The Greek Cypriot government promised that extraction and drilling of natural gas offshore Cyprus will continue, even though Turkey has threatened to block these operations since it thinks the energy assets partly belong to Turkish Cypriots.
read more... 25/02/2014
EnviTec Biogas AG, headquartered in Germany, has implemented and put into operation 2 biogas plants with 999 kW each in December last year.
read more... 25/02/2014
Centrica’s profits fell 2% in 2013, whereas profits at its residential supply division British Gas reduced by 6%, mainly because of intense political and media scrutiny on the energy sector in the UK, as stated by the company’s chief executive, Sam Laidlaw.
read more... 24/02/2014
China is dealing with a big air quality problem, so recently the Government has announced that they will reduce their coal consumption share from its current 67 percent to 65 percent by 2017. The country intends to convert coal in syntethic gas, but this will result in more carbon dioxide emissions released because converting coal to make synthetic gas and then combusting the gas to make electricity will double the amount of carbon dioxide emissions released in the atmosphere.
read more... 21/02/2014
French energy regulator CRE launched this week a public consultation with industrial players envisaging temporary measures and solutions aiming to curb the wholesale gas price gap between the north and the south of France, before the establishment of a unified market in 2018.
read more... 20/02/2014