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The energy surcharge bomb shell dropped this week after months of anticipation as the price of oil continued to spiral to reach unprecedented levels. Government this week raised the energy surcharge from 50 per cent to 95 per cent while absorbing a further twenty per cent of the initially proposed 116 per cent surcharge level. [...]
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LAST week saw the launch of the UK Government’s Renewable Energy Strategy – with the aim of 15 per cent of our electricity coming from renewables by 2020.
Scotland Must Put More of It’s Energy Into Renewables
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The United States must launch a national movement to attain energy independence over the next 10 to 15 years, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said Tuesday.
Texas Senator Pulls for Energy Change
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After more than 150 years of increasing availability of energy and an explosive growth of the world population, we are now entering an era of always decreasing availability of energy. The world population will shrink. For this new era new economic principles are needed to maintain prosperity.
Energy Crisis: Turning-point of Humanity
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Turkey’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler said Wednesday that the government expected to establish an energy sector based on innovation in Turkey.
Turkey Anticipates Radical Changes in Energy Sector
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The article raises lessons from the Danish wind experience, which is seen as valuable given that about 20% of that country’s electricity consumption of 32 000 MW is generated by wind, and growing. In fact, Denmark already has about 5 000 wind turbines in operation.
Wind, Water and Solar Energy in Focus
Posted in Efficiency, Energy, Policy on 2008-07-04 | No Comments »
Although most EU member states have put forward their action plans to improve energy efficiency for the period 2008-2016, as mandated by EU law, the plans differ widely from one another and lack coherence, according to a new study.
Energy efficiency not taken seriously enough, says study
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France will build a second new-generation European Pressurised Reactor (EPR)
France to build second EPR nuclear plant
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Top officials at the Commission and one of Central Europe’s largest oil and gas groups 2 July called for progress to be made on the Nabucco project, which aims to reduce Europe’s dependency on Russian gas supplies. But they warned that its realisation would depend on “foreign policy scenarios”.
Business and Commission in plea for Nabucco [...]
Posted in Energy, Policy on 2008-07-03 | No Comments »
The coal advantage that India and China have, would be offset by global warming concerns over the usage of the cheaper fossil fuel. According to a report by Standard & Poors, China accounts for 40% of total world coal usage and has already overtaken the US in carbon emissions as a result.
Global Warming Concerns May [...]
