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Japan adopts emission rights trade with Indonesia

  • 11 years ago (2014-11-06)
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Japan has adopted a plan to offer its energy-saving technology to Indonesia as the first project under a bilateral scheme that allows Japan to obtain greenhouse gas emission rights in return.

Brazil solar auction attracts world’s lowest prices

  • 11 years ago (2014-11-05)
  • Junior Isles

An auction for solar PV projects in Brazil is attracting bids, which are among the lowest in the world.

UK reserve margin to hit 7-year low

  • 11 years ago (2014-10-31)
  • Junior Isles

National Grid has warned that its capacity to supply electricity this winter will be at a seven-year low due to generator closures and breakdowns.

Germany to look at reducing coal fired generation

  • 11 years ago (2014-10-30)
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Rainer Baake, State Secretary at Germany’s Ministry of Economic Affairs , has said that the government will decide a programme on December 3, 2014 aimed at improving energy efficiency and possibly reducing the amount of electricity currently produced by coal fired plants.

Gamesa plans €100 million Indian renewables investment

  • 11 years ago (2014-10-29)
  • Junior Isles
Spanish renewables firm Gamesa is planning to invest €100 million in India over the next five years, according to the company’s Executive Chairman.

EU emissions fall as 2030 package agreed

  • 11 years ago (2014-10-29)
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The European Union’s environment agency says its greenhouse gas emissions fell by nearly two per cent last year, putting the bloc very close to reaching its emissions target for 2020.

Canada inaugurates first large-scale commercial coal CCS plant

  • 11 years ago (2014-10-24)
  • Junior Isles
Canada has officially inaugurated the 110 MW Boundary Dam coal-fired plant, the first large-scale commercial coal plant to fitted carbon with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

Ethiopia plans 2 GW of new hydro projects

  • 11 years ago (2014-10-21)
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Ethiopia is planning to build two hydro-electric dams on the southern Omo River, bordering Kenya, border with a total generation of over 2 GW, spokesman for the Ethiopian Water Ministry, Bizuneh Tolcha, has said.

EDF faces shake-up

  • 11 years ago (2014-10-17)
  • Junior Isles

French state-owned utility Eléctricité de France (EDF) is facing a major shake-up. According to Dow Jones newswire, the French government is likely to sell shares in as part of a broader objective to raise several billion euros of the French state’s asset portfolio in the coming year and a half.

IEA sees role for renewables in sub-Saharan Africa

  • 11 years ago (2014-10-15)
  • Junior Isles
A new International Energy Agency (IEA) report released this week claims that renewables including hydroelectric power will satisfy almost half of Africa’s additional energy needs until 2040, despite anticipated sub-Saharan demand growing by 80 per cent as the economy quadruples in size.