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China to limit energy consumption at 8% by 2015
The Chinese government has announced, on Wednesday, that China will aim to limit total annual primary energy consumption to 8% a year from 2010 to 2015, as it seeks to improve efficiency and to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases and pollution. It intends also to limit installations of new-coal fired power plants while improving the share of renewables.
read more... 24/01/2013
EDF: French annual nuclear power production down 3.8% in 2012
French annual nuclear power production from 58 reactors owned by EDF totaled 404.9 TWh last year, a decrease of 3.8% compared to 421.1 TWh in 2011, this being the first decline since the crisis in 2009 (- 6.6%).
read more... 23/01/2013
US: renewable energy accounts half of all new electricity in 2012
According to the latest report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, half of all new energy generation capacity installed in the US last year was from renewable sources. Renewable energy accounted about 49.10% of all new domestic electrical generating installed in 2012, totaling almost 12,956 MW, with 25% of that new capacity that was installed in December.
read more... 21/01/2013
China to build a new nuclear power plant
China has started the construction of a new power reactor in December, after lifting a construction moratorium imposed following Japan’s Fukushima disaster. The 200MW capacity reactor, which is being built at Shidao Bay in Shandong Province and will have a total cost of about 3 billion yuan (475 million dollars), will start generating power by the end of 2017.
read more... 09/01/2013
Coal to dominate the 2013 markets in China and Europe
According to the World Energy Council , China detained an estimated 128 billion short tons of recoverable coal reserves in 2011, the third-largest in the world after the United States and the Russian Federation, about 13% of the world's total coal reserves. Chinese coal production increased to over 3.8 billion short tons in 2011, making China world’s biggest coal producer.
read more... 04/01/2013