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UK: energy imports at their highest level in 2012
According to figures released by the government, UK’s energy imports reached record levels last year, increasing once more worries of possible blackouts in the future. The closure of old power plants, declining domestic reserves and low-emissions objectives all pose challenges to shift to low-cost sources of power.
read more... 29/07/2013
Enel Green power has commissioned two PV plants in southern Italy
Italy's Enel Green Power has announced on Monday it has connected to the grid two photovoltaic (PV) plants in Serre Persane, in the southern Italian region of Campania. The two new photovoltaic plants in Borgo San Lazzaro and Spineto have a total installed capacity of around 21 MW, and it is expected that they will produce something like 30 million kWh per year, supplying 15,000 households and avoiding the emissions of about 14,000 tons of CO2 per year.
read more... 03/07/2013
Obama wants to save the world?
President Barack Obama has revealed yesterday the most ambitious plan that a US president has ever set. The plan includes measures to curb carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants, the largest source of emissions in the U.S. The limits are intended to help reduce carbon emissions by three billion metric tons by 2020.
read more... 26/06/2013
The GHG emissions of Italian companies lower than ever
According to a report offered by Ecoway, the first Italian operator active in the management and in trading of commodity CO2, affirms that last year CO2 emissions were at their lowest level since 2005, the year of entry into effect of the limits imposed by Brussels, arriving at 164 million tons in comparison to 2005 levels, when they amounted to 225 million tons. This result is due to the recession and the economic crisis which has seriously affected the Mediterranean country.
read more... 25/06/2013
German coal-fired power plant projects
Following are details of the status of coal-fired power plant projects in Germany, a sector targeted by campaigners against climate-harming carbon emissions. The rapid expansion of green energy has also curbed progress for new fossil fuels-based plants, although they were expected to play a bigger role in the energy mix after Germany decided on a quicker-than-planned withdrawal from nuclear power. Coal is still Germany's most important generation fuel.
read more... 20/06/2013