Biogas production in Europe has experienced an upsurge since 2000, reaching 14,9 Mtoe in 2014, as a result of national and EU policies to promote renewable energy sources. In Europe, biogas is principally used to generate electricity, contributing to 6.1% of power generation from renewable sources. First subject to strongly supportive policies, the biogas sector read more…
Category: Energy
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FOCUS AFRICA – Ethiopian Great Run: will green energy sustain growth?
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is among Africa’s largest states, and the second in terms of population. The 101 million Ethiopians are experiencing a sharp increase in their per capita GDP since 2002, according to the World Bank. Ethiopia’s “Great run” in terms of economic growth during the years 1992-2004 and, even more incisively, read more…
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FOCUS AFRICA – Energy made to export: the case of Algeria
A rentier state with a national GDP almost entirely dependent on hydrocarbons revenues, Algeria is a strategic geopolitical actor for the Mediterranean and Northern African area, and also a likely green energy exports leader in the near future, if policy pledges are to be fulfilled. The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria is today the largest read more…
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Details of five-year plan confirms China’s clean energy commitments for 2020
Recent announcements by Chinese government agencies have shed new light on how the country intends to achieve its 2020 energy goals. China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) in January revealed some details of the blueprint for the energy sector in the period 2016-2020, strictly linked to the 13th Five-Year Plan (13FYP) issued in March 2016. According read more…
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Carbon capture steps up with new large scale operations and tech breakthrough
The Petra Nova project started operations in Texas in the first days of 2017. The USD1bn large-scale carbon capture facility is installed at a coal-fired power plant and uses captured emissions to extract crude from a nearby oilfield (through the so-called enhanced oil recovery, EOR, system). The project is a 50-50 joint venture by companies read more…
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US and Canada announce permanent ban on offshore drilling in Arctic and Atlantic waters
Outgoing US President Barack Obama on Tuesday (Dec. 20) announced a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling in Arctic and Atlantic US federal waters. According to Reuters, the ban affects 115 million acres (46.5 million hectares) of federal waters off Alaska in the Chukchi Sea and most of the Beaufort Sea and 3.8 read more…
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India will not need new coal plants in 2022, Central Electricity Authority says
India’s Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has announced that no new coal-fired plants will be needed in 2022. This announcement comes in the recently released draft of the 13th National Electricity Plan, a plan outlining the country’s energy strategy for the five-year period 2017-2022 and making projections for the following five years, 2022-2027. The CEA estimates read more…
