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  • Ascent sells $8m shares to existing investors

    03 September 2014

    Ascent Solar Technologies has agreed to sell $8 million shares to two existing shareholders.

  • Scottish Equity Partners launches £135m clean energy fund

    02 September 2014

    Scottish Equity Partners (SEP), a UK venture capital company, has raised £135 million ($223 million) for a new fund to invest in clean energy infrastructure.

  • Glennmont's second fund reaches €500m second close

    01 September 2014

    A clean energy fund has reached a €500 million ($656.6 million) final close, exceeding its target by €50 million.

  • Investing in commercial solar rooftops in the US

    29 August 2014

    After raising $130 million to refinance its first fund, True Green Capital's Panos Ninios explains why he is so bullish about commercial rooftop solar in the US. Peter Cripps reports

  • Improving the yieldco

    28 August 2014

    Yieldcos have the potential to be a game-changer for renewables by helping to reduce the cost of low-carbon electricity by 20%, argues Morgan Herve-Mignucci

  • Aviva buys UK solar rooftop portfolio from Zouk Capital

    27 August 2014

    Aviva Investors has bought another portfolio of UK residential solar assets from private equity firm Zouk Capital.

  • Danish pension fund plans further investments in offshore wind

    26 August 2014

    PKA, one of the largest pension fund managers in Denmark, will make further investments in offshore wind farms, said CEO Peter Damgaard Jensen.

  • Scatec Solar plans Oslo IPO

    26 August 2014

    Norwegian project developer and operator Scatec Solar is planning an IPO to help drive its expansion plans.

  • Solar, batteries and electric vehicles to render centralised energy a dinosaur, warns report

    22 August 2014

    The combined impact of solar, batteries and electric vehicles has the potential to start disrupting the electricity markets by the end of the decade, analysts have forecast.

  • Atlantis shares surge as deal is agreed for 'world's biggest' tidal stream project

    22 August 2014

    A £50 million funding package has been agreed to kickstart the world's largest tidal stream project.