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Hans De Keulenaer

Lessons in RE Development From Navarre, Spain - 0 views

  • As a case study of a successful approach, let’s take a look at what Spain has been able to accomplish. Spain has tackled its development of renewable energy sources aggressively. With 11,615 megawatts (MW) of installed wind capacity at the end of last year, Spain is second in the world to Germany in capacity (and about on par with the United States). The 23,372,000 MWh generated in 2006 provided just over 8.5% of Spain’s electricity: only Denmark boasts a higher percentage.
Sergio Ferreira

France and Spain seek compromise on power grid linkage | EU - European Information on E... - 0 views

  • Financing and planning concerns also plague the project, with the level of state subsidies to the two main contracting firms - RTE (Réseau de transport électricité) and REE (Red Electrica de Espana) - still to be determined, and with questions remaining about the exact location of the future power cables.
  • Concerns include the potentially destructive impact of constructing electricity infrastructure in local communities and sensitive environments, and local civic organisations have mounted highly organised campaigns to contest the project, arguing that they have been given insufficient justification for the construction of the necessary power lines. 
  • if the interconnection is not completed, the Iberian Peninsula risks becoming an "island", cut off from the electricity potential and supply of the rest of the European continent.
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    The connector between France and Spain is supposed to be the easy part.
Glycon Garcia

Guía Práctica de la Energía - IDAE « …un poco de cotidianeidad o un poco de t... - 0 views

  • La guía trata básicamente aspectos a considerar respecto a usos y fuentes de energía, señalando con variedad de esquemas y dibujos distintos tópicos que requieren atención.
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    Interesting material from Spain to guide for energy efficiency
davidchapman

New Record: Wind Powers 40% Of Spain : MetaEfficient - 0 views

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    40% of Spain's demand met by wind during recent windy weekend. It would be interesting to know more - what was the demand, what percentage of available wind capacity was used, how variable was the wind, how was this variability managed, etc. Does anyone know anyone who knows?
Hans De Keulenaer

ScienceDirect - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews : European Union's renewable e... - 0 views

  • The European Union's (EU) energy objectives, legislation and programmes are determinant for the current strategy for the promotion of renewable energy sources (RES) and energy efficiency (EE) in Spain, which is becoming a key element for its international competitiveness.Firstly, this article explores the evolution of the EU's energy strategy, focusing on the adopted legislations and programmes to promote RES and EE. It concludes with an analysis of the impact of those measures in Spain.
Jeff Johnson

Spain expects 3,000 MW in solar plants by 2010: ENN - 0 views

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    Spain is one of the world's hottest markets for solar panels and Sebastian said he expected capacity by the end of this year to be five times a target of 371 MW that the government had originally set for 2010 in a renewable energy plan.
Sergio Ferreira

EPIA: Solar technology prices getting 'better and better' - 0 views

  • nd in fact a few weeks ago in Spain we produced more energy from wind than we did from nuclear in one day
  • What is happening in Germany is that most of the modules that are being installed are coming from China and Japan and so on. So it is a kind of contradiction. So our enemies are using this and saying we are investing our taxes in order to give our money to the Chinese. Even in terms of investment, some investments are not coming from Spanish investors, but from Chinese or Japanese etc. So, unfortunately the situation is quite complex. 
  • So from October onwards there will be new legislation. So the big barriers in Spain are the new administrative processes, because for a normal citizen it is a nightmare to get a licence. The administrative procedures are absolute nonsense. 
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  • no-one could have perceived that we would be producing more energy with wind than we are with hydro or coal. Wind is now only behind nuclear and gas. This is really important – wind is about 10% of our electricity in Spain
  • We can predict that in Southern Europe, the cost of the production of a PV plant with be lower than the tariff by 2015.
  • When we don't need the subsidy we will see the market respond.
Hans De Keulenaer

Spain and Portugal Lead the Way on Renewable Energy Transformation | Renewable Energy N... - 4 views

