In Wednesday's Green Energy News Review, UK's coalition government scraps large scale solar Renewable Obligation Certificate scheme, plus Conservative peer suggests fracking should be kept away from Tory areas.
Today in the Green Energy News Review: NATO warns of worldwide threat to security if global warming is allowed to continue, energy efficiency bill fails to pass in Congress, Antarctica melting faster than previously thought (again) and UK bird charity the RSPB co-opts drone cameras for conservation.
In today's Green Energy News Review, IRENA counts 6.5 million renewable energy jobs globally, the White House connects its PV installation, Barack Obama has a dig at Congress' attitude to PV and fracking is set to begin in the UK in 2015.
Fashion brand Diffusione Tessile, a subsidiary of Max Mara Group, has had an 862.25kW multi-section solar plant installed on the rooftops of its industrial unit in Cavriago, Reggio Emilia, between Bologna and Milan in central northern Italy.
Finance giant Wells Fargo made over US$6 billion of environmental investments in 2012, putting the company well on the way to meeting its 2020 target of US$30 billion of investments in businesses and projects with a direct positive impact on the environment.
Shareholders in struggling German solar manufacturer aleo solar have endorsed the management's strategy for steering the company out of its current difficulties.
Lark Energy, which has developed and installed 60MW of solar energy in the UK since 2011 – including Britain’s largest solar farm at Wymeswold in Leicestershire (33MW) – has secured planning permission for a further 100MW across five new sites.
US secretary of the interior Sally Jewell has approved two new mega-solar energy projects in the south-western states totalling 450MW as part of president Obama's 'all of the above' energy strategy.
Nearly 2.5GW of PV capacity had been installed on just over one million domestic and business rooftops in Australia as of the end of March 2013, according to the country's Clean Energy Regulator.
