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December 6, 2013
Switzerland already gets more than half of its electricity from renewable sources. Now, German researchers say that the country could have 98 percent renewable power by 2050.
Germany's GLR has published the country edition of...[more]
Category: Europe - News
October 24, 2013
The German Federal Environment Agency has released a paper discussing how Germany could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors within the nation's borders by 95% below 1990 levels by 2050, achieving only 1 tonne of...[more]
Category: Europe - News
October 15, 2013
New study shows that research investments and growing markets have fueled a huge rise in new patents.[more]
Category: North America - News, South America - News, Europe - News, Asia - News
October 8, 2013
German solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy peaked at 59.1% of the nation’s hourly electricity production slightly before 12:00 PM on October 3rd, 2013, according to an analysis by renewable energy consultant Bernard...[more]
Category: Europe - News
September 28, 2013
Analysts at Citi have produced a detailed report which suggests another 900 gigawatts of solar installations, and another 1,500GW of wind farms could be installed around the world with little added cost to electricity grids. This...[more]
Category: North America - News, South America - News, Europe - News, Africa - News, Asia - News
September 26, 2013
100% renewable energy makes the cover story of Renewable Energy World magazine! Featuring Renewables 100 Policy Institute, Go 100 Percent Renewable Energy and many pioneering leaders who are making 100% renewable a...[more]
Category: Europe - News, South America - News, North America - News, Africa - News, Asia - News
September 20, 2013
What the New York Times does not tell you
Poverty an issue for social policy, not energy policy
Yesterday, the New York Times published an astonishingly misleading article, depicting Germany as a country in which poor...[more]
Category: Europe - News
July 30, 2013
A new report published by the Swiss Energy Foundation has made it clear that Switzerland cannot afford not to transition to renewables by looking at the overall cost of not transitioning to renewables and lower...[more]
Category: Europe - News
July 25, 2013
This month, Austria went ahead with its plans to ban imports of nuclear power to the country. Electricity is to be labeled to ensure that no power from nuclear reactors is purchased from abroad. The EU is not pleased about the...[more]
Category: Europe - News
July 24, 2013
The global impacts of a warming Arctic could carry a price tag comparable to the size of the global economy in 2012, according to a Comment piece in this week's Nature.
Unlike the loss of sea ice, the vulner-ability of polar...[more]
Category: Europe - News, Africa - News, North America - News, Australia - News, Asia - News
July 18, 2013
Yesterday, Germany's premier economic research institute published a study criticizing EU estimates of the cost of nuclear, carbon capture and storage, and photovoltaics. The DIW says PV is already less expensive than the EU's...[more]
Category: Europe - News
July 14, 2013
Two years after the Fukushima disaster started unfolding on 11 March 2011, its impact on the global nuclear industry has become increasingly visible.
Global electricity generation from nuclear plants dropped by a...[more]
Category: Europe - News, North America - News, Asia - News, South America - News, Africa - News
June 27, 2013
Natural gas is widely considered the bridge to take us from fossil fuel dependence to a clean energy future – but that bridge may be a lot shorter than anyone could have predicted.
The International Energy Agency (IEA)...[more]
Category: Europe - News, Africa - News, North America - News
June 26, 2013
While many countries still discuss whether or not a 100% renewable energy system – or “just” a 100% renewable electricity supply – is even theoretically possible, Germans seem no longer bothered by such unscientific doubts. To...[more]
Category: Europe - News
June 18, 2013
First released in 2005, REN21's Renewables Global Status Report (GSR) has grown to become a truely collaborative effort of over 500 authors, contributors and reviewers, and is today the most frequently referenced report on...[more]
Category: Europe - News
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