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 by Staff Writers London, UK (SPX) Nov 23, 2018
Chile is currently undergoing a renewable energy boom. Today, it's the second largest market for renewable energies in Latin America, and in 2016 Chile was the top-scoring renewable energy producer in the Americas and second in the world, beaten only by China. Two decades ago, when this process started, this transformation was unthinkable. An article in Policy Studies Journal helps to explain the Chilean transformation by discussing the concept of "contingent coalitions" - collective actors with conflicting but partly overlapping agendas and interests that may contingently coalesce to foster those interests and/or beliefs that they share. The article's authors - Aldo Madariaga and Mathilde Allain - show that the contingent coalitions crafted by environmental organizations in Chile have been crucial for fostering renewable energy policy at two moments where key innovations were introduced. "The official understanding of the Chilean renewable success story highlights the role of a few government entrepreneurs, but this has hidden the crucial role played by environmental organizations and social movements in pushing this process," said Prof. Madariaga, of the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, in Mexico, and the Universidad Mayor, in Chile. "In this article, we unveil this story and show how they managed to increase their political clout and policy influence by forming what we call contingent coalitions."
Freedom Solar Power launches first-of-its-kind commercial solar financing vehicle in Texas Austin TX (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 Freedom Solar Financial Services LLC, the first solar financial vehicle of its kind in Texas, has raised an initial round of $7.5 million in funding to finance commercial solar projects. Financing through Freedom allows companies to finance up to 70 percent of the cost of an entire solar installation and ensures that an investment in solar is cash-flow positive from day one. The company offers a simple one-page application and a rapid one-week underwriting process. The Freedom Financing program is ... read more
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