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Can Germany Really Turn Its Back on Nuclear?
Earlier this month, the German conservative government has announced a complete dismantling of nuclear power plants by 2022. Challenged the view of many experts, and brokers of energy in Germany and throughout Europe, the German government published a controversial report proposed a possible plan to close all nuclear reactors by 2017. Can Germany really has nuclear independence by the end of ...
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To clean up coal, Obama pushes more oil production
America's newest and cleanest coal-fired power plant comes with a catch: The heat-trapping carbon dioxide removed from its smokestack pollution will help force more oil out of the ground. Some environmentalists complain that it ends up releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than is stored underground as waste. It's another example of the Obama administration promoting new, cleaner ...
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Banding Review for the Renewables Obligation - Carbon Trust response
Carbon Trust response to the Banding Review for the Renewables Obligation, which sets out support levels for renewable electricity technologies for the period 2013 to 2017 James Wilde, Director of Innovation and Policy at the Carbon Trust said: "The Government's decision to reduce the support provided to onshore wind by 10% is sensible as it is based upon evidence of costs falling. Given the ...
By Carbon Trust
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Environmental Concerns Compel Use of Gas Turbines for Power Generation in Asia-Pacific, Finds Frost & Sullivan
The Asia-Pacific gas turbine market will sustain its growth momentum as concerns on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions force utilities and independent power producers to opt for environmentally friendly power generation technologies. The availability of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplied through both pipelines and shipment will increase gas turbine demand in the long term, although ...
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MEPs vote to equip power plants to store CO2 underground
The European Parliament's Environment Committee wants all larger power stations built from 2015 onwards to be equipped with the new carbon capture and storage technology (CCS), which stores CO2 emissions permanently underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, it said in a co-decision vote on Tuesday. MEPs had already proposed financing demonstration projects through the revised ...
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How to design a clean energy standard
WRI’s response to the Bingaman-Murkowski White Paper on the design of a clean energy standard in the United States. In response to President Obama’s goal of generating 80 percent of the U.S. electricity from clean energy sources by 2035, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Bingaman and Ranking Member Murkowski issued a white paper posing six basic questions and ...
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Obama`s climate plan takes aim at coal plants
America is slowly moving toward cleaner sources of energy and using less of it overall. President Barack Obama's plan to fight climate change will accelerate those trends. The plan aims to reduce power-plant emissions of carbon dioxide, increase America's reliance on natural gas and renewables and make trucks, homes and businesses more efficient. Some parts of the plan will take months to work ...
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IEA warns of `oil crunch` by 2030
“We cannot let the financial and economic crisis delay the policy action that is urgently needed to ensure secure energy supplies and to curtail rising emissions of greenhouse gases. We must usher in a global energy revolution by improving energy efficiency and increasing the deployment of low-carbon energy,” said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in ...
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