After the gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia last year which has left Bulgaria without gas for three weeks in the winter period, the European Council decided that every member state should have at least two sources of gas and electricity by 2014, in order to avoid repeating the Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis.
read more... 13/09/2012
At the end of August, Martifer Solar has finished the construction of a photovoltaic installation on the rooftop of Ariston Thermo factory in Resana, Italy. The project was developed by Novapower, a Merloni Group Holding subsidiary which commissioned to Martifer Solar the turnkey building and the maintenance of the plant. The project was realized due to the financing of BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions.
read more... 11/09/2012
The wind farm will have 339 wind turbines which could provide power to over 40% or about 1 million of Scotland’s householders, generating 1.5 GW at an average cost of about 5.7 billion dollars. Construction of the wind farm is planned to start in 2015 and will be completed by 2020.
read more... 03/09/2012
According to a report made by experts from Global Data, which gives information on planned pipeline lengths by the top five countries, Russia will build more pipelines than any other country in the world in the next four years by adding 14,053 km of pipelines, accounting about 15% of the pipeline length to be constructed globally during this time, and a 63% share of the European total.
read more... 30/08/2012
The German government announced on Monday it will not continue to incentivize the construction of new fossil fuel-fired plants by contributing up to 15% of the investment costs.
read more... 22/08/2012