Posted in Energy, Europe, Policy on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
Consensus is growing among a wide range of stakeholders to reinforce the powers of a proposed new European agency to regulate energy markets, it emerged from a Parliament hearing. But opinions still differ sharply in Brussels about the need to break up the EU’s largest energy firms as a means of boosting competition.
Background:
On 19 September 2007, the Commission [...]
Posted in CO2-Emission, Transportation on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
Carbon emissions from merchant shipping are nearly three times as much as previously estimated, according to a draft United Nations study leaked to The Guardian on Wednesday. According to the report, annual emissions from global shipping equal about 1.12 billion tonnes of CO2, or an estimated 4.5 percent of global carbon emissions.
“This is a clear [...]
Posted in Climate, Economics, Europe, Policy on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
The European Union’s move to a low-carbon economy to fight climate change must not harm its competitiveness, the bloc’s finance ministers said on Tuesday.
The executive European Commission last month proposed an ambitious package of measures to help the 27-nation bloc cut greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, partly by [...]
Posted in CO2-Emission, Research, Transportation on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
Annual carbon dioxide emissions from world shipping reached 1.12 billion tonnes in 2007, about 3.5 percent of total global carbon emissions, a scientific report by the world’s top maritime body shows.
The report also showed that growing international seaborne trade and related fuel consumption will raise carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from ships by 30 percent to [...]
Posted in Energy, Policy on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
Every London neighbourhood will have a municipal waste incinerator, a couple of sawdust-burning furnaces or a gigantic sewage reservoir bubbling methane and other flammable gases. Roads and parks will be dug up to lay an entirely new system of hot water distribution to homes and offices that, in turn, will be re-plumbed. Thousands of combined [...]
Posted in Economics, Solar Energy on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
Renewable Energy Corp., the largest maker of polysilicon used in solar panels, rose the most in three weeks in Oslo trading after saying lower output of the material will have little impact on its other businesses. Renewable Energy climbed 13 percent, reversing a 10 percent slump on Feb. 6 when the company cut its 2008 [...]
Posted in Economics, Solar Energy on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
Clear Skies Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clear Skies Solar, Inc. and a leading provider of turnkey solar energy installations, announced it has been selected to present at CleanEquity Monaco 2008, which will be held February 20th and 21st in the Principality of Monaco.
The conference is the first major international event of its kind focusing [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Policy on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
In November, the United States may take its strongest lurch to the left since 1933. The Republicans easily could lose 10 seats in the Senate. The relative turnout numbers in the Democratic and Republican primaries are consistent with a landslide victory for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
Assume that this scenario plays out, and that [...]
Posted in Economics, Wind Energy on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
China’s wind industry said it saw 95 percent growth in 2007.
The China Electricity Council said the wind industry made remarkable progress in wind power development in 2007 and expects further regulatory boosts in the coming years, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.
CEC said the wind power sector generated electricity of 5.6 billion kilowatt hours last year, [...]
Posted in Environment, Research, Solar Energy on 2008-02-14 | No Comments »
New photovoltaic technologies, such as the recent introduction of thin-film cadmium–telluride (CdTe) materials, have nearly doubled the efficiency of solar cells within the past few years. But the methods of making the materials used for photovoltaic cells, whether from silicon, metal, or other material, have raised doubts about the environmental friendliness of these passive energy [...]
