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Spain to focus on renewables
Spain is a fast developing renewable energy country and it is expected to move towards by supporting even more expensive energy commodities. Three Spanish companies, Iberdrola, Gas Natural and Endesa registered heavy incomes benefiting from the renewable boost. The chairman of Iberdrola, Sanchez Galan said the company made wrong steps with the development of solar PV power, and will make efforts to avoid such “moving” relative to solar thermal power.
read more... 16/11/2011
Netherlands to update the SDE incentive system
The new draft in the Netherlands will include the geothermal heat in the new feed-in tariffs system (SDE), which will represent the basic support for sustainable heat as from 2012.
read more... 11/11/2011
Spanish solar thermal capacity to reach 10GW
According to the released report for sustaining the development of Renewable Energy Plan 2011-2020, solar thermal industry in Spain could reach 10GW of installed capacity by the end of 2020, while the technical-economic potential of solar thermal energy in the Spanish industry accounts for 68GW of installed capacity and annual useful heat of 60 TWh.
read more... 08/11/2011
Japan to boost renewable energy by 2020
The world’s worst nuclear crisis in 25 years pushed many global leaders to review its perception over nuclear energy by changing its energy “way” toward renewable energy. So, the Japanese government will ease the rules on developing geothermal, wind and hydraulic utilities, thus strengthening the public energy safety.
read more... 20/10/2011
Geothermal capacity to reach 25.1 GW by 2020
Global geothermal power capacity could reach 25.1 GW by the end of 2020, with 30 percent produced only in the United States. According to the released report by Pike Research, over 10.7 GW are put into operation in 26 countries, with the United States on the top with 3.08 GW of installed capacity.
read more... 03/10/2011