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India to become world’s largest coal importer in 2014
India could become the world's main importer of coal for power stations by the next year as China burned the fuel in 2012 at the slowest pace since 2008 and is trying to shift to green energy alternatives, meanwhile India is burning coal at the fastest pace in the last 30 years.
read more... 01/07/2013
UK menaced by blackouts of power within 2 years
According to the energy watchdog Ofgem the risk of power blackouts in UK has doubled in the last year, as the country is facing an energy crunch which will cause an increase of the energy bills. The supply crisis is the result of Britain forcing old coal and oil plants to shut down supporting projects of new green wind farms and nuclear plants.
read more... 01/07/2013
Swiss intraday power market successfully launched on 26 June
Power grid operators in Switzerland, France, Germany and Austria had successfully launched intraday market on 26 June 2013 in a move to line up European energy wholesale markets.
read more... 28/06/2013
Germany to launch a long-distance wind power line by 2022
Amprion GmbH and 50Hertz, the leading transmission system operators in Europe are envisaging to building a 1 billion euro ($1.31 billion), long-distance power line in Germany to carry wind power from distant areas to industrial centers.
read more... 27/06/2013
Renewable energy to exceed nuclear and gas in the next year to come
The IEA has released its second annual Medium-Term Energy Market Report, according to which renewable sources will exceed natural gas as a power source and will be twice the contribution from nuclear energy globally by 2016, being second only to coal.
read more... 27/06/2013