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Hydropower plants to be built on Luapula River, Zambia

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-10)
  • David Flin
Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will jointly develop hydropower plants on the Luapula River as a long-term measure to boost power generation.

UK Government scraps climate change levy

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-09)
  • David Flin
George Osborne, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, has confirmed he will remove the climate change levy in his first budget since the Conservative party won the UK general election in May.

Thai electricity authority says drought will not affect power generation

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-09)
  • David Flin
The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand has said that the public will continue to receive an uninterrupted supply of power despite the current water shortage, and that it has launched a power saving campaign ahead of the closure of a gas field.

TerraForm to buy 930 MW of wind farms in North America

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-07)
  • David Flin
TerraForm Power, a unit of SunEdison, has announced that it will buy 930 MW of wind farms in the USA and Canada from Invenergy Wind for $2 billion

OECD calls for end to new coal-fired power generation

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-06)
  • David Flin
Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the OECD, has called for an end to new coal-fired power plants.

Germany finalises coal deal after months of debate.

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-03)
  • David Flin
Germany has abandoned plans for a levy on coal-fired power plants, but will reduce brown-coal power generation to safeguard its 2020 carbon reduction targets.

US and Brazil agree reforestation and climate change deal

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-02)
  • Junior Isles

In a bilateral meeting on Tuesday, the US and Brazil agreed to obtain up to 20 per cent of their electricity from renewable power by 2030, alongside a declaration from Brazil to restore up to 12 million hectares of forest – an area the size of England – to further reduce carbon pollution.

China to cap emissions by 2030 in boost to Paris UN deal

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-01)
  • David Flin
China has announced that it is committed to halting the rise in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, in an attempt to help build a UN climate deal in Paris later this year.

UK Government should encourage on-site power generation

  • 9 years ago (2015-07-01)
  • David Flin
A report published by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said that the number of UK businesses that generate their own electricity is set to increase by 130 per cent by 2030.

UK must offer more incentives for renewable energy

  • 9 years ago (2015-06-30)

The UK government must increase incentives for renewable energy production, in order to further investment over the next ten years, the government's global-warming adviser has said.