February 2016

Invenergy Announces 120 MW Wind Power Agreement with 3M

Leading renewable energy producer Invenergy has announced a partnership with 3M to reduce emissions through wind power, increasing it’s corporate off-site renewable energy procurement activities. The sector has nearly tripled from 2014 to 2015 with more than 3,400MW announced. Together with a other Purchase Agreements (PPA) announced with Google and other Fortune 500 companies, this brings Invenergy’s total corporate customer renewable energy portfolio to 570MW. 2016 is expected to be another strong year for clean energy corporate power procurement.

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The State Of Play For Renewables In Central America (Infographic)

Americas, Biomass, Hydro, Solar, Wind

The renewables market in Central America is moving incredibly fast, with governments helping to create the right conditions for success: auctions in place, incentives and plans for distributed generation. But are the conditions for success really there and what is putting roadblocks to rapid expansion? How can the region fulfill its massive potential?

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Cerberus Increases Renewable Energy Investments With 650MW Renovalia Acquisition

Americas, Asia Pacific, Deals & Finance, Energy, Europe/Middle East/Africa

Cerberus has completed the acquisition of Spanish renewable energy company Renovalia Energy S.A. from affiliates of the Ortega Family and IDM Ortemar. This transaction gives Cerberus 100% control of Renovalia. Renovalia operates in six countries and has more than 650 megawatts of power generation under management along with a global development pipeline of wind farms and solar PV plants. The acquisition adds further clean energy assets to the total of US $28 billion currently under management.

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CaliforniaFIRST Launches Clean Energy Financing Program

Americas, Biomass, Policy

Innovative PACE program provides financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy, water efficiency upgrades with no out-of-pocket costs. CaliforniaFIRST financing doesn’t rely on a credit score and does not require any money down, opening the program to a wide range of Californians. It allows homeowners to choose a participating contractor in their area and install a variety of custom-tailored clean energy, water efficiency and EV charging projects.

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$430m Investment Fund Launched for Sustainable and Clean Energy Companies

Americas, Biomass, Deals & Finance

Vision Ridge Partners has announced the launch of Sustainable Asset Fund (“SAF”). At $430 million, the fund is one of the largest in this sector and one of the few private investment portfolios focused on later stage clean energy companies and other sustainable assets. With a partnership between Vision Ridge, Capricorn Investment Group and the Grantham Foundation; the fund seeks to demonstrate the huge investment potential residing in breakthrough commercial solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

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AD Innovation Reduces Waste And Increases Clean Compressed Gas Production

Americas, Biomass, Efficiency

Bion Environmental Technologies has developed a next generation technology platform to enable the capture of ammonia. By capturing the ammonia, Bion not only prevents its impacts to the environment as before, but is now able to recover and process substantially more of the nitrogen in the manure stream into a stabilized value-added product. This platform can now utilise anaerobic digestion to produce methane which can then be cleaned and injected into existing pipelines, resulting in clean renewable compressed natural gas.

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