Recently Sweden's energy minister, Anna-Karin Hatt, has announced that the government will not subsidize new nuclear power plants, favoring renewable investments. Electricity production in Sweden is dominated by nuclear power and renewables, which currently make about equal contributions to energy production- about 40%.
read more... 28/10/2013
German network operators have announced that the surcharge added to German electricity bills to cover the cost of renewables is set to increase 18 % to a record high of 6.24 cents per kilowatt hour. The charge has more than quintupled in the last 4 years, while increasing German household power bills, which now are the third- highest in the European Union.
read more... 17/10/2013
Last week, CEOs of 12 national wind energy associations from across Europe met in Spain to unite their efforts in a call for a compulsory 2030 renewable energy target.
read more... 15/10/2013
Last Friday, 10 CEO’s of large nuclear and fossil energy producers held a press conference in Brussels, asking European governments to stop subsidising renewable energy. Remarkably, Gerard Mestrallet CEO for GDF-Suez, was one of them. Strange, because in Belgium GDF-Suez is the largest beneficiary of renewable energy subsidies. Zero Emission Solutions, a study and consultancy agency for renewable energy, draws the attention to these CEO’s that today – at least in Belgium - nuclear and fossil energy production benefits from more governmental aid than renewable energy:
read more... 15/10/2013
According to official statistics, Scotland has recorded the largest ever drop of CO2 emissions. Scotland's renewable electricity industry generated 14,825 GWh last year, displacing 10.3 million tones of CO2, a 24% increase if compared to the 8.3Mt of CO2 displaced in 2011.
read more... 07/10/2013