Tag: Europe

Sep 21

EU Commission to limit food-based biofuels

In a major policy shift, the European Commission has said it wants to cap food-based biofuels to five percent. The new limit was announced during informal talks in Cyprus on Monday between EU energy ministers, Euronews reports. Previously, the EU required bio-fuels to rise to 10% of transport fuels by 2020, and bio-fuels made from …

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Sep 14

Germany’s halt to €5tn bank guarantee idea

An ambitious blueprint to guarantee the whole amount of deposits in eurozone banks have been stopped by German objections, Financial Times revealed today. EU officials agreed a eurozone banking union with regulation and control shifted to Brussels, and the guarantee over deposits was intended as a first move in that direction. In the first drafts …

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Sep 11

Denmark, 100% RES by 2050

The most ambitious plan for the exploitation of renewables energy sources passed the vote of the Parliament of Denmark in March. It paves the road to total transition to renewables by 2050 and sets the goal of 35% of energy generation from RES by 2020. 50% of the final target energy supply will be generated …

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Sep 06

EU FP7: SME and RTD Partners search for energy clustering

G. D’Annunzio University of CH-PE is looking for project partners on FP7 Programme Research for the benefits of SMEs. The project aims to research, model and diffuse integrated approaches to research and innovation for startup, development and management of sustainable energy clustering of enterprises (and society) in different industries. SMEs associations/groupings, other universities and research …

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Sep 05

Europe: calls

PROGRESS Programme. Mutual learning in the field of skills and employment, EU Sector Skills Councils, Restructuring. Deadline 22.10.2012. Read and download the call text. Preparatory action “Youth Guarantee” – Supporting partnerships for activation measures targeting young people through project.  Read and download the call text. Lifelong Learning Programme. General Call for Proposals 2013. Read and …

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Sep 01

France shale ban

France isn’t prepared to tap its shale energy resources until “clean technologies” are invented to replace hydraulic fracturing, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg said as reported by Bloomberg. IEA’s opinion on fracking does not differ much: “Industry must win public confidence by demonstrating exemplary performance; and governments must ensure that appropriate policies and regulatory regimes are …

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Aug 28

Italy for sale #3

Bad news or a helping hand for those at work on the big sale of Italian assets? Martti Hetemäki, Vice-Minister of Finance and Kare Halonen, Secretary of the State Council of Finland are today in Rome for confidential meetings with members of the Italian government, to provide the Finnish recipe to drop the debt cake: …

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