Welcome to this year‘s second issue of our newsletter. With summer knocking on the door, the eventful first half of the year is coming to an end. We spent the past few months pushing the process of our reorganisation. Now we are in a strong position to meet the coming challenges of 2008 ...

Despite the lack of a comprehensive national policy, many states within the US are becoming a hotbed for investments and project development of renewables. The state of Pennsylvania saw the potential early on and is rapidly becoming a market leader in this sector. Kathleen McGinty, the head of Pennsylvania‘s Environmental Protection, tells us why...

- Spectacular growth despite credit crunch
- Going thermal - is investor interest shifting in Spain?
- Feed-in tariffs in the USA and India
- EPURON sells the world's fourth largest solar project

- Photovoltaics on a continuing global growth curve
- Spanish government is committed to its own solar industry
- EPURON completes 2 MW PV project in South Korea

- 2007: uninterrupted growth and internationalisation
- Directive from Brussels boosts the wind industry
- Financing of wind projects – pointers and pitfalls
- EPURON enters the up-and-coming Turkish wind power market

- Brazil, US and EU approach global ethanol standard
- Biofuels sector searches for business model that’ll pay
- New €100m German fund to target long-term green investments
- Sale of biogas plant Gut Karow to utility MVV Energiedienstleistungen

- Web: www.sustainablebusiness.com
- Book: Renewable Energy Policy and Politics
- Company: Conergy increases sales in the first quarter