People’s Daily Online: China plays an indispensable role in promoting global climate finance, said participants at a forum of the Global Climate Action Summit 2018 held recently, the official Weibo account of China News Agency reported. The summit was co-hosted by China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the government of California, the International Finance Forum, […]
Kaosenlared.net (Colombia): En su atención más reciente a la situación económica de Puerto Rico, el Instituto para el Análisis Económico y Financiero de la Energía (IEEFA, siglas en inglés) plantea sobre el informe encomendado por la Junta de Control Fiscal (JCF) a la firma Kobre & Kim acerca de la deuda de Puerto Rico, que […]
Energy Mix: The decision this week by Tokyo-based industrial conglomerate Marubeni to step away from any future role in developing coal-fired power plants is a signature moment that almost certainly signals that “other industrial behemoths will follow,” according to an assessment by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Marubeni, until now one […]
Roll Call: President Donald Trump’s comments defending his administration’s response to the hurricane that hit Puerto Rico last year may have stymied chances for a bipartisan bill to reduce politicization and patronage at the territory’s publicly-owned electric utility, which some see as a key impediment slowing modernization of the island’s grid. House Natural Resources Chairman […]
Eco-Business: Banks in the Philippines continue to finance coal-fired plants despite the looming risk that the plants will not be able to pay back loans for their construction. Even though President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Paris Climate Accord last year, there has been a coal boom in the country, with 10,423 megawatts (MW) of largely […]
Offshore Wind Journal: Poland’s biggest utility, PGE, should accelerate its plans to diversify away from coal and into renewable energy such as offshore wind, a leading think tank says Analysis by experts at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) suggests that plans to get involved in renewable energy that have been deferred […]
Lexology: China has traditionally focused more on developing coal and hydroelectric power, which provide relatively constant output, instead of wind and solar, which depend on whether conditions. However, recently, government-owned power producers have begun making significant investments in large wind projects in Europe, indicating a potential shift in the breadth of China’s commitment to an […]
PV Tech: Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (Mahagenco) has called for an expression of interest (EoI) for setting up 10MW of agricultural solar PV, involving the creation of green house and poly house sheds. Meanwhile, a switch from conventional irrigation-pump systems to solar-powered ones in India would save enormous sums of money and generate income […]