News round-up, Friday, February 24, 2023. BY GERMÁN & CO

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : A new investment fund with 87.5 million euros ($92.63 million) will finance solar power production across Africa, with a focus on West and Central Africa, French fund manager RGREEN INVEST and investment adviser ECHOSYS INVEST said on Friday.
58% : PJM Interconnection, which operates the nation's largest regional grid, stretching from Illinois to New Jersey, has been so inundated by connection requests that last year it announced a freeze on new applications until 2026, so that it can work through a backlog of thousands of proposals, mostly for renewable energy.
56% : Delays can upend the business models of renewable energy developers.
50% : NATURAL GAS IS THE NEW "RUSSIAN WINTER" AS A WAR ELEMENT...GERMAN & CO, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022 From the United States to the European Union, major economies around the world are laying out plans to move away from fossil fuels in favor of low and zero-carbon technologies.
47% : But the law does little to address many practical barriers to building clean energy projects, such as permitting holdups, local opposition or transmission constraints.
47% : Researchers at the Princeton-led REPEAT project recently estimated that new federal subsidies for clean energy could cut electricity emissions in half by 2030.
42% : And programs to encourage Massachusetts and Maine residents to adopt solar power are faltering.

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