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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Renewable energy projects are frequently financed with project rather than corporate finance. by Bill Cooke.

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ADB draft report says 3B Asians could become affluent by 2050; significant challenges

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If these events occur, Asia would account for only 32%, or $61 trillion, of global GDP in 2050. The difference in outcomes under the two scenarios and thus the opportunity cost of not realizing the Asian Century scenario is huge, especially in human terms. —Haruhiko Kuroda.

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KPMG study identifies 10 sustainability “megaforces” with accelerating impacts on business; imperative of sustainability changing the automotive business radically

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Environmental costs are often not shown on financial statements because the bearers of such costs can be either particular individuals or society at large, are often both non-monetary and problematic to quantify for comparison with monetary values. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. billion in 2005.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. from the Bakken shale) are developed, but increasing reliance on oil imports elsewhere heightens concerns about the cost of imports and supply security. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 Click to enlarge.

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Greentech Media | The Bus With Plug and Play Batteries

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Lower maintenance and fuel costs, however, will mean a two-year payback. Though $155,000 seems awfully cheap for lithium-ion battery packs. Proterra , a competing company that sells a completely electric bus , says it can undercut the total cost of ownership of a regular bus by around $310,000 over a twelve-year period.

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive. Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.