France’s Total, Europe’s third-largest oil company, is envisaging investing in shale gas exploration in the UK, said the company’s CEO Christophe de Margerie.
read more... 15/02/2013
EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN) has bought the wind energy portfolio for a total of 56.5MW from the independent energy producer Séchilienne-Sidec. The deal is part of Sechilienne- Sidec’s drive to focus on biomass and solar power generation. The achievement is part of EDF's goal to further develop its business while consolidating its presence in France.
read more... 14/02/2013
Enel Green Power (EGP), the renewable energy developer which is part of the Italian group Enel, has unveiled that it has installed and brought online a total of 57MW of PV capacity in Greece.
read more... 08/02/2013
Last year Germany installed about 2.4 GW of new wind power capacity with the nation reaching a total capacity of 31.3GW. Germany is investing in clean energy as it intends to phase-out nuclear power. It plans also to build offshore wind farms covering an area as much as six times the size of New York City and increase the renewable-energy production to about 40 %of total power production by 2020, in comparison to about 25%of now.
read more... 31/01/2013
According to a new report by EDF Energy, the amount of energy generated by renewables in the UK is set to double in the next five years to 75 TWh, contributing 20% of the nation’s total generation capacity.
read more... 28/01/2013