Germany will fail to achieve its energy savings goals set by the European Union, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported today, citing an internal European Commission document. Efforts of EU Member States are so far only sufficient to increase energy efficiency by 10 percent at the most by 2020. While EU members agreed in 2007 to increase [...]

In a contributing article on the German government’s energy policy in the “Handelsblatt”, Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Rainer Brüderle, said energy policy had to be well-founded in terms of regulation, it had to be market-oriented and open to new technology. Mr Brüderle added that the further development of power grids and storage facilities had [...]

Farewell to the “green super-ministry ” of Jean-Louis Borloo and his place as No. 2 in the government: following the reshuffle of the French government, energy and therefore all renewable energies have been removed from the Department of Ecology. They returned within the Ministry of Finance, entrusted to a Minister, Eric Besson, who is now [...]

It is expected that the demand for new natural gas power plants will increase as we search to find answers to our energy needs. With Germany soon to be connected with two major new pipelines to the biggest gas reservoirs in the world, there is serious scope for development. Also, gas power plants provide a [...]

Sweden has for the first time produced three TWH of wind power energy over the last twelve months. This figure is equivalent to the power needs of 1.2 million Swedish households. Overall, the wind power production grew by 31%. Sweden is one of the countries with the best conditions in the world for wind power. Swedish [...]

34 bills regarding wind power were submitted during the last parliament session in Sweden. These bills concerned, among others, offshore wind power plants and rules concerning sustainable electricity production. “It is positive and important that so many MPs are interested in wind power” said the president of Swedish Windenergi. For more information (in Swedish), please [...]

Last week, the Moroccan Minister for energy, water and mines announced this increase in electrical power after conventions on solar energy projects were signed. This project is part of King Mohamed  VI’s vision of integrating the country in a sustainable development dynamic, which will see a diversified and balanced energetic venture to be applied. This [...]

This report presented by the French Minister of Ecology shows that three quarters of the commitments have been fulfilled or are currently in action, but the long term financing is not secure. Regarding transports, the results are mixed. The scrappage incentives have resulted in a lower level of CO2 emissions, but for the first time [...]

A report made by a French housing company shows that the installation of personal meters for water and electricity instead of a collective ones results in a fall of 15 to 20 % of the energy consumption, as the personalisation creates a sense of responsibility. France is relatively badly equipped in terms of individual meters; [...]

MPs are continuing to put pressure on David Cameron to extend British Summer Time (BST) on a trial basis in a bid to determine the true energy saving potential of the scheme. The Daylight Saving Bill, which is due to be voted on by Parliament in December, has received the backing from MPs from a [...]