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Sergio Ferreira

New EU renewables law takes shape | EU - European Information on Energy - 0 views

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policy renewables targets

shared by Sergio Ferreira on 11 Dec 07 - Cached
  • While the draft directive , made available by Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE), does not specify the precise percentage figures by which each member state will be required to increase its share of renewable energies, the following criteria are put forward: By 2014, each member state's share of renewables must be at least the amount it used in 2005 plus 51% of the 2020 target;  by 2016, the figure must increase to 66% of the 2020 target; and; by 2018, member states should have achieved 83% of their 2020 target (compared to the 2005 level as usual).
  • An early draft of an upcoming Commission proposal to increase the use of renewables in final EU energy consumption includes guidelines for establishing individual national targets, provisions for mandatory use of certificates for renewables trading and sustainability criteria for biofuels production.
  • 20% of their energy needs from renewables
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  • 10% share of biofuels
Sergio Ferreira

Only 7 EU countries join International Carbon Action Partnership « 3E Intelli... - 0 views

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carbon europe germany france uk italy netherlands ireland portugal usa canada climate

shared by Sergio Ferreira on 30 Oct 07 - Cached
  • the new international forum links up the EU Commission and seven member states (France, Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland and Portugal) with eleven US and Canadian regional states (the likes of New York, Maine, California and British Columbia) to exchange information and best practices about their efforts to create carbon markets through a cap-and-trade system. The bad news: where are the other 20 EU member states? And what about other federal governments such as the US, Russia, China or India?
Hans De Keulenaer

The Oil Drum: Europe | Energy: the fundamental unseriousness of Gordon Brown - 0 views

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costs nuclear policy renewables uk

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 23 Oct 07 - Cached
  • The Guardian reports this morning on a private report to Gordon Brown that suggests that Britain should oppose binding target for renewable energies in Europe (20% of all energy by 2020, as agreed earlier this year at this spring's EU Summit). The Guardian flags the juicy political bits ("work with Poland and other governments sceptical about climate change to "help persuade" German chancellor Angela Merkel and others to set lower renewable targets", "a potentially significant cost in terms of reduced climate change leadership"), but also provides some of the apparent underlying reasons provided, which are worth commenting upon: it undermines the carbon-trading scheme which "allows wealthy governments to pay others to reduce emissions"; it costs too much money (£4 billion a year to get to 9% by 2020); it does not help push for new nuclear plants as it "reduces the incentives to invest in other carbon technologies like nuclear power"; Let's say it plainly: each of these arguments is stupid, short-sighted and, quite simply, false. Let me take you through them in turn (under the fold).
Sergio Ferreira

Global Warming? That's the Least of It - 0 views

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change climate

shared by Sergio Ferreira on 16 Oct 07 - Cached
  • Now they have developed the ideas in a new book, "Break Through:From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of the Possible," which subordinates regulation and carbon-trading to massive government investment on a scale of Apollo, the Manhattan Project, not to mention Iraq.
Sergio Ferreira

Climate can't wait for techno-fixes | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist - 0 views

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oil renewables

shared by Sergio Ferreira on 06 Sep 07 - Cached
  • It turns out that with peak oil here already, we are soon not going to have the cheap energy to maintain global trade or food production on today's scale. And renewable energy is not ready to step in as enough of a substitute, when the oil market will soon be handing us an unmanageable, exacerbated shortage
Colin Bennett

Utilities Could Cash In On Climate Bill - Forbes.com - 0 views

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copper cables transmission utilities

shared by Colin Bennett on 17 Jun 09 - No Cached
  • Colin Bennett on 17 Jun 09
     
    Assume for the moment that Congress will not pass a carbon cap-and-trade scheme this year but that it does pass an energy bill that streamlines the siting of new transmission lines and requires utilities to get a certain minimum percentage of their electricity from clean sources. What opportunities would this open for AEP? On the efficiency side it would allow me to put capital to work on GridSmart [AEP's smart-grid initiative]. And instead of being a net buyer of renewable energy from third-party generators, I'd begin to be a net builder of renewables. It's the same issue as always: I'm satisfying a state or federal renewable requirement, and my customers' rates are going to go up anyways, so why shouldn't my shareholders get the benefit of our building that new generating capacity rather than buying the electricity on the market? If I'm just a net buyer in the market, I'm forced to buy solar power at 30 cents, and that goes through to my customers, and I don't think that's fair. I want to make sure my shareholders and my customers get a pretty good shake out of this.
Hans De Keulenaer

