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	<title>reegle Blog &#187; Peter Richards</title>
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		<title>US Government Funds CSP Solar Projects in US and MENA Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 20:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last 15 days the US government made two announcements regarding the promotion of concentrating solar (CSP) technologies. Yesterday at the MENA Power conference in Cairo, the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) announced three grants for feasibility studies regarding CSP projects in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
The Egyptian CSP project by Taqa Arabia is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egyptian Wind – Private Sector Begins to Blow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February 2008, the Egyptian Supreme Council of Energy approved an ambitious plan to produce 20% of total electricity from renewable energies by 2020, including a 12% contribution from wind energy. This translates into more than 7,200 MW of grid-connected wind farms. The plan gives enough room for private investors to play a major role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Cities – No Time To Lose</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Event]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Urban Planning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week at the Meeting of the Minds summit in New York City, eighty of the world&#8217;s leading actors active in urban planning, city management and sustainable development met to discuss the future of cities. We now live in the ‘century of the city’. Since 2008 more than 51% of the world’s population live in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What exactly is a Smart Grid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 21:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smart-Grids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smart-meter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utilities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[2009 is turning into the year of the smart grid. Company press releases, government announcements and new subsidy programmes for smart grid technologies are appearing everywhere.
Many smart grid companies are focused on the transfer of information between households and utilities via wireless networks and the Internet. Essentially providing instant information on energy consumption to both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chile – Renewable energy target attracts developers… even though there isn’t a green tariff</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 09:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chile is by far South America’s most stable economy. As a growing economy, the country requires electricity to power GDP growth, however Chile has been facing energy supply problems since 2004 when Argentina began reducing natural gas supplies. Argentina’s cuts in natural gas (typically during the winter months of June, July and August) have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa to get 500MW in wind power</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 11:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REEEP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voluntary Carbon Offset]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November 2006, the UK Foreign Ministry offset their 2004 air travel emissions via CERs from a 10MW South African wind farm developed by Genesis Eco-Energy. Now more than two years later, Mainstream Renewable Power has signed a joint venture deal for the development of 500MW of wind power in South Africa. Mainstream&#8217;s founders are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increased Financing for Clean Energy in South Asia</title>
		<link>http://blog.reegle.info/blog/increased-financing-for-clean-energy-in-south-asia.htm#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[REEEP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Targets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes Bank Limited (YBL) is in process of establishing its first ever private equity fund for clean energy. The South Asia Clean Energy Fund (SACEF) is hoping to raise $200 million by this summer. According to YBL they have already raised $125 million, even with the constraints of a global recession.
The fund is targeting renewable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Las Vegas &#8211; Government Fills the Debt Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Policy & regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transmission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After three days at the RETECH conference one leaves the United States with a sense of jubilation from all the talk about the new energy economy. While the bailout and newly proposed budget are providing light at the end of the tunnel, the question remains: “How long is the tunnel?”
T. Boone Pickens&#8217; wind farm can’t raise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Excitement Over Renewables</title>
		<link>http://blog.reegle.info/blog/us-excitment-over-renewables.htm#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Research and development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today at the RETECH 2009 conference in Las Vegas, leading industry figures spoke about America&#8217;s imperative to join and ultimately lead the clean energy revolution. Using metaphors like &#8220;creating a new Apollo program&#8221;, the United States appears to have fully endorsed the value of incentivizing and driving forward renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The night before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Legal Documentation Available For Renewable Energy Developers</title>
		<link>http://blog.reegle.info/blog/free-legal-documentation-available-for-renewable-energy-developers.htm#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Richards</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[REEEP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal documentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable Energy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a unique project financed by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and implemented by the Government of Canada’s RETScreen International in association with The Energy + Environment Foundation, New York and Washington, D.C. energy lawyers have donated their time pro bono to create templates of key legal documents required for clean energy [...]]]></description>
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