energy efficiency
22 February 2012
Germany’s energy market will see dramatic changes during the next few years with its nuclear energy capacity halved and renewable energy accounting for 36 per cent of electricity generated by 2020.
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17 February 2012
The cost of environmental impacts on business operations are doubling every 14 years, according to a report that stresses stakeholders should act now.
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16 February 2012
Corporate behaviour is expected to be a crucial factor in the UK achieving emission reduction targets and rising energy prices are also pushing businesses to pay more attention to this area.
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13 February 2012
The value of private equity investment in the cleantech sector has continued to see-saw in the last couple of months, and January's activity continued this trend, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet.
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6 February 2012
Constant electrical power is absolutely critical to commercial and industrial buildings and now the managers of these facilities are investigating how to make these operations more energy intelligent and efficient, according to sector specialist Memoori.
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30 January 2012
Smart grid M&A declined in the last quarter of 2011 and with transaction flow down across all manufacturing industries, 2012 activity is unlikely to pick up, according to sector specialist Memoori.
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24 January 2012
The vast majority of energy and natural resource executives believe that a post-2012 Kyoto agreement will fail, according to a new report.
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20 January 2012
US venture investment into the energy and utilities industry raised $2.9bn for 134 deals as investment stayed flat but deal activity rose 14 per cent, according to new research.
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13 January 2012
The US is thinking ‘too small’ when it comes to energy efficiency and is ‘crowding out’ economically beneficial investments in energy efficiency by focusing on riskier bids to develop new energy sources, a report has warned.
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10 January 2012
The value of private equity, venture and development capital investment in global cleantech companies increased for the second consecutive year in 2011, reaching $9.70bn. However, growth since 2009 has been slow, averaging at less than three per cent over two years, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet.
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6 January 2012
A fundamental increase in demand for water will drive the smart water meter market over the next five years, new research has found.
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3 January 2012
New figures show that for the first nine months of 2011 the share of power that renewable energy provided increased to 11.95 per cent, up from 10.85 per cent for the same period in 2010.
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21 December 2011
Two years from now, more than 80 different models of plug-in electric vehicles will be found across the globe, according to new research.
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20 December 2011
The UK's cleantech sector has witnessed a surprisingly strong optimism over the past eight months, a new report has found.
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16 December 2011
Renewable energy technologies are neither economically competitive or easily capable of providing the necessary level of energy security needed by a developed society, a major report has warned.
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12 December 2011
The value of private equity, venture capital and development capital investments in the cleantech sector remained at a similar level to November 2010 despite volume falling by 61 per cent, according to data compiled by Zephyr and Bureau van Dijk exclusively for NewNet.
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15 November 2011
The UK has failed to meet European Union standards on air pollution – a fact heavily criticised by the cleantech industry and the government’s Environmental Audit Committee.
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3 November 2011
Improving the energy efficiency of homes - and the appliances within them - does not necessarily reduce their overall energy consumption, according to a new report.
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3 November 2011
US venture capital investment in cleantech companies witnessed a dramatic increase in the third quarter of 2011 compared to the same period last year, rising 73 per cent to $1.1bn, according to the latest figures.
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2 November 2011
In the third quarter of 2011, Israeli private equity saw a boost with 13 deals attracting $803m, 26 per cent above the $637m invested in 17 deals in the previous quarter with cleantech investments leading the trend, according to a new report.
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