The other ECOnomics news stories...

- BIOENERGY technology firm Bedminster International has signed a €4m deal with Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea

- BILLIONAIRE financier George Soros has pledged to invest more than $1bn of his own money in clean energy technology

- WASTE-TO-ENERGY firm Kedco has raised €2.6m from a number of investors

- TIDAL energy company Openhydro has secured €2m in grant funding from Sustainable Energy Ireland

- TESCO is considering building its own wind farm to become carbon neutral

- WAVEBOB and Vattenfall have secured an IDA grant for commercial wave power testing in Mayo

- CARNEGIE Wave Energy plans to build Australia’s first wave farm

- A JAPANESE company plans to build the world’s first battery-powered ferry

- SIEMENS has bought an Israeli solar thermal power firm for $418m

- GE has bought stakes in US smart grid firm Tendril and an Israeli solar startup

- GLOBAL venture capital investments in clean technology amounted to $1.9bn in Q3, 2009

EVENT DIARY: NOVEMBER

11:Europe - Global Leadership in Carbon Markets; IIEA, Dublin. iiea.com. NovaUCD Talk on Enterprise Ireland's first cleantech trade missionto Silicon Valley; UCD

12:EI Software and Cleantech Investor Forum; Hilton London Tower Bridge Hotel; enterprise-ireland.com

15-16:

Behaviour, Energy & Climate Change 2009; Washington DC; Beccconference.org