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Finland has quietly but effectively marched ahead with the energy transition. Helena Sarén joins the show to explain the secret to the Scandinavian nation’s green success.
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March 26, 4:59 AM
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As the world continues to grapple with the effects of climate change, which includes increasingly devastating floods, the need for solutions has become more pressing. Things like rising sea levels, unpredictable weather patterns and intensified storms have put communities at unprecedented risk. One of the most effective tools to mitigate these risks is renewable energy.…
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February 28, 3:22 AM
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Renewable energy: rural areas can be the EU’s green powerhouse
The European Union aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% in 2030 compared to 1990 levels, and to become the first carbon-neutral economy by 2050. This ambitious goal requires a radical increase in the production of green energy within a relatively short timeframe. The untapped potential of rural areas in the union offers a way forward.
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January 13, 10:40 AM
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The UK’s electricity was the cleanest ever in 2024, new Carbon Brief analysis shows, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per unit falling by more than two-thirds in a decade.
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January 8, 2024 10:51 AM
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Under the Renewable Energy Directive, the EU has increased its 2030 renewable target from 32 per cent to 42.5 per cent.
The amount of renewable energy used by EU countries is on the rise, according to a recent report.
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, found that the share of renewable sources in gross energy consumption at the EU level reached 23 per cent in 2022.
That’s up from 2021, which saw 21.9 per cent come from renewables.
Here’s how different European countries compared.
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August 1, 2023 7:59 AM
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Luxembourg's energy ministry announced that solar power already meets one-third of the country's household energy demand. However, this is still only a tiny fraction of the overall energy consumption ..
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June 26, 2023 4:00 AM
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On 11 June, Denmark’s solar panels and wind farms managed to produce enough electricity to satisfy more than 100% of the demand in the country. That, however, is something that cannot be reliably repl..
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April 18, 2023 7:43 AM
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Sunny weather has forced the Czech state-owned company ČEPS to disconnect hundreds of solar power plants from the grid for the first time in history as their high production levels created a surplus that threatened the national power grid.
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September 28, 2022 7:56 AM
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The 1,000 municipal utilities that are the last link in the German energy supply chain are feeling the pinch of record-high energy prices, raising fears that some of them might go bankrupt.
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January 25, 2022 9:39 AM
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Doter la France d’un parc nucléaire pour réduire sa dépendance aux importations de pétrole, après la crise pétrolière de 1973, tel était l’objectif du président Valéry Giscard d’Estaing quand il a lancé, en 1974, un programme qui allait aboutir à la construction de 45 centrales de production d’électricité d’origine nucléaire.
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October 6, 2021 3:41 AM
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We need to expand wind energy by at least 10 times in the next few decades in order to limit global warming in 2100
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October 6, 2021 2:58 AM
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The Prime Minister will speak later this week at the Conservative Party Conference and in line with his ‘Build Back Better’ slogan will announce a new major investment in renewables and nuclear energy, according to The Times.
Addressing the event which takes place in Manchester with around 10,000 delegates, Mr Johnson is expected to say that this move will underpin the UK’s net zero target.
In the last few days, rising energy prices and the fuel crisis have piled pressure on the government which is now exploring ways to reduce the reliance on gas and other fossil fuels.
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August 19, 2021 10:25 AM
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According to a preliminary estimation, the new solar park will meet around 15% of the annual heating requirements of citizens of Friesach. The thermal power that the plant will generate will be fed into a 10-kilometres-long pipe, powering the district’s heating network.
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April 3, 5:53 AM
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The closure of a coal power plant in Finland today brings the country to the brink of a full coal phase-out - four years ahead of schedule.
Power utility company Helen officially decommissioned its Salmisaari plant in Helsinki on 1 April, dropping coal to a less than 1 per cent share of the country’s energy mix.
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February 28, 4:37 AM
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Hydrogen is not a silver bullet for the energy transition and the hype that grew up around the clean-burning fuel is slowly dying down. Helen Spence-Jackson joins the show to explain why that is a good development
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January 24, 9:30 AM
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In 2024, solar power overtook coal in the European Union’s electricity mix for the first time, while wind's share of power stayed flat, think-tank Ember said in a study released today.
Solar generation provided 11% of the EU’s electricity mix in 2024, up from 9.3% in 2023, and overtook coal, which fell to less than 10% for the first time in decades, the study found.
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August 20, 2024 8:04 AM
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The small Dutch island of Ameland, located in the Wadden Sea will be the site of the first electricity generated by the power of sea tides in the country. The project, which seeks to test a new technology called TidalKite will add a new dimension to the concept of renewable energy sources.
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October 13, 2023 3:49 AM
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Every year, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) puts together a report, looking at the cost of renewable power production. The latest iteration shows that, despite inflation, the cost has dropped.
According to the report, the global weighted average levelised cost of electricity from new utility-scale solar, onshore wind, bioenergy and geothermal production fell. Thanks to the rise in fossil fuel prices, this makes the cost argument for renewables even more compelling, according to IRENA.
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July 21, 2023 6:46 AM
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Leag says it is on a mission to reinvent itself and secure the future prosperity of a region in the country’s former communist east
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April 18, 2023 8:42 AM
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2023 will mark the beginning of the decline in fossil fuels, following the peak of global electricity emissions in 2022, according to a new report released on Wednesday (12 April) by energy think-tank Ember.
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February 1, 2023 5:34 AM
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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s southern city of Mostar will build a solar power plant for its own needs, in the hope of bringing down electricity prices, Klix.ba reported on Tuesday. The plant will be the first of its kind in the country, which was granted the status of EU candidate in December.
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May 31, 2022 2:55 AM
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COLUMN. The measure comes against a background of skyrocketing inflation that has rekindled the debate on inequality in the United Kingdom, as journalist Jean-Michel Bezat explains.
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November 29, 2021 2:57 AM
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Global progress on energy efficiency has recovered this year to its pre-pandemic pace, but that was already well short of what would be needed to help put the world on track to reach net zero emissions by mid-century, according to the IEA’s annual market report on the topic. Total annual investment in efficient energy worldwide needs to triple by 2030 to be consistent with a path towards reaching net zero emissions by 2050, as set out in the IEA’s Roadmap to Net Zero by 2050.
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October 6, 2021 3:37 AM
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A faster rollout of renewable energies such as wind and solar is the best response to recent spikes in gas and power prices, an EU official said on Wednesday (29 September), repeating earlier statements by the European Commission.
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September 29, 2021 9:01 AM
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Charleroi mise sur un plan de rénovation énergétique déjà en cours. En effet, plusieurs zones de la ville au passé industriel sont en cours de réurbanisation et la Ville veut en profiter pour évaluer le potentiel énergétique de ces zones afin de permettre la planification de réseaux qui permettraient de gérer au mieux les flux d'énergie. D'autre part, les autorités communales ont analysé les potentielles sources d'énergies locales et renouvelables offertes par leur territoire. La région dispose en effet de certaines ressources liées à son passé minier. Le potentiel géothermique découlant de l'ancienne exploitation minière de la région est très important et proche du centre-ville. De plus, le gaz de mines, aussi appelé grisou, s'accumule dans certains puits de mine et pourrait être utilisé pour générer assez de chaleur et d'électricité pour alimenter plusieurs milliers de ménages. La Ville de Charleroi envisage également de produire de l'énergie via la valorisation de la biomasse, qui consiste à utiliser les déchets de bois issus du secteur de l'industrie ou des recyparcs. L'hydrogène et le solaire sont aussi évoqués comme sources d'énergie possibles. Afin de répartir ces flux d'énergie à travers la ville, Charleroi mise sur la construction de réseaux de chaleur, un système qui permet de distribuer à l'échelle d'une ville la chaleur produite par plusieurs chaufferies, situées dans des endroits différents, via des canalisations.
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