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A report issued by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) states that there have been more wind power installations in 2008 inside the EU than any other electricity generating technology.
New statistics released show that 43% of all new electricity generating operations built in the European Union last year were wind energy, exceeding all other technologies including gas, coal and nuclear power.
There was a total increase in new power capacity of 19,651 MW in 2008. Out of this, 8,484 MW (43%) was wind power; 6,932 MW (35%) gas powered plants; 2,495 …
Here is a short film produced by Friends of the Earth in Belgium, its message is that politicians have to ‘Act Now’ against climate change
The government have announced plans for a mass fleet of electric vehicles in Ireland.
A new €30 million bio-energy park planned for Ireland is expected to be operational by November 2010, the park will allow agri-food businesses, green technology companies and leading developers of sustainable products to co-locate and share the benefits of stable energy costs.
Professor J Owen Lewis has been appointed as the new chief executive of Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI). He takes over this January from the SEI’s first CEO, David Taylor.
A new report titled “The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Economic Growth and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Ireland” has been published by the The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
A new report issued by Ernst and Young has Ireland placed 10th out of 25 in global renewable energy attractiveness indices. This marks an improvement of two places from the last report and only China had a similar improvement, both countries showing the biggest move upwards in the report.
