renewables surge 
Asset finance of wind farms and solar parks was up strongly and small-scale PV installations ran at record levels in the second quarter of 2012, says Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The clean energy sector showed resilience in the face of global economic ills and policy uncertainty, with new investment totalling $59.6 billion. This was up 24% on Q1, but still 18% below the near-record quarterly figure of $72.5 billion in Q2 last year. | Giving consumers the chance to put their money where their mouth is
A big welcome back to our blogger, Alex Koberle, after an extended absence. His time away has clearly given him plenty of space to think about how the future energy model should look, and community involvement, he feels, will definitely be at the heart of it. In this piece, Alex looks at Community Choice Aggregation, or in other wordspooling electricity demand to give citizens more bargaining power when procuring their energy. | Panorama Nearly a quarter of European renewable energy firms ripe for takeover, study finds Solar power project M&A enjoyed a record year in 2011 PV Italy
PV market faces uncertain future as FiT cuts loom OCI Solar Power to develop largest municipal utility solar project in US China
Chinese raise PV target for 2015 to 21 GW, sparking boom Thermal Being flexible is all part of the game for solar thermal innovator Delta installs 1.25 MW SolFocus CPV system in Italy James Woollard Is there a potential trade war now that the US have slapped tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels? Agenda SSX ONTARIO 4th Guangzhou International Solar Photovoltaic Exhibition 2012 |
