India to join the International Renewable Energy Agency

With the founding of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Renewable Energy is finally getting the sort of international attention needed to make things happen on a global scale. On January 26, 2009, 75 countries signed the agency into being in Bonn, Germany. The idea for the agency was first conceived in 2007 in Germany, as an alternative to the International Energy Agency in France and the…