The European Commission adopted two Communications and a Decision June 10, encouraging industries, governments and NGOs to set up certification schemes on the sustainability criteria of biofuels, including the imported ones in the EU, as to aid reach the EU target in a sustainable way, the one of getting 20% of renewable energy from total energy consumption.
read more... 11/06/2010
Enel Green Power, the largest renewable energy company in Italy, is going to build a hydropower plant of 84 MW in Guatemala, which will generate 370 million KWh of power annually, thus reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 280,000 tonnes.
read more... 01/06/2010
French renewable energy company Global EcoPower signed a sale agreement for an estimated installed solar capacity of 60 MWp in France.
read more... 31/05/2010
The offshore renewable energy industry in UK might produce electricity corresponding to one billion barrels of oil per year, matching oil and gas output in the North Sea, as stated in a report.
read more... 20/05/2010
U.S. Renewables Group, which has various investments in renewable energies across North America, plans to raise a fund of up to 2 billion Yuan (293 million USD) for renewable energy projects in China.
read more... 13/05/2010