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Vestas to supply wind turbines for new wind farm in Italy
The Danish manufacturer of wind turbines Vestas, has received an order from ERG Renew S.p.A, Italy’s largest wind energy producer, to provide 17 units of the V100-2.0 MW turbine for the 34MW Palazzo San Gervasio wind farm in Basilicata, Italy.
read more... 20/05/2013
Renewable energy in UK increased in 2012 considerably
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) released the latest figures on the UK's energy growth in 2012, showing an increase in the share of power produced from renewable energy.
read more... 17/05/2013
Energiewende: German model of clean energy transformation
Germany is now in the middle of an unprecedented clean energy revolution due to “Energiewende,” a strategy to revive the national energy system, as Germany pledges to reduce its overall energy consumption by 50 percent and hit 80 percent of renewable energy by 2050. Up to present, the country has already registered a great progress toward achieving this ambitious goal.
read more... 16/05/2013
Greece to cut FiTs retroactively
The Greek government has announced recently that it intends to cut drastically the feed-in-tariffs for photovoltaic systems (ground-mounted and roof installations) aiming to reduce a deficit in the fund it uses for renewable energy.
read more... 15/05/2013
Italy is still far away from energy independency
Italy, unfortunately, is still far away from being independent from the point of view of energy production. According to a report on renewable sources released by Svimez, Italy is still too dependent on energy from other European countries, with heavy result on costs.
read more... 14/05/2013