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Spain sets out new electricity bill structure to protect consumers
Spain’s Industry Ministry will use a new method to determine consumer power bills, giving up the old auction system, which last year, had a major impact on household electricity bills while a spike in the scheme led to huge cost increases.
read more... 13/02/2014
Global CO2 market: decline by 38% in 2013
The value of global carbon markets reduced by 38% arriving at 38.4 billion euros in 2013, because of a drop in prices in the major EU and U.N. schemes and the restricted trade in new programmes, according to the analysts at Thomson Reuters Point Carbon.
read more... 03/01/2014
German coalition to reform the renewable energy law in 2014
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) concluded a coalition deal envisaging curbing the growth of renewables and reforming the current controversial renewable support scheme in order to limit the increase of electricity bills to consumers by next summer, giving big utilities more time to adapt their business models.
read more... 29/11/2013
Go ahead for the North Blyth biomass power plant
The RES has received the permission from the Government to build a 100 MW biomass power plant in Northumberland. It is RES's first biomass plant, with the company having developed a number of onshore and offshore wind projects and solar energy schemes.
read more... 25/07/2013
Italian government signs a MoU with CDP aiming to improve the environmental performance and stimulate economic growth
The Italian government will invite 100 of the nation’s major companies to monitor and report their emissions of carbon dioxide in a move which aims to help the nation to cut emissions from sectors excluded by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
read more... 17/06/2013