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The Australian Energy Market Commission has proposed extending the Interim Reliability Measure — a reliability standard significantly tighter than the established Reliability Standard — to 2028, despi…
30 Aug 2023
IEEFA's submission to Australia's National Hydrogen Strategy review identifies green ammonia and hydrogen-based green iron as the commercially sound priorities for Australia's hydrogen sector, while w…
30 Aug 2023
The UN General Assembly designated January 26 as the International Day of Clean Energy, marking IRENA's 2009 founding. The resolution reinforces global momentum to triple renewable capacity by 2030, a…
29 Aug 2023
Tata Power's renewable energy generation portfolio has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 18.4% from March 2015 to March 2023, nearly quadrupling in capacity, while its thermal portfolio grew a…
29 Aug 2023
A Bloomberg and Adox Research survey of over 100 executives found 92% plan to raise ESG data spending by at least 10% while data-management challenges persist. Rising ESG-data demand mirrors pressures…
28 Aug 2023
Energy-as-a-Service firm Redaptive secured $125 million from Deutsche Bank to expand metering, HVAC, solar, LED and EV efficiency projects. Funded energy-efficiency-as-a-service models could support I…
26 Aug 2023
Avangrid began construction of the 240 MW True North solar plant in Falls County, Texas to supply renewable power to Meta's data centre. Corporate renewable-power-purchase models for data centres are …
26 Aug 2023
GE Vernova was selected by Yangtze Power to upgrade air supply pipes at China's 6.4 GW Xiangjiaba Hydropower Plant by mid-2024. Hydropower-modernisation projects offer efficiency-improvement models re…
25 Aug 2023
DHL Global Forwarding reported rising client demand for sustainable-fuel transport, with Novo Nordisk set to offset at least 30,000 tonnes of CO2e in 2023. Decarbonisation becoming a logistics-selecti…
24 Aug 2023
Maersk announced plans to expand its Indian electric-vehicle fleet to over 500 vehicles across 26 cities, covering first-, middle-, and last-mile distribution. The move signals accelerating demand amo…
24 Aug 2023
IEEFA has released a briefing finding that the Royal Bank of Canada's climate and sustainable finance commitments are insufficient, with 2030 interim targets focused on emissions intensity rather than…
24 Aug 2023
The Royal Bank of Canada's climate policies exclude meaningful target dates, omit significant portions of its business from net-zero commitments, and rely on emissions intensity rather than absolute r…
24 Aug 2023
BloombergNEF reported global renewable energy investment reached a record $358 billion in the first half of 2023, up 22% year-on-year. The data underscores the pace of capital flowing into clean energ…
22 Aug 2023
Listed pure-play renewable energy companies on the Philippine Stock Exchange are attracting significantly higher investor valuations than traditional utilities, with price-to-book ratios, installed ca…
22 Aug 2023
A new IEEFA report finds that Philippine Stock Exchange-listed renewable energy companies command measurably higher valuations than traditional utilities, with pure-play renewables firms outperforming…
22 Aug 2023
chargeMOD, an Indian EV charging solutions startup, secured ₹25 million (approximately $301,291) in a pre-seed round led by Phoenix Angels. The funding supports product development in India's EV charg…
21 Aug 2023
Fitch Ratings, S&P Global and Moody's Investors Service have each issued warnings that accumulating climate-related risks will likely result in significant credit rating volatility for carbon-intensiv…
21 Aug 2023
Oneka Technologies received $3.4 million from the US Department of Energy's Water Power Technologies Office to advance wave-powered desalination. The award highlights emerging marine-energy desalinati…
19 Aug 2023
EarthEn secured US Department of Energy funding and national-lab support to commercialise its supercritical CO2-based energy storage technology, including a $750,000 award for sCO2 heat-exchangers. Th…
19 Aug 2023
Rondo Energy secured $60 million to accelerate global deployment of its Rondo Heat Batteries, which convert renewable power into high-temperature industrial heat. The technology targets hard-to-decarb…
19 Aug 2023
Bayer, GenZero, and Shell Energy India launched a collaboration to reduce methane emissions from rice cultivation in India through farmer training and remote-sensing MRV. The project targets agricultu…
18 Aug 2023
Gabon executed a $436 million debt-for-nature swap, restructuring debt into a $500 million blue bond to fund marine conservation. The deal demonstrates innovative sustainable finance mechanisms increa…
18 Aug 2023
IEEFA's submission to Australia's National Hydrogen Strategy review argues that green hydrogen holds genuine promise for domestic ammonia production and green iron manufacturing, but that direct hydro…
18 Aug 2023
Siemens announced it will begin US production of solar string inverters in 2024 via a Wisconsin contract manufacturer, leveraging Inflation Reduction Act incentives. The move illustrates how localisat…
17 Aug 2023
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