Clean Energy Policy News
13 June 2016
More than 100 participants from 40 countries attended the International Energy Agency training to experiences and promote best practices for planning, implementing and evaluating energy efficiency policies in emerging economies.
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13 June 2016
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Technical Collaboration Programmes (TCPs), formerly known as Implementing Agreements, help IEA enable results-orientated multi-lateral cooperation. IEA’s new report, Technology Collaboration Programmes: Highlights and outcomes is a collection of the significant recent outcomes of the 39 TCPs operating today. To date, over 6,000 experts representing nearly 300 organizations in 51 countries have participated in TCPs.
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8 June 2016
Michael Tuckwell and Lyndon Frearson, from CAT Projects in Australia, join the Solutions Center’s roster of clean energy finance and policy experts.
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8 June 2016
Michael Tuckwell and Lyndon Frearson, from CAT Projects in Australia, join the Solutions Center’s roster of clean energy finance and policy experts.
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2 June 2016
Governments and private sector corporations have committed to work together to scale up renewable energy under a new campaign—the Corporate Sourcing of Renewables Campaign—that will build partnerships to increase the number of companies committed to sourcing renewable energy for their operations. Initiative partners include the International Renewable Energy Agency, Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance, RE100, World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the World Resources Institute.
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1 June 2016
The new agreement extends the Ask an Expert service to subnational signatories committed to greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
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1 June 2016
Today, REN21 published its comprehensive annual overview of the state of renewable energy. The Renewables 2016 Global Status Report reveals that renewables are now firmly established as competitive, mainstream sources of energy in many countries around the world.
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25 May 2016
More than 8.1 million people worldwide are now employed by the renewable energy industry—a five per cent increase from last year–according to a report released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) at its 11th Council meeting. The report, Renewable Energy and Jobs: Annual Review 2016, also provides a global estimate of the number of jobs supported by large hydropower, with a conservative estimate of an additional 1.3 million direct jobs worldwide.
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24 May 2016
Thirty-five businesses in 20 countries have been selected for global recognition as part of the inaugural Energy Management Leadership Awards program sponsored by the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). On June 2, 2016, three companies will receive top honors, the Award of Excellence in Energy Management, at the annual CEM meeting in San Francisco, California. Another 32 companies will receive Energy Management Insight Awards for helping build global insight on the benefits of energy management systems in industrial and commercial facilities.
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13 May 2016
A $1.86-billion, long-term financing will fund the capital requirements of the 402-megawatt Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm, currently under construction 32 kilometers out to sea from the North Norfolk coast of East England.
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