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Daily: European spot power drops ahead of All Saints Day holiday
Brent crude futures declined more than $1 on Thursday, reversing the anterior gains, as traders booked profits. Traders sold Brent after the spread between the international benchmark and the U.S. oil benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) widened to the largest level in six months at $13.60 per barrel.
read more... 01/11/2013
Sweden prefers renewables to nuclear
Recently Sweden's energy minister, Anna-Karin Hatt, has announced that the government will not subsidize new nuclear power plants, favoring renewable investments. Electricity production in Sweden is dominated by nuclear power and renewables, which currently make about equal contributions to energy production- about 40%.
read more... 28/10/2013
Poland: coal demand could be reduced by 50% by 2030
Poland is one of the fastest-growing economies in the European Union and the power that drives it comes from the dirtiest of fossil fuels- coal. But, according to a new study made by researchers in Germany and Poland, renewable energy groups and environmental group Greenpeace, Poland could reduce by almost 50% its demand for coal by 2030 shifting to wind, solar, hydro, biomass and geothermal energies.
read more... 28/10/2013
Daily: European spot power drops on huge wind power output
Brent crude oil dropped below $107 a barrel on Friday on fears about higher supply and shaky demand, even if China posted its faster economic growth.
read more... 28/10/2013
Germany to build its longest power line to transport surplus wind
Network operators TenneT and TransnetBW have joined forces to build Germany's greatest power line to transport surplus of wind power from northern regions into the south, an important step in the country's attempt to shift away from nuclear. The objective is to build power lines to take renewable energy from where it is abundant and carry it to where it is needed.
read more... 25/10/2013