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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. [...]
Posted in Energy, Europe, Policy on 2008-07-04 | No Comments »
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
Posted in Policy, Wind Energy on 2008-07-04 | No Comments »
The wind sector has been growing spectacularly over the past decade. However, to sustain these impressive growth figures over the next twenty years in Europe and North America, business-as-usual will not be enough.
New Growth Factors for Wind Industry
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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
Posted in CO2-Emission, Climate, Policy on 2008-07-04 | No Comments »
In the wake of next week’s G8 meeting in Japan, India released its first action plan for climate change (PDF) earlier this week.
India Reveals It’s First Climate Change Plan
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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
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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EU environment ministers will 3 July be urged to accelerate the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration plants during a two-day informal Council meeting of EU energy and environment ministers, the first of its kind under the French EU Presidency.
EU states under pressure to advance CO2 storage
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G8 leaders will agree to take their own initiatives to reduce or abolish import tariffs on industrial goods that aid efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and thus help fight global warming, Japan’s Asahi newspaper said on Friday.
G8 to agree tariff steps to drive CO2 cuts: report
