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London, 2 October 2019: Cubico Sustainable Investments (Cubico), a global investor in renewable energy, backed by two of Canada’s largest pension funds, has announced that it has reached operations on a 600 MW renewable portfolio in Mexico. The portfolio comprises of the 250 MW Mezquite wind farm in Nuevo León…

Edinburgh, London, 2 October 2019 — Macquarie’s Green Investment Group (GIG) today announced a ground-breaking new initiative to increase the availability of standardised, climate-related data. In partnership with BloombergNEF (BNEF) GIG’s pioneering Carbon Score methodology will be combined with BNEF’s market-leading renewable energy project data to build a tool to…

STI Norland, global supplier of solar trackers and fixed-tilt arrays, has launched the 4th generation of STI-H250TM, the first dual row single-axis solar tracker in the world. STI Norland pioneered in 2017 by developing the STI-H250TM and has since then supplied and installed in more than 30 PV plants, adding…

30 September 2019, Reykjavik – The world’s best energy brands were announced this evening in Reykjavík as part of the CHARGE Energy Branding conference – the only event in the world dedicated to branding and communication for the energy sector. Brands in eight categories were awarded from an initial shortlist from a…

Aquila European Renewables Income Fund (“AERIF” or the “Company”) the London-listed investment company advised by Aquila Capital Investmentgesellschaft mbh (“Aquila”) has today announced that it intends to acquire Aalto Wind No 2 Ltd Oy a Finish wind farm company. The planned acquisition completes the fourth investment since the successful Initial…

CHICAGO – Sept. 30, 2019 – Today, Navigant (NYSE: NCI) announced the winners of the Generation Knowledge Service (GKS) Plant Operational Excellence Awards. The awards recognize power plants that have demonstrated excellence in cost and operational management, as well as improved performance and reliability. Eligible coal plants were separated into…

By Julyana Yokota, senior director and sector lead, Infrastructure and Utilities, Latin America, S&P Global Ratings Strong regulatory structures will likely support Latin America’s utilities during the transition to renewable energy, believes S&P Global Ratings’ Julyana Yokota Latin America is undergoing a prolonged period of uncertainty. The presence of new…

Floating wind pioneers are using deployment learnings to attract industrial and financial partners and fund growing investment needs, experts told New Energy Update. As the floating wind industry moves towards commercial-scale projects, technology developers are forming alliances to build up spending power. Some $32.0 billion of floating wind investments are…

Costain, the smart infrastructure solutions company, has been awarded a contract by Sellafield Ltd to demonstrate thermal treatment of drums of Plutonium Contaminated Material (PCM). The purpose of the trials is to show that thermal treatment technology is capable of substantial volume reduction of PCM drums, thereby providing an economic…

The European Investment Bank and FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, have agreed to finance construction and operation of two new solar photovoltaic plants in Kenya. EIB and FMO will each provide USD 53 million for the two projects, with the remainder of the USD 147 million total project cost…