Clean Energy Policy News
26 May 2015
A new IRENA report released today finds Mexico can increase the amount of renewable energy in its energy mix from 4.4% in 2010 to 21% by 2030.
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26 May 2015
The Clean Energy Ministerial has announced it will work with the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program to deliver targeted technical assistance that will help developing and middle-income countries integrate large shares of wind and solar energy into their electricity grids.
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21 May 2015
The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry of Indonesia plans to boost investment in renewable energies in the coming years, including about US$1.9 billion to be invested in 2016, of which around US$760 million is to be invested in energy efficiency and renewables
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20 May 2015
As part of the Second Annual Sustainable Energy for All Forum, a new multi-stakeholder coalition announced its intention to speed up the development and deployment of sustainable bioenergy in order to contribute to meeting the goals of doubling the global use of renewable energy and ensuring universal energy access by 2030.
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19 May 2015
A recent report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre presents the overall state of play of ocean energy in Europe and globally in 2014. The report analysed the four main types of ocean energy conversion technologies and the key activities undertaken to ensure and facilitate their commercialization.
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19 May 2015
India and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in areas of electric power development and new energy industries such as renewable energy, smart grids and power information and technology, transmission and distribution of electric power, energy efficiency and storage systems.
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19 May 2015
More than 7.7 million people worldwide are now employed by the renewable energy industry, according to a new report released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency.
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18 May 2015
The world is heading in the right direction to achieve universal access to sustainable energy by 2030 but must move faster, says a new report that tracks the progress of the Sustainable Energy for All initiative.
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18 May 2015
The United Nations Development Programme has released a new report titled The EnergyPlus Guidelines, which serves as a toolkit for planning, designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating energy access programmes that promote the productive uses of energy for livelihoods improvement.
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18 May 2015
Creating favourable conditions for modern solar lighting markets can provide a low-cost solution to reducing carbon emissions, indoor air pollution and health risks while bringing electricity to an estimated 600 million people in Africa who lack access to the power grid, says new report by United Nations Environment Programme.
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