The U.K. will more than likely miss a goal set by the European Union to obtain 15 percent of its energy supply from renewable sources by 2020, research groups have announced this week. “Failure to meet the much-discussed 2010 target, in spite of very high levels of consumer subsidy, is a clear indication that the [...]

Britain’s most influential environmental experts are urging the Government not to crush what they are calling the “solar revolution”. Environmental groups are claiming that the UK has the lowest solar ambitions amongst their major EU counterparts, and the government have been blamed for not fully supporting plans by green energy companies for large scale solar [...]

TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) emphases the fact that interdisciplinary R&D and innovation studies in the energy field will enable Turkey to better realize its renewable energy potential as well as the production and other common facilities to use energy more efficiently. Moreover, it will contribute an added value to Turkey’s ambitions [...]

The FAZ reported that the future of the wind industry has been developed in the past five years at a research institute in Denmark. The EU-funded project named UpWind gathered forty companies from eleven European countries to join efforts to bring forward the concept for a mega turbine. UpWind shows that the wind industry has [...]

The German ministries for economic affairs and the environment have agreed on “six points for a faster energy change in Germany”. Renewable energies should grow and extend at a faster pace. This six-point program includes a catalogue of suggestions to enable the increase of the proportion of renewable energies, the expansion of the electricity network, [...]

GE are striving to grow throughout Europe but seem to have taken a keen eye to Germany, where they will base their European operations. It was recently announced that they are going to launch large-scale activities in the nation soon, which is of course home to its direct competitor, Siemens. “The center of gravity in [...]

Hermann Albers, president of the Wind Energy Association (BWE) called for more wind energy facilities in southern Germany to meet the nations demand for electricity. “Wind power in this country can easily replace nuclear energy” – He announced confidently. Ultimately, wind energy could easily cover up to 65 percent of the electricity demand in Germany, [...]

Spain, with the largest number of scheduled events, is starring at the European Union’s Sustainable Energy Week, which began on Monday, 12 April, in Brussels and which continues until 15 April with the participation of more than 30,000 people from 43 countries. According to the European Commission, this initiative aims to encourage a debate on [...]

Vice President and Minister for Employment, Industry and Commerce of the Government of the Canary Islands, María del Mar Julius, signed on Tuesday, on behalf of all the islands, the European Islands Pact with the goal of advancing renewable energy. Julius said in a statement that “the most important thing of all” is that the [...]

The shutdown of nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster has put renewable energy producers under pressure. Speaking about the catastrophe in Japan, Federal Chancellor Merkel said that the early shutdown of nuclear power plants might be a heavy loss for E.ON, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall, but that the country as a whole would also benefit [...]