An inquiry carried out by the House of Lords into the EU power sector concluded that European Union’s energy network needs an investment of about 1 trillion euro in the next ten years to come in a move which aims to stave off an energy crisis.
read more... 07/05/2013
Poland wants to reduce its dependence on highly polluting coal and expensive Russian gas imports, so it is working hard on its program for introducing nuclear power in its energy mix. At present it is highly dependent on coal, which provides around 90% of the country’s energy.
read more... 03/05/2013
A European consortium composed from eleven top companies have established the North Sea Power to Gas Platform, to jointly develop the concept of Power-to-Gas (P2G) – the conversion of renewable electrical power into a gaseous energy carrier like hydrogen or methane.
read more... 02/05/2013
The U.K. government is seeking to restore nuclear energy as part of a program to limit its carbon emissions and has been in talks with French state-controlled EDF, the world's largest nuclear operator, to build as many as four new reactors.
read more... 19/04/2013
Last year, Germany exported more electricity that it imported, according to data provided by the Federal Statistics Office.
read more... 10/04/2013