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However, despite this proposed benchmark for 2030, the EU has not passed any formal legislation to mandate this renewable energy goal. As a result, the EU’s member countries continue to forfeit a number of viable wind energy development proposals due to public opposition. Ireland pres...
The UK government’s Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) is marketing the new domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) as the world’s first long-term financial support programme for renewable heat, offering homeowners payments to offset the cost of installing low carbon systems...
Victorian Wave Partners (VWP) is a project-specific entity that is wholly-owned by OPT (Australasia) Pty. Ltd (OPTA), which is in turn 88 percent owned by OPT. The funding is the first payment under the A$66.5 million grant that was awarded by ARENA to VWP toward the cost of building ...
The AfL is in respect of the Westray South Project in Orkney, Scotland, which SSE has just relinquished. The project incorporates the planned installation of up to 200MW of tidal energy turbines over two phases. A consent application for the first 60MW phase is due to be submitted lat...
The study compares the present costs for conversion of different energy forms into electricity and gives a prognosis for the further cost development up to 2030. Fraunhofer scientists in Freiburg analysed both the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) from renewables as well as from co...
The complaint was filed Tuesday, 11 February 2014 with the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ISDIC) in Washington, D.C. It is the fourth case to be brought against Spain stemming from its reduction in support for renewable energy projects. According to th...
Assistant professor Hal Alper, in the Cockrell School’s McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, along with his team of students, created the new cell-based platform. Given that the yeast cells grow on sugars, Alper calls the biofuel produced by this process “a renewable version of...
Nelisiwe Magubane, director-general of the country’s Energy Department told the news organization that the 50 percent goal set by the continent's biggest coal producer is part of an integrated energy plan currently under development. “Whatever the scenario is, it’s clear that coal, ov...
