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Masdar launches new 100 MW solar power plant
The largest concentrated solar power plant (CSP) in operation in the world was inaugurated last week at Abu Dhabi, by the UAE president, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. Abu Dhabi, which is one of the world's largest power consumers per capita, hopes that renewable energy will eventually help it meet 7% of its consumption by 2020 even as its economy develops.
read more... 18/03/2013
EU to get its first oil and gas law
The EU proposed on Thursday its first law to regulate safety in offshore oil and gas drilling which aims to ensure that world's highest safety, health and environmental standards are implemented across the EU, in order to prevent any repeat of BP's catastrophic Gulf of Mexico spill.
read more... 25/02/2013
EU: The 20% target of reducing emissions would be insufficient to prevent global warming
The EU is presently committed to reduce emissions 20% by 2020, but the European Commission President Jose Manual Barroso, declared this would be not enough to prevent dangerous levels of global warming. Barroso added that green growth is a path out of the five-year-old Eurozone crisis, saying that 4.8 million new jobs could be created if the EU meets its 2020 energy efficiency targets. Meanwhile, the EU has started talking about setting climate and energy targets for 2030.
read more... 13/02/2013
EWEA: Eastern Europe could power 9 million homes by the end of this decade
The European Wind Energy Association has launched a new report at Europe’s premier wind energy event held in Vienna- EWEA 2013 which studies the emerging wind power markets in Central and Eastern European countries, and other countries like Turkey, Ukraine and Russia.
read more... 06/02/2013
Daily: Oil hits 4 week high above $112
Brent crude oil beat a four-week new record, higher than $112 per barrel on Wednesday, after the US Congress approved a deal to prevent a fiscal crisis, while promising data from top energy consumer China also supported prices.
read more... 03/01/2013