Santander, 25 ago (EFE) .- Spain’s ambassador to the OECD, Cristina Narbona, today said that the EU will be a leader if it heads the technological change to promote renewable energy, particularly in developing countries, the most affected by natural disasters.In a lecture which was part of the conference: « Lisbon’s Europe » at the [...]

The average emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) increased by 26.4 percent in July from the previous month, according to the ‘Observatory of Electricity’ of the WWF, which states that it is « the worst rating of 2010 », with 206 kilograms of CO2 generated per MWh.According to the organisation, the increase is largely due to [...]

The Turkish energy minister said on Friday that Turkey had already deserved to enter the European Union (EU) with its energy sector.  Speaking at a meeting on International Energy Agency’s (IEA) energy review on Turkey in capital Ankara, Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız said that Turkey had developed numerous projects aiming at [...]

The French government is about to launch a national invitation to tender for the building of 600 offshore wind turbines around the French coast. Contracts will reach a total amount of €10 billion (US$ 12.6 billion).  The aim is to create production capacity of 3,000 megawatts of electricity generated from 10 different sites. Northern Brittany, [...]

Gazprom, the Russian energy giant, has warned its German customers that the current price for natural gas will double soon. By 2012, said Alexander Medwedjew, Vice President of Gazprom, to Financial Times Deutschland, prices for natural gas will have reached pre-crisis levels. Gazprom supplies more than one third of Germany’s natural gas consumption. Read more [...]

More taxes, more jobs and higher revenues from leased land. According to a study conducted by the Institute for ecological business research (IÖW) and Freiburg University’s Centre for Renewable Energies, German communities benefit significantly from renewable energies. The study estimates that in 2009, renewable energies accounted for a net product of 6.6 billion Euros at [...]

British Gas has announced a “£7bn Solar Panel Rooftop Bonanza for British Homes” and claims that as many as half of Britain’s homes could earn around £600 a year from roof top solar panels with some earning as much as £1000. Read the British Gas press release: http://bit.ly/ddDZSA

The Independent newspaper reports that Cairn Energy, an Edinburgh based energy company and the first one company to be allowed to explore Greenland for untapped oil resources, hopes to have found oil in Basin Bay. Following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and despite the unconfirmed nature of the news, Greenpeace is already [...]

New figures have revealed that worldwide, the renewable energy sector is growing, signalling a 54 per cent increase in demand in the past year alone.IMAP’s 2010 Alternative Energy Global Report shows that the number of mergers and acquisitions in the market grew, suggesting confidence from investors in the sector. This in turn could bring down [...]

Turkey is home to an ideal climate for wind and solar energy investments, with an average of more than seven hours of sunshine a day and bordering the Aegean, Black and Mediterranean seas. Turkey’s demand for electricity is increasing steadily and Turkish policymakers are eager to decrease the country’s dependence on foreign nations for the gas [...]