News

• Biomass can produce more UK electricity than previously hoped - report

  05 November 2012

  The biomass sector has the potential to smash the targets set for it by the UK government and still provide a good return for investors, a new report has claimed.

• EU-China solar trade dispute intensifies

  05 November 2012

  China has hit back at the EU in the solar trade war – filing a complaint about the EU's solar subsidies to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and launching an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation on the EU's exports of solar polysilicon.

• Brookfield sells C$175m in hydro project bonds

  05 November 2012

  Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners has raised C$175 million (US$176 million) for the financing of a hydroelectric project in Canada from the sale of 41-year bonds.

• Camco Clean Energy to sell renewables technology

  05 November 2012

  Camco Clean Energy has started manufacturing and marketing a new energy storage device, highlighting growing diversification from its carbon market background, it has revealed.

• Forest carbon market hits record despite fall in REDD – report

  05 November 2012

  The value of the forest carbon market hit a record $237 million last year, despite a sharp fall in transaction volumes from projects that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).

• Sandy could be most expensive US storm since Katrina

  02 November 2012

  Superstorm Sandy could be the costliest US natural disaster for the insurance industry since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to Eqecat.

• Developer has grid parity in sight for giant Serbian solar project

  01 November 2012

  The developers of a giant €1.75 billion ($2.27 billion) solar park in Serbia say the project is set to go ahead without any feed-in tariff, and will be able to sell its power at so-called 'grid parity'.

• Prices plunge in India's saturated REC market

  01 November 2012

  India's renewable energy credit (REC) market has become the latest environmental market to see prices collapse under a flood of supply – although observers are hopeful that regulators will intervene.

• EU backloading plan 'likely to take middle road' – poll

  01 November 2012

  A rescue plan for Europe's struggling carbon market is likely to propose postponing the sale of between 600 million and 900 million allowances, according to a snap poll of analysts.

• Businesses need to value water - report

  01 November 2012

  Businesses have been urged to step up efforts to understand the importance of water to their operations by a new report that argues that the true value of the commodity is not reflected in its price.