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European Parliament rejects Commission’s 2030 policy

  • 2014-02-07 16:15:05
  • Junior Isles

The European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) has said that this week’s vote in plenary on the European Parliament’s report on ‘A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies’ gives a clear signal that the demand for three binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions, renewable energy sources and energy efficiency prevails.

Irish renewables funding in doubt past 2020

  • 2014-02-04 15:32:07
  • Junior Isles
Ireland’s funding for renewable energy schemes will be scaled back from ‘elevated levels’ once EU targets are met, according to influential stockbrokers Davy Group.

German industry against energy reform

  • 2014-02-02 08:16:20
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The Federation of German Industry (BDI) has warned that the German government's recent energy plans will jeopardise jobs in the country, with the proposal to force firms generating their own electricity to pay extra to support renewables being most problematic .

RWE suffers write-down due to low plant profitability

  • 2014-01-29 09:41:09
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Declines in the profitability of conventional power plants will force RWE to write down €3.3 billion worth of assets in the German utility giant’s 2013 earnings report, according to a company statement, with some analysts speculating that RWE will declare a net loss.

UK launches distributed energy funding scheme

  • 2014-01-27 13:42:52
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The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) this week unveiled a new ‘Community Energy Strategy’ report, aimed at encouraging decentralised power generation via community ownership.

Mott MacDonald appointed owner’s engineer on Turkish power plant

  • 2014-01-26 21:18:33
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Mott MacDonald has been appointed owner’s engineer by Icanadolu Doğalgaz Elektrik Üretim ve Ticaret A. Ş. – a subsidiary of Gama Enerji A. Ş. – for a new 840 MW combined cycle gas turbine power plant in Kirikkale, Central Anatolia, Turkey.

Dewa to pilot CSP plant

  • 2014-01-23 15:51:31
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The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has signed an agreement to pilot the Middle East’s first Stirling Engine Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant.

Renewable lobby unhappy with EU proposal

  • 2014-01-22 22:13:56
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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

  • 2014-01-21 21:14:12
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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

  • 2014-01-19 11:40:20
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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.

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