According to an analysis of national action plans by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Europe is will meet easy its target of drawing 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, The group has collated European Commission figures which show that 20.7% of energy consumption – and 34% of electricity demand – will ...
After the big growth in 2011, the European Union’s photovoltaic market slowed right down in 2012. The newly-installed capacity in 2012 is 16.5 GWp compared to 22 GWp in 2011. This is a 25% slide. At global level the market generally held up, with just over 30 GWp installed, bolstered by the build-up of the ...
At the end of September 2012 CSP plants with a cumulative capacity of about 1.73 GW were in commercial operation in Spain about 72% of the worldwide capacity of 2.4 GW. Together with those plants under construction and those already registered for the feed-in tariff this should bring Spain’s CSP capacity to about 2.5 GW ...
Since 2008, the European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating & Cooling (the RHC-Platform) has brought together the major EU stakeholders from all relevant renewable energy sources and related cross-cutting technologies to agree on a joint strategy for increasing the use of renewable energy sources for heating and cooling, to define short to long-term research and ...
The approaching competitiveness of solar photovoltaics (PV) with other electricity sources is creating new opportunities for investment in electricity storage, allowing for important synergies between PV and storage in Europe’s energy mix. In its response to the European Commission (DG ENER) Working Paper on Storage, the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) is supporting the Commission’s ...
New test facility at the Coal Innovation Centre in Niederaussem is one more module for the "Power-to-Gas" projectGermany’s Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology is backing project under the CO2RRECT research initiative New electrolysis technology in the Coal Innovation Centre: the delivery… Separating water into its components hydrogen and oxygen using excess wind power: that ...
Market observers expect the new incentive mechanism for renewable heating systems and energy-efficient measures in Italy, to come into force at the beginning of January 2013. The three Ministries of Industry, Environment and Agriculture have only reached their agreement in November 2012. And the OK from the State-Regions Conference came in the middle of December. ...