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Fukushima to become 100% renewable powered by 2040
Fukushima’s prefecture, three years after the major earthquake which resulted in a nuclear disaster, has announced that they wish to be totally renewable powered by 2040. The idea is seen as a positive step to embrace renewable energy in Japan, where the national government remains pro-nuclear, despite a survey found that that 53 percent of Japanese people wanted to see nuclear power phased out gradually, while other 23% wanted it immediately done with.
read more... 06/02/2014
Germany’s “Energiewende” is not as successful as thought
Currently, Germany is in the process of completely transforming its energy sector at a pace unmatched by other industrialized nations. It describes the country's politically supervised shift in direction from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. The very term "Energiewende" is some 30 years old, but nowadays, the term is primarily associated with a fundamental policy shift in the country after the 2011 nuclear plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan. In the wake of Fukushima, Berlin oversaw the immediate closure of eight nuclear plants in Germany, with the rest of the stations to be shut down by 2022.
read more... 02/01/2014
China, India, Japan and South Korea have reduced Iranian oil imports
Asia's main purchasers of Iranian crude oil have reduced imports by about 15 per cent in 2013, but imports may augment in coming months, on the rise of turmoil in Africa which menaces to tighten global oil supplies. Tough U.S. and EU sanctions have slashed exports from the OPEC member by more than half to about 1 million barrels per day (bpd).
read more... 27/12/2013
IEA: China to register the biggest increase in terms of renewable energy generation by 2035
According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, China is expected to see the largest absolute increase in output from clean energy, building more renewable power plants through 2035 than the U.S., EU and Japan combined.
read more... 28/11/2013
First Solar to bolster Japanese solar industry
First Solar, the American manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, or solar panels is envisaging investing about $100 million in Japan to develop solar power plants.
read more... 19/11/2013