The President of the Spanish Association of Developers and Producers of Renewable Energies (Renewables Aprea), Mariano Barroso, praised the House of Representatives for deciding on 20.8 percent of renewables by 2020 “the fact that they have decided on a higher rate is much better” he also made clear the need for “the elimination of uncertainty [...]

The Spanish Minister of Industry, Energy and Environment of Extremadura, José Luis Navarro, stressed the “great potential” to generate employment by producing electricity from forest waste, agricultural or livestock, and that the biomass sector could create “thousands” of jobs over the next few years in Extremadura. It is “by far” the largest renewable labor needed [...]

This project was supposed to be a key element of the national development of renewable energy. Following this announcement, a call for tenders was launched mid-2009. The results were initially expected in the summer. But they were never released. The tender was for the construction by 2011 of a combined capacity exceeding 300 MW. In [...]

Three years after the opening of the energy markets to competition, 61% of households have the feeling of being well informed about their rights as energy consumers. However, 35% of households think that EDF and Gaz de France still form a single company and only 39% of households know they can choose their energy supplier. [...]

The European Commission has decided to ‘declare war’ to airborne particles, PM10, which pollute the air, bringing Italy in the dock to the EU Court of Justice, as the limits have been exceeded in many areas of the country. Caused by industrial emissions from traffic and domestic heating, the PM10 can cause asthma, cardiovascular problems [...]

Youcef Yousfi, the Energy Minister, announced various measures that are soon to be applied to the energy sector in Algeria. He explained that there were no worries concerning the country’s gas supply and that the oil sector’s priority in terms of investments went to refineries. 8 petrochemical structures are planned for that sector, in the [...]

Last weekend, Rabat, Casablanca, Kenitra, Meknès, Essaouira, Ouarzazate, Khouribga, Settat, Temara and Benslimane signed the “Global Pact of cities on climate”. One of the Pact’s main points is the reduction of CO2 emissions of at least 20% by 2020. This is a real challenge fir those cities but they are determined to send a signal [...]

President of the Executive Board of Turkish Industrialists’ and Businessmen’s Association (TUSIAD) Umit Boyner said Wednesday that the reforms in (Turkish) energy sector could be possible by taking into consideration the views of the private sector which is expected to make an investment of 100 billion USD in the sector. Delivering opening remarks at a [...]

According to a report published by the German Energy Agency (dena) on Thursday 23 November 2010, Germany is lacking thousands of kilometers of power lines. The investments needed to upgrade the grid by 2025 are now estimated to be around 10 billion Euros. Read more (in German): http://bit.ly/hTk3LG or http://bit.ly/e8OvmC

RAG and RWE intend to co-develop an integrated wind and pumped storage hydro energy project at RAG’s coal slagheap site in North Rhine Westphalia, the two German energy companies said in a statement on Tuesday. The pilot project proposed at RAG’s waste dump site near Hamm should be completed by 2014. The pumped-storage power plant [...]