Investor Activity Prompted By Climate Risk Is Surging, Says FFI

Investor engagement and activity stemming from a desire to mitigate and minimize climate risk is surging, according to a recent report from Fossil Free Indexes. Published earlier this week, the third annual report from the Fossil Fuel Index, The Carbon Underground 2016, revealed that the total potential carbon dioxide emissions from the total reserves of the world’s [&hellip

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Why The NextEra & Hawaiian Utilities Deal Fell Apart (Study)

NextEra Energy is a very large company with about 14,000 employees that constructs, develops, and operates power plants. It has about 45,000 MW of generating capacity at all its facilities. A long process that could have resulted in NextEra taking over the Hawaiian electric utilities just ended with no merger occurring. According to a study, [&hellip

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German Energy Storage Market Set To Hit $1 Billion By 2021, According To GTM Research

The German energy storage market is expected to grow substantially between 2015 and 2021, according to GTM Research, reaching an annual value of $1.03 billion. According to a new report from energy research and consulting firm GTM Research, entitled The German Energy Storage Market: 2016-2021, Germany’s energy storage market — already one of the world’s leading [&hellip

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Duke Energy Renewables Control Center Now Oversees More Than 3,500 MW

The Duke Energy Renewables Control Center is now overseeing more than 3,500 MW of wind and solar energy plants across the US since its inauguration in 2015. Since moving to its new location in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2015, Duke Energy’s Renewable Control Center has seen the number of wind and solar plants it monitors [&hellip

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Invests $10 Million Into Mainstream Renewable Power

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has confirmed its involvement in a $117.5 million investment deal with global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power. According to the announcement, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has contributed $10 million as part of an investor consortium to a larger $117.5 million investment deal which was signed in June, and will [&hellip

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Vattenfall Minimizes 1H’16 Financial Impairment By Early Lignite Operations Sell-Off

State-owned Swedish energy company Vattenfall announced improved operating profit in the first half of the year, but acknowledged it was involved in a challenging market, resulting in significant impairments for its lignite operations. “The first half of the year was characterized by stability in Vattenfall’s operations and a number of important events in our external [&hellip

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Scientists Pen Open Letter To US Government To End Coal Leasing On Public Lands

A group of 67 scientists have penned an open letter to the US Department of the Interior calling on the government to end coal leasing on public lands in an effort to protect the climate, public health, and biodiversity. “We are scientists writing to urge the Department of the Interior to take meaningful action to fight [&hellip

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