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Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Estate makes some important steps towards supporting renewable energy in UK
The Crown Estate, which handles one of the largest property and marine portfolios in the UK, has recently released the conclusion of a report that it had undertaken into the potential capacity of marine energy that is obtainable in the UK. The findings estimate that as much as 118GW could be exploited from tidal power.
read more... 18/10/2012
Germany will increase its renewables levy
Germany’s Federal Network Agency Bundesnetzagentur has announced that renewable power subsidies tax for German consumers will increase by 47%, from 3.59 cents per KWh to 5.28 cents per KWh, by 2013.The Government added that it will extend caps on subsidies for solar energy to more technologies including wind and biomass.
read more... 17/10/2012
Dong Energy to switch 3 plants from coal to biomass
Dong Energy, Denmark’s biggest utility, is likely to cut coal use and then carbon emissions by switching three of its major plants to biomass, which have a total capacity of about 1,968MW, announced the company.
read more... 16/10/2012
Significant Irish wind project will supply with power the UK
The UK government is taking into consideration strategies to import wind power from Ireland to the National Grid via cables under the Irish Sea to north and west Wales. The cables would re-emerge at two sites in Wales with one of them at Pentir near Caernarfon, and the other one at Pembroke.
read more... 16/10/2012
SunEdison to build Europe’s largest solar power plant in Italy
SunEdison, a global provider of solar-energy services, a division of MEMC Electronic Materials,Inc. WFR will develop and construct a 72 MW photovoltaic solar power plant in northeastern Italy, near Rovigo.
read more... 15/10/2012