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Biomass Thermal Energy Council Announces Latest Webinar
Brits, Brussels, and Biomass: The European Path Towards Renewable Heating Registration is now open for the free educational webinar on June 15 at 12PM ET, 9 AM PT Imagine the impact on U.S. jobs and local economies if 95% of new domestic heating appliances used renewable fuels and avoided costly oil imports. That is the case in Austria; while in several European countries renewable heating ...
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Is Biomass the Big Winner Under the UK's Domestic RHI Scheme?
On April 9th 2014, the Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive was finally launched in the UK. The UK's Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) is the world’s first long-term financial support programme for renewable heat and the domestic branch of the scheme has been eagerly awaited. Energy website Green Business Watch has recently launched its UK Domestic Renewable Heat Update – September 2014. ...
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European Parliament votes for renewable heat obligations
Brussels, 25/09/2007: Today, the European Parliament approved by overwhelming majority the “Thomsen Report” on the Roadmap for Renewable Energies in Europe. Crucial for the future of solar thermal: the call for the adoption in all Member States of renewable heat obligations, at least in new buildings and those undergoing major renovation. The Thomsen report is the first comprehensive statement ...
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DECC announce new RHI tariffs for biomethane
On 9th December, 2014, the Department of Energy and Climate Change announced changes to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) tariffs for biomethane injection into the national grid following extensive consultation. Biomethane had previously received a flat rate of 7.5 p/kWh under the RHI, regardless of scale or output. The new changes will see a tiered approach adopted, with sites eligible for the ...
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European Shallow Geothermal Days
The European Shallow Geothermal Days was arranged between 24 & 25 September 2019 by the European Geothermal Energy Council (EGEC), the Renewable Heating and Cooling Platform (RHC-ETIP) and the Interreg Central Europe project GeoPLASMA-CE in association with EuroGeoSurveys. Shallow geothermal energy represents a well-developed, non-volatile and clean technology for providing efficient heating ...
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Energy Commissioner to address challenges of renewable heating and cooling
LONDON --- October 2, 2007 --- EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs will discuss the challenges of renewable heating and cooling and why the industry’s progress has been relatively slow at an upcoming congress on the topic. The Commissioner is confirmed as the keynote speaker at the Inaugural Renewable Heating & Cooling Congress 2007 (RESHC 2007) which takes pleace on November 20-21 in ...
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Coalition cuts announced
Departmental cuts announced by the Chancellor George Osborne will see DEFRA (Environment, Food and Rural affairs) and DECC (Energy and Climate Change) loose 29% and 30% of their core funding respectively in real (inflation adjusted) terms. CLG (Communities and Local Government), will see core funding will fall by 51% in real terms. Part of the savings found at CLG will be devolved down to local ...
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Commission fails to deliver Directive proposal on renewable heating and cooling
Brussels - Renewable heating and cooling is now definitely recognised as essential for the future of Europe’s energy supply, this is good news from the Renewable Energy Roadmap, presented today by the European Commission. Bad news is that the Commission did not deliver the Directive proposal requested by the European Parliament. “We are pleased to see that solar thermal and other renewable ...
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Breaking the Ice – Kicking off the European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling
For the first time, on 23 and 24 February 2010, the entire European industry and research communities from the biomass, geothermal and solar thermal sectors will come together in Bilbao on the occasion of the First Annual Conference of the European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling and focus on a common vision outlining the research needs and the tremendous economic potential ...
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Renewable heating and cooling has potential in South-East Europe
Registration Early Bird Fees - till 7 February If we have to choose from a number of factors, influenced to a greater extent the development of the global energy sector, the majority would perhaps pick the environment and especially climate change. The innovative technologies for utilization of renewables and energy savings are the key players which could bring up the energy systems to a ...
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Ener-G adds heat pump division to the firm
Energy solution provider Ener-G has launched a sustainable technologies division specialising in designing, installing and maintaining heat pumps. It expands on Ener-G’s existing ground source heat pump operation, allowing the firm to provide heat pump solutions for all types of heating and cooling applications ranging from 1KW to 1,000KW. Managing director Paul Burley said: “Our in-house ...
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Head- and tailwinds for Windhager
The Austrian pellet boiler manufacturer Windhager exhibited in the Austrian Trade joint pavilion. According to Bernhard Holzer, export manager the markets for Windhager who supply boilers for the residential and light commercial sectors have developed in different directions. “Here in Sweden the market for us seems very flat at the moment with not much happening,” said Bernhard ...
By Elmia AB
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Latest biomethane tariff review set to give boost to biomass industry
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has today published the outcome of its biomethane tariff review. The review was launched in the summer to address fears that the current tariffs may be over-rewarding large projects. The consultation received considerable input from across the industry, as the original document could have led to far more drastic impacts on almost all projects. ...
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Europe sizzles through more intense heat
Even as much of the central and eastern U.S. basks in unseasonably cool July weather, Europe has been baking in another heat wave, and a renewed surge of heat promises to add to the misery in the coming days. Polish news website gazeta.pl reported Sunday that 41 children were taken to a hospital after suffering from overheating and dehydration waiting in a broken-down bus in the village of ...
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German government to cut back renewable heating support scheme
Brussels - The German ministry for environmental affairs announced last week an immediate ban on further support payments under the federal incentive scheme for solar heating, biomass and heat pump installations. ESTIF heavily criticizes this decision which hits the solar thermal industry without warning and puts the whole renewable heating sector in danger. This measure is based officially on a ...
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Bioenergy 2017 – IrBEA National Bioenergy Conference
2017 will be a pivotal year for Ireland’s energy policy; the industry expects clarity by then for the roll-out of a Renewable Heat Incentive. We need to move towards clean technologies. Currently, in Ireland, we have a renewable market share of 8.7%-, with Bioenergy contributing 2% of this. It’s imperative that the Irish Government develops an energy policy that allows for greater ...
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Expansion on the cards for AES after government cashback boost
As Scotland’s only manufacturer of solar thermal panels we have no doubt that our business will expand after it was announced that the government has dropped plans to remove solar thermal from the Renewable Heat Incentive. We welcome the news following a campaign by the Solar Trade Association. The Solar Industry George Goudsmit, our director explained what this meant for the industry: ...
By AES Ltd
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Event – The Clean Energy Package Towards a smart and sustainable heat market
The European Commission’s long-awaited “Clean Energy for all Europeans” package of legislation was presented at the end of last year and aims, amongst others, at accelerating renewable energy innovation. With renewable energy deployment progressing fast in power generation, the heating and cooling sector still has some way to go to reduce the remaining 84% of EU heating still ...
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Householders to get financial incentives for biomass boilers
Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said that UK households will be able to get financial incentives for low carbon technologies such as biomass boilers and ground source heat pumps under Government plans to reduce carbon emissions and cut energy bills. The Government wants to cut household carbon emissions by one third by 2020. Its ultimate aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ...
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MWA Technology aims to put RHI on the agenda at The Energy Event 2013
Making the most of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will be the main topic for discussion when MWA Technology makes its debut at The Energy Event 2013 later this month (September 10-11). The independent metering specialist is looking to raise awareness of the Government programme, which is looking to financially incentivise home owners, businesses and organisations to use renewable energy ...
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