REM - Renewable Energy

AsiaElec: Asia’s poorest nations call for rich states to keep their $100bn funding promises

A group of 11 of Asia’s poorest countries have called on the world’s richest states to keep to their promise of $100bn per year in climate finance in order to protect some of the world’s most vulnerable countries from climate change.

Russian utility players to co-ordinate green activity

Russia starts multi-year national consultation on carbon taxation system

Offshore wind prospects surge in NY, California, but lacklustre response to solicitation in Massachusetts

New York City announces a 15-year, $191mn plan to become a centre for the offshore wind sector, California will now accelerate offshore wind development, but in Massachusetts, only two companies submitted proposals for a recent solicitation.

Tax-advantaged partnerships for oil and gas being considered for US renewable energy – report

Tax-advantaged partnerships typically used to benefit the US’s oil and gas industry are being considered for renewable energy, reports Reuters

Istanbul listed Aksa Enerji to build 35 MW solar plant at 270 MW thermal plant

Blue hydrogen on a par with green in climate terms, study finds

Power generation from renewables in Turkey cheaper than imported coal power says report

EBRD helps Western Balkan households invest in energy saving technologies

ENERGO: Low-carbon energy at 90% by 2035, Russia tells the world

Hong Kong ZRSC Technology to invest $43mn in Uzbekistan EV production

Uzbekistan to study Hungary’s experience in nuclear power construction, Kazakhs raise NPP concerns

African cities need billions to cope with climate change by 2050

Investments of some $280bn will be needed to combat the effects of climate change in 35 cities in South Africa, Kenya and Ethiopia by 2050, new research shows.

Turkey’s Karsan sets out to capture chunk of European electric bus market with e-ATA series

Russian Gazprom Neft and Aeroflot to develop “green” aviation fuel

Elektroprivreda RS in talks over Trebinje 1 solar power plant

REM: EBRD, EU and GCF support green investments in Morocco

Climate envoys head to South Africa to negotiate green finance

Climate envoys from the US, UK, France and Germany will arrive in South Africa this week to negotiate its transition to a green economy. The officials are expected to land on Monday, 27 September, for a series of meetings with SA energy policymakers.

EBRD president urges Kazakhstan to press ahead with natural gas projects with focus on transition fuel

Russia starts designing domestic CO2 tax system

Czech energy company EPIF, Slovakia´s Eustream and NAFTA and German RWE to explore development of hydrogen production in Slovakia

New tariffs on solar imports would jeopardise nearly 30% of upcoming installed capacity, warns trade group

New tariffs on imported solar products from Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam could obstruct almost 30% of the solar capacity the nation is expected to install over the next two years, says a major trade group.

Russian EN+ major presents net-zero carbon report

IRENA, GWEC set 380-GW target for 2030

The Global Wind Energy Council and the International Renewable Energy Agency have set a target of 380 GW of offshore wind installations by 2030, and 2,000 GW by 2050, in a bid to reach international net-zero targets by 2050.

SA says it needs finance to make its tougher greenhouse gas targets a reality

South Africa, the world’s 12th-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, will be pushing hard for extra finance at the climate change conference in November in Glasgow to help it shed its coal addiction.