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Gazprom become the fourth largest gas supplier in UK
Gazprom Energy has achieved a 10% share of the UK business gas market becoming the fourth largest gas provider to businesses.
read more... 18/03/2013
Daily: European spot power down on uncertain weather forecast
Brent crude continued to rise by more than $1 per barrel on Friday to over $110 per barrel, backed by strong U.S. jobs data and Middle East supply worries, while U.S. crude oil futures increased by 42 on Friday to settle at $93.45 a barrel.
read more... 18/03/2013
U.S. solar PV hit a new installation record in 2012
The U.S. installed 16 million of solar panels in 2012, adding 3.3 GW and representing a 76% annual growth, a tenth of the world market, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The panels installed last year will generate about the same amount of electricity over a year as a medium-sized coal plant, enough to power 400,000 U.S. homes.
read more... 18/03/2013
Masdar launches new 100 MW solar power plant
The largest concentrated solar power plant (CSP) in operation in the world was inaugurated last week at Abu Dhabi, by the UAE president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. Abu Dhabi, which is one of the world's largest power consumers per capita, hopes that renewable energy will eventually help it meet 7% of its consumption by 2020 even as its economy develops.
read more... 18/03/2013
Solarcentury to develop 70 MW of solar across the UK
Solarcentury has announced that it is installing 70MW of new solar capacity across the UK, with the greater part of the installations which are due to be completed by the end of March 2013.
read more... 15/03/2013