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UK’s biggest biomass plant has opened
Britain’s largest coal-fired power station has begun its conversion to become Britain’s largest renewable electricity producer as well as one of Europe’s largest renewable electricity generators. The project will see the coal station turn to wood pellets for fuel rather than coal, a move which aims to slash carbon emissions by more than 80%. One of the generating units has been converted to biomass while the other two will be using biomass by 2016.
read more... 10/12/2013
UK: Low Carbon and Macquarie Capital to invest in 300 MW of solar energy
Macquarie Capital and Low Carbon, a renewable energy investment company, have announced recently they will team up to deliver a portfolio of 300MW of solar generation capacity in the UK.
read more... 04/12/2013
Europe: Renewables share in power generation set to increase by 40% in 2020
The renewables’ contribution in Europe’s generation capacity is expected to increase to at least 40% by 2020, overtaking the capacity supplied by coal, natural gas and oil, declared the region’s grid operators group Entsoe.
read more... 29/11/2013
German coalition to reform the renewable energy law in 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) concluded a coalition deal envisaging curbing the growth of renewables and reforming the current controversial renewable support scheme in order to limit the increase of electricity bills to consumers by next summer, giving big utilities more time to adapt their business models.
read more... 29/11/2013
IEA: China to register the biggest increase in terms of renewable energy generation by 2035
According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, China is expected to see the largest absolute increase in output from clean energy, building more renewable power plants through 2035 than the U.S., EU and Japan combined.
read more... 28/11/2013