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OPIC Board approves $250 million to support ContourGlobal solutions` clean energy project for bottling plants
The Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) today approved up to $250 million to support ContourGlobal Solutions' energy-efficiency project which will enable a major Coca-Cola bottler to significantly reduce its carbon dioxide emissions while also reducing energy consumption and costs. The OPIC loan facility will support ContourGlobal Solutions Holdings Ltd. and ...
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GE’s Jenbacher Gas Engine Technology Helps averda Launch Lebanon’s New Clean Energy Project
GE’s ecomagination Qualified Jenbacher Gas Engine Assists in Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project Operated by averda On-Site Power Generated by GE’s Gas Engine to Enable Upgrading the Environmental Performance of Landfill Landmark Project to be Model in Addressing Lebanon’s Environmental Sustainability Practices In an ambitious renewable energy initiative that can potentially ...
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African Utility Week Industry Awards: celebrating African projects and people solving the continent’s energy challenges
This year’s African Utility Week Industry Awards will once again honour pioneering utilities, projects and people in the energy and water industry on the continent. The third edition of the awards takes place on Wednesday, 18 May, during the annual African Utility Week and Clean Power Africa at the CTICC in Cape Town. Categories vary from Power Utility of the Year Award, Clean Energy ...
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Interior Department Advances Three Key Solar Projects in California
The Department of the Interior announced this week it has approved two solar projects with a third nearing final completion on public lands in Riverside County, Calif., underscoring the Department's commitment to promoting onshore renewable energy production. The three projects will generate roughly 1 gigawatt of power and are the first projects approved under the Desert Renewable Energy ...
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Governor Cuomo Announces Nearly $8 Million for Two New York Companies as First Commercial and Industrial Carbon Challenge Winners
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently (6/7) announced two New York companies - International Paper and Recycled Energy Development-Rochester, LLC - as the first winners of the Commercial and Industrial Carbon Challenge. The companies are committing to reduce nearly 850,000 tons of carbon emissions combined over the next 15 years, the equivalent of taking approximately 12,000 cars off the road per ...
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IEA-IFC Joint Report Calls for Ramping Up Clean Energy Investments in Emerging Economies
Annual clean energy investments in emerging and developing economies will need to more than triple from USD 770 billion in 2022 to as much as USD 2.8 trillion by the early 2030s to meet rising energy needs and align with the climate goals set out in the Paris Agreement, according to a new report released today by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Finance Corporation (IFC). ...
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Shinsei planning $2bn of loans for clean energy in Japan
Shinsei Bank is planning to provide up to 200 billion yen (US$2 billion) in loans for clean energy projects in Japan. The bank is a lender for Goldman Sachs Group and is one of a group of lenders who are increasing their investments in renewable energy projects after the Japanese government introduced an incentive programme two years ago. The bank helped finance a 40-megawatt (MW) solar-power ...
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Karbone Structures 20-Year REC Off-Take Agreement for Oregon Community Wind Project with Seattle City Light and OneEnergy Renewables
NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2011/PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Karbone, a full service environmental commodities firm, today announced it has successfully structured and closed two long-term off-take agreements for renewable energy certificates (RECs). The agreements are for the next 20 years of full capacity power generation from PaTu Wind Farm LLC (PaTu Wind), a subsidiary of community wind farm developer ...
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DOE Releases Draft Roadmap to Improve Interconnection of Clean Energy Resources on the Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy released a draft roadmap to address interconnection challenges on the transmission grid and seeks feedback from the public before releasing a final version. DOE convened a broad group of clean energy stakeholders through its Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) to develop the roadmap, which is intended to serve as a practical guide for implementing near-and ...
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NextEra Energy Resources completes purchase of Kansas wind farm
NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the largest generator of renewable energy from the wind and sun in the United States, today announced that its subsidiaries have completed the purchase of the approximately 165-megawatt (MW) Cimarron I Wind Energy Center from CPV Renewable Energy Company. Financial terms were not disclosed. The project, located in Gray Countyin southwest Kansas, is comprised of ...
