The UK Government intends to invest 66 millions of pounds in the offshore wind industry aiming to create more jobs and to improve the economy, meanwhile maintaining the UK as a world leader in the sector.
read more... 02/08/2013
After several foreign companies, as Exxon Mobil, Canada’s Talisman Energy and US oil firm Marathon, quit the Polish market in the past few months, the finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, has announced that Poland will not tax shale gas production until 2020 and will improve regulation, in a move which aims to attract energy explorers.
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U.S. crude oil prices boosted by 3 percent on Thursday, diminishing the premium to European Brent for a second day, following a surprisingly optimistic global economic data and supply disruptions in Africa and Iraq.
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Energy firm British Gas is considering offering customers “free electricity” on Saturdays, encouraging in such a way more power use at weekends when industrial energy demand is much lower.
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Italy's biggest renewable energy company Enel Green Power (EGP), controlled by Italian utility Enel, has announced yesterday that in the first six month of 2013 its earnings increased by 21.7% to 269 million euros in comparison to 221 million euros in the same period of 2012.
read more... 01/08/2013