The involvement of multi-national banking institutions is critical to the completion and modernization of hydroelectric projects, particularly in the developing world. This article details nearly US$16 billion in funding recently awarded for work at more than 50 projects.

On October 19th, 2011, BISOL (Prebold, Slovenia) announced that it entered into the Polish photovoltaic market. The company's first shipment to Poland included BISOL photovoltaic modules, with a plastic based mounting system. The first BISOL PV modules in Poland are installed on Rzeszów High School of Law.

Krka on November 25 opened the renovated and expanded facilities of the high-bay packaging warehouse.  The investment, worth 3.4 million EUR will improve warehouse’s flow capacity, reliability and increase storage capacity by 25%. The new warehouse surfaces were used to install a new solar power station, which will help reduce CO2 emissions and provide an additional, cheaper source of electricity.

The PALFINGER Group is acquiring the marine crane division of Palfinger systems GmbH, thereby expanding its marine portfolio. The business acquired from Palfinger systems GmbH, which is controlled by the Palfinger family, is well positioned in the marine crane segment and in addition is the market leader in cranes for offshore wind power plants. In 2009 the division generated revenues of almost EUR 30 million.

As of August 2010, there were 30 wind energy projects in the JI pipeline, totalling an installed capacity of 1,280 MW. The largest one of these, at 300 MW, is located in Ukraine. This group of countries ranges from new EU members such as the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, through Romania and Bulgaria and then eastwards into Russia and Ukraine, and finally south-eastwards into Central Asia, across the countries that used to make up the Soviet Union. The IEA has also included Cyprus and Malta in this grouping.