OST has announced its work with UK bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Europe’s leading solar energy company, Lightsource Renewable Energy, to bring Europe’s largest floating photovoltaic solar power project to financial close earlier this year.
Read MoreThis year is set to be another record-breaker for solar power: the industry is on pace to nearly double in size by the end of 2016, and there are now more than one million solar installations in the U.S. that generated more new electricity in the first quarter of the year than coal, natural gas, and nuclear combined. This is good news, in part because 2016 is also on track to be the hottest year in recorded history — awash in scorching hot solar rays we can tap for clean, renewable energy.
Read MoreAccenture Development Partnerships has teamed up with the University of Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) and The Rural Development Company to develop solar microgrids in South Africa that aim to provide rural electrification an…
Read MoreIn July, global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power closed a $117.5 million equity financing package as part of its funding commitment to Lekela Power — a $1.9 billion joint venture between Mainstream and private equity manager Actis that will build 1.3 GW of solar and wind power capacity across Africa over the next three years.
Read MoreI was sitting in a small room 10,000 miles away from home in October of 2009 working for a developer focused primarily on geothermal energy. Two weeks before, my flight from the U.S. had been booked by an administrative assistant without even telling m…
Read MoreDivided was the third most quoted word given by U.S. voters in response to a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll asking for a one-word description of the current state of the union. Confused ranked fifth.
Read MoreThe political season is in full swing with all the associated campaign promises coming from both sides of the aisle as candidates vie for support — claims of putting the power of the federal government behind making the U.S. a clean energy superpower and claims of both revitalizing the coal industry and supporting renewable energy measures.
Read MoreSunPower Corp. dropped a “guidance bomb” that’s dragging down shares of solar manufacturers. The second-largest U.S. panel producer told analysts Tuesday night that it expects to lose as much as $175 million this year, a shift from May when it expected to earn as much as $50 million.
Read MoreJust a few short years ago, the UK was being touted as one of the leading countries for producing and developing a solar PV infrastructure. Subsidies were beneficial, the industry was growing and, despite a few objections over the odd solar farm locati…
Read MoreThe Kenya government, with the support of a 33-million-euro credit from the French government, plans to install 23 solar mini-grid power stations with the capacity to produce 9.6 MW of power to connecthouseholds in remote northern Kenya to electricity.
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