LONDON (Dow Jones)–The U.K. government needs policies that will allow the development of more nuclear power and less wind energy, the Confederation of British Industry said Monday.
This would result in a balanced energy mix with less dependence on imported gas, lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and cheaper energy bills, the CBI said.
The comments [...]
Dublin, Jun 24, 2009 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — FRSU | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e3f2c5/central_and_easter) has announced the addition of Frost & Sullivan’s new report “Central and Eastern European Wind Power Markets” to their offering.
The following study covers the development and dynamics of the wind energy industry [...]
MOSCOW, May 26 (Reuters) - Russia will seek global alliances to build a dominant position on the nuclear market as the world economic crisis dents the appeal of renewable energy, senior Russian officials said on Tuesday.
Russia, one of the world’s biggest nuclear players, this year signed deals to cooperate with Japan’s Toshiba (6502.T) and [...]
DUBAI (AFP) — The economies of Middle East oil exporters are likely to suffer from a possible prolonged global recession as demand for the region’s main export wanes, the International Monetary Fund said on Sunday.
Government expenditure, however, should mitigate the slowdown, the IMF said in a report released in Dubai.
Arab states in the Gulf and [...]
LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - This week’s UK budget has revived hopes wind energy could become sufficiently cost effective to generate around a fifth of Britain’s power and put the nation on course to meet its carbon reduction targets.
While the government is relying almost entirely on the growth of offshore wind farms to reduce [...]
By Michael Laybourn
If there are no jobs created, there is no money for taxes and this train just might wreck.
Here is my thinking on job creation as it was done in Germany and is now being copied in other EU countries:
Germany is now the leading country for renewable energy production.
It was economic incentives that jump-started [...]
By Jurjen van de Pol and Ben Sills
Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) — European producer prices declined more than economists expected in December on lower oil prices, adding to arguments that the region’s central bank should reduce interest rates more to combat the deepening recession.
Factory-gate prices in the euro region fell 1.3 percent from the previous month [...]
LONDON, England (CNN) — Striking British oil refinery workers were sitting down Monday for talks with management, nearly a week after walking off the job in protest at the use of foreign workers.
Union members at the Lindsey Oil Refinery in northern England began their strike Wednesday, and workers at other sites across the country [...]
MOSCOW, Jan. 14 (UPI) — Russia and Ukraine Wednesday bickered over gas deliveries to Europe, in spite of international efforts to broker an accord.
More than a week into the dispute, with international monitors in place to observe gas flows, Russia’s state-run energy concern Gazprom accused Ukraine’s Naftogaz of blocking deliveries intended for Europe, Deutsche Welle [...]
BRUSSELS: Starved of gas following Russia’s dispute with Ukraine, Slovakia has announced plans to restart a Soviet-era nuclear reactor in defiance of the European Union, to the fury of one of its neighbors.
The decision, made late Saturday, is expected to provoke sharp criticism at a meeting of European energy ministers in Brussels on Monday, and [...]
