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Solar power continues to make headlines. Intense global competition and a potential crisis of over-supply among producers have seen the industry forced to improvise at many levels to keep it stable and develop new growth opportunities. In Germany, a new incentive program is gaining attention in the market, after the government announced in May this year that they would support installation of photovoltaic storage systems by contributing up to 30% of the storage system costs

The Ontario government's recent decision to end the province's feed-in tariff (FIT) program for large-scale renewable energy projects - in favor of a competitive-procurement mechanism - has introduced a jolt of uncertainty for provincial wind turbine component ...

Bloomberg reported that the investment agency of Indonesia's finance ministry will start a fund of IDR 3 trillion (USD $302 million) to finance the exploration of geothermal energy resources in Indonesia this year. Saritaon Siregar, the agency's chairman, said ...

A first-of-its-kind plan to deliver offshore wind power to electricity users has been blowing in the wind. But developers seeking coveted ratepayer subsidies are re-imagining it as a New Jersey-only project, rousing new interest from government policy-makers.

The former Lithuanian government's generous photovoltaic feed-in tariff ($0.63 per kWh for plants below 30 kW and $0.70 per kWh for plants over 30kW) stirred solar power developers into a frenzy as dozens of photovoltaic plants popped up around the ...

UK: The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), a public-private partnership between BP, Caterpillar, EDF, E.on, Rolls Royce, Shell and the UK government, has brought in a wind turbine OEM to work on its plan to build a next generation offshore blade.

ALMOST all major streets in Zanzibar towns on Unguja and Pemba Islands will have solar powered lights should the current discussion between Zanzibar and financiers (China government) succeed. “The discussions have been progressing well on the ...

Finland promotes wind power and cleantech procurements. The feed-in tariff system for wind power now extends to projects in the Åland Islands. The government of Finland has made a decision to support the development of wind power in theprovince of the ...

Back in the early days of biofuels industry development, the federal government passed The Energy Policy Act of 2005 which set mandated volumes of biofuel (mostly ethanol) that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States at 4 billion gallons by 2006, 6.1 billion gallons by 2009 and 7.5 billion gallons by 2012

Government subsidies raising interest in renewables, but higher bills could complicate Shinzo Abe's economic recovery planAcross Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion

Solar power continues to make headlines. Intense global competition and a potential crisis of over-supply among producers have seen the industry forced to improvise at many levels to keep it stable and develop new growth opportunities. In Germany, a new incentive program is gaining attention in the market, after the government announced in May this year that they would support installation of photovoltaic storage systems by contributing up to 30% of the storage system costs

The Scottish Government's renewable energy policy has been dealt another blow after it emerged that every wind farm job in the country is effectively subsidised by £154,000-a-year, the Scottish Express reported. New analysis of government and industry ...

His statement was made in response to that issued on Friday by fellow Balinese, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik, who said that the government would continue the geothermal project. He claimed that none of the Balinese people, including ...

Other tools are still being considered, including a proposed sugar-for-ethanol program, through which the U.S. government would buy sugar to sell to ethanol producers as feedstock. "I think they have to rely mainly on the Feedstock Flexibility program this ...