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A new electricity grid research centre has opened in Scotland
Europe’s first electricity grid research centre was opened in Scotland. The centre will study how advanced technologies can outline the low-carbon power industry of the future, while researchers, engineers and industry specialists will carry out research and develop new technologies in the sector, ranging from advanced grid control schemes to intelligent sensor systems.
read more... 16/05/2013
Main aspects of British proposed power market reform
Britain proposed legislation for a major overhaul of its electricity market that will encourage investment in low-carbon types of energy to help meet legally binding emissions-reduction targets. The government faces the challenge of keeping bills affordable for consumers while ensuring intermittent renewable energy is backed up by stand-by power plants and safeguarding tax revenues from oil and gas exploration.
read more... 12/12/2012
EU and China sign a deal on greenhouse gases
The European Commission (EC) announced that the EU development commissioner Andris Piebalgs and Chinese commerce minister Chen Deming have signed a financing agreement promoting the environment transition towards a low-carbon economy and a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in China at an EU-China summit in Brussels.
read more... 21/09/2012
UK could be powered by Icelandic volcanoes
The volcanoes of Iceland could soon provide low-carbon electricity to the UK, if the new plan to tap the power of Iceland's geothermal energy succeeds.
read more... 13/04/2012
National Grid and Petrofac to build a £1bn carbon capture and storage plant in UK
The British energy network National Grid and oil Services Company Petrofac have entered in an agreement with Summit Power Group, a Seattle-based developer of low-carbon electric power projects to seek funding for the development of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the United Kingdom.
read more... 21/03/2012