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Conference to focus on renewable power generation in Africa - Power Engineering Magazine

View Original Article Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:19:12 GMT

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Conference to focus on renewable power generation in Africa
Power Engineering Magazine
PennWell Corporation has announced the launch of Renewable Energy World Africa, which will be co-located with the inaugural POWER-GEN Africa Conference and Exhibition to be held in Johannesburg from 6-8 November 2012. Renewable Energy World Africa ...
On-site renewables to feature prominently at Africa-based power eventCogeneration & On-Site Power Production Magazine
United Arab Emirates Promotes Alternative EnergyNew York Times
Are we on track to stop climate change?TG Daily
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)
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Renewables firm pushes ahead with big wind vision, as initial project clears ... - Creamer Media's Engineering News

View Original Article Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:13:24 GMT

Renewables firm pushes ahead with big wind vision, as initial project clears ...
Creamer Media's Engineering News
The Rainmaker-linked Dorper wind farm project was recently named as a preferred bidder under the renewable-energy IPP procurement pro-gramme (REIPPPP) being run by the South African Department of Energy (DoE). ?Having Dorper selected as a preferred ...

Consultant makes case for solar over coal in SA - Creamer Media's Engineering News

View Original Article Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:13:28 GMT

Consultant makes case for solar over coal in SA
Creamer Media's Engineering News
Netherlands-based independent solar energy consultancy Solarplaza believes the risks associated with investing in solar, particularly in sun-drenched South Africa, are falling and that the renewable-energy solution could, eventually, ...

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R120-billion clean power boom - Mail & Guardian Online

View Original Article Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:03:43 GMT

R120-billion clean power boom
Mail & Guardian Online
The World Cup spend pales in comparison with the renewable energy drive and this is only the start of an 18-year project to ensure that 17 000MW of South Africa's power will be generated from renewable energy. Nedbank chief economist Dennis Dykes said ...

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Mainstream raises ?40m for renewable energy projects - Reinforced Plastics

View Original Article Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:01:33 GMT

Mainstream raises ?40m for renewable energy projects
Reinforced Plastics
The USA is seeing a shift in attitudes to renewable energy at Federal level. Bush-era oil-dominated policies are giving way to positive encouragement of sustainable energy. But, to what extent can the US capitalize on the ensuing manufacturing ...

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Takoradi Renewable Energy Limited secures US5m credit; As Standard Chartered ... - Accra Daily Mail

View Original Article Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:47:01 GMT

Takoradi Renewable Energy Limited secures US5m credit; As Standard Chartered ...
Accra Daily Mail
Takoradi Renewable Energy Limited, a subsidiary of Africa Renewables Ltd ("AfriRen"), the biomass producer and trader, has secured a credit facility of $5 million from Standard Chartered Bank in Ghana to support its first biomass energy project in ...

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Slowdown in global Q4 renewable energy developments - Renewable Energy Focus

View Original Article Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:11:42 GMT

Slowdown in global Q4 renewable energy developments
Renewable Energy Focus
June 2011: Our new column, written by the Energy Industries Council (EIC), reports on the latest renewable energy projects and key project developments ? from Brazil to Zambia. The global energy industry remains focused with encouraging levels of new ...

Tunisia plans 2 GW CSP plant to power Europe - Renewable Energy Focus

View Original Article Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:02:32 GMT

solarserver.com

Tunisia plans 2 GW CSP plant to power Europe
Renewable Energy Focus
What does an electricity structure which seamlessly incorporates multiple sources of generating technology - including renewable energy - look like and crucially, how can it be achieved? Polly Higgins looks at liberalisation, long distance transmission ...
2000MW Tunisian Solar Farm To Power European HomesEnergy Matters

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Accelerating Geothermal Growth Through DOE Initiatives - RenewableEnergyWorld.com

View Original Article Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:09:15 GMT

Accelerating Geothermal Growth Through DOE Initiatives
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
By Charles W. Thurston, Contributor With a little help from the government, geothermal energy has the potential to take a much larger share of the renewable energy market in the US in the near future. The US geothermal power industry is poised for a ...

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PODCAST: Tongaat's CEO on dealing with crisis - Moneyweb.co.za

View Original Article Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:27:11 GMT

PODCAST: Tongaat's CEO on dealing with crisis
Moneyweb.co.za
ALEC HOGG: One of my favourite KZN businessmen, well South African businessmen, golf partners, is here in Davos again, Peter Staude, the chief executive of Tongaat Hulett. When I say again, how many times have you been to Davos?

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RENEWABLE ENERGY AFRICA - Yahoo! News Search Results

Investment in African Renewable Energy Ramps Up

View Original Article Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:52:29 -0800
Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only 20 percent of its population has direct access to electricity, and in some rural areas four out of five people are completely without power.

All eyes on German renewable energy efforts

View Original Article Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:12:13 -0800
This tiny village in a wind-swept corner of eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a revolution.Yet environmentalists, experts and politicians from El Salvador to Japan to South Africa have flocked ...

Investment in African Renewable Energy Reaches $3.6 Billion in 2011

View Original Article Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:37:22 -0800
First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas,

R120-billion clean power boom

View Original Article Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:53 -0800
Bids will bring 3 750 megawatts of alternative energy on to the grid within the next three years at a total cost of R120-billion.

Investment in African Renewable Energy $3.6 Billion in 2011

View Original Article Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:36:26 -0800
First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five people are completely without power.

UAE- Invest in renewable energy

View Original Article Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:35:34 -0800
(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Leaders of large Asian energy consuming giants on Monday put their weight behind the Middle East to invest in and to promote renewable energy. Addressing the opening ...

Leading Business Intelligence on the Middle East & North Africa

View Original Article Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:26:49 -0800
DHAHRAN -- Saudi Arabia is hosting the first international conference on renewable energy to present the Kingdom's determination to harness and explore the benefits and opportunities in the fields of solar, wind, biofuels and fuel cells energy.

Invest in renewable energy

View Original Article Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:39:08 -0800
ABU DHABI ? Leaders of large Asian energy consuming giants on Monday put their weight behind the Middle East to invest in and to promote renewable energy.

Middle East can become major exporter of renewable energy, says industry expert

View Original Article Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:43:32 -0800
(MENAFN - Emirates News Agency (WAM)) While the world continues to look at renewable energy as an alternative option to power their economies, one solar energy expert is confident that the Middle ...

Renewable energy pilgrims trek to German town

View Original Article Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:21:50 -0800
This tiny village of 37 gray homes and farm buildings clustered along the main road in a wind-swept corner of rural eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a revolution.