According to a study by the research and consulting company Althesys, it would be possible to save up to 17.3 billion euro in the next thirty years with innovation in water management in agriculture, the sector which is currently consuming around 50% of the national freshwater.Improvement could be achieved through the use of information technology, [...]

To mark the release of a report from CAN Europe, environmental NGOs have requested that Belgium, together with the EU, decide in favor of the move to a 30% reduction in Greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The EU had previously commited itself to a 20% reduction by 2020 but now the European Commissioner, Günther Oettinger, [...]

308 new offshore wind turbines were installed in the EU in 2010 – an increase of 51%  in wind power capacity from 2009, making it a new record for annual growth of offshore wind power in Europe. These figures were published by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) in its “European offshore wind industry – [...]

Wind energy continues to grow rapidly in Sweden. The forecast for 2011 are showing new records for growth, but the honeymoon phase with the public is over. Cheap turbines, fast delivery and a strong Swedish crown lies behind the expansion, said according to Gunnar Fredriksson, vice president of the Swedish Wind Energy.   For more [...]

Swedish National Grid has submitted its investment plan for 2012 – 2014 to the Swedish government; estimated to be 11.4 billion over the next three years. The main driving forces behind the increased rate of investment is the expansion of renewable power generation, power upgrades in nuclear plants, the need to remove bottlenecks in domestic [...]

Germany’s federal Minister of Economics, Rainer Brüderle wants to abolish support for solar power in the medium term as a part of the renewable energy law (EEG) in Germany. Nevertheless, he does not want a rapid end to the feed-in tariffs of photovoltaic systems. This week, the Environment Committee and the Bundestag are again dealing [...]

According to the German Energy and Water Association, the share of renewable energies in power production increased by 0.5 percent to about 17 percent in 2010. 41 percent of power production was produced by coal power stations, nuclear energy accounted for 23 percent, natural gas for 14 percent, and other sources for 5 percent. With [...]

Navarra is a pioneering region in renewable energy, especially in terms of wind power, and was the birthplace of EHN, which later became Acciona Energy. A third part of Navarra’s energy plan, Navarra Horizon 2020, was presented yesterday by the Regional Executive. It provides a further boost to energy actions with the intention of not [...]

The President of the Council of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, considers it “essential” to reach an agreement with social partners on energy policy in order to define the “development” of the energy sector over the next 20 years. Speaking at the inauguration of the thermal plant, La Dehesa, which took place on Tuesday, 22nd February, [...]

The location of wind farms is not always well received by local residents and, more often than not, they create opposition which leads to delays in construction. Convinced of their usefulness and profitability, the company president Gironde Valorem, Jean-Yves Grandidier, has thought about solutions for wind energy to generate wealth locally. Local authorities or semi-public [...]