PANASONIC has invested $30m (€22m) in US electric car maker Tesla

US CLEANTECH venture capital investments fell by 55 per cent in the third quarter of this year

NISSAN HAS secured 27,000 pre-orders for its Leaf electric car, more than 500 of these in Ireland

NOKIA HAS topped this year’s Greenpeace green electronics league while Apple came ninth

THE UK’S climate change minister has urged communities to revive disused mill water wheels

NEWCASTLE has been named the UK’s most sustainable city

13 GREEN ENERGY EU-based firms invested more than €500m in total in RD last year

SWEDISH utility Vattenfall invested €1 billion in German offshore wind projects

INTEL WAS the largest US purchaser of renewable energy this year, increasing its usage by 10 per cent

WALMART IS promoting green farming practices among its global network of food suppliers

IRISH WIND power reached a new record 1,196MW - 30.87 per cent of total generation on the evening of October 28th

BORD GÁIS has bought a 20 per cent stake in Swedish-Irish wave-farm development firm Tonn Energy

EVENTS DIARY

DECEMBER 2010

7th: Next Generation Biofuels, Institute of International and European Affairs, Dublin; iiea.com

16th: Reducing Emissions in Manufacturing, Dublin City Council civic offices; ucd.ie/events