policy
20 February 2012
Turkey's power sector will witness considerable growth in coming years, according to a new report, supported by an extremely favourable and facilitative government policy and regulatory regime.
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20 February 2012
US industry body the Agriculture Energy Coalition has welcomed the recent hearing from the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry on the 2012 Farm Bill, which could potentially help promote renewable energy in rural America.
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14 February 2012
US President Barack Obama has made a $27.2bn fiscal year 2013 budget request for the Department of Energy that forms part of his blueprint for the economy.
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14 February 2012
President Barack Obama has pledged to cut tax breaks for the oil and gas sector and to spend more in conservation and energy.
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13 February 2012
Moves by the Spanish government to put a freeze on subsidies paid to the renewable energy sector has been welcomed by the country’s largest onshore wind operator Iberdrola.
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10 February 2012
First Minister Alex Salmond is ‘hell bent on destroying Scotland’s coastline’ through the influx of wind farms, according to US property tycoon Donald Trump.
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9 February 2012
At the opening of the world’s largest offshore wind farm today, the UK’s newly-appointed Energy and Climate Secretary Edward Davey reaffirmed the government’s commitment to offshore wind.
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9 February 2012
The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said a tariff of 21 pence will take effect on solar installations from 1 April with the government proposing to peg the subsidy levels to cost reductions and industry growth. But industry said this will exacerbate rather than dissolve the uncertainty in the market.
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9 February 2012
UK Environment Minister Caroline Spelman has said the UK will work with Columbia and others to drive forward the proposal for new Sustainable Development Goals in a speech setting out ambitions for Rio+20.
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8 February 2012
A taskforce comprising of Marine Scotland, The Crown Estate, environmental regulators and renewable energy developers has published a blueprint to streamline the construction of offshore generation systems.
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8 February 2012
Newly-appointed UK Energy Minister Edward Davey has created a new team within the Department of Energy and Climate Change dedicated to energy efficiency.
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7 February 2012
A UK energy bill to be introduced later this year will monetise energy efficiency in the same way the feed-in tariff supports renewable generation, it was revealed by Minister for Energy and Climate Change Greg Barker at a NewNet event.
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6 February 2012
More than 100 Conservative MPs in the UK have written to the Prime Minister demanding a cut to the level of subsidy the country’s onshore wind industry receives.
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6 February 2012
The Chinese government has ordered airlines based in the country not to comply with the European Union’s charge on carbon emissions.
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31 January 2012
A surge in Chinese solar cell and panel imports into the US may result in back-dated tariff duties being applied on the equipment under new action to be taken by the Department of Commerce.
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30 January 2012
The Spanish Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has announced the temporary suspension of feed-in tariff support for new cogeneration, renewable energy or waste-to-energy facilities.
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30 January 2012
The US city of Houston has joined the Better Buildings Challenge, a public-private partnership looking to improve energy efficiency by 20 per cent in commercial, government and school buildings by 2020.
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26 January 2012
Political support for renewables is far-reaching with parties on both sides of the spectrum in full support of its development, a Member of the European Parliament said today.
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26 January 2012
The Colombian capital city of Bogota has launched a pilot project to spur the use of electric vehicles in the city’s taxi fleet.
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26 January 2012
UK businesses may be severely impacted by the government’s decision to set harsher carbon penalties than the rest of Europe.
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