Now that the political commitments by EU leaders to achieve a 20% share of renewable energy use by 2020 have been translated into binding targets for individual member states, a debate is heating up in Brussels about how, and if, the targets can actually be met.
The right framework conditions
Advocates of renewable energy tend to agree [...]
Archive for February 20th, 2008
20% renewables by 2020: is it possible?
Posted in Economics, Energy, Europe on 2008-02-20 | No Comments »
Alternative energy: China taking the wind out of India’s sails
Posted in Economics, Energy, Wind Energy on 2008-02-20 | No Comments »
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Ireland to Support Offshore Wind Power
Posted in Economics, Electricity, Europe, Wind Energy on 2008-02-20 | 1 Comment »
Irish Energy Minister Eamon Ryan has announced a modification to the country’s renewable energy feed-in tariff scheme (Refit) to support the development of offshore wind power. The Refit scheme provides a guaranteed price for electricity produced by new plants for 15 years. Under the latest change, offshore wind-power projects are to be supported at a [...]
Vestas Recieves 90-MW Order
Posted in Economics, Wind Energy on 2008-02-20 | No Comments »
Vestas has received an order for 33 units of the V90-3.0 megawatt (MW) wind turbine for installation in Canada. The order has been received from SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. for Ventus Energy.
The deal includes both supply and commissioning of the wind turbines as well as a three-year service and maintenance agreement. Vestas will start [...]
New Hydro Plant Planned in Italy
Posted in Europe, Hydro Energy on 2008-02-20 | No Comments »
Andritz VA Tech Hydro has announced that it will supply its StrafloMatrix mini-hydroplant technology to a development for Italian Consorzio Canale Industriale Giulio Camuzzoni.
The 1.23 megawatt (MW) plant will be installed by Andritz in a former ship-lock on the Chievo Dam on the Adige River north of Verona, Italy. Start-up is scheduled to take [...]
Lessons from an Emerging Wind Power
Posted in Electricity, Europe, Wind Energy on 2008-02-20 | No Comments »
The people of Denmark have a story to tell in their own Nordic unassuming way. You hear it from quietly proud Per Volund, an engineer, as he takes a group of Americans out on a small boat to tour the Middlegrunden wind farm in Copenhagen harbor. Volund, the vice chairman of the cooperative that runs [...]
