A new online market platform is connecting existing solar projects and people that have solar panels (or space to install them) with investors who want to fund them. It’s eBay for solar. Continue reading →
A new online market platform is connecting existing solar projects and people that have solar panels (or space to install them) with investors who want to fund them. Continue reading →
Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York
India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India.
January 1 – 31, 2013
Energy
Bucks for Green Energy
In a pre-budge… Continue reading →
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America.
January 27 – February 1, 2013
Chile
4.80 GW of non-c… Continue reading →
Meredith Connolly, Energy Law and Policy Fellow, San Francisco
Hundreds of trains stalled, traffic snarled, businesses ground to a halt, and stranded commuters walked home in the rain across North India as three electricity grids failed… Continue reading →
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
Given the dramatic decrease in costs and increasing efficiency of solar modules, it is becoming increasingly viable to finance and build competitive solar projects in Chile. T… Continue reading →
Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco
Last week, one of India’s leading solar energy developers, Mahindra Solar One announced plans to move forward with a 50 megawatt solar plant… Continue reading →
Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC
Chile
This week, Chile signed agreements with China and South Korea that will help expand the country’s renewable energy portfolio. On Tuesday it was announced that the Chines… Continue reading →
Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York
On Friday in New Delhi, NRDC and its Indian partner CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) released our report “Laying the Foundation for a Bright Future” … Continue reading →
Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York
NRDC recently released our interim report “Laying the Foundation for a Bright Future”, which assesses the progress under Phase 1 of India’s National Sola… Continue reading →
Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York
Earlier this month, over 150 solar companies bid for the “second batch” of projects allotted under Phase 1 of India’s National Solar Mission. This sustained a… Continue reading →
Johanna Wald, Senior Attorney, San Francisco
Secretary of Interior Department Ken Salazar this week is expected to announce an important milestone towards adopting a program for managing solar energy development on public lands in the W… Continue reading →
Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco As India celebrates its 65th Independence Day this week, its dynamic solar mission continues to make progress. India’s solar mission recently crossed its first major milestone as it aims to 20 … Continue reading →
Donna DeCostanzo, Senior Attorney, New York The update to PlaNYC – New York City’s long-term plan for a sustainable future – which was released yesterday, continues to demonstrate Mayor Bloomberg’s leadership on clean energy and clima… Continue reading →
President Obama will travel to India this weekend and – we hope – will strengthen a growing cooperation between the United States and India on climate change and clean energy. As NRDC and TERI noted in a letter to the President and Prime Minister Manmo… Continue reading →
I welcome Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s announcement on Tuesday that he has approved the first two new solar projects on public lands in California in more than two decades. These ventures will help jumpstart America’s transition to clea… Continue reading →