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The Czech government to end solar subsidies from 2014
The Czech Republic’s lower house of Parliament has voted on Friday to end subsidies for the renewable energy industry and to extend a tax on existing PV installations, starting from January next year, having the objective to reduce subsidies and to cut increasing power prices.
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
E.ON and RWE European power plant closures
E.ON and RWE have been stung by high prices of fuels such as gas, plummeting wholesale prices due to Europe's economic slowdown and policies supporting the expansion of renewable power, which erodes the need for conventional generation.
read more... 16/08/2013
China to lead the wind power market in 2020
Around the world wind power is emerging as a serious source of new clean energy. There is over 72 TW of energy available worldwide, just from wind. According to a report offered by GlobalData, China will remain the world's largest wind energy market for the rest of this decade.
read more... 15/08/2013
Dong Energy to slash offshore wind costs by 40% by 2020
Danish Dong Energy, the largest offshore-wind developer in the world, is planning to slash offshore wind power costs by as much as 40 percent by 2020.
read more... 13/08/2013