http://www.energyefficiencynews.com <p>The UK and India have announced plans to join forces on developing cost-effective and efficient solar power.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2814/ 2010-02-16T00:00:00-00:00 UK policy, ROW policy, renewables, solar power, research and development, Research Councils UK, RCUK, the Indian Department of Science and Technology, DST, <p>The Prime Ministers of the UK and Ethiopia, Gordon Brown and Meles Zenawi, are to lead a climate change finance group, they announced with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2807/ 2010-02-15T00:00:00-00:00 UK policy, ROW policy, US policy, Eu policy, climate change fund, Copenhagen, COP15, United Nations, UN <p>The world&rsquo;s wind power capacity grew by nearly a third in 2009, taking total installations to 157.9 GW with China leading the way, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2788/ 2010-02-08T00:00:00-00:00 Renewables, US, China, EU, UK, wind energy, offshore wind, Global Wind Energy Council, GWEC, American Wind Energy Association, AWEA, European Wind Energy Association, EWEA, REpower, RWE, Invenergy Wind, GE, Iberdrola, EDF <p>The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat has confirmed that 55 nations have pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions under the Copenhagen Accord.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2779/ 2010-02-04T00:00:00-00:00 US policy, UK policy, EU policy, ROW policy, China, India, Russia, Cop15, Copenhagen Accord, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon emissions, climate change, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC, <p>The US and EU formally signed up to the Copenhagen Accord this week as the end of January deadline looms.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2763/ 2010-01-29T00:00:00-00:00 US policy, EU policy, UK policy, ROW policy, Norway, Copenhagen Accord, COP15, climate change, carbon emissions, greenhouse gas emissions <p>A consortium led by South Korean companies Samsung C&amp;T and Korea Electric Power Corporation plans to invest CAN$7 billion in renewable energy technology for the Canadian province of Ontario.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2743/ 2010-01-22T00:00:00-00:00 ROW policy, Canada, Ontario, renewables, wind, solar, Samsung, Korea Electric Power Corporation <p>The UK Government and the United Arab Emirates announced the establishment of a joint &pound;1 million fund for renewable energy policy research at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi earlier this week.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2744/ 2010-01-22T00:00:00-00:00 UK policy, ROW policy, Abu Dhabi, Masdar, Masdar Institute, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Canada, Alberta, research, carbon capture and storage, CCS, World Future Energy Summit <p>French Canadian electricity company Hydro-Qu&eacute;bec has announced the launch of the largest yet trial of electric vehicles in Canada.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2734/ 2010-01-19T00:00:00-00:00 Transport, road, electric vehicles, Hydro-Québec, Mitsubishi i MiEV, ROW policy, Canada, Québec <p>European energy and environment ministers meeting in Seville, Spain this weekend are expected to call on the EU to implement the Copenhagen Accord and urge other countries to follow suit, according to reports.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2723/ 2010-01-15T00:00:00-00:00 EU policy, ROW policy, US policy, climate change, Copenhagen Accord, COP15, emission reduction targets, <p>The Government of Canada is to invest up to $146 million over the next five years in 19 clean energy projects spanning energy use in buildings, community heat generation, renewables and energy storage.</p> http://www.energyefficiencynews.com/row/i/2720/ 2010-01-14T00:00:00-00:00 ROW policy, Canada, Clean Energy Fund, research and development, building, heating and ventilation, microgeneration, renewables, wind, marine, tidal