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    Interesting comparison between 3 electricity systems enjoying similar climates
Hans De Keulenaer

Wind Energy in '07 « Euro Avia blog - 0 views

  • In 2007, domestic products accounted for 56% of the annual market, compared to 41% in 2006,” said Li Junfeng, Secretary General of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industry Association.
Colin Bennett

E.ON to Acquire Wind Farms in Spain and Portugal - 0 views

  • E.ON to Acquire Wind Farms in Spain and Portugal
davidchapman

Spain to Allow Offshore Wind Farms - 0 views

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    Spain -- the world's second leading producer of wind power -- has passed a new law allowing wind parks to be built off its coast. It is predicted that the offshore wind parks will generate between 2,000 and 3,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2020.
Colin Bennett

Unused Old Mines Could Be Used as Geothermal Power Sources - 0 views

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    Geothermal energy has a lot of potential worldwide. As it is not dependent on many factors, geothermal energy could be the cleanest power source of near future. Two scientists from University of Oviedo, Spain, have concluded that geothermal energy could be provided by mine shafts.
Colin Bennett

1st World Ranking of Clean Energy Technology (CET) Sales - 3 views

  • The current rankings put the US 18th according to GDP (2nd in absolute terms) and the UK is 19th. Australia “squandered an early technical lead in solar energy” and is 28th. Spain is 4th relative to GDP, Finland is 5th and China 6th. In absolute terms, the top ten countries are: 1. Germany, 2. the US, 3. Japan, 4. China, 5. Denmark, 6. Brazil, 7. Spain, 8. France, 9. the UK, 10. Korea.
Colin Bennett

Spain unveils green home plan to beat global warming | Environment | Reuters - 0 views

  • MADRID (Reuters) - Spain plans to give people grants to make their homes more environmentally-friendly, the prime minister said on Monday, a sign the government wants to push the green issue ahead of March's general election.
Hans De Keulenaer

EnergyMarketPrice | Energy Prices Portal | Energy Spot Prices | Energy Forward Prices - 0 views

  • The new center-right Spanish government decided to halt temporarily the award of new feed-in tariff contracts starting January 2013 amid rising fiscal challenges. This could affect negatively about 4,500 MW and 550 MW of wind and solar PV power projects respectively, as well as other energy classes’ projects.
Hans De Keulenaer

Madrid veut réduire de 30% ses subventions au solaire, et rétroactivement | G... - 0 views

  • Selon Thomas Diaz, le porte-parole de l'ASIF cité par Reuters, la Fédération espagnole du photovoltaïque, le gouvernement propose, en effet, de diminuer les subventions aux installations photovoltaïques existantes de 30%, et pour les futures installations de 25% pour les grands toits solaires, de 45% pour les grandes centrales au sol et de 5% pour les petits toits résidentiels.
Glycon Garcia

China's Wind Power Industry: Blowing Past Expectations - 0 views

  • At the end of 2007, China's installed base of wind power totaled just over 6 gigawatts (GW), making China the fifth largest producer of wind power, after Germany, the U.S., Spain and India. As a consequence of the rapid build-out of wind power projects in China, in April 2008 the National Development and Reform Commission revised its 11th Five Year Plan Period plan for wind power development from 5 GW to 10 GW by 2010.
Colin Bennett

China's Wind Power Industry: Blowing Past Expectations - 0 views

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    At the end of 2007, China's installed base of wind power totaled just over 6 gigawatts (GW), making China the fifth largest producer of wind power, after Germany, the U.S., Spain and India.
Colin Bennett

Cheap Pens No Limit for Talent - Biro Art (GALLERY) - 0 views

  • I have come across all sorts of biro art sites and artists lately - and as a form of drawing it appears to be trend on the up. Biro Art is featuring more and more in blog discussions and they are even entire exhibitions dedicated to the art of making art with Biro’s. One in Spain had to be cancelled recently as all the art work was sold.
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    Biro pens use copper in production of the ball. What impact will this new trend have on pen production?
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