News

• US asset manager to save German solar firm

  22 July 2013

  A US asset manager has stepped in to rescue a pioneering European solar brand that recently called in administrators.

• Industrial giant doubles its Indian solar output

  22 July 2013

  One of India's biggest power generators is to build a 28.8MW solar plant, in a move that will double its photovoltaic capacity in the country.

• Solarcentury forms southern African joint venture

  19 July 2013

  Solarcentury has formed a southern African joint venture to take advantage of the renewables boom expected in the region.

• Asset manager buys EIB's biggest SEK green bond of 2013

  19 July 2013

  The European Investment Bank has issued its biggest Swedish kronor-denominated green bond of 2013, with a Scandinavian asset manager the single buyer.

• Green Deal Finance Company to woo institutional investors

  18 July 2013

  The company that provides loans under the UK's Green Deal domestic energy efficiency programme hopes to raise funds from institutional investors in a year, it said today.

• Ryanair tops list of airline emitters in EU carbon market

  18 July 2013

  Ryanair, Lufthansa and easyJet were the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide among airlines within the EU Emissions Trading System in 2012, according to Carbon Market Data.

• Bullish outlook for energy storage, say analysts

  17 July 2013

  Increasing power generation from wind farms and solar panels coupled, in many countries, with high electricity prices and declining feed-in tariffs, will trigger a five-fold increase in demand for energy storage systems by 2020, analysts predict.

• UK's Green Investment Bank toasts whisky deal

  17 July 2013

  The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) contributed to a £1.2 million ($1.8 million) investment that will allow a Scottish whisky distillery to install a biomass boiler.

• KKR aims to apply ESG across entire business

  17 July 2013

  Private equity giant KKR has pledged to ramp up its focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in coming months, and aims to expand the initiative across the breadth of its business.

• Boston Common hires from EIRIS

  17 July 2013

  Lisa Hayles is leaving EIRIS, the UK-based provider of research on environmental, social and governance issues for the investment community, to join Boston Common Asset Management as a client portfolio manager.