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NineDot Energy Launches Community-scale Bronx Battery Energy Storage Site
NineDot Energy®, a leading developer of community-scale clean energy projects backed by global investment firm Carlyle, this week unveiled its first battery energy storage site in the Bronx, New York City. With a 3.08 MW /12.32 MWh Tesla Megapack system, a solar canopy, and infrastructure ready for bi-directional electric vehicle chargers, NineDot Energy notes that the site is a model for ...
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More Than 100 American Cities Charge Toward a Renewable Future
American cities know that the future is renewable: more than 100 cities across the United States have made commitments to increase their use of renewable energy. But with these commitments come challenges. To help U.S. cities meet – or beat – their renewable energy goals, the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), World Resources Institute (WRI), ...
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B&W Awarded $90 Million Contract For U.K. Waste-to-Energy Power Plant Project
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (B&W) (NYSE:BW) announced today that its Denmark-based subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S, has been awarded a contract for more than $90 million to design, manufacture and build a waste-to-energy power plant near Haresfield, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. B&W Vølund was awarded the contract by a joint venture of Urbaser and ...
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Bloom Energy Completes Fuel Cell Project at Morgan Stanley Global Headquarters in New York City
Morgan Stanley and Bloom Energy announced the completion of a fuel cell project at Morgan Stanley's global headquarters in New York City's Times Square neighborhood. The 750 kW fuel cell project at 1585 Broadway is fully operational and will provide approximately 6 million kWh of clean electricity each year. Executives from Morgan Stanley, Bloom Energy, Con Edison and New York State Energy ...
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Australia joins clean energy financing partnership facility
AusAID has contributed A$7 million for 2007-2008 to the Clean Energy Fund, a multidonor trust fund under the Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility. AusAID is the first financing partner to contribute to the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) multi-donor trust fund. AusAid plans to provide a further A$25 million by 2011. The Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility was launched in April ...
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Massachusetts Clean Energy Partnership Project Recognized As an ‘Innovation in Government’ Finalist
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, has recognized the “Massachusetts Clean Energy Partnership for Wastewater and Drinking Water Facilities” project as one of five finalists in this year’s Innovations in American Government Awards competition. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Partnership is a ...
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Kyocera TCL Solar Completes 21.1 MW Solar Power Plant on Repurposed Land in Japan
Kyoto/London − Kyocera Corporation and Tokyo Century Corporation announced today that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has completed construction of a 21.1 megawatt (MW) utility-scale solar power plant in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. 78,144 Kyocera solar modules were installed on approximately 1 km2 of land originally planned for the construction of an industrial waste disposal facility ...
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`Northwest BC hydroelectric facility honoured for operational excellence` as featured in the Interior News
Northwest BC hydroelectric facility honoured for operational excellence Tahltan Nation also receive a Finance Award for their purchase of a stake in the project A hydroelectric project in Northwest B.C. is the recipient of a 2019 Clean Energy BC (CEBC) award.The Forrest Kerr run-of-the-river facility owned by Axium Infrastructure, Manulife Financial, the Tahltan First Nation and AltaGas Canada ...
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Summit Power & Linde Join Forces to Develop Projects Deploying Carbon Capture from Natural Gas
Summit Power Group, a Seattle-based developer of low-carbon power projects, and the technology company The Linde Group today announced they have teamed up to develop commercial-scale natural gas-fired power plants that will capture up to ninety percent (90%) of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that would otherwise have been emitted. The new power plants will combine well-established and commercially ...
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EPA, DOE partner to develop renewable energy at the former tronox facility site in Savannah, GA / Clean energy project aims to benefit local economies and create jobs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are collaborating to conduct a study on the potential for solar or biopower potential generation on the Former Tronox Facility site in Savannah, Ga. As part of the RE-Powering America’s Land Initiative, EPA is investing approximately $1 million for projects ...
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