China and the Growth of Global Wind Power
China is now the global leader in the rapidly growing wind energy sector. The International Wind Energy Development (IWED) report predicts that the wind power market, is expected to grow from $96.4 billion in 2011 to $161.2 billion in 2015. By 2020, wind power expected to supply almost 10 percent (9.1 percent) of the world’s [...]
PennFuture 2012 Clean Energy Conference (Event)
On September 13-14, 2012 the PennFuture 2012 Clean Energy Conference will take place at the DoubleTree Hotel (Broad and Locust Streets) in Philadelphia, Pa. The event will focus on making the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions America’s Clean Energy Hub. What does that mean? We are talking about leveraging the significant market opportunities on the horizon [...]
Islamic Banks and Renewable Energy in MENA
Islamic banking involves activity that is consistent with the principles of sharia law. Sharia prohibits the fixed or floating payment or acceptance of specific interest or fees for loans of money. It is also prohibited to invest in businesses that provide goods or services considered contrary to Islamic principles. Many Islamic banks were formed in [...]
Put an End to One Trillion Dollars of Annual Oil Subsidies
Although governments try to hide the exact amount, an analysis by Oil Change International indicates that global oil subsidies total at least $775 billion to as much as $1 trillion or more in 2012. Rather than pay for an industry that is destroying the planet and compromising the lives of all of its inhabitants, this [...]
Cameroon: Electric Dreams for Development by 2035
After his reelection in November 2011, President Paul Biya of Cameroon announced [fr] that the country would soon become a giant “construction site”. The goal for his new term is for Cameroon to reach emerging market status by 2035 through a series of “great achievements” in transport and energy infrastructure development [fr]. It’s a deadline that fails to convince [fr] many commentators, [...]
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