Archive for July, 2009
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31 July 2009
On 28 April 2009, Vestas announced it expected to lay off approximately 1,900 employees at the company’s production units in Northern Europe, primarily in Denmark and UK, as part of a wider capacity reduction strategy in Northern Europe.
The announcement was made in response to conditions in the Northern European markets not having met the company’s [...]
Category: Wind energy
Enel installs 23 Mw of wind power in Sardinia and France
27 July 2009
The Enel Group Company operating in the renewables sector has installed 23 MW of additional wind capacity in Italy and France. In Sardinia seven 1.5 MW wind turbines have been installed, for a total capacity of 10.50 MW, to be added to the 54 MW of the wind farm at Sedini in the province of [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
EDF and EnBW lay the first stone of extension work at the hydroelectric power station at Iffezheim
26 July 2009
Pierre Gadonneix, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EDF, Hans Peter Villis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EnBW and Günter Oettinger, Prime Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg (south west Germany) have just laid the first stone of a new 38 MW turbine at the Iffezheim hydroelectric power station on the Rhine. The Iffezheim [...]
Category: Energy
Gamesa and Huadian: joint development of 200 MW of wind farms in Mongolia
25 July 2009
Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica and Huadian New Energy Development Co., Ltd. have reached an agreement for the supply of Wind Turbines totalling 300 MW in wind power. The agreement includes 200 MW to be installed at wind projects jointly developed throughout 2009-2011 by Gamesa and Huadian in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China.
All the [...]
Category: Energy, Wind energy
Commission adopts four ecodesign regulations that will save the equivalent power consumption of Austria and Sweden
24 July 2009
The European Commission adopted today four ecodesign regulations to improve the energy efficiency of industrial motors, circulators, televisions, refrigerators and freezers. The regulations lay down energy efficiency requirements which will save about 190 TWh per year by 2020, which is comparable to the combined annual electricity consumption of Sweden and Austria.
“This package is a milestone [...]
Category: Energy savings, Politics
11 projects to join the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign
23 July 2009
11 projects joined the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign as official partners covering three out of the five campaigning areas, namely: Sustainable Energy Communities; Promotional,Communication and Educational actions; Demonstration and Dissemination projects.
The projects are:
- GERONIMO
- YEP!
- Guidelines for Smart Metering
- BewareE
- Methods of exploiting biomass
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- HighBio
- GeoTrainet
- GTR-H
- SUPPORT_ERS
- Schools in Calabria
Category: Energy
The European Commission launches the Best ICT for Energy Efficiency Project Award
22 July 2009
The competition is open to any publicly funded research and technological development projects. Both National and Regional funded projects as well as European funded projects are eligible.
The competition aims to promote innovation in ICT which will contribute to substantial and measurable improvements in energy efficiency, and which have the potential to provide visible and convincing [...]
Category: Energy savings
12 companies plan establishment of a Desertec Industrial Initiative
18 July 2009
12 companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Munich to establish a DESERTEC Industrial Initiative (DII). The objective of this initiative is to analyse and develop the technical, economic, political, social and ecological framework for carbon-free power generation in the deserts of North Africa. The DESERTEC concept, developed by the TREC Initiative of the Club [...]
Category: Energy, Solar energy
Parabolic through power plant Andasol 3 in Spain
14 July 2009
Stadtwerke München and RWE Innogy are realising the solar thermal power plant Andasol 3 in the south of Spain in conjunction with MAN Ferrostaal, RheinEnergie and Solar Millennium. The power plant was developed by Erlangen-based Solar Millennium AG. Stadtwerke München has a 48.9% share in the project company Marquesado Solar S.L. RWE Innogy and RheinEnergie [...]
Category: Energy, Solar energy
Launch of new solution for the financing of photovoltaic systems
13 July 2009
Intesa Sanpaolo and Enel.si, the Enel Green Power company that is a leader in the installation of renewable energy systems, have signed an agreement that will enable households and businesses to obtain financing for the purchase and installation of photovoltaic systems. The objective of the agreement is to offer dedicated financial solutions to help promote [...]
Category: Energy
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