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Germany: coal-fired energy to be reduced in order to protect climate
Germany envisages to get rid of some of its coal plant capacity as part of a set of new policies to aid Europe's largest economy attain its greenhouse gas emissions targets, as stated by a state secretary at the economy ministry on Wednesday.
read more... 30/10/2014
Daily: European prompt power prices decline on considerable drop in wind power capacity
Crude oil futures dropped on Monday as plentiful supply and declining economic growth in Europe and China eclipsed expectations of a reduction in oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Brent crude for November delivery eased $1.42 to close at $96.97 a barrel, having slipped $2.01 intraday to $96.38. The WTI October crude contract slipped 89 cents to settle at $91.52 a barrel and, down for a fourth consecutive session, while U.S. November crude closed at $90.87, down 78 cents.
read more... 23/09/2014
Croatia: Japan’s Marubeni chosen for the construction of a new thermal plant
Croatia's state power board Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP) declared it had designated Japan's Marubeni as number one bidder for the construction of a coal-fired thermal power plant with a capacity of 500 megawatts, which will be located on the northern Adriatic.
read more... 03/09/2014
UK grid asks for additional capacity to fill probable winter supply gap
Britain’s power network operator National Grid has submitted by a year a plan to tap supplementary electricity capacity over the winter after a number of unpredicted plant outages.
read more... 02/09/2014
General Electric hits 1 GW of wind energy capacity in Brazil
General Electric (GE) unveiled it had installed a milestone capacity of 1GW of wind energy in Brazil.
read more... 29/08/2014