New Energy World Network: Connecting Investors, Innovators & Deal-Makers worldwide
New Energy World Network: Connecting Investors, Innovators & Deal-Makers worldwide
23 January 2012
9 December 2011
31 October 2011
6 September 2011
10 August 2011
4 May 2011
11 March 2011
5 January 2011
30 July 2010
16 July 2010
6 July 2010
6 July 2010
25 June 2010
23 June 2010
22 March 2010
9 February 2010
8 February 2010
3 February 2010
16 December 2009
24 November 2009
Industry leaders meet to discuss the key challenges and opportunities across the cleantech, renewable energy and sustainability sectors in 2012 at NewNet's Envirotech & Clean Energy Investor Summit.
Legals & Terms of Use • Privacy Policy
NewNet is a trading name of New Energy World Network Ltd, registered in England (No. 06695690).
Registered Office: Zetland House, 5-25 Scrutton St, London EC2A 4HJ
Content is © New Energy World Network (NewNet) 2008-2012
The US Virgin Islands have committed to the goal of reducing fossil fuels by 60 per cent in the next 15 years, prompting the region to become a test bed on how to integrate so much renewables on to the grid. 
UK waste-to-energy specialist Bio Group has this week broken ground on a new renewable gas facility. Here, CEO Steve Sharratt says that while political wrangling in Durban is all very well, governments should focus on how sustainable technology can drive economic opportunities. 
With a growing focus on decentralised energy generation and private power generation in emerging economies, biomass gasification could provide a timely solution to South Africa’s beleaguered energy industry. 
The recent EMR White Paper from the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change introduces the most sweeping and ambitious reforms of the British electricity markets for 30 years, including up to £110bn of new investment over the next decade, writes Adam Langridge, a partner in Squire Sanders’ Energy Industry Group. 
International climate financing mechanisms need to go beyond treating climate change as another generic emerging market risk financing problem and should support ‘real economy’ signals which address the externality, writes Rupert Edwards, head of policy and market analysis, carbon finance, at Climate Change Capital. 
Environmental problems extend across international boundaries, but there are no effective international institutions to deal with them properly. The result is that problems worsen and attempts by countries to solve them fail due to the lack of an institutional framework within which to build the necessary international consensus and trust, writes Stephen Hockman QC. 
With subsistence farmers considered to be the most vulnerable community to the effects of climate change, a majority of whom are women in poor countries, climate justice should be classed as a human rights issue, according to Reid Professor of Law and former Irish stateswoman Mary Robinson. 
With liquid fuel accounting for approximately two-thirds of global energy demand and question marks surrounding the short-term viability of many electric vehicles, biofuels look set to provide important alternatives to incumbent sources of fuel for several decades.
History is filled with innovators who made less money than the people who sold their inventions, as they lacked distribution methods or sales infrastructure to supply their product to market. Oil super majors look set to make history repeat itself as they begin to pick the winners in the biofuel arena. 
Bioethanol producer Poet said it no longer has need for the basic US ethanol subsidies currently awarded by the Federal government and instead wants the funds diverted to incentivise the build of a bioenergy infrastructure. 
With more than 150,000 old or abandoned landfill sites in Europe, they are increasingly becoming a viable investment opportunity for investors looking into the waste-to-energy or recycling space. 
By taking a strategic approach, how new investors to the energy-from waste (EfW) market can find a balance between risk and reward. Marcel Goemans and Simon Bimpson of waste infrastructure delivery specialist MWH discuss how to develop a viable investment. 
Nicko Williamson, celebrating his companies third birthday and first profit, is excited by what the future for green driving may be able to offer capital cities such as London. The young entrepreneur has founded Climate Cars, a silver-coloured fleet of low carbon chauffered vehicles, targeted specifically for corporates. 
The UK coalition government’s support of biomass projects using anaerobic digestion has attracted considerable attention and in some quarters mild surprise. 
