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Plug-n-play has become so integrated into daily life that most computer users don't give a second thought to hooking up a camera or smart phone to a laptop or tablet. Now, take the same concept and apply it to complex US electrical systems when it comes to ‘plugging in’ renewables or smart grid technologies. 
Each year scientists around the world have millions of ideas, but only a few are able to keep their heads above water in the cleantech market. These technologies are there because they were able to prove their feasibility and profitability. 
The biggest Chinese wind producers have announced plans for international expansion. However, the question remains: can they successfully follow in the footsteps of their solar peers? 
For the past 40 years, Denmark has been synonymous with world-class green high-technology. It started with wind technology as a solution to the 1970s oil crisis, but since then the Danish business sector has evolved and now offers technologies within all types of sustainable energy, climate-friendly solutions and energy saving products to individuals as well as to businesses, writes the Copenhagen Cleantech Cluster. 
Many countries are seeking to move in a greener direction for their energy needs and incorporate more renewable energy sources into their energy portfolio. But with countries such as Germany turning away from nuclear, there is now a ticking clock counting down efforts to deploy critical clean technologies, writes digital prototyping specialist Autodesk. 
With Scotland cementing some of Europe's most ambitious renewable energy targets, it will look to draw on its long-established expertise in the oil and gas sector. 
As we move to a low carbon energy system we need to decide who are the best agents for efficiently deploying the vast amounts of capital required, as well as how those agents should receive the information that tells them what to do and how to do it, writes Ian Temperton, head of advisory at Climate Change Capital. 
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. 
Rising costs for traditional energy resources, as well as the increasing urgency to fight global warming make a shift in energy policies all but inevitable.The tremendous growth potential within the wind industry is plain to see, according to Martin Billhardt, CEO of project developer PNE Wind. 
Proposals set out this week for the UK’s Green Investment Bank will see the financing institution enshrined in law, with the aim of mobilising private sector investment in order to help the UK meet its ambitious emissions targets. 
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. 
South Africa’s government has identified around 20GW of pure renewable energy capacity and 4GW of co-generation technologies that may form part of its renewable energy procurement plan under the region’s feed-in tariff programme. 
US mid-term elections saw Republicans win big and may now mean that green lobbyists will have to work harder to achieve their aims, as the chance of passing even a diluted version of President Barack Obama’s climate change legislation looks unlikely.
With access to debt still proving a challenge, wind energy developers are reassessing their approach to project finance, with a move to more traditional funding strategies. 
As a new report finds that Australia will need to invest AUD370bn ($330bn) to become a 100 per cent renewable energy nation by 2020, cleantech policies are likely to be central to the country’s upcoming election on 21 August. 
The transformation of the world’s electricity generating system from fossil fuels to renewable energy creates numerous challenges – not least the intermittent nature of leading renewable energy technologies such as wind and solar. But equally important is how these can undermine the stability of the grid. 
Only around a quarter of the wind power currently installed in the UK is monitored in a way that enables grid controllers to respond to energy demand, warns former grid control engineer Derek Birkett. 
New research has suggested that larger wind turbine blades are more efficient at generating electricity in certain circumstances, such as in lower wind speeds. But wind developers at New Energy World Network's Wind Energy Investor Forum said there is a limit to how large a blade on a wind turbine can be. 
Offshore Renewable Energy Installations (OREIs) are one of the biggest changes to sea area use since the oil and gas boom of the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Starling, principal consultant at BMT Renewables, a subsidiary of BMT Group, explains the different elements developers must navigate to gain approval for their offshore projects. 