IEEE Spectrum: SPECIAL REPORT: TOP 10 TECH CARS 2010 - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 01 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 01 Apr 10
     
    For at least a decade, carmakers have been professing their deep and abiding interest in electric-drive vehicles whenever possible. But until recently, it wasn't always clear which of them were really sincere. Today every last one of them seems sincere. As this year's "Top 10 Tech Cars" package shows, ever more varied hybrids are going into mass production, along with-you betcha-a few all-electric cars. Some of the electric-drive machines aspire beyond mere greenness to heart-pounding performance, an aspiration that may seem strange to those taught to view electric cars as spacious, all-weather golf carts. But performance is indeed a logical goal, given the instant-on torque that electric motors provide. While electrons may now be a recurrent theme of our annual Top 10 automotive reports, we do not slight the internal-combustion engine, which has lots of life-and technological enhancements-to come. And for those who don't spend a whole lot of time worrying about whether they're treading lightly enough on the planet's roads, we include two ultraperformance German sports cars that run purely on gasoline and adrenaline. One can easily be yours. If you're willing to trade in your house for it.
Energy Net

Japan Proposes Wind, Geothermal Power Feed-in Tariff (Update1) - Bloomberg.com - 0 views

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japan wind geothermal feed-in incentives renewables

shared by Energy Net on 29 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Energy Net on 29 Mar 10
     
    "A Japanese trade ministry panel today proposed expanding the feed-in tariff to require utilities to buy electricity at a premium from hydropower stations, wind turbine and geothermal operators. Utilities may have to buy renewable power at between 15 yen (17 cents) and 20 yen a kilowatt hour, according to a report released in Tokyo today. The incentive program would run for between 10 and 20 years, it said. The government wants to supply 10 percent of the country's primary energy from renewable sources by 2020, compared with about 3 percent in 2007, according to the International Energy Agency. The proposed tariff compares with 5 to 7 yen a kilowatt hour utilities pay for nuclear power and about 8 yen for oil- fired generation, said Tomohiro Jikihara, an analyst at Deutsche Securities Inc. in Tokyo. "
Colin Bennett

Global Wind Energy Capacity up by 22% in 2010 - 1 views

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wind

shared by Colin Bennett on 16 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Global capacity of wind power installations grew by 35.8 gigawatts (GW) in 2010, a 22.5% increase on the 158.7 GW installed at the end of 2009, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) announced on February 2. This brings total installed wind energy capacity up to 194.4 GW, according to figures from the global wind industry trade association. For the first time, more than half of all new wind power was added outside of the traditional markets in Europe and North America. The shift was driven mainly by the continuing boom in China, which installed 16.5 GW in 2010 and now claims global leadership with 42.3 GW of wind power.
Marisa Zampolli

USAID Economic Growth & Trade: Energy Efficiency for Agriculture - 0 views

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efficiency usaid agriculture

shared by Marisa Zampolli on 14 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Empowering Agriculture: Energy Options for Horticulture is a guidebook developed to assist USAID, its partners, and the developing country clients whom they serve with practical, application-specific information about energy supply options and ways to improve energy efficiency in horticulture operations.
Hans De Keulenaer

Generating Electricity From The Waves | EcoSpace.cc - 0 views

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ocean renewables wave

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 07 Jan 08 - Cached
  • Ocean waves are said to have the highest energy density of energy renewable energy source - one thousand denser than wind. Finavera Renewables is a publicly traded company focusing on the development of renewable energy resources and technologies; such as the AquaBuOY (yes, spelled that way) - a floating buoy structure that converts the energy from waves into clean electricity.. Clusters of AquaBuOYs can be combined into arrays generating output from a few hundred kilowatts to several hundred megawatts and are made up of components that have been proven in other marine industries for decades.
Hans De Keulenaer

Environment and business groups call for Australian action on energy efficiency | Energ... - 0 views

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energy efficiency finance

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 25 Nov 08 - Cached
  • “Australia is an energy-efficiency laggard among developed nations and if the Government is to deliver on its election promise of putting Australia ‘at the forefront of OECD energy efficiency improvement’ it needs decisive efficiency initiatives in addition to an emissions trading scheme,”
  • The paper indicates that Australia has largely untapped its energy saving potential – up to around 70% in the residential and commercial sector and up to 46% in the manufacturing sector.
Phil Slade

World Energy Outlook Homepage - 3 views

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future 2035

shared by Phil Slade on 10 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Phil Slade on 10 Nov 10
     
    "The 2010 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) was released on 9 November and it provides updated projections of energy demand, production, trade and investment, fuel by fuel and region by region to 2035. It includes, for the first time, a new scenario that anticipates future actions by governments to meet the commitments they have made to tackle climate change and growing energy insecurity@
Arabica Robusta

Climate Change Messaging: Avoid the Truth » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Na... - 1 views

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renewables wind climate change

shared by Arabica Robusta on 19 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger published the op-ed “Global Warming Scare Tactics” in the New York Times on April 8. Participants in recent debates over climate change may recognize their names. They’re the guys who run the Breakthrough Institute, a pseudo-contrarian “environmental research organization.”
  • While occasionally on point in its charges against the big organizations, the essay (based on interviews with mostly white male leaders of large national groups) had nothing to say about the environmental justice movement, or other grassroots groups led by women and people of color. It neglected as well the environmental movements of the Global South, today the heart of the climate justice movement.
  • Is fear of disruption of what Habermas calls the life-world the sole inducer of civic action? Of course not: social movements also cohere around other shared, negotiated understandings, identities, diagnoses of problems, and assessments of opportunities. Might fear paralyze rather than mobilize? Yes: in cases when the perceived threat appears impervious to resistance, and when commitment to the cause flags over time. Fear-based campaigns require a tangible evil: a draft card, a nuclear plant cooling tower, a polluting facility’s smoke plume, an Operation Rescue picket line.
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  • Of the massive, coordinated, ongoing effort by Exxon-Mobil, the Koch brothers, and the Heartland Institute (et al.) to do to climate science what the Tobacco Institute did to cigarette science, Nordhaus and Shellenberger have only this to say, “Some conservatives and fossil-fuel interests questioned the link between carbon emissions and global warming.” There’s no mention of how under- and mis-educated TV weathermen have been central progenitors of climate change skepticism. There’s no acknowledgement of how Big Coal, Oil and Gas have bought off local and national legislators, stalled attempts to put forward even wimpy programs (like cap and trade), or underwritten NPR’s gushing embrace of fracking.
Hans De Keulenaer

Planet2025 News Network - ntext - 0 views

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efficiency finance ibm usa footprinting

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 07 Nov 07 - Cached
  • Neuwing Energy Ventures, a New York-based marketer of energy-efficiency certificates, would perform an initial assessment of IBM customers' sprawling data centers -- the massive, air-conditioned facilities that store information and route anything from eBay purchases to e-mail. IBM would identify potential energy savings areas for its clients, and Neuwing would grant the IT firms certificates for the total megawatt-hours no longer needed to cool or operate the data center equipment. Each certificate would equal 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) per annum, said Rich Lechner, IBM's vice president for IT optimization. Clients could sell the certificates to utilities subject to state renewable portfolio standards, as well as sell to other companies that aim to reduce their carbon footprint through energy savings. The value of the energy efficiency certificates, historically in the $2-$10 range, is determined by the supply and demand for those certificates in each trading market.
blanca duarte

LIPA | Clean Energy Initiative | Information and Education - 0 views

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education renewables

shared by blanca duarte on 02 Dec 08 - Cached
  • blanca duarte on 02 Dec 08
     
    Information and Education LIPA's Information and Education Program provides valuable energy-saving information to customers through participation in Long Island community events, and trade shows, distribution of printed materials, advertising and schools based energy education and on-line internet resources.
Sergio Ferreira

French conservatives go green, too! - 0 views

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shared by Sergio Ferreira on 10 Oct 07 - Cached
  • All newly built homes to produce more energy than they consume by 2020. Renovate all existing buildings to save energy. Ban incandescent light bulbs by 2010. Reduce greenhouse-gas emission by 20% by 2020. Increase renewable energy from 9% to 20-25% of total energy consumption by 2020. Bring transport emissions back to 1990 levels. Reduce vehicle speed limits by 10 kilometres per hour. Taxes and incentives to favour clean cars. Shift half of haulage by road to rail and water within 15 years. Develop rail and public transport. Reduce air pollutants quantitatively. Create a national network of "green" corridors and nature reserves. Increase organic farming from 2% to 6% of total acreage production by 2010 and to 20% by 2020. Ecological groups to be stakeholders, like trade unions, in government negotiations. Create a body to review planting of genetically modified crops on a case-by-case basis.
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