wind energy law Articles
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Huge success in photovoltaics through 20 years of the EEG
20 years EEG. For many this is a reason to celebrate, for opponents it is a reason to swear. No matter what the respective EEG assessment looks like: The success of the EEG in photovoltaics is enormous and will change the world for good: Solar power is already the cheapest energy source in the world and is readily available. Blog together with Carsten Pfeiffer, who was actively involved in the ...
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Solar construction and retrofitting obligation for all buildings and structural systems?
Climate-active despite Brexit Great Britain has declared the "climate emergency" - just like London, Los Angeles, Oakland, Vancouver, Basel, now Constance - while in Germany even in some environmental protection circles there are discussions about whether the word should be used at all. And about what a “climate emergency” is supposed to mean and bring about. On the Brexit-shaken ...
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A small island in the Indian Ocean offers big lessons on clean power
The Indonesian island Sumba is working to provide 100% renewable electricity to all 650,000 residents by 2025. As the sun sets on the small Indonesian island of Sumba, Danga Beru Haba begins weaving under the glow of a single incandescent lightbulb, the only one in her home. Although she is tired from working dawn to dusk in the fields surrounding her village of Kampung Kalihi, the sarong she is ...
By Ensia
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Generation Gap: Wind Opens Big Lead over Nuclear in China
In China, wind power is leaving nuclear behind. Electricity output from China’s wind farms exceeded that from its nuclear plants for the first time in 2012, by a narrow margin. Then in 2013, wind pulled away—outdoing nuclear by 22 percent. The 135 terawatt-hours of Chinese wind-generated electricity in 2013 would be nearly enough to power New York State. Once China’s ...
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Global wind power capacity reaches 100,000MW
At its current growth rate, global installed wind power capacity will top 100,000 megawatts in March 2008. In 2007, wind power capacity increased by a record-breaking 20,000 megawatts, bringing the world total to 94,100 megawatts—enough to satisfy the residential electricity needs of 150 million people. Driven by concerns regarding climate change and energy security, one in every three countries ...
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A breath of fresh air - China`s new wind industry will blow a few cobwebs away from its heavily polluted industrial heartlands, but no miracle cure is expected.
Untitled Document Guangdong in far southern China, which has a relatively long history as a manufacturing base and relies heavily on migrant labour, was one of the first provinces to accept a capitalist system. The region, often known to Westerners by its older name of Canton, opened itself up to foreign investment in the 1980s and is the home to hundreds of factories which ...
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