Environment-Renewables
Western congestion
Despite huge strides to improve power transmission efficiency in California since 2001, the region is still flagged a 'critical congestion area' by the US Department of Energy. Neil O'Hara looks at the state of play
SG, Rhodia launch emissions company
Société Générale and Rhodia Energy Services, a global specialty chemicals company, have formed a joint venture company to trade carbon.
Surveying risk management
How is risk management viewed in your company? Are there risks you would like to measure but don''t? Which methodologies are most commonly used? What should the discipline tackle next? Our latest survey reveals all
Point Carbon launches North American operations
Point Carbon, a provider of market intelligence, analysis, forecasting and advisory services for the energy and environmental markets, today announced the launch of operations in North America.
Natsource in billion dollar green house gas transaction
Carbon asset manager Natsource has announced that two of its entities will participate in a billion dollar green house gas (GHG) transaction.
Climate Change Capital creates world's largest private carbon fund
Climate Change Capital (CCC), a UK-based investment bank that focuses on investment in clean energy and a low carbon economy, announced this morning that it has created the world's largest private sector carbon fund.
UK Energy Review
The UK government's July Energy Review was generally welcomed for its stance on renewables, nuclear and carbon, but many market participants had been hoping for greater clarity
Jaime Roman, risk managing director, Endesa, Spain
Jaime Roman is chief financial officer and risk managing director at Spanish utility Endesa. Holding a PhD in Electrical Engineering, he was in academia before being approached to join Endesa in 1997
Noble signs India emissions deal
Noble Carbon Credits, part of global supply chain manager Noble Group, has signed a series of long-term certified emission reduction (CER) contracts with India¹s Gujarat Fluorochemicals (GFL).
The end of an era?
Latin American governments are hiking taxes and forcing changes to contracts with oil and gas investors in a marked departure from the economic liberalisation of the 1990s. But reality may prompt a rethink, writes Maria Kielmas