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Softbank to invest $20 billion to further India’s solar ambitions

• 9 years ago (2015-06-23)
• Junior Isles

Softbank, the Japanese telecoms giant, has announced plans - alongside India's Bharti Enterprises and Taiwan's Foxconn - to invest $20 billion in Indian solar energy projects to meet massive increases demanded by new government targets.

AFD grants €170 million for Nigerian transmission networks

• 9 years ago (2015-06-23)

British government to end onshore wind farm subsidies a year early

• 9 years ago (2015-06-19)

Britain's Conservative government will end onshore wind farm subsidies in April 2016, a year earlier than set out in the previous Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition agreement.

RWE opens 576 MW Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm

• 9 years ago (2015-06-18)
• Junior Isles

RWE has officially opened the Gwynt y Mor wind farm in North Wales. The project, financed with a £2 billion ($3.18 billion) investment by Stadtwerke Munchen and Siemens, has seen the development of 160 turbines some 13 km into the Liverpool Bay.

SunEdison acquires Continuum Wind Energy

• 9 years ago (2015-06-17)

White House convinces investors to commit $4 billion to renewable energy

• 9 years ago (2015-06-17)

Egypt’s solar rush continues

• 9 years ago (2015-06-15)

Elsewedy Electric, the Egyptian manufacturing company, is set to construct a 50 MW project in Egypt’s Benban province, following a government drive to develop more solar energy capacity.

First US-Mexico cross border wind project comes online

• 9 years ago (2015-06-13)

European Commission and Baltic Sea region sign energy memorandum

• 9 years ago (2015-06-09)

The European Commission and the Baltic sea region countries have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will modernise and strengthen the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP).

Indian state of Odisha to add 3 GW of renewables by 2022

• 9 years ago (2015-06-09)

The eastern state of Odisha, one of a number of Indian states to review their renewable energy policies in the wake of government's ambitious target of 175 GW of new clean power by 2022, has announced a target to establish 3 GW of renewable energy by 2022. This represents some 3 per cent of the government target.