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Gazprom and Plinacro to build pipeline in Croatia
Gazprom, Russia’s natural-gas export monopoly has signed a deal with Plinacro to build a natural gas pipeline in Croatia.
read more... 21/01/2013
Poland: Shale gas taxation could be slightly lower
The Polish government’s proposed tax on shale-gas exploration could be lower than the 40% of the gross profit on extraction of gas and oil, according to the declarations of Environment Minister Marcin Korolec made on Friday.
read more... 21/01/2013
US: renewable energy accounts half of all new electricity in 2012
According to the latest report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, half of all new energy generation capacity installed in the US last year was from renewable sources. Renewable energy accounted about 49.10% of all new domestic electrical generating installed in 2012, totaling almost 12,956 MW, with 25% of that new capacity that was installed in December.
read more... 21/01/2013
Shell to sign 10 billion dollars deal with Ukraine
On Wednesday, Royal Dutch Shell and Ukraine approved the plans for Shell to develop the country’s huge shale reserves under a production sharing contract.
read more... 18/01/2013
Belgium to build an artificial island to store wind power
Belgium plans to build an artificial island in the North Sea aimed to store wind energy, trying thus to lessen its reliance on nuclear power, as it intends to completely exit from nuclear power in the next future. The construction of the island in the North Sea will have a donut form and will be made out of sand, in a move that will be able to store some of the excess power generated by extensive offshore wind farms in the area.
read more... 18/01/2013