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UAE eyes new clean energy generation target by 2030
January 21st, 2016
The UAE is looking to increase its target for power generation from clean energy to 30 per cent by 2030, the energy minister said yesterday. “What we know is that at least 25 per cent is going ...
Global energy investment fell the second consecutive year
July 14th, 2017
Global energy investment fell for a second year in 2016 as oil and gas spending continues to drop Global energy investment fell by 12% in 2016, the second consecutive year of decline, as increased spending on energy efficiency and ...
ICAP Energy appoints Director of European Agricultural and Soft Commodities
December 19th, 2016
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announces today that it has appointed Kieran Walsh as Director of European Agricultural and Soft Commodities to launch and manage a new ...
Apple to power Singapore operations with renewable energy
November 16th, 2015
Apple announced on Sunday that it has struck a deal to power all of its Singapore operations with renewable energy, the latest in a series of steps from the company to turn its operations worldwide green. Starting in January, ...
UAE making 2015 the year of renewable energy
July 6th, 2015
Some consider 2015 to be the year for renewable energy in the UAE. Three reasons stand out: the country’s expansion of clean-energy projects, its funding of renewable projects abroad and the fact that the Emirates has the lowest solar-energy ...
UAE set to be the first to offer green-energy sukuk
March 12th, 2015
The UAE is expected to issue the world’s first Sharia-compliant bond aimed at financing green energy projects this year, possibly as early as next month, according to industry experts. “We are going to get one, possibly two , ...
Foreign Investment Key To India’s Energy Future
November 7th, 2014
For a country of the size and complexity of India, there can be no easy solution to a problem as fundamental as giving the whole country access to steady power. With coal contributing about 60% to Indian power generation, ...
Natural Gas Causing ‘Detour’ on Road to Cleaner Fuel
October 2nd, 2014
Natural gas is often promoted as a cleaner alternative to gasoline — a kind of “bridge fuel” between emission-heavy energy sources and zero-emission renewables like solar and wind. But a new study casts doubt on the benefits of natural ...
Who are the Winners and Losers of the Spring Budget?
March 21st, 2018
While budget announcements are scarcely thrilling events, it’s fair to say that Chancellor Philip Hammond’s spring statement was even less enthralling than usual. His budget speech did manage to polarise opinion in Parliament and the private sector, however, as ...
IBM Goes Live With First Commercial Blockchains
March 20th, 2017
Tech giant IBM is set to unveil what it’s calling the first “commercial application” of Hyperledger’s open-source Fabric codebase. Previously released in beta and scheduled for official release today, the offering – dubbed “IBM Blockchain” – is formally debuting in front ...
