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EU could miss its renewables targets following the anti-dumping probe
The EU has announced that it intends to impose anti-dumping tariffs on imports of Chinese solar panels as of Thursday. The EU trade commissioner said that levies will start at nearly 12%, and could rise to nearly 48% in two months if they fail to find a solution by that time.
read more... 07/06/2013
UK still doubtful on what to do with its shale gas reserves
According to a new report by the Institute of Directors, shale gas could be the perfect solution for the UK and for all the north west region to enhance their economy.
read more... 22/05/2013
Brief history about the Italian V Conto Energia
The first Italian National Energy Program dates 1975 when, immediately after the first oil crisis, the Parliament noticed the problem of the increasing fossil fuels prices. The objective was to design a new national energy system fossil fuel free, the only solution was to build new nuclear power reactors, but a referendum where about 70% of the Italians decided to vote against nuclear, stopped the construction of all the nuclear plants all over Italy.
read more... 15/05/2013
Solar 21 acquires another Italian solar park
Solar 21 Renewable Energy Ireland Ltd, a Dublin-based investment firm has acquired another Italian solar park, bringing to seven the number of solar parks that the Irish company holds in Italy, after it has acquired another six solar projects which were owned by AEG Power Solutions, in November last year.
read more... 25/03/2013
CCS: the solution to reduce CO2 emissions
The CCS technology consists of capturing the CO2 from burning fossil fuels and storing it in deep geological formations, this way it will not boost the greenhouse gases. Technology exists to capture the emissions of factories and other industrial processes such as natural gas processing as well as power plants that burn fossil fuels or even biomass.
read more... 03/01/2013