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Germany hits a new solar record
Last month, Germany, home to a vast 1.3million photovoltaic installations and the highest solar capacity in the world, has reached a new solar power generation record registering 5.1 TWh, with over 40% of the country’s electricity being generated by solar power on July.
read more... 23/08/2013
Renewable energy situation worldwide
Renewable energy sources of energy have been the driver of the major growth in the global clean energy sector since 2000. Current years have seen a major expansion of wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies, while other renewable like hydropower, geothermal and biomass, continued to grow from a strong established base, adding hundreds of GW of new capacity worldwide.
read more... 21/08/2013
Statkraft: Another two gas-fired power plants to be closed in Germany
The Norwegian energy company Statkraft has decided to close two gas-fired power plants with a total capacity of 1,200 MW in Germany, just six years after they were commissioned, citing unprofitability reasons.
read more... 19/08/2013
The nuclear energy problem of Japan
Since the Fukushima catastrophe in April 2011, nearly all of the country’s nuclear plants closed, leaving a significant capacity gap which has had to be filled with more coal, oil and gas which provoked substantial costs in both economic and environmental terms, as the price of power increased due to a sharp turn toward the use of fossil fuels.
read more... 16/08/2013
Wind power No. 1 in the USA in 2012
Last year, wind power became the number one source of new electricity generation capacity for the first time in the US, accounting about 43% of new electric additions with more than 13 GW added to the grid, nearly double compared to 2011.
read more... 07/08/2013