Renewable energy
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European Council: Casting shadows on energy policy
20 May 2013192 16 Le Figaro Paris -
Renewable energy: ‘EU: End to green energy subsidies’
4 February 2013148 2PresseuropDie Presse -
Germany: ‘The electricity price brakeman’
29 January 201320 2PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Renewable energy: Ireland back in the green
7 January 20131337 7 La Repubblica Rome -
Germany: Green energy producers cheating with coal
16 November 201261 9PresseuropDie Tageszeitung, Lidové noviny -
Renewable energy: Commissioner Oettinger rails against state subsidies
13 November 201253 10PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Germany: Goodbye to nuclear, welcome back coal
5 September 2012495 92 Wprost Warsaw -
Environment: 'Clean' energy, scourge of our countryside
18 August 2011396 8 La Repubblica Rome -
Debate: Rome-Berlin, new anti-nuke axis
17 June 2011145 3 Corriere della Sera Milan -
Renewable energy: Desertec to take over from nuclear power
8 June 2011230 2 Le Monde Paris -
German press review: Where does the nuclear exit lead to?
31 May 2011132 5 Presseurop -
Germany: Beyond nuