Energy Efficiency and Climate Change News: 25 August 2010 – 31 August 2010
Merkel: Nuclear plants could run up to 2035
(EurActiv, 30 August 2010)
German chancellor Angela Merkel said earlier this week that Germany’s nuclear power plants could reasonably be extended 10-15 years past their scheduled shut down date of 2021. Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle also supports running plants 12 years beyond the scheduled shutdown date. Chancellor Merkel [...]
Free Download: Energy Security and Climate Policy — Assessing Interactions
We are glad to announce that the IEA Publication Bookshop have made free to download the study “Energy Security and Climate Policy — Assessing Interactions”. This new study underlines the close link between efforts to ensure energy security and those to mitigate climate change. Decisions on one side affect the other. To optimise the [...]
BioWALK4Biofuels goes online!
The BioWALK4Biofuels project website www.biowalk4biofuels.eu went online on 29th July 2010. NGVA Europe, the European association for bio/natural gas vehicles, is one of the project partners and was responsible for developing this new website (see all partners here).
BioWALK4Biofuels, with full title “Biowaste and Algae Knowledge for the Production of 2nd Generation Biofuels” is a new [...]
Natural gas Vehicles: Energy Presidents Speak Out
Ultimately the Markets Will Decide on NGVs, They Say at Recent Brussels Business Summit
This report was published in Fleets & Fuels, submitted by Dr. Jeffrey Seisler.
A high-powered group of presidents and CEOs of some of the world’s largest energy companies participated in a panel, Energy for Europe: Fuelling Growth at the European Business Summit in [...]
Moscow choose CNG!
THE MOSCOW CITY COUNCIL ISSUES A RESOLUTION ON MEASURES TO PROMOTE CNG AS A MOTOR FUEL IN THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL
In June 2010 the city council of Moscow has passed the Resolution # 553-ПП “State of the Works and Further Measures to Promote the Use of Compressed Natural Gas as a Motor Fuel for the Automotive [...]
Greener Cities will be present at NGV India 2010 (November 24ht to 26th, 2010)
We at GreenerCities, with our partners Cavagna, Metatron and Raufoss, are proud to announce our participation in the biggest asian event about NGV/CNG. Here the official press release about the event.
The Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas along with the GAIL (India) Ltd announced their official endorsement for NGV India 2010, while Mahanagar Gas [...]
EU Commission sets out future steps in bio-waste management in the European Union
On 18th May 2010 the European Commission released a Communication with reference COM(2010)235 final to the Council and the European Parliament on future steps in bio-waste management in the European Union. “In the EU between 118 and 138 million tonnes of bio-waste are produced every year, of which about 88 million tonnes is municipal [...]
NGVA Europe kicks off second european project: Biowalk4Biofuels
Biowalk4Biofuels, with full title “Biowaste and Algae Knowledge for the Production of 2nd Generation Biofuels” is a new EU-funded project under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), which aims to develop an innovative system for the treatment of biowaste and use of GHG emissions to produce biofuels, where macroalgae is used as a catalyser. Landfilling of [...]
Verizon Boosts Green Fleet
New York – Telecommunications giant Verizon plans to significantly boost its fleet of alternative fuel vehicles this year with the addition of more than 1,100 hybrid and compressed natural gas sedans, aerial and pick-up trucks, as part of an expanding company strategy aimed at reducing the company’s overall carbon footprint. Verizon operates the country’s second [...]
EU policy on alternative/renewable fuels and GHG emissions
Current European trends concerning the use of energy points at a situation where the greenhouse gas emissions would increase by around 5% by 2030. This is clearly not sustainable.
The European Parliament on 4th February 2009, by a large majority, adopted detailed recommendations for a future integrated policy on climate change, calling on the EU to [...]