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World Bank signs $185 million loan agreement for renewable energy generation with Bangladesh

• 2019-08-30 06:54:18.956434
• David Flin

The Bangladesh Government has signed a $185 million financing agreement with the World Bank to add about 310 MW renewable energy generation capacity.

Ontario First Nation sets milestone with renewable energy

• 2019-08-28 05:42:10.322553
• David Flin

Gull Bay First Nation and the utility Ontario Power Generation (OPG) set a milestone for off-grid Canadian indigenous communities with the commissioning of a hybrid solar-plus-storage microgrid.

Largest solar generation plus storage project in Caribbean agreed

• 2019-08-08 06:38:30.792182
• David Flin

The Government of St Kitts and Nevis, the state-owned St Kitts Electric Company (SKELEC) and Leclanché, a leading energy storage company, have announced the largest solar generation plus energy storage project ever to be built in the Caribbean.

Panasian Power connects 4.2MW solar power to Sri Lanka’s national grid

• 2019-08-05 06:25:02.451771
• David Flin

Panasian Power (PAP), one of Sri Lanka’s leading green energy suppliers, has connected its first ground solar project to the national grid through the Soorya Bala Sangramaya scheme.

Taking a shared value approach to energy

• 2019-07-09 11:49:32
• Junior Isles

Climate-conscious companies across the globe and across industries are starting to invest more in shared value strategies for business growth.  The electricity landscape is a prime example of this. As it undergoes a transformation, becoming more complex than ever before with rapidly evolving technologies, declining costs, and shifting regulatory landscapes, the electricity grid’s shared infrastructure provides the underserved with access to affordable services.

By Marga Hoek

Adding value – the BVI corporate advantage

• 2019-07-09 11:36:03
• Junior Isles

A jurisdiction that offers modern corporate laws, efficient and effective court relief and investor neutrality can add value through a corporate structure for frontier and emerging market projects reliant on multinational inbound investment. The BVI is a jurisdiction that offers such corporate solutions. While this does not reduce all the risks faced by investors, such structures can mitigate legislative, corporate, transactional and court risk – this is known as the BVI Corporate Advantage.

By Greg Boyd, Partner in the Transactional Group at Harneys in the BVI Office

10MW solar farm starts operation in south-eastern Iran

• 2019-07-09 06:15:50
• David Flin

A 10MW solar power plant has been inaugurated in Kerman province in south-eastern Iran.

Abu Dhabi plans 2GW solar plant

• 2019-07-02 06:23:39
• David Flin

Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the UAE, said that Abu Dhabi would soon receive a 2GW solar power plant to be built in the capital’s Al Dhafra region.

Green electricity overtakes coal in USA

• 2019-06-13 05:00:18.567091
• David Flin

According to data released by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), renewables installed capacity equalled 21.56 per cent of the country’s total generation capacity in April, compared with coal-fired capacity of 21.55 per cent.

Japanese Government paper calls for cut in renewable energy costs

• 2019-06-07 04:29:00.209727
• David Flin

The Japanese Government has released a white paper that calls for cuts in costs levied on consumers to further promote power generation from renewable energy sources.