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Kenya signs off on Africa’s largest clean energy project

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-24)
  • Junior Isles
Kenya’s 300 MW Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, Africa’s largest clean energy project, has completed its financing drive with the signing of a Sh76 billion ($91.2 million) loan, backed by more than 10 different financiers brought together by the African Development Bank.

UK budget sees carbon price floor frozen

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-20)
  • Junior Isles
The UK’s carbon price floor (CPF) has been frozen at 2015’s level of £18.08 per tonne as part of the government's annual budget, announced this week by Chancellor George Osborne.

Jordanian government announces raft of new solar projects

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-19)
  • Junior Isles
Jordan has signed a $24 million agreement with Arabia One for Clean Energy Investments this week to build new 10 MW solar plant located in Maan, 220 km south of Amman.

Japan to open first geothermal plant for 15 years

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-17)
  • Junior Isles
Japan is to open its first geothermal plant for 15 years next month, with the 2 MW Kumamoto plant representing the first of a new wave of non-nuclear generation.

China to help increase Zimbabwe generating capacity

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-14)
  • Junior Isles
Shangani Energy Exploration, a Zimbabwean unit of Chinese-owned Sinosteel, is planning to build a 400 MW, $780 million coal-bed methane gas-fired power plant in south-western Zimbabwe, according to company officials.

African renewables investment fund raises $100 million

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-14)
  • Junior Isles
The African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) reached its first close this week, with $100 million worth of capital committed for investment in small and medium sized renewable energy projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Energy UK opposes national EU 2030 renewable targets

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-13)
  • Junior Isles
The trade association for the UK energy industry, Energy UK, has called on the British government to block plans to set a legally binding EU 2030 renewable energy target.

Strike to disrupt coal-fired generation across India

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-11)
  • Junior Isles
Around 40 per cent of power generation in southern India will be hit by a three-day strike beginning on March 13th by the officers' association of monopoly coal miner Coal India. Most thermal plants in the rest of India will be unaffected as they have sufficient stocks of coal to last about two weeks.

EIA data shows substantial US wind progress

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-11)
  • Junior Isles
New data from the EIA shows substantial growth in the role of US wind energy, with this renewable energy source making up 30 per cent of new generating capacity over the last five years and supplying over 4 per cent of electricity on the grid during 2013.

Obama requests funding for fossil fuel R

  • 11 years ago (2014-03-10)
  • Junior Isles

US President Barack Obama has requested $475.5 million in the FY 2015 budget for the fossil energy research and development (FER&D) portfolio to facilitate achievement of the President’s climate goals.