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IEA report reveals the world is stalling on clean energy targets

Wednesday, 17 April 2013 Robin Whitlock

Despite much talk by world leaders the average unit of energy is still just as dirty as it was twenty years ago

Technical assistance expanded for tribal energy projects in US

Friday, 01 February 2013 REM The US Department of Energy announced the second round of the Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program, which provides federally recognized Tribal governments in the United States with ...

Shell launches new campaign to promote a sustainable energy future

Thursday, 13 December 2012 Dan McCue Although the reflexive response from the renewable energy community to anything "big oil" has to say about the future of energy is typically a big fat "No" -- especially in the age ...

Gamesa intensifies diversification strategy

Thursday, 04 October 2012 REM Gamesa has unveiled plans to diversify its business through subsidiary Gamesa Electric by pursuing opportunities in the hydroelectric, solar photovoltaic, energy quality, electric traction and marine propulsion ...

Germany and Denmark top green economy index

Tuesday, 11 September 2012 Toby Price Results from the 3rd edition of the Global Green Economy Index (GGEI) show that expert practitioners in the green economy rank Germany as the top national green performer while an index defined by 32 datasets ...

Island leaders say renewables will offer a securer future

Monday, 10 September 2012 REM A global gathering of islands convened by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in co-operation with the Government of Malta on 6-7 September 2012 called for sustainable development based on ...

IRENA island summit for sustainable energy solutions opens tomorrow

Wednesday, 05 September 2012 REM

The International Renewable Energy Agency's Renewables and Islands Global Summit opens tomorrow, Thursday, 6 September, and continues through Friday, 7 September, in Malta.

China continues domination of renewables market

Wednesday, 29 August 2012 REM Having quadrupled its solar capacity target to 50GW by 2020 and begun an accelerated domestic installations program to tackle the oversupply of solar panels, China looks set to continue its domination ...

Africa

Africans slow in opening up to renewables, but capable of creating a “Green Africa”

Wednesday, 18 July 2012 REM 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 ...

IEA sees world hitting the renewable accelerator over next five years

Thursday, 05 July 2012 REM The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its first-ever renewable energy market report this week, forecasting that global renewable power generation will increase by over 40% as deployment opportunities ...