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Global PV capacity surpassed 100 GW in 2012
According to preliminary data collected by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), global installed PV capacity reached 100GW in 2012 for the first time, up from 71GW in 2011 and 40GW in 2010. The world’s solar capacity can now produce as much electricity in a year as 16 coal power plants or nuclear reactors of 1 GW each.
read more... 13/02/2013
Enel contributes to Greece PV growth
Enel Green Power (EGP), the renewable energy developer which is part of the Italian group Enel, has unveiled that it has installed and brought online a total of 57MW of PV capacity in Greece.
read more... 08/02/2013
Germany installed 2.4GW new wind power capacity in 2012
Last year Germany installed about 2.4 GW of new wind power capacity with the nation reaching a total capacity of 31.3GW. Germany is investing in clean energy as it intends to phase-out nuclear power. It plans also to build offshore wind farms covering an area as much as six times the size of New York City and increase the renewable-energy production to about 40 %of total power production by 2020, in comparison to about 25%of now.
read more... 31/01/2013
GDF Suez submits an offer to build a 1.32 GW coal plant in Turkey
The consortium called Ada Enerji, led by French energy group GDF Suez and consisting of International Power and Mimag Enerji, has applied to Turkish energy regulator EPDK for a license to build a coal-fired power plant with capacity of 1,320 MW at the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.
read more... 29/01/2013
UK: renewable energy market set to double by 2017
According to a new report by EDF Energy, the amount of energy generated by renewables in the UK is set to double in the next five years to 75 TWh, contributing 20% of the nation’s total generation capacity.
read more... 28/01/2013