Energy News of the Week (Jun.16-22, 2014)
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< Asia >
Clean energy investment hub for Asia-Pacific
pv magazine-2014/06/20
The ADB has launched a clean energy investment hub at the Asia Clean Energy Forum. The intitiative is part of Ban Ki-Moon's Sustainable Energy for All campaign. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) this week announced it will join forces with two United Nations (UN) departments to trigger clean energy investment in the Asia-Pacific region.
Japan's trade deficit narrows in May as energy imports fall
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily-2014/06/19
Japan’s trade deficit narrowed in May as imports turned down for the first time in a year and a half, data showed Wednesday, but weaker shipments abroad helped keep the trade balance in the red. The figures ? which suggested the world’s number three economy was slowing
< North America >
US Policymakers Falling Behind Corporate America on Clean Energy
Huffington Post-2014/06/19
More than 170 companies and investors, including EMC, Nike, KB Home, Starbucks, and Unilever, came out in support of the EPA rules. Why? Well, the answer is that in part companies are seeing the economic benefits of clean energy in their own businesses.
< South America >
Hydropower Supplies More than Three-Quarters of Brazil's Electric Power
Energy Collective-2014/06/20
Brazil is the second-largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world, trailing only China, and the country depends on hydroelectricity for more than 75% of its electric power supply. Much of Brazil's hydroelectric potential lies in the country's ...
< Africa >
More Believers Join Africa's Off-Grid Energy Revolution
AFKInsider-2014/06/19
Everyone from local entrepreneurs to a new United States government program are jumping on Africa's off-grid energy revolution bandwagon. “It has everything to do with serving a new generation of technology and new approaches to ...
< Europe >
EU Sustainable Energy Week 2014
EU News-2014/06/19
Now in its ninth edition, the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) ? 23 to 27 June 2014 ? is the premier event for public authorities,energy agencies, private companies, NGOs and industry associations engaged in helping to meet the EU's ...
< Australia >
South Australia Might Be 1st 100% Renewable Energy Mainland State
CleanTechnica-2014/06/19
The South Australian Labor government gained a lot of credit ? and success ? when it announced a 33 per cent renewable energy target for the state by 2020. It seemed very ambitious at the time, but it turns out that it was just a fraction of what ...