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Estonia to Retract Pledge on Wind Energy Subsidy Cap, Parts Says
19 january 2013 Tallinn, Estonia — Estonia will keep an annual cap on the volume of wind energy eligible for subsidies, retracting a pledge to a renewable energy lobby last…
Florida Innovates with Its Eucalyptus and Citrus for Biomass Production
19 january 2013 By taking full advantage of both its natural subtropical climate and its own citrus resources, Florida’s fledgling biomass energy sector looks to be finally coming into its…
Solar Water Heaters in Lebanon: An Emerging $100 Million Market
19 january 2013 The very first solar water heating system installation in Lebanon probably goes back to the seventies of the last century. Few solar water heaters (SWH) were installed…
Energy Storage Wars: Which Technology Will Win the Battle?
19 january 2013 New Hampshire, USA — Pumped hydro has been the gold standard of renewable energy storage for decades. Its combination of efficiency (70-85%) and ubiquity (perhaps as much…
Sungevity Raises $125M To Line Up Customers and Expand Services Beyond Solar
19 january 2013 Sungevity is starting the year off with a new, $85 million round to finance solar panel installations and expand its presence in the nine states it already…
Why the Renewable Energy Industry Needs Green Banks
19 january 2013 On October 25, 2012, the world watched as Hurricane Sandy swept up the east coast. Over these past few years, we have seen storm after storm leave…
Financing for Mid-Sized Renewable Energy Projects
19 january 2013 Between the residential and utility sized RE projects, there are more and more distributed generation projects in the $100,000 to $1 million range. Rather than paying cash,…
UN: African Renewable Energy Projects Stagnating Due to Investment Risk
19 january 2013 Africa is lagging the rest of the world in obtaining funds for renewable energy projects because development banks aren’t assuming enough of the political risk of working…
Energy Secretary Chu Said to Plan Exit From Obama’s Cabinet
19 january 2013 WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who drew criticism from Republicans over his support for loans to Solyndra LLC before the solar-panel maker went bankrupt,…
Power REIT’s First Solar Deal
19 january 2013 I first wrote about Power REIT’s (NYSE:PW) plans to invest in renewable energy real estate in May 2012. The intent was to buy the real estate underlying…
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