Energy News of the Week (Feb.10-16, 2014)
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< Asia >
Big Green Energy Is Remaking Africa and Asia
Truthdig-2014/02/11
A significant part of the population of Africa and Asia at present has no access to electricity, and in some countries those deprived amount to as much as 80 percent of the population. That is true in Ethiopia, for instance. Demand for electricity ...
Obstacles to green energy expansion
The Japan Times-2014/02/10
The government has started a review of the feed-in-tariff (FIT) system under which the nation's major power companies in principle have to buy electricity generated by solar, wind, geothermal and medium- to small-scale hydro power and ...
< North America >
America Just Built the World's Largest Solar Power Plant, But Not ...
Slate Magazine (blog)-著者: Will Oremus-2014/02/14
Sprawling across 3,500 acres of the Mojave Desert is a system of gleaming mirrors and soaring towers that looks like nothing else you've seen. It is, in fact, the largest solar thermal power plant in the world, and it officially began operating ...
< South America >
EXCLUSIVE-Drought could make Brazil lower 2014 fiscal goal -source
Thomson Reuters Foundation-2014/02/12
BRASILIA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A severe drought stretching Brazil's finances by pushing up its energybill could force the ... "We need to find a balance between our fiscal position and (energy) prices," the official told Reuters late on Tuesday, ...
< Africa >
Africa Needs $40bn Investment Annually To Meet Energy Target ? EU
Leadership Newspapers-2014/02/13
The European Union (EU) on Wednesday said Africa needs $40 billion worth of annual investment to meet its energy needs by the year 2040. EU's special representative to the African Union, Mr Gary Quince, said this at the opening of the ...
< Europe >
EU states try to bury energy state aid guidelines
EurActiv-2014/02/13
EXCLUSIVE / A proposal to limit the state aid that EU governments can offer their energy sectors would do “massive harm” to industry and needs to be “thoroughly revised,” according to a position paper signed by Germany, and several other ...
< Australia >
Australia to host world's largest wave energy project
Business Spectator-2014/02/11
Top US arms maker Lockheed Martin Corp yesterday said it had signed an agreement with a unit of US-based Ocean Power Technologies to harness the motion of ocean waves to generate electricity off the coast of Victoria. The $230 million ...