News

• Ex-Im, OPIC deny Indian solar distortion claims

  21 August 2012

  The US Ex-Im Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) have refuted allegations that they are distorting India's solar manufacturing sector.

• UK re-considers Severn barrage plan

  20 August 2012

  Plans to build a massive electricity-generating tidal barrage across the UK's Severn estuary have been re-opened, following assurances that private investors – including sovereign wealth funds – will be able to bear the entire cost of the project.

• Allianz eyes renewables funds

  20 August 2012

  German insurance giant Allianz is planning to launch closed-end investment funds focusing on renewable energy in the near future, its head of climate solutions has said.

• Three clean-tech crunch issues in US elections – HSBC

  17 August 2012

  Analysts at HSBC Bank have identified three touchstone issues for the climate and clean-tech sector ahead of the US elections – and say the post-election introduction of a carbon tax is a "wild card" policy.

• Suntech CEO move fails to reassure investors

  16 August 2012

  Troubled solar module giant Suntech has promoted its finance head to CEO and elevated its founder Zhengrong Shi to executive chairman, in a move that has failed to impress analysts.

• NGOs slam Bank of America for coal financing

  16 August 2012

  NGOs and activists have criticised Bank of America's latest corporate social responsibility (CSR) report, saying it fails to address the bank's financing of coal power.

• Investors chilled by prospect of US biofuels waiver

  15 August 2012

  Waiving the US renewable fuel requirements would send a "chilling signal" to investors in advanced biofuels, according to the Renewable Fuels Association.

• Carbon exchange veteran turns to small-scale renewables

  15 August 2012

  The former chief executive of Climate Exchange is raising money for a company that will invest in small-scale renewable energy generation in the UK.

• Emerging Asia, supply chains face greatest natural hazards risk – Maplecroft

  15 August 2012

  India, Vietnam and the Philippines are among the ten countries with the greatest proportion of their economic output exposed to natural hazards – putting corporate supply chains at risk, according to risk analysis company Maplecroft.

• RWE feels the heat from German solar expansion

  14 August 2012

  German energy giant RWE is feeling the pressure from a rapid expansion of solar photovoltaics across the country, which it says is "crowding out conventional generation capacity".