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Weekly Environmental News (w/e 16th March 2018)

16 March 2018 admin 0

Author: Alex Colvill, Research Analyst at 350 PPM. Welcome to a new feature on the Renewable Money Blog: Weekly Environmental News. Each Friday we will select a few choice environmental titbits from the preceding week, a mixture of news headlines, interesting third party research, 350 PPM company news and perhaps some random stuff thrown in to make things slightly less dull. In this edition: Report: Global Landscape of Renewable Energy Finance Short Video: What 100 years of climate change did to France’s biggest glacier, the Mer de Glace (“sea of ice”) News: Encavis realises first project with Solarcentury by acquiring 43.9 megawatt solar park in the [...]

Mirec Report 2018 – The BIG Mexico Renewable Energy Report

26 February 2018 admin 1

Author: Nick Dimmock, Head of Corporate Finance 350 PPM Ltd. Mexico is one of the hottest global renewable energy markets and is currently the second largest power market in Latin America with US$110 billion of investment in the generation, transmission and distribution sectors forecast until 2030. Only five years ago, the generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity were all exclusively managed by the state-owned utility (and monopoly), the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE). The energy sector attracted little foreign investment and had only a few operational renewable energy projects. All that changed in 2014, when, as part of a package of [...]

Winter Investor Update: Q4 2017

12 February 2018 admin 0

Author: Nicholas Dimmock BA MBA(CASS), Head of Corporate Finance 350 PPM Ltd. About 350 PPM 350 PPM Ltd is a corporate finance house, specialising in EIS qualifying, socially responsible / green investments within the environmental sector. 350 PPM Ltd identifies Companies, Projects and Technologies that it believes will benefit substantially from the implementation of The Paris Agreement; the new global treaty to combat climate change and the environmental revolution, which is now fully underway. 350 PPM then structures these opportunities under the UK’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and works with, advises and raises finance for the above businesses along the commercialisation runway, to ensure they reach [...]

News of Carbon 350’s Largest Accredition Project: Damming or damning the Amazon: Assessing Ecuador / China cooperation

9 February 2018 admin 0

Interesting article on the future of hydroelectric power in LATAM and specifically the Amazon with specific reference to largest project 350 has ever been involved with. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/damming-or-damning-the-amazon-assessing-ecuador-china-cooperation/ This was the largest project Carbon 350 worked on, where our role was as Lead UNFCCC Accreditor; proving to The UNFCCC that the project is worthy of registration with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and as such can access the subsidy mechanisms available, finding a buyer for the credit stream, negotiating the terms of sale, and managing the process of verification, issuance and onward sale. Further details on the project can be found [...]

350 PPM Releases Environmental Sector Research and Launches Electronic Funding Platform

6 January 2018 admin 0

Dear All, Please find a link to download our new 350 Company Brochure and Research Report. Environmental Sector Under the Paris Agreement This report has been compiled by our by Head of Research, Alexander Colvill. The work has been undertaken independently and thus is an analysis of his "take" on the opportunities provided by The Paris Agreement and the role 350 PPM can play in the environmental revolution. Alex has two undergraduate degrees and a Masters in Physics. Our funding platform is now also live and details the companies 350 is funding at present. Please note, that we still have some further modifications to make which include [...]

Autumn 2017 Investor Update

3 November 2017 admin 0

Author: Nicholas Dimmock BA MBA (CASS), Head of Corporate Finance 350 PPM Ltd. About 350 PPM 350 PPM Ltd is a corporate finance house, specialising in EIS qualifying, socially responsible / green investments within the environmental sector. 350 PPM Ltd identifies Companies, Projects and Technologies that it believes will benefit substantially from the implementation of The Paris Agreement; the new global treaty to combat climate change and the environmental revolution, which is now fully underway. 350 PPM then structures these opportunities under the UK’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). 350 PPM then works with, advises and raises finance for the above businesses along the commercialisation [...]

Director’s Opinion – Opportunities arising from the government’s clean growth strategy

27 October 2017 admin 0

In this blog post, Toby Costin, CEO of Social Power Partnerships (SPP) gives a brief summary of the recent government white paper about the UK's clean growth strategy and highlights how the policies outlined might impact his company. SPP works with Social Housing, Charities and Community Energy Groups to find sustainable energy solutions. 350 PPM are currently raising money for SPP, helping them in their pioneering work with the use of prepay solar PV and nanotechnology insulation. Please contact us if you would like further information. The Clean Growth Strategy White Paper In October 2017 the Government published its latest plan for [...]

Director’s Opinion – Future Energy Scenarios reveal looming failures over security of supply

27 October 2017 admin 0

In this blog post, Mark Howitt, director at Storelectric Ltd, gives his assessment on National Grid's recent Future Energy Scenarios 2017 and what it reveals about the future security of the UK's energy supply. Storelectric Ltd are developing the technology of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), a form of large-scale energy storage that stores energy in the form of compressed air. CAES has the potential to address the shortcomings highlighted in this article. 350 PPM have been working with Storelectric to finance the rollout of CAES technology. Please contact us for further information. The government’s measures are failing to provide secure power [...]

Sector Research Note – Mexican Electricity Sector

12 October 2017 admin 1

Author: Alexander Colvill, Research Analyst at 350 PPM. MJ Hudson Advisers (FRN: 692447) have deemed that this text does not constitute a financial promotion. Introduction This research note gives a quick overview of the Mexican electricity sector, with a particular focus on solar PV (Photovoltaic), for which Mexico is ideally suited, but which is currently massively underdeveloped versus its potential. This is based on the IEA (International Energy Agency) publication 'Energy Policies Beyond IEA Countries, Mexico 2017', chapters 8 and 9, unless otherwise indicated. Demand Electricity demand in Mexico has grown steadily for decades as its economy grew and as a larger percentage of its [...]

Sector Research Note – Grid-Scale Energy Storage

10 October 2017 admin 0

Author: Alexander Colvill, Research Analyst at 350 PPM. MJ Hudson Advisers (FRN:692447) have deemed this text does not constitute a financial promotion. Executive Summary Electricity supply in the UK and around the world is slowly shifting from fossil fuel sources to renewable ones. Most renewable sources are intermittent, only creating energy when the sun shines, or the wind blows. Consequently, we expect it to get much harder to match supply with demand. In this research note, we examine this problem and outline possible solutions. These include the use of interconnectors (electricity links with neighbouring countries), demand side response, new fossil fuel power [...]

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