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Deadline for REEEP/OFID Call approaching!

Hello there! Just in case anyone missed it: REEEP (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership) and OFID (OPEC Fund for International Development) are funding up to three energy access projects! We are giving away up to US$150,000 for each of these projects aimed at the Least Developed Countries. Clean Energy Projects applying to this call [...]

Down Under introduces carbon tax

Australia has passed the Clean Energy legislative package through the House of Representatives! It has taken almost a decade and four attempts, but in short this means a Carbon Tax will be implemented once the Bill has passed through the Senate in November. The package, which includes 19 Bills to boost the Clean Revolution in [...]

REEEP and OFID about to fund clean energy projects

REEEP is in the lucky position once again to give away money for projects thanks to the generous support of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID). This call targets energy access programmes for the poor in the Least Developed Countries (LDC’s). Considering we are approaching 2012 – I am NOT talking about the Mayan [...]

Hosting an Open Data workshop

As a regular follower of this blog and reegle in general, you will have noticed our shift to linked open data over recent months. What does it mean for you? All our data sets are here for your taking and integration into your websites via the developer’s portal for free. And for us this means [...]

Renewables – current situation

Bloomberg New Energy Finance released their global trends for investment in renewables in 2011, here it is digested for you: Global investment in renewables jumped 32% in 2010, to a record $211 billion. It was boosted especially by wind farm development in China as well as small-scale solar PV installation on rooftops in Europe. Noteworthy [...]

Air pollution-a silent killer

The United Nations guidelines on air pollution from cars and factories that can cause heart disease, lung cancer, asthma, and acute lower respiratory infections could save over a million lives a year – if they were adhered to! The WHO has conducted “unprecedented” compilation of data from nearly 1,100 cities across 91 countries and found [...]

 

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