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EU's plan to reduce coal consumption and CO2 emissions
Europe's energy chief will publicly announce this week his project for huge new gas pipelines, so called "electricity highways" and another project for 8,000 km of pipes for transporting and burying greenhouse gases.
read more... 16/11/2010
A new Carbon Capture and Storage plan to be projected in the Netherlands
The Netherlands is permitted to give state aid to a Franco-German project to capture greenhouse gas emissions from a power station and bury them under the North Sea, according to the European Union's regulator of competition.
read more... 29/10/2010
The EU limit on greenhouse gas emissions increased by 5.8%
The European Commission revised up the limit on greenhouse gas emissions from heavy industry it will apply in 2013, announcing on Friday, a level of 2,039,152,882 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is 5.8% higher than the provisional level of 1.927 billion set by the Commission in July.
read more... 25/10/2010
Enel expand its energy market position in U.S.
Enel Green Power, the renewable energy arm of Italy's biggest utility Enel, will sell the power from its new 200 MW U.S wind farm, in order to expand its positions on the U.S. energy market.
read more... 22/10/2010
Ecotricity is raising its investments in renewable energy
Ecotricity, the UK's largest independent green energy company, plans to raise its investments at $15.7 million, via a 4-year bond in order to accelerate its renewable energy projects.
read more... 21/10/2010