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Dong Energy to switch 3 plants from coal to biomass
Dong Energy, Denmark’s biggest utility, is likely to cut coal use and then carbon emissions by switching three of its major plants to biomass, which have a total capacity of about 1,968MW, announced the company.
read more... 16/10/2012
Significant Irish wind project will supply with power the UK
The UK government is taking into consideration strategies to import wind power from Ireland to the National Grid via cables under the Irish Sea to north and west Wales. The cables would re-emerge at two sites in Wales with one of them at Pentir near Caernarfon, and the other one at Pembroke.
read more... 16/10/2012
SunEdison to build Europe’s largest solar power plant in Italy
SunEdison, a global provider of solar-energy services, a division of MEMC Electronic Materials,Inc. WFR will develop and construct a 72 MW photovoltaic solar power plant in northeastern Italy, near Rovigo.
read more... 15/10/2012
Germany to reform the renewable energy subsidy system
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is planning to cap taxpayer subsidies for renewable energy once installations’ capacity passes a fixed nation threshold, a move aimed to limit costs for consumers from phasing out nuclear power.
read more... 15/10/2012
Global clean energy investment to register a significant decrease in 2012
Global clean energy investment for 2012 is likely to fall short of last year’s 280 billion dollars. According to BNEF, global investment in clean energy came to 56.6 billion dollars in the third quarter of 2012, a 20% decrease in comparison to 2011, being the first annual decline within the last 8 years.
read more... 12/10/2012