Wind and solar benchmarks for a 1.5°C world
This report presents a detailed methodology for determining the amount of wind and solar capacity that is required for a country to align with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature goal. While the focus
Germany
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Subsidising renewables
giving impetus to non-conventional energy, the parliamentary budget committee of Germany decided to raise subsidies for solar, thermal, biogas and geothermal energy to 400 million marks from 300
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Revamp ordered
to make sure that industries receiving sops in
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Record growth for wind: What comes next?
As would be expected in a maturing market, there are considerable changes in the wind energy industry, particularly when viewed over a period of several years rather than in any one year in particular. The size of wind farms continues to grow, as does the size of the wind turbines which populate them.
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Warming up
Sales of solar heating installations fell short of expectations almost everywhere last year. Despite this firms are optimistic. Improved political support is driving hopes of an upswing.
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Light snack
Catch crops planted in the summer months can complement energy grains and the combination with them be an alternative to energy maize. But they
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Germany Wants CO2 Relief For Energy Guzzling Firms
The German government wants extensive exemptions for energy intensive industrial sectors for their carbon emissions caps from 2013, Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief spokesman said on Friday.
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Reacting to reactive power
The demands on wind turbines to support the power grid are growing in Germany and Spain. Some sector lobbyists see no sense in various stipulations by the grid operators.
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Dormant potential
With more than a thousand square kilometres of rooftops there's plenty of room for photovoltaics in Germany. A new study says, however, that newly installed capacity will level off at about one gigawatt per year.
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Wind power forecasts for the energy market: The previento system
The ability to know today how much wind power will be produced over the next few days provides a decisive advantage over the energy market. Thanks to a new system developed by German University spin-off energy & meteo systems, it's now possible to obtain an accurate forecast of the energy output from wind parks for up to ten days in advance.
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Three power plants being set up in Ctg to ease crisis
Power crisis is likely to ease in Chittagong with two rental and one state-run power plants expecting to generate 227 megawatt more power by April next year. Of the three plants, a 22-MW rental power plant at Barabkunda in Sitakunda will go into operation by this month.