During 2009, REEEP marked the fifth anniversary of its operation as a public-private partnership. In a new article for the 2010 edition of the Energy for Sustainable Development journal, REEEP has synthesised some of the key lessons learned from 129 projects that have been offered funding and moved to implementation.
The article, entitled Lessons for low-carbon [...]

Deforestation is responsible for 17% of global carbon emission, yet each year an area the size of England is destroyed.  Growing populations, agriculture and the timber industry are amongst the reasons that today the market values forests more destroyed than standing.

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 [...]

Three leading energy efficiency and renewable energy organizations – the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), the Alliance to Save Energy (Alliance) and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) – have jointly released their Compendium of Best Practices: Sharing Local and State Successes in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [...]

To stay within tolerable temperature limits, worldwide emissions must stop rising before 2020, must be cut by at least half of their 1990 levels by 2050, and must continue to fall thereafter. The EU is serious about ensuring that an ambitious and legally binding global treaty is agreed at the UN climate change conference in [...]

Since opening its 18th session on 3 May, the commission has had to deal with numerous warnings on many dangers ahead of us. Sadly, it doesn’t come as a surprise when U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates that  ”Few of the challenges identified at the Rio Earth Summit have been adequately tackled” at the 18th [...]

New legislation concerning energy, and especially green energy, sometimes proves to have a negative, unwanted influence for the development of renewable energy technologies. In France, such a law was about to come into force; luckily some of its worst impacts have now been averted by some amendments. The wind power sector in particular would have [...]

Smart Metering is about replacing one of the ultimate bastions of outmoded electromechanic technology by a new generation of smart electric meters. What seems to be an evolutionary development accompanying the global trend from an analog into a highly digital world could have a rather revolutionary impact on the iron patterns of today’s power industry. [...]

Apparently the level of pollution is six times higher than it should be in the Arctic! Now Prime Minister Putin calls for a major clean-up of the area.
He explained that this scrapheap in the ecologically sensitive area is the result of the reduction of military cooperation since the collapse of the Soviet Union. 40,000 to [...]

A new analysis from the Carbon Disclosure Project reports that top companies in the U.S. will fail to meet President Barack Obama’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 17 % compared to a 2005 baseline by 2020. This proposal was made in the run-up to the Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
In fact, companies on Standard and [...]