| La Comisaria responsable de Cambio Climático ha anunciado 4500 millones de € para proyectos innovadores en tecnologías con baja emisión de dióxido de carbono y energías renovables. Esta ayuda representará el 50% del coste del proyecto, por lo que la parte restante correrá a cargo de la empresa presentadora y del estado. El programa se llama NER 300 y la presentación de propuestas es hasta el 9 de febrero de 2011. |
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| Vitoria-Gasteiz, a regional capital of northern Spain, has made great progress in greening a traditional urban environment. The "Green Belt", a semi-natural green area partially reclaimed from degraded areas, surrounds the centre, ensuring its entire population of almost a quarter of a million people lives within 300 metres of an open green space. Numerous measures are in place to assist and increase biodiversity and ecosystem services. Flora and fauna are monitored and habitat fragmentation is reduced wherever possible. Estocolmo es la capital de este año y Hamburgo la del próximo año. |
| Energy Renewable World, citando fuentes de El Comercio de Lima, indica que el gobierno peruano prevé tres plantas eólicas en el norte del país, en el Departamento de Piura, y tres fotovoltaicas en el sur, en los departamentos de Moquegua, Arequipa y Tacna. Suman un total de 200 Mw a instalar que entrarán en funcionamiento en 2012. |
| La empresa Viñaresol que tiene otras instalaciones fotovoltaicas en distintos puntos de la península ha inaugurado una planta de 9 Mw con la que espera producir 21 Gwh anuales. Está en un terreno de 61 Ha y cuenta con 720 seguidores solares y 57000 módulos fotovoltaicos, representando el 10% de la potencia solar de Aragón. Espera obtener unas rentas anuales de 6,2 millones de €. |
| Con tecnología de colectores cilindro-parabólicos, Acciona ha conectado a la red una nueva planta termosolar en la provincia de Cáceres. Ha invertido 214 millones de € y su mantenimiento supondrá 31 puestos de trabajo. Esta planta se une a la que instaló en Nevada (USA) y otra posterior en la provincia de Badajoz. Tiene previsto concluir 2011 con dos nuevas plantas más hasta alcanzar 264 Mw instalados |
| On October 26th, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the $6 billion Blythe Solar Project to be built across more than 7,000 acres in California’s desert. Around the same time, approval came through for the Ivanpah Solar Project, which will produce enough energy to power the equivalent of 140,000 average American homes each year. The latest approval came yesterday for the 250-megawatt (MW) Genesis Solar Energy Project, which will be built on desert land in southeastern California — a mere 25 miles of the Blythe solar project site. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and California Energy Commission approved the project in September, leaving Federal approval as the final barrier standing in the way of construction. Now that the barrier has been broken, the project is expected to be completed in late 2012 or early in the 2013 calendar year. Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources is developing the project and expects it to create 1,100 new jobs and power as many as 188,000 average American homes each year. Thirty percent of the $300 million tab to construct the project will come from federal stimulus funds. Genesis will be built on public land. |
| Banco Sabadell ya destina 200 millones anuales a proyectos de renovables, especialmente a través de Sinia XXI. Esta sociedad gestiona las inversiones en Eissi, Adelanta Corporación, Eolia, Ferse Energías Renovables y en dos parques eólicos. Además quiere responder a las peticiones de crédito que ha recibido en el sector de las renovables y la eficiencia energética. |
| Rapid growth has come to alternative energy. Wind power generation grew more than tenfold in the U.S. in the 2000s, while funding for solar startups soared past many information technology sectors. But in the 2010s, feed-in tariffs will decrease, and many renewable electricity sources will approach cost parity with fossil-fuel sources. As a result, manufacturers and investors will increasingly depend on production economics, not global politics, to achieve high returns on invested capital. According to FreeSky Research's latest report, Generating Returns on Renewable Generation, this will force adjustments in business and investment practices, with closer attention to specific issues, such as: * Heavy dependence on credit markets and syndicated loans to finance capacity expansion, * Raising fixed asset utilization for solar manufacturers. The defining financial trait of this sector will be a much greater diversity of capital sources than we've seen in either traditional manufacturing or information technology. |
| La subcomisión del Parlamento que estudia la estrategia energética para los próximos veinticinco años, no ha logrado concretar un mecanismo de financiación de las renovables que no afecte solo a la tarifa eléctrica. Al indicar que la mención que mantienen en el documento base no supone la propuesta de ninguna medida impositiva acuerdan que queda como "un problema que hay que resolver de alguna manera". En energía nuclear, no se ha producido ningún avance al mantenerse el PP inamovible alrededor del alargamiento de la vida de las centrales. |
| Aunque en la Comisión Europea se ha dado el visto bueno al mantenimiento de las ayudas hasta el 2014, parece que Alemania habla de un compromiso hasta 2018 y se trataría de ajustar la política de la UE a este compromiso. El problema es que se abandonen realmente después de esta fecha, según el Comisario de Energía, el alemán Oestinger. |
| On November 8, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a $50-million collaboration which the two nations hope will identify cheaper solar power solutions. Gillard, elected in June, and Clinton, an Obama appointee who took office in January of 2009, want to see consumer prices for solar power technologies come down as much as two to four times their current rate, leveling the cost playing field between solar energy and fossil-fuel power within five years. |
| The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is facilitating the further development of socioeconomic scenarios, portraits of possible social and economic futures, by the scientific community. In a three-day workshop in Berlin that concluded on Wednesday, experts in climate change impacts, adaptation, vulnerabilities, and mitigation discussed strategies for increasing the policy relevance of studies that will be assessed in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) to be published in 2014. |
| On October 21, the National Research Council (NRC) began operations on a new high-efficiency solar energy experiment at the Canadian Centre for Housing Technology, located on NRC property in Ottawa. “Semiconductors Using Nanostructures for Record Increases in Solar-cell Efficiency” (SUNRISE) is a project that will benefit both the green economy and those eager to make solar energy more efficient |
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