News

• Biggest photovoltaic project in Africa seeks finance

  04 December 2012

  A UK renewables developer has unveiled plans to build Africa's biggest photovoltaic (PV) solar project in a move it believes has the potential to trigger a clean energy revolution in the region.

• EU, US eye Durban Platform timetable

  03 December 2012

  EU and US officials are hopeful that a timetable for negotiations on a new international climate change agreement will be agreed at the UN talks in Doha this week – although to varying degrees.

• CSAPR rehearing decision expected soon – but rescue seen unlikely

  03 December 2012

  The DC Circuit Court is likely to decide whether to rehear a decision invalidating the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) in the next few months, but market participants are not expecting a judicial rescue.

• US slips behind Germany in E&Y renewables index

  30 November 2012

  Policy uncertainty has seen the US drop from joint second to third place behind Germany in the latest edition of Ernst &Young's renewables investment attractiveness index.

• Demand for new cat bonds 'excellent' despite Sandy

  30 November 2012

  A recently launched $400 million catastrophe (cat) bond shows investors have not been put off the asset class by superstorm Sandy, according to a cat bond structurer.

• EUAs hit record lows as backloading plan is delayed

  30 November 2012

  The price of EU carbon permits hit record lows today after the European Commission admitted that plans to 'backload' 900 million tonnes of allowances will not be agreed by the end of 2012.

• Industrial water market to grow by $80bn by 2017

  29 November 2012

  The $35 billion a year global industrial water market is set to grow by a further $80 billion over the next five years, according to HSBC.

• Emitters get reprieve in UK Energy Bill

  29 November 2012

  The UK government plans to let energy-intensive industries off some of the bill for the UK's shift towards clean energy, claiming that "decarbonisation should not mean deindustrialisation".

• Wheb achieves first major exit

  29 November 2012

  Wheb Partners, a clean-tech focused private equity firm, has made its first major exit.

• Impax earnings fall, but new food and agriculture fund will launch next month

  29 November 2012

  Impax Asset Management suffered a 26% fall in operating earnings but said it is poised to benefit from an increase in renewables and the launch of its first fund to invest in food and agriculture.