Puerto Rico should take advantage of a unique opportunity to deploy billions of dollars of federal funding to create a resilient, decentralized electrical system based on renewable energy—an opportunity that neither the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) nor private operator LUMA Energy has shown any interest in pursuing. That was the core theme of […]

19 July 2021 (IEEFA Australia): Despite the economic disruption from COVID-19, top global debt and equity investors are continuing to drive capital into the renewable energy infrastructure sector due to its consistency in providing investment opportunities, finds a new report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). “Global investors are accelerating their […]

India has made huge strides in building renewable energy capacity and ranks fourth globally in terms of overall renewable energy capacity. As of May 2021, we have 95.6 gigawatts (GW) of installed renewable energy capacity, almost half of which (41GW) is solar energy. Raising its renewable energy ambitions further, India has created an ecosystem to support solar […]

Bangladesh has been faced with the prospect of a major rollout of coal-fired power plants for over a decade. The Bangladesh government’s focus on coal-fired power began with the 2010 Power System Master Plan, and was then reinforced by the 2016 version. Several of these plants are now under construction. For many years since, people […]