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Published 23 February 2012 | viewed 2,005 times
The US Department of Energy's (DOE) days as a financier of clean technologies are over thanks to the Solyndra backlash, but budget cuts would have…
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Published 11 January 2012 | viewed 2,399 times
The clean-tech sector is primed for a record-setting year of investments in 2012, following robust growth in 2011 despite difficult conditions, according to the Cleantech…
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Published 09 January 2012 | viewed 815 times
The expiration of the 1603 US cash grant programme is likely to slow but not stop the solar industry’s fast march toward grid parity, as…
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Published 20 November 2011 | viewed 947 times
The US Department of Energy (DOE) did not break the law when it restructured a loan guarantee for now bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, Secretary…
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Published 21 October 2011 | viewed 989 times
Investors will not shy away from the clean-tech sector because of the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, according to an executive from the Cleantech…
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Published 11 October 2011 | viewed 1,591 times
The head of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office has resigned in the midst of the controversy surrounding the bankruptcy of solar…
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Published 07 October 2011 | viewed 1,518 times
The controversy surrounding the collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra could make it impossible to extend the US loan guarantee or cash grant programmes for…
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Published 05 October 2011 | viewed 1,939 times
The bankruptcy of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra should not be used as an excuse to pull government support from a thriving US solar sector, according…
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Published 29 September 2011 | viewed 2,335 times
Google will spend $75 million to finance residential solar installations, raising its total investment in the clean energy sector to more than $850 million.
The…
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Published 19 September 2011 | viewed 982 times
The collapse of solar panel manufacturer Solyndra has raised serious doubts about the legitimacy of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) process for evaluating loan…
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Published 16 September 2011 | viewed 2,351 times
The renewable energy sector faces growing challenges from global economic instability and expiring or diminished government support in the US and Europe, although the nuclear…
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Published 13 September 2011 | viewed 1,751 times
Conditions in the solar sector are deteriorating because of slack demand in key European markets, advisory and research firm Collins Stewart warned.
The much hoped…
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Published 06 September 2011 | viewed 1,494 times
The vast majority of insurers are unprepared to handle climate risks even though they acknowledge the impact of climate change on extreme weather events, according…
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Published 24 August 2011 | viewed 1,013 times
Canada’s environment ministry has proposed tougher regulations for coal-fired power plants, but they do not go far enough to help the country achieve its greenhouse…
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Published 09 August 2011 | viewed 2,634 times
The US wind energy sector is continuing to recover from the credit crunch with turbine installations on the rise in 2011, according to the American…
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Published 08 August 2011 | viewed 3,221 times
The deal to raise the US debt ceiling may have averted a disastrous credit crisis, but it is bad news for the clean energy sector.…
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Published 03 August 2011 | viewed 3,821 times
China, Germany and the UK have the most stable and consistent clean energy policies, a boon for investors seeking jurisdictions with the least amount of…
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Published 24 June 2011 | viewed 1,015 times
Google and investment bank Citi have boosted their investments in the largest wind farm in the US.
The companies will finance a second phase of…
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Published 15 June 2011 | viewed 529 times
Low natural gas prices have thwarted investment in nuclear generators in the US and federal loan guarantees will not help nuclear power reach parity, experts…
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Published 29 March 2011 | viewed 139 times
The near-meltdown of nuclear reactors in Japan may derail already shaky prospects for a US clean energy standard (CES) and an expansion of the US…