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China to limit energy consumption at 8% by 2015
The Chinese government has announced, on Wednesday, that China will aim to limit total annual primary energy consumption to 8% a year from 2010 to 2015, as it seeks to improve efficiency and to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases and pollution. It intends also to limit installations of new-coal fired power plants while improving the share of renewables.
read more... 24/01/2013
Daily: UK prompt gas prices climb backed by temperatures under freezing point
U.S. crude climbed more than 1 percent on Thursday being supported by reports indicating a decline in initial unemployed claims last week and an increase in housing which began in December and following worries about an attack by Islamist militants on an Algerian gas plant.
read more... 18/01/2013
RWE launches carbon capture plant at UK coal plant
German utility RWE has launched a carbon capture pilot project at the 1,560MW Aberthaw coal and biomass-fired power plant in Wales.
read more... 18/01/2013
France unveils a new package of emergency measures for solar power industry
France's Minister of Sustainable Development has recently unveiled a new package of 'emergency' measures for the country's solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, including doubling France's feed-in tariff goal for PV plants smaller than 100 kW to 400 MW annually. In order to achieve this goal, the tariff structure has been simplified by removing building types such as schools or public buildings.
read more... 10/01/2013
China to build a new nuclear power plant
China has started the construction of a new power reactor in December, after lifting a construction moratorium imposed following Japan’s Fukushima disaster. The 200MW capacity reactor, which is being built at Shidao Bay in Shandong Province and will have a total cost of about 3 billion yuan (475 million dollars), will start generating power by the end of 2017.
read more... 09/01/2013