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Egypt shows faith in renewable energy with wind farm tender

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 11 November 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Comercio Internacional, Energia, English

A tender for a 1,000-megawatt wind farm signals intent by the Egyptian government to meet its ambitious target for tapping renewable energy sources.

Germany Sets Aside $130 Billion for Renewable Energy

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 20 October 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Energia, English

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on 30 May that Germany, the world’s fourth-largest economy and Europe’s biggest, would shutter all of its 17 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, an extraordinary commitment, given that they currently produce about 28 percent of the country’s electricity.

20 percent of Germany’s power grid now from green energy

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 08 September 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Comercio Internacional, Energia, English

It doesn’t have Norway’s waterfalls or Spain’s sun-drenched plains. Nonetheless, Germany is inching its way up the list of renewable-energy producers: In the first six months of 2011, green energy for the first time accounted for more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity production.

China increases 2015 renewable energy goals

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 05 September 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Energia, English

China will raise development targets for renewable energy such as wind energy for the five-year period through 2015. The country aims to have 100 GW of grid wind power generating capacity by the end of 2015.

Africa’s renewable energy electrification race to be led by wind energy

Yazan: Ali Shakhtur | 19 August 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Comercio Internacional, Energia

Wind power is expected to dominate Africa’s renewable energy sector over the next decade as the continent faces a massive struggle of providing electricity to remote communities.