We just issued a press release regarding the new reegle maps statistics and animation mode … I attached it below – would be great if some of the reegle blog readers pick that up and help us to increase the outreach of our clean energy search engine
Screenshots first … then the Press Release [...]

INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN: The Minister of Energy, Dipou Peters, has published the Integrated Resource Plan for energy. However, WWF-SA believes the plan has failed to take into account the most recent developments at Eskom (i.e. Eskom’s proposed increase tariff application and Eskom’s announcement that construction at Kusile has been postponed). See: http://www.fin24.com
CARBON FOOTPRINT: It is [...]

What happened recently in Southern Africa? Our Southern Africa Regional Secretariat put together a short list of the most important new from the region:
Electricity: Cabinet has approved the Integrated Resource Plan (IPR), formulated under the Electricity Regulation Act, and it will guide government on how it can meet the country’s electricity demands. see: http://www.buanews.gov.za
Air pollution: [...]

Find below the most interesting news from the last month from South East Asia and the Pacific:
Clean Diesel Opportunities in Pacific Island Countries
ReEx Capital Oceania prepared a report on the promotion of clean diesel efficiency technologies and fuel switching to biofuels (CNO), including: Catalyst and other efficiency improvements technologies, [...]

Nearly 100 world leaders accepted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s invitation to participate in UN Climate  Summit on Climate Change in New York on 22 September to mobilize political will and strengthen momentum for a fair, effective, and ambitious climate deal in Copenhagen this December.
The UN summit not have been the spectacular breakthrough in the international climate [...]

Last week we (REEEP) decided to blog about news and relevant issues from the regions we cover (Southern Africa, South Asia, East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean) on a regular basis. Our staff will report directly from the regional secretariats and therefore we hope to [...]

Just an very short (edit on 3.7.) update from the second session of the Preparatory Commission of IRENA in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt):
The Signatories designated Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, as the headquarters. The other candidates for the headquaters Bonn and Vienna withdrew their candidacies shortly before Abu Dhabi was chosen. [...]

Australia’s Government announced plans to build what it says is the world’s largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts (that would be enough to power about 800,000 homes, based on Bloomberg calculations). Australians Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the government will invest A$1.4 billion ($1 billion) with industry in this project which [...]

U.S.-hosted climate talks with the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluters concluded on Tuesday with signs of progress but sizable differences as nations work toward a deal this year to fight global warming, writes Reuters.
The two-day meeting, convened by U.S. President Barack Obama, was meant to pave the way for international talks in Copenhagen in December [...]

It’s done  )  We re-launched reegle today with its brandnew design and the new clean energy map. I will keep my blog-post short and simple as there is so much to do at the moment (everyone who ever organised a launch of a product knows what I am talking about )
What’s new [...]