Wednesday, October 26, 2011

renewable energy - Urgent investment needed in renewable energy: new IEA chief




Oct. 19 - Investment is needed in renewable energy sources now to guarantee a sustainable energy future, says the new head of the International Energy Agency, Maria van der Hoeven.



In the News:




Energy and Environmental Management (EAEM) Magazine

IEA chief says scrap fossil fuel subsidies or face catastrophe
Energy and Environmental Management (EAEM) Magazine
The world in 2008-10 was subsidising fossil fuels by almost 13 times more than renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power and biofuels, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Fossil fuels received $557 billion compared to $43-46 billion ...

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California's Electric Policy is Not a Model for the United States
Electric Light & Power
In 2009, as reported in The New York Times, Schwarzenegger had a proposal. “Why can we get the water from the Colorado River but we can't get renewable energy from outside the state?” Schwarzenegger said. “We get most of our cars from outside the state ...

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Novinite.com

Independent Presidential Candidate Meglena Kuneva: Bulgaria Needs Non ...
Novinite.com
Why would you amend the Renewable Energy Act in a way that contradicts your own energy strategy? What should foreign and local investors read then, which is the correct document, when they want to make a 20, 30, 50-year investment. ...

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Smart Meters: Stimulus-Funded Devices Benefit Green Lobby at Consumers' Expense
Big Government
(An EMP blast could knock out the whole thing) Instead of investing in this command-and-control "smart grid," what we need to be doing is regionalizing our energy capacities to minimize the threats to our power infrastructure. ...

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Tackling energy challenges the Singapore way
eco-business.com
The result, he explained, is that as the cost of producing solar energy gets lower, it is becoming commercially viable in Singapore ahead of other markets. Meanwhile, EMA's Mr Chee said that the EMA will continue to invest in new energy research to ...

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