Saudi Arabia intends to build the world's largest CO2 purification and liquefaction plant that would compress and purify about 1,500 tons per day of raw CO2. According to Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) the plant will be based in the Jubail Industrial City while an estimated 500,000 tons of CO2 emissions will be saved each year.
read more... 23/08/2013
Germany’s largest rooftop solar power plant was officially inaugurated in Philippsburg. The project realized by PV julist and juwi is located on the roof of Goodyear Dunlop’s European logistics center and produces annually about 7.3 million kWh of clean energy, which is enough to meet the annual energy requirements of about 1,800 households, while avoiding the emission in the atmosphere of up to 5,171 tons of CO2.
read more... 22/08/2013
Japan's nuclear watchdog has said today it is really worried after more than 300 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from a steel tank around the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi plant.
read more... 21/08/2013
The Norwegian energy company Statkraft has decided to close two gas-fired power plants with a total capacity of 1,200 MW in Germany, just six years after they were commissioned, citing unprofitability reasons.
read more... 19/08/2013
Since the Fukushima catastrophe in April 2011, nearly all of the country’s nuclear plants closed, leaving a significant capacity gap which has had to be filled with more coal, oil and gas which provoked substantial costs in both economic and environmental terms, as the price of power increased due to a sharp turn toward the use of fossil fuels.
read more... 16/08/2013