European lawmakers will consider forcing EU power stations to trap all emissions of CO2 by 2025 when they meet on Monday to discuss new laws on carbon capture and storage (CCS).
PREVIEW-EU lawmakers to mull mandatory CO2 capture by 2025
Archive for May 6th, 2008
PREVIEW-EU lawmakers to mull mandatory CO2 capture by 2025
Posted in CO2-Emission, Climate, Energy, Europe, Policy on 2008-05-06 | No Comments »
Interview: Energy giants set to win delay on ‘unbundling’
Posted in Energy, Europe, Policy on 2008-05-06 | No Comments »
A compromise deal is taking shape in Brussels that could see France and Germany win a six-year delay in opening their energy markets to full competition, according to Alejo Vidal-Quadras, one of the leading MEPs on the dossier.
Interview: Energy giants set to win delay on ‘unbundling’
Energy Efficiency
Posted in Efficiency, Energy on 2008-05-06 | No Comments »
A Series of Application Notes for Energy Professionals
Leonardo ENERGY has launched a hands-on Energy Efficiency information centre for designers, building and facility managers and a wide technical audience who wish to improve the energy performance of their processes and installations.
A unique reference source providing not only background theory, but also practical guidance, these Notes [...]
Investment in Renewable Energy Reaches $100 Billion
Posted in Economics, Energy on 2008-05-06 | No Comments »
High oil prices and an array of government incentives are leading to soaring rates of investment in renewable energy, according to the United Nations’ annual “Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment” report.
The UN report calculates global investment capital flows into renewable energy companies reached $100 billion for the first time in history last year. More [...]
Iberdrola To Build 2.3-MW PV Plant
Posted in Economics, Europe, Solar Energy on 2008-05-06 | No Comments »
Iberdrola Ingenieria has won a contract to build a 2.3-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) energy plant in Ecija, in the Spanish province of Seville. The facility, located on a 10-hectare [24.7-acre] site, could begin production this summer.
Last year Iberdrola Ingenieria won contracts from non-Iberdrola clients worth a total of some EUR 223.5 million [US $344.45 [...]
Biomass Heat and Electricity Plants on the Rise in Europe
Posted in Biofuels, Europe, Policy on 2008-05-06 | No Comments »
The head of the International Energy Association, Nobuo Tanaka, visited Europe’s largest biomass plant that uses only wood as fuel in February, hailing the 66 megawatt (MW) biomass plant in Austria, as a “model project” for the up-and-coming forest-based bioenergy industry.
The biomass plant in Simmering, Vienna, provides sufficient electricity to meet the needs of 48,000 [...]
