Sunday, 19 February 2012

Nineteen clean energy projects proposed by tribal communities will get a total of $6.5 million in funding according to the United States Department of Energy. The Tribal Energy Program, which began in 2002, is part of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, with the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs. It provides financial and technical assistance to Native American Tribes to allow them to evaluate and develop their renewable energy resources and reduce their energy
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Thursday, 16 February 2012

The Australian government is releasing up to 1 billion Australian dollars ($1.08 billion) to reduce pollution and to help manufacturers implement programs that cut costs by lessening energy use. Through two programs launched Thursday by industry and innovation and climate change minister Greg Combet, the government will provide grants to eligible manufacturers to allow them to make changes to their operations that will result in reduced carbon footprint.
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Sunday, 12 February 2012

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is issuing a $50 million five-year loan to the State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine for energy efficiency. The aim is to support a lending program where small and medium-sized enterprises in the country can borrow up to $3 million to implement energy efficiency projects.
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Wednesday, 08 February 2012

The United States Department of Energy plans to launch a new Energy Innovation Hub that will carry out advanced research on batteries and energy storage, and that could get an investment of up to $120 million over five years. The department’s Energy Innovation Hubs bring together teams of scientists and engineers across disciplines, working for the agency’s aim of accelerating discoveries and shortening the path from laboratory innovation to commercial deployment.
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Thursday, 02 February 2012

The European Investment Bank will provide 1.1 million euros ($1.4 million) in geothermal energy grants in the Caribbean. The project aims to provide low-carbon energy for Dominica and neighboring islands by allowing them to generate their electricity needs away from a primarily fossil fuel base to renewable energy.
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Sunday, 29 January 2012

The Department of Energy is awarding Swedish truck maker Volvo Group $19 million to develop more fuel-efficient tractor-trailers and deploy more cutting-edge trucking technologies which the agency says will help boost the competitiveness of the U.S. auto and manufacturing industry.
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Thursday, 26 January 2012

New York City-based battery maker Ener1 Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday, saying it plans to restructure its debt, add up to $81 million in new equity funding, and reorganize within 45 days. The filing is exactly a year since Vice President Joseph Biden visited Ener1 to highlight President Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union promise to put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012

A 6.1-megawatt solar energy plant in Tucson, Arizona has been granted a loan of up to $13.5 million by the North American Development Bank, a financial institution governed by both the governments of the United States and Mexico, after the project was certified by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Windows account for an estimated 4 quadrillion British thermal units of energy lost in United States buildings each year. That adds up to over $35 billion in heating and air conditioning costs, or 25 percent of a home’s heat loss in the winter or heat gain in the summer. With D.O.E.-funding, Philadelphia-based window manufacturer Traco said it developed low-emissivity windows, which it says can reduce energy loss from heating and air conditioning by 40 percent.
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Monday, 16 January 2012

Renewable energy projects including wind, solar, small hydropower and geothermal in Latin America and the Caribbean will get a boost in the form of loans worth around $30 million from the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Thursday, 12 January 2012

A shift from focusing first on the development of new energy sources to prioritizing energy efficiency investments can mean the difference in the United States between the status quo and slashing energy consumption by 60 percent, adding nearly two million jobs, and saving consumers as much as $400 million per year or $2600 per household annually by 2050, a new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy showed.
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Thursday, 12 January 2012

The British government will invest over £10 million ($15.4 million) in new research and development to look more into the large-scale energy generation potential of wave and tidal energy.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

United States Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited the 280-megawatt, 3-square mile Abengoa Solana Generation Station, sponsored by Abengoa Solar Inc., currently under construction in the Gila Bend located in the Arizona desert.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The Brazilian Development Bank will lend up to 4 billion reais ($2.222 billion) to farmers for a program which aims to renovate or expand the country’s more than 1 million hectares of sugarcane farms and help Brazil grow more sugarcane, the world’s chief source of ethanol.
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The United States Export-Import Bank will lend $638 million to Siemens A.G. to finance the sale of turbines that will be used in a combined cycle power plant in Saudi Arabia. Siemens will produce gas and steam turbines at its Charlotte, North Carolina plant for use in a $2 billion combined cycle power plant to be built in Qurayyah. Total capacity would be 4,000 megawatts.
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Thursday, 05 January 2012

The European Commission awarded 27 of I.B.M.’s 35 data centers “Energy Efficient Status” based on the European Union Code of Conduct for Data Centers, representing the largest portfolio of data centers from a single company to receive the recognition.
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012

Three low-carbon energy research projects in India are getting a total of around 18 million Norwegian kroner ($3 million) from the Research Council of Norway under a research cooperation program between the two countries. “The three projects that will now receive funding are in the areas of geology and wave energy. All of them have great potential for technological breakthroughs and commercial applications in both countries,” said Rune Volla, director of the council’s energy department.
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Monday, 19 December 2011

The United States Government Accountability Office on Monday underscored the need for more stringent oversight and accounting of stimulus funds being donated by the Department of State in its first-ever detailed report on the government’s financial support for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Monday, 19 December 2011

The first integrated recycling center in Romania will get a total of 23.5 million euros ($31 million) in investments from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Global Finance’s South East Europe Fund. The Green Group, a newly created holding company set up by plastic company Romcarbon S.A., will run the new park aiming to become a recycling leader for southeastern Europe.
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