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Renewable lobby unhappy with EU proposal

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-22)
  • Junior Isles

Europe’s renewables lobby has reacted angrily to the EU’s Whitepaper on energy and climate change. The European Commission presented its proposal for a climate and energy framework 2030. The proposal includes a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of 40 per cent and a binding EU-level target of 27 per cent for renewable energy.

Ukraine suffers 2013 generation fall due to low nuclear output

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-21)
  • Junior Isles
Ukraine suffered a 2.3 per cent year-on-year fall in its power generation output during 2013, with generation falling by 4.556 TWh to 193.563 TWh overall, an Energy and Coal Industry Ministry source has revealed.

Draft proposal cuts German renewables support

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-19)
  • Junior Isles
Germany's economy minister and leader of the SDP, Sigmar Gabriel, plans to cut the feed-in-tariff (FiT) support level for solar and wind power generators by about a third from 2015, according to a draft cabinet proposal.

Cinotec signs memorandum for Pakistani regional hydro plants

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-17)
  • Junior Isles
Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pervez Khattak, has expressed confidence this week that investment by the Chinese government and private firms would help overcome the province’s energy crisis.

CASE to construct $250 million coal-fired plant in Zimbabwe

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-17)
  • Junior Isles
China-Africa Sunlight Energy (CASE) will invest $250 million in the construction of a 600 MW coal-fired plant in Gwayi, Zimbabwe, a company official has confirmed.

South Korea scales back nuclear plans

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-15)
  • Junior Isles
South Korea’s energy ministry has confirmed the scale-back of its plans for nuclear power in the country, although replacing and expanding the current generation of plants over the next two decades will still be required.

The US EPA’s new emissions regulation rules out new coal without CCS

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-10)
  • Junior Isles
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finally published details of its long expected rule changes on the allowed level of carbon emissions from new power plants.

RWE npower to close seven UK plants by 2023

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-10)
  • Junior Isles
Energy giant RWE npower has said it will avoid expensive retrofits of seven of its UK plants by closing them before the end of 2023, escaping the requirements of the emissions reducing EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).

UK wind breaks generation records in December

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-08)
  • Junior Isles
The UK’s wind sector set three generation records in December 2013, with new highs for total generation in a month, seven-days, and a single day.

Marubeni expands North American portfolio

  • 10 years ago (2014-01-08)
  • Junior Isles
Marubeni Corp. said this week that it has acquired a 90 per cent interest in a wind power project in Solano County, California run by EDF Renewable Energy Inc., a US arm of French utility Electricite de France (EDF). Marubeni did not disclose details of the acquisition.