This report summarizes financing structures in the wind power sector, including a recent history of modern wind project finance (from 1998 to the present) to current financing and impacts on costs.
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Source: United States Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Date: September 2007
This report provides a summary of the Competence Platform on Energy Crop and Agroforestry Systems for Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems (COMPETE) conference, which aimed to contribute to sound and successful bioenergy policy implementation in Africa.
Source: Competence Platform on Energy Crop and Agroforestry Systems for Arid and Semi-Arid Ecosystems
Date: May 2009
This directory is an online database of lenders and investors that actively provide finance to the sustainable energy sector worldwide. The directory can help renewable energy and energy efficiency project developers and entrepreneurs identify sources of potential capital easily and quickly.
Source: Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy, United Nations
This report outlines the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's (UNIDO's) strategy—and activities—to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries.
Source: United Nations
Date: January 2009
This report identifies five obstacles to institutional investor engagement in low carbon growth in developing countries and proposes a package of public finance investments to address this.
Source: United Nations
Date: October 2009
This report addresses investment trends in sustainable energy by technology and by region, status of research and development efforts, flows of venture capital and private equity, and investment in developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Source: United Nations, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Date: January 2010
This report explores how energy service companies (ESCOs) may be incorporated into a model for the introduction of energy efficiency and renewable energy initiatives in poor communities on a large scale, using South Africa as an example.
Source: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership
Date: January 2007
This website highlights the activities of the United Nations Environment Programme Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics in promoting public and private sector finance of clean energy.
Source: United Nations
This report analyses the economic impact of Colorado’s first 1,000 MW of wind energy development and not only provides a summary of jobs, land lease payments, and other revenue, but also provides a sense of the economic development opportunities associated with other new wind project scenarios i
Source: United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Date: January 2009
This presentation includes maps for solar, geothermal, wind, biomass, and hydropower resources in Russia. It also addresses polices, investments, and barriers to development.
Source: International Energy Agency
Date: June 2007