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Policy, investment and markets Features for April 2012
Our regular column, written by the Energy Industries Council, reports on project development in the renewable energy marketplace...the latest installment covers developments in January and February.
30 April, 2012
THE ADANI Group, one of the fastest growing business houses in India, has commissioned a 40 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Gujarat, India.
29 April, 2012
America's wind industry is simultaneously on course for a record-breaking year of installations and on the brink of catastrophe – and a lot has to do with the boom and bust of the Production Tax Credit (PTC).
28 April, 2012
The UK has seen announcements worth £4.7 billion into renewables, supporting 15,000, in the period April 2011 to February 2012, and more is underway.
27 April, 2012
Renewable energy development on farmland is not easy money, and there are many examples where farmers have got it horribly wrong - leading to hugely inflated construction costs - because they did not do their homework.
23 April, 2012
As First Solar becomes the latest company to feel the European solar squeeze, closing its European manufacturing base in the face of Germany’s woes, Paula Mints gives us an up to date picture of PV industry dynamics.
19 April, 2012
The news that the UK’s nuclear power programme was once again facing difficulties will not have come as a surprise to anyone that has followed energy policy over the past year.
18 April, 2012
Long a region of vast potential - but lagging in concrete action - Latin America’s renewable landscape is finally starting to take shape, reports Colin Bennett.
04 April, 2012
Solar Energy has the potential to re-energise India’s economy by creating millions of new jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce the trade deficit and propel India forward as a ‘green nation’. In short, solar offers too many benefits for India to ignore or delay its development, believes Darshan Goswami.
04 April, 2012
The buzz at the recent EcoBuild Conference at London’s ExCel was all about what the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will do next about renewable energy Feed In Tariffs (FiTs)?
04 April, 2012