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What is the future of coal?
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, coal production is predicted to increase by 2.5% in 2014 or 1,033 million short tons more, while coal consumption is expected to continue to grow rapidly in emerging markets, with China alone commissioning about 600 GW of new coal-fired generating units by 2030.
read more... 23/12/2013
UK makes public its final Electricity Market Reform plan
The Government has published its package of measures which are aimed at spurring £110 billion (EUR 131 billion) of investment in the energy market and would support 250,000 jobs by 2020. The Electricity Market Reform (EMR) Delivery Plan sets out DECC’s final decision on strike prices for Contracts for Difference (CfDs) for renewable technologies.
read more... 23/12/2013
UK’s biggest biomass plant has opened
Britain’s largest coal-fired power station has begun its conversion to become Britain’s largest renewable electricity producer as well as one of Europe’s largest renewable electricity generators. The project will see the coal station turn to wood pellets for fuel rather than coal, a move which aims to slash carbon emissions by more than 80%. One of the generating units has been converted to biomass while the other two will be using biomass by 2016.
read more... 10/12/2013
Russia and EU ready to discuss on ending antitrust probe
Last year, the European Commission formally opened an antitrust probe on concerns that Gazprom might be obstructing competition in Central and Eastern European gas markets and might have manipulated gas flows to its advantage, prevented diversification of supply, and by linking gas prices to oil prices.
read more... 09/12/2013
UK to stop funding coal- fired power plants overseas
Ed Davey, Britain's energy secretary, has announced on Wednesday that the UK, as the US, would stop funding coal projects in developing countries. The objective is to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to encourage low-carbon development. The announcement was made at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw where the fossil fuels have been at the centre of a storm. About 90% of the Poland's electricity comes from coal, and the government has been resistant to EU calls to strengthen emissions reduction targets.
read more... 21/11/2013