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United Kingdom
Public-private partnership looking to develop floating Wind turbine platform
Tuesday, 01 November 2011 Toby Price The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) , a public private partnership between six global industrial companies (BP, Caterpillar, EDF, E.ON, Rolls-Royce and Shell) and the UK government is looking to o...
Hundreds turn out for renewable energy conference Cairo
Tuesday, 01 November 2011 REM More than 500 delegates travelled to Cairo, Egypt this week to attend the 10th World Wind Energy Conference & Renewable Energy Exhibition. The event began Monday, 31 October, and runs through Wedn...
Czech Republic
Czechs enjoy solar power thanks to Germany solar technology
Tuesday, 01 November 2011 REM The German solar photovoltaic (PV) specliaist, juwi GMbH has successfully commissioned two solar arrays in Hostovice and Trebovice, providing clean energy for 2,000 four-person households in the Czech...
IEA’s Philibert discusses scenarios for the future of the global energy
Monday, 31 October 2011 Dan McCue A former science journalist, Cédric Philibert has over the past two decades become one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change, renewable energy and the scenarios with which the planet wi...
Breaking down barriers: Universal Passports could reduce skills shortages
Monday, 31 October 2011 Tom Hopkinson Always wanting to think out of the box, in his latest blog Tom Hopkinson highlights a novel suggestion already being developed by Renewable UK amongst others for resolving the international skills sho...
United Kingdom
Sweeping changes to ROCs proposed across England, Scotland and N. Ireland
Monday, 31 October 2011 Toby Price This month, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) in London announced its proposals for the Renewable Obligation review meaning changes to the number of tradable Renewable Obligation Cert...
EWEA cites new report as proof positive sector not major user of rare earth metals
Friday, 28 October 2011 REM The European Wind Energy Agency (EWEA) is hailing a new report on the use of rare earth metals in renewable energy technologies, saying the findings should finally lay to rest the misconception that t...
Greece
Athens urged to look at energy as way out of crisis
Friday, 28 October 2011 Toby Price Greece’s woes could be lifted through energy market reform and exporting solar power, says the International Energy Agency and the European Union’s Energy Directorate General. In separate developm...
Latest renewables news hot off the press - 28/10/2011
Friday, 28 October 2011 REM • UK government cuts heating biomass subsidy after EU pressure Reuters • Obama administration announces desert 'solar energy zones' LA Times • World Bank approves $250 mln for S.Africa's Eskom...
Wind and hydro players boost ocean energy prospects
Friday, 28 October 2011 REM The global ocean energy sector is at a turning point, with over 45 wave and tidal prototypes expected to be ocean tested in 2010 and 2011, after only a dozen were installed in 2009, according to a new...
US bio-fuel producer qualifies for ISCC recognition
A land speed world record: Relive the electrifying attempt
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