We analyzed CB Insights private company financing data to identify 2014′s largest renewable energy financings. These 21 financings have raised nearly $2.5B, and include companies that that produce energy using solar, wind, and biofuel among others.
In 2014, the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued stark warnings in its latest assessment of climate science, projecting potentially catastrophic outcomes if greenhouse-gas emissions are not brought in check.
“Cada vez hay más hogares y empresas que se encargan directamente de su suministro energético (electricidad y calor) combinando plantas fotovoltaicas y de cogeneración e independizándose así de las frecuentes subidas en la tarifa eléctrica.”
Lockheed Martin’s announcement last week that it had secretly developed a promising design for a compact nuclear fusion reactor has met with excitement but also skepticism over the basic feasibility of its approach.
Nuclear fusion could produce far more energy, far more cleanly, than the fission reactions at the heart of today’s nuclear power plants. But there are huge obstacles and no hard evidence that Lockheed has overcome them. The so-far-insurmountable challenge is to confine hydrogen plasma at conditions under which the hydrogen nuclei fuse together at levels that release a useful amount of energy. In decades of research, nobody has yet produced more energy from fusion reaction experiments than was required to conduct the experiments in the first place.
Power plants waste huge amount of energy as heat—about 40 to 80 percent of the total in the fuel they burn. A new device could reduce that waste, cutting fuel consumption and carbon emissions by as much as 3 percent and saving companies millions of dollars. (Three percent might not seem like much, but for context, air travel accounts for 2 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions.)
La acción local y la colaboración entre administraciones para fomentar la eficiencia energética y las energías renovables tiene una importancia creciente dado el coste económico y medioambiental que representa el consumo de energía, en especial por su impacto sobre las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y el cambio climático, y la capacidad que tienen las administraciones locales de actuar en este ámbito.
Policy uncertainty and grid integration risks are driving a slowdown in global renewable energy deployment, especially in OECD economies, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report published today (28 August).
Clean energy capacity investment will still rise to $1.61 trillion by 2020. But in its first global investment outlook, the agency predicted a $20 billion drop in yearly new clean energy funding by the decade’s end to $230 billion.
Barclays downgraded the entire high grade corporate bond market for the US electric sector last week in a strong indication that solar PV-generated power coupled with storage presents a long term disruptive risk to utilities.
In systems with a large number of devices as a wind farm is interesting the performance of infrared thermography specialists. A thermographic temperature measurement requires a professional calibration and rigorous methodology, a correct interpretation, the use of cameras and software for high performance, and demonstrate the relevant certificate training and experience.
SMA Solar Technology and Danfoss signed a contract to enter into a close strategic partnership. With this agreement, the two leading system technology specialists will start to further boost their competitiveness. The goal is to sustainably strengthen their cost positions through economies of scale and through joint development initiatives. According to the plans announced in February, Danfoss will acquire 20% of SMA’s outstanding shares and sell its entire solar inverter business to SMA. The necessary approval by the antitrust authorities has already been granted.
