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Mountain Partners to Create Chile’s First Climate VC Fund
December 9, 2021
For the first time ever, Chile will have a climate venture capital fund that will focus on investing in companies contributing to fighting climate change. Mountain Partners AG’s Chilean division is in the process of setting up the fund. They planned to raise $50 million, and have already secured most of the funding. Its first […]
$3 trillion in Latin American oil assets are at serious risk due to lacking energy transitions
December 8, 2021
Early this year, the World Bank named Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Iran, Guyana, Algeria, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan as the most vulnerable oil-producing nations due to their high exposure to the oil and gas sector and relative lack of diversification. Latin American economies are, however, not much better off due to their high reliance on […]
Liberty Latin America is committed to ESG practices across LAC region
December 8, 2021
In one of Nasdaq’s recent “Trade Talks,” Liberty Latin America Chief Legal Officer John Winter joined Jill Malandrino to discuss how Liberty Latin America is committed to ESG practices across Latin America and the Caribbean. Source
Global energy crisis comes to drought-stricken South America
October 27, 2021
The energy crisis sweeping the globe is about to hit South America, where a historic drought has the region desperate to replace a collapse in hydroelectric generation as reported by Bloomberg. Source
United States to assist LAC increase renewable energy capacity
September 24, 2021
The United States announced that it would provide assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean so as to significantly increase renewable energy capacity across the region by 2030. The first ever United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, told a virtual High-Level Dialogue on Climate Action in the Americas that Washington is hoping […]
Electrified heavy-duty vehicle powertrains could provide lower total cost of ownership
September 24, 2021
For commercial medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles, the adoption of a new technology relies heavily on its cost relative to alternatives. A new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) seeks to pinpoint the conditions for when battery electric or fuel cell electric commercial trucks offer economic advantages over traditional diesel-fueled trucks by examining […]
Three insights from the IEA on the future of hydrogen in LAC
September 16, 2021
Por favor revise más abajo versión en español Latin America is one of the world’s leading regions for renewable energy production and use and is, as a region, one of the major players in the international push for low-carbon hydrogen. Currently more than 11 countries have either launched or are in the process of launching […]
IDB Invest strengthens Uruguay’s national power system with renewable energy production
September 14, 2021
IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, has provided a $67 million financial package for Tealov S.R.L (Tealov), a Uruguayan special purpose company (SPV) sponsored by Invenergy Renewables Global LLC (Invenergy) to develop the Cardal Transmission Project in Uruguay. The financial package includes a $11.5 million loan and a $55.5 million B-bond, acquired in […]
Pennsaco Technologies signs MOU to deploy green hydrogen technology in Latin America
September 10, 2021
Pennsaco Technologies, LLC, a U.S. based green hydrogen and advanced carbon capture and recycling technology company, today announced that has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Net Zero Carbon Solutions, LLC, a U.S. and Latin America based consultancy providing net zero carbon technology solutions to the oil and gas industry, to deploy Pennsaco’s technology in Latin America. […]