In Brief

A GROUPof engineers from Trinity College has raised €22,000 for their solar water disinfection system through the FundIt website

VOLKSWAGEN PLANSto invest €64 billion in greener manufacturing by 2016 and €600 million in renewable energy by 2020

MITSUBISHI, HITACHIand Nippon Steel plan to develop a floating offshore wind farm off the coast of Fukushima in Japan

A MEXICANsolar power entrepreneur aims to invest $3.1 billion in a tidal power and water desalination project

THE USDepartment of Energy has made $180 million available for offshore wind energy innovation

WARREN BUFFET'SMidAmerican Energy Holdings aims to raise $2.4 billion for a 550MW US solar project

BIOENERGYcould create 3,600 jobs and generate €1.5 billion in investment here by 2020, the Irish Bioenergy Association claims

DUBLIN SOLARcell production technology company Nines Photovoltaics has raised €750,000 in funding

THE MAKERSof Lego plan to invest $530 million in offshore wind farms

CELESTIAL GREEN VENTURES,a Dublin forestry investment firm plans to create 30 new jobs by the end of 2013

Events Diary

April

9th-11th:Global New Energy Summit, Colorado Springs; globalnewenergysummit.org

11th-12th:European Biomass Power, London; iti.ms/GC59Xf

16th-18th:Cleantech Forum Europe, Munich; iti.ms/GC5idb

16th-19th:European Wind Energy 2012, Copenhagen

19th:Sustainable Venture Development Conference, London; svdconf.co.uk