27 August

Today’s Top Stories

• Norway grants licences for 1.3GW wind

• India puts $7.9bn into renewables ‘corridor’

• Solexel receives $54.5m from KPCB, Technology Partners PREMIUM

• Verdane Capital sells SmartMotor to Rolls-Royce Marine

• Siemens gets $400m order for 829MW US power plant

• Optimum Energy secures increased financing from Edison Energy

• Solexel receives $54.5m from KPCB, Technology Partners PREMIUM

• GE subsidiary buys 50MW Canadian solar parks from First Solar

• FLI Energy starts construction BioCore Environmental’s 12MW biomethane AD project

• Norway grants licences for 1.3GW wind

• Siemens gets $400m order for 829MW US power plant

• Mitsubishi moves in Italian solar with acquisition of Solar Holding

• Energy efficiency company NRG Energy acquires Energy Curtailment Specialists

• Infigen Energy loss widens to AUS80m

• Waste To Energy Partners raises $150,000 of $3.3m round PREMIUM

• ARPA-E provides $36m funding for energy storage

• EIB to provide $230m funding for Central American renewables PREMIUM

• Abramovich helps boost Clean Air Power fundraise to £5m

• Increasing costs, intermittent supply drive uptake of India’s large scale solarPREMIUM

• TenK Solar raises $2m debt financingPREMIUM

• Energy management company Greenwave Reality raises $11mPREMIUM

Company »

• Xinjiang Goldwind records 28 first-half profit rise

• Stock round up: China solar booms as Western PV companies dwindlePREMIUM

• Contact Energy’s New Zealand wind farm put on hold

• PV industry on mend, 30% expenditure increase in 2014 forecast

• Wind O&M market to more than double by 2020, China to lead

Policy »

• India puts $7.9bn into renewables ‘corridor’

• France to introduce green tax

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European biofuels growth remains steady, not spectacular
Despite the uncertain political context, biofuels consumption growth remained steady in the European Union, though the previous year’s weaker growth trend was confirmed with growth at just 2.9 per cent between 2011 and 2012.

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