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Eolus and Google have signed a new contract for a new wind farm
Google has signed a new agreement to buy all electricity generated from four winds farm in southern Sweden. The project will consist of 29 turbines, having a total capacity of 59 MW, and is likely to be fully operational by 2015. Eolus and Google have announced that planning permission has been granted.
read more... 23/01/2014
Npower: British energy bills set to rocket by more than £200 by 2020
British energy bills are expected to increase over £200 by 2020, unless energy efficiency measures are embraced, driven by costs of government green policies, according to a controversial report recently released by the energy supply Npower. It reiterated that households should take more initiatives to insulate their homes, cutting in such a way the bill to £1,240.
read more... 23/01/2014
Russia started oil deliveries to China
After last week, Russia state-owned oil giant Rosneft has announced that it has received the first tranche of advance payment from China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Russia has started delivering crude oil to China, as established by the contract signed by the two countries during the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in June last year, in a move which aims to diversify China’s energy imports.
read more... 22/01/2014
UK: because of its high coal consumption, carbon emissions increased considerably
According to a report published by the Environmental Research Letters journal, based on size of population, and if global carbon dioxide emissions are allocated using per capita calculations, UK is more responsible for global warming than the USA, Canada, Russia or even China, because of its historic consumption of coal.
read more... 21/01/2014
Europe prefers American gas to Russian
A new report from National Journal, said that some countries of Eastern Europe intend to reduce dependence on Russian energy, while forming a group to lobby Washington to ease export restrictions, in a move which will allow them to acquire the fuel from the United States.
read more... 20/01/2014