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Britain: 12 GW of power plant capacity to be taken offline by the end of 2023
About 12 GW of power plant capacity might be taken offline in Britain by the end of 2023, because of tougher European Union pollution laws, according to Reuters estimates published on Wednesday. Britain’s main goal is to ascertain a varied, low-carbon and efficient energy mix so as to cut emissions and offer consumers the best transaction, as stated by a spokeswoman from the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change.
read more... 13/03/2014
EC’s legal action against UK over failure to meet its air pollution target
The European Commission has initiated legal procedures against the UK, which is now facing fines of approximately 300 million pounds a year since it has failed to meet by 2010 its objectives of cutting nitrogen dioxide levels, believed to cause premature death and affect children’s lungs. About 29,000 people per year are dying prematurely because of small particles in air pollution, which can cause cancer, heart attacks and respiratory disease.
read more... 21/02/2014
UK’s coal-fired power plants to come off the grid in less than 10 years
Energy supplier RWE npower has announced it intends to avoid costly retrofits required by European Union pollution laws on seven of its power plants in UK, meaning they will close by the end of 2023 at the latest. The EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) should come into effect in 2016, imposing limits on emissions of climate-harming gases.
read more... 10/01/2014
China to double natural gas consumption by 2015
The Chinese government has announced last month a new plan which deals with the air pollution problem. China intends to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels in its energy mix to below 65% by 2017, while in 2012 it recorded 66.8%.
read more... 30/10/2013
Beijing to substitute four coal-burning heating plants
China has announced that it intends to replace four coal-burning heating plants in Beijing by the end of 2014, as it is trying to clean up pollution. The four plants and some 40 other similar projects would cost about 48 billion yuan and is likely to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions by 10,000 tonnes and could produce something like 7.2 GW of power fueled by natural gas.
read more... 07/10/2013