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Point of No Return: Renewables or Fossil Fuels?
2013-01-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The world is quickly reaching a Point of No Return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change. With total disregard for this unfolding global disaster, the fossil fuel industry is planning 14 massive coal, oil and gas projects that would produce as much new carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2020 as the entire U.S., and delay action on climate change for more than a decade. Continuing on the current course will make it difficult--if not impossible--to prevent the widespread and catastrophic...
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Keeping the Lights on With Renewables
2013-01-17 18:25:00| Transmission & Distribution World
DNV will open a new Strategic Research Unit at DNV KEMA's global headquarters in Arnhem, the Netherlands, which will focus exclusively on the further development of smart grids and super grids.
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Poll: Europeans overwhelmingly favour renewables over shale gas
2013-01-15 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The vast majority of Europeans believe investment in renewable energy should be prioritised over the next 30 years, compared to alternative energy sources including shale gas, nuclear and carbon capture and storage (CCS) plants. That is just one of the findings of a major survey of over 25,500 citizens of EU member states carried out to inform the European Commission's comprehensive review of EU air policy, which found that despite a campaign by industry to promote shale gas as a cost effective...
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United Kingdom: Renewables industry welcomes move to retain RPI calculation
2013-01-10 12:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The UK's decision not to make any fundamental changes to the retail price index (RPI) has been welcomed by renewable energy companies concerned that any shift would have created uncertainty over returns from subsidy schemes. Anyone receiving feed-in tariffs or the Renewable Heat Incentive for the energy they generate from clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar panels, or biomass boilers, are awarded payments that rise in line with inflation in accordance with the RPI over a 20-year...
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Countryside Renewables gets green light for 5MW solar project
2013-01-08 10:00:00| Power Technology
UK-based photovoltaic (PV) developer and financer Countryside Renewables has obtained planning permission to build a 5MW solar project in Exning, Suffolk.
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