A round-up of today's other stories
MAINSTREAM Renewable Power will invest up to €1.5bn in Irish wind power projects over the next years
BRITAINS green building research body BRE is to create the masterplan for a £100m green building showcase park in Beijing
GM and VC Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers have put $30m in US electric bus company Proterra
BRAY NATIVE Conrad Burke has sold his solar power firm Innovalight to DuPont for more than $60m
AIRLINE Virgin Australia has joined a partnership that hopes to produce aviation biofuel from eucalyptus trees by 2014
ATHENRY-BASED small wind-turbine manufacturer CF Green Energy will create 145 new jobs over the next three years
FRENCH engineering giant Alstom has bought Scottish wave energy firm AWS Ocean Energy for an undisclosed sum
IRISH LED lighting firm Nualight has signed a multi-million euro deal with 800 Co-Op stores in the UK
IKEA has bought a 12MW wind farm in Scotland and will spend £4m installing solar panels on 10 UK stores
GOOGLE is investing $280m in Solarcity, which leases solar panels to US householders