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Global portal for renewable energy education launched: IRELP

We have been supporting IRENA since last year on their development of an online platform for renewable energy education and training. Well, I’m pleased to say that it was launched at CEM3 in London a couple of weeks ago, so is now available. It’s called IRENA’s Renewable Energy Learning Partnership (IRELP) and is available at [...]

Yesterday and today we are attending the CEM3 meetings in London and in the margins of these important meetings two projects are introduced – the Global Solar and Wind Atlas and the IRENA Learning and Education Partnership. reegle provides data and support for both initiatives and we are confident that both activities are an important [...]

REIL – REEEP’s Renewable Energy and International Law Project held its first annual Roundtable in Cambridge in June 2011, with partners Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute  and Cambridge University’s Center for Science and Policy.  The REIL Roundtables bring together leaders across disciplines to share information and discuss ideas on the uptake of clean energy. [...]

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 [...]

A micro-hydro company that is to supply electricity to health centres in remote areas of Rwanda is a reminder of how critical energy access is for achieving the Millennium Development Goals – as the 2015 deadline approaches. But before the acclaimed universal access can be met, small energy enterprises in developing countries must overcome significant [...]

Investment trends in early 2011

Given the rush to complete a number of big investment transactions in the closing weeks of 2010 – in some cases to “catch” attractive subsidy deals before they expired – it was little surprise that activity in the first quarter of 2011 was relatively subdued. Financial new investment in renewable energy totaled $31 billion, down [...]

 

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