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Ecotricity is to offer 'green gas' for the first time to UK homes supplied from renewable sources and cutting waste from landfill. (Read More)
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A U.S. company has come up with a new way of producing biofuels from cellulosic feedstocks, such as agricultural waste: Using enzymes from the guts of termites to more efficiently produce ethanol. The startup company, ZeaChem (Read More)
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
Surplus biomass from the production of flax sheaves, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This has been suggested by (Read More)
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In the news today, Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond has announced that Orkney’s marine energy testing facilities are to receive an additional £2.5million in funding. (Read More)
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"Assessing the greenhouse gas emissions of waste-derived ethanol in accordance with the EU RED methodology for biofuels"Directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources in the European Union (EU), also c (Read More)
EurActiv.com:
EU lawmakers last night (17 November) forged a long-awaited compromise on the recast buildings directive, agreeing that all new buildings would have to comply with high energy-performance standards and supply a significant sh (Read More)
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao have announced the creation of a joint program to develop clean energy, including the creation of a $150 million clean energy research center. Meeting in Beijing, th (Read More)
Climate-L.org:
16 November 2009: The self-selection process for non-profit civil society observers on two sub-committees of the Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Strategic Climate Fund – the Forest Investment Program (FIP) and the Scaling up (Read More)
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We launched our new forum over the weekend to provide an outlet for discussion and commentary for anything Cleantech related. If there is an opinion you wish to share, a piece of news you wish to bring to light or something (Read More)
Mongabay.com News:
The Sustainable Sites Initiative has developed the United States' first rating system for the design, construction, and on-going maintenance of a wide-variety of landscapes, both with and without buildings, including shopping (Read More)
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Invicta Capital has launched a £300m fund for the construction of up to 9 Biomass plants to be constructed on brownfield sites across Scotland.Powered by locally sustainable wood, these plants will have an operating capacity (Read More)
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The east coast of Scotland is very popular in the Cleantech news at the moment!The companies that have been awarded exclusivity to sites on the Forth and the Tay have formed a collaboration – Forth and Tay Offshore Wind Devel (Read More)
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The power outage that affected nearly a third of Brazil's population Tuesday could be used by development interests to justify a renewed push for hydroelectric dams in the Amazon rainforest. (Read More)
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The Government is due today (November 9) to publish six draft national policy statements designed to fast-track the building of 'clean' coal, renewable energy and nuclear power stations. (Read More)
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A UK-based renewable energy company has received a $61 million grant from the Australian government to build the world’s first utility-scale wave power project. Ocean Power Technologies will begin construction of the 19-megaw (Read More)
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The Philippine government plans to approve 19 new contracts to develop the nation’s massive geothermal energy resources in the next five months. A top energy official said financial incentives for the development of renewable (Read More)
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"Yhdyskuntajätteiden hyödyntäminen biojalostamossa"A biorefinery is a facility that integrates biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power, materials and/or chemicals from biomass thus replacing fossil (Read More)
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The energy regulator Ofgem has proposed funding arrangements of up to £1 billion over the next two years for green electricity transmission grid projects, with seventy percent said to go to Scotland. (Read More)
EurekAlert! - Breaking News:
As global temperatures and energy costs continue to soar, renewable sources of energy will be key to a sustainable future. An attractive replacement for gasoline is biofuel, and in two studies published online in Genome Res (Read More)