ECONOMICS BRIEFS

NEWS IN BRIEF: IRISH BIOMASSenergy firm Kedco has won a contract with the Latvian government to supply 4MW of electricity

JAGUAR LANDRover have secured £27 million in funding towards the £400 million cost of developing a new green Range Rover

NISSAN IStrialling a network in Arizona that aims to charge electric batteries in less than 15 minutes

EDDIE O'CONNOR'SMainstream Renewable Power has signed two deals to build wind farms in South Africa and Alberta, Canada at a total cost of €1.37 billion

CORK-BASEDfirm Ocean Energy intends to raise €20 million to commercially develop its ocean energy buoy technology

THE CHEYENNERiver Lakota Sioux Indians plan to sign a $400 million deal with Citizens Energy to build a 120MW wind farm on their one million acre reservation

OIL GIANT BPhas partnered with biofuels firm Verenium to build a $300m refinery to make biofuels from grass

EXPORTS TOthe West are responsible for one-third of China's CO2 emissions, according to a new study

FROZEN CHIPmaker McCain is using wind and biogas power at its UK factories, one of which draws 70 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources