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Barriers continue for Germany’s clean coal
- 2011-08-05 06:49:25
- David Flin
The German Bundestag has passed a carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology bill allowing demonstration projects at carbon-emitting power plants until 2016 to pump CO2 emissions underground.
UK surges ahead on offshore wind construction
- 2011-07-30 00:01:46
- Junior Isles
The UK has built more offshore wind power generation in the first six months of 2011 than any other country in the world, accounting for almost all the offshore turbines erected so far in Europe this year.
India to continue with plans for 10 000 MW Nuclear reactor
- 2011-07-23 21:24:25
- Junior Isles
India’s lone nuclear power generation utility, Nuclear Power Corporation (NPCIL), is to go ahead with its plans for agressive capacity expansion, despite the renewed safety concerns for nuclear power generation after the Fukushima disaster.
Renewables reach 20 percent of global electricity generation in 2010
- 2011-07-13 06:51:15
- David Flin
The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) has released its “2011 Global Status Report”, which said that renewable energy supplied 16 percent of total energy usage and 20 percent of electricity generated globally in 2010.
Gazprom and Renova reach merger deal
- 2011-07-12 13:56:35
- Junior Isles
Gazprom has signed a deal with Renova Group to merge assets and create a state-controlled national power utility, part of plans partially reversing the recent privatisation of the Russian power industry.
China and India expected to dominate future energy growth
- 2011-07-10 17:56:13
- Junior Isles
Analysis from Frost & Sullivan's Annual Global Power Generation Forecasts 2011, shows that electricity generation will expand at a growth rate of 2.7 per cent through 2020, with the growth rate declining to 1.8 per cent per annum over the subsequent decade, as growth rate in the emerging markets becomes less pronounced and energy-efficiency measures begin to have a significant impact.
EU budget chief question global warming
- 2011-06-24 06:01:00
- David Flin
Janusz Lewandowski from Poland, the EU Budget Commissioner, has said that he has major doubts over the existence of global warming, and this looks to be certain to affect the drafting of EU policy over the years 2014-2020.
Gazprom signals European generation ambitions
- 2011-06-21 23:31:39
- Junior Isles
Russia's Gazprom will attempt to gain entry into European generation markets after Germany's recent decision to phase out nuclear power, its export chief said.
Generation increases by 3.7 per cent in developed countries
- 2011-06-17 14:57:49
- Junior Isles
Overall power generation in developed nations rose 3.7 per cent last year, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report. This largely made up for the 3.8 per cent decrease in 2009, as power demand recovered from the global recession.
IEA fears consequences of abandoning of nuclear power
- 2011-06-17 14:55:38
- Junior Isles
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has forewarned that the global consequences of abandoning nuclear power would be greater costs, emissions and power uncertainty.
