REM - Renewable Energy

13 January 2022

California beefs up offshore wind budget as federal government starts review of offshore wind energy areas

12 January 2022

In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed a state budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal year which brings the total for offshore wind activities in federal waters to $45mn.

Over the next few weeks two battles in Washington could determine Biden’s climate agenda

12 January 2022

President Biden faces a crucial decision by the US Supreme Court in February that could significantly restrict him from regulating CO2 emissions from power plants. His $1.8 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) agenda is still also stalled.

NDCs need to be rapidly improved to get near 1.5°C target

12 January 2022

Current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are nowhere near enough to keep global warming within the 1.5°C target

Russian utilities face tighter profits and green headaches in 2022

12 January 2022

Russian utilities performed less well than the market average in 2021, and are set to continue to lag below the market in 2022. The sector is set to remain carbon-intensive and faces becoming less able to keep up with global decarbonisation trends.

Registration of electric cars continues to grow in Ukraine

12 January 2022

Registration of electric cars continues to grow in Ukraine

Electricity production in Ukraine grew by 5.2%

12 January 2022

Electricity production in Ukraine grew by 5.2%

European Environmental Bureau says Slovenian EU presidency failed to make significant progress on green agenda

11 January 2022

Despite efforts to reverse biodiversity loss, the Slovenian EU Council presidency achieved little on the green transition and in pushing the zero pollution ambition.

REM: Blackstone announces it will invest some $3bn in US renewable energy firm Invenergy

10 January 2022

Private equity company Blackstone Inc. has announced that it will invest approximately $3bn in renewable energy company Invenergy.

Largest renewable energy project in US history online

10 January 2022

Pattern Energy Group has begun commercial operations of the largest single-phase renewable-energy project in US history.

Can the renewable energy provisions of Biden’s Build Back Better plan be saved?

10 January 2022

President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better measure faces an uncertain future in the evenly divided US Senate, with holdout Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia still opposed to some key provisions.

Mozambique seeks consultants for first floating solar farm

6 January 2022

Mozambique’s state-owned power company Electricidade de Mocambique (EDM) is seeking consultants to help develop the country’s first floating solar farm.

China builds 3.6-GW pumped storage plant to feed Olympics

6 January 2022

State Grid Corporation of China (SGC) has opened 3.6 GW of pumped storage hydro capacity that will provide electricity for the Beijing Winter Olympics in February.

Satellite data to play key role in finding new ways to cut urban emissions

6 January 2022

Investing in low-carbon and resilient urban development will play a key role in meeting global climate change goals and cutting city emissions, according to new research from the World Bank