Category: Energy

Sep 29

Renewables records in the European Union

About two-thirds of all the solar panels installed around the world in 2011 found homes in Europe, reports the European Union Joint Research Center. Collectively, European countries installed 18.5 gigawatts (GW) of solar in 2011 – an investment of $84 billion – bringing the region’s capacity to 52 GW. Germany accounts for 30 GW of that. …

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Sep 28

Peak Cheap Oil: Cantarell hits record low

Cantarell’s production has slid 74 percent since 2006 to 449,000 barrels a day last year, dragging down the country’s daily output. Cantarell’s output fell 14 percent from April 2011 to 400,000 barrels a day, the lowest since at least 1990, when the Energy Ministry started to publish Pemex’s production. Petroleos Mexicanos, the world’s third-largest oil …

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Sep 28

Quinto Conto Energia

Il DM 5 luglio 2012, pubblicato sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 159 del 10 luglio 2012, cosiddetto Quinto Conto Energia, ridefinisce le modalità di incentivazione per la produzione di energia elettrica da fonte fotovoltaica. Le modalità di incentivazione previste dal Quinto Conto Energia si applicano a partire dal 27 agosto 2012 e cessano decorsi 30 giorni …

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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 21

Oil futures rise

NYMEX-U.S. oil futures rise on supply concerns, Reuters report. Read also “Peak cheap oil“.

Sep 19

IEA 2012 key energy data released

The International Energy Agency’s has made available its latest annual publication of energy data – Key World Energy Statistics 2012 here.

Sep 13

New bid for the Alcoa’s plant in Sardinia

KiteGen Research, an Italian company specialising in troposhperic wind generators has presented a bid to the Italian Government to acquire the plant being dismissed by Alcoa in Sardinia (the largest energy consumer in Italy). Their plan would partially convert the production and obtain 100% of the required energy for the operations from tropospheric wind, with …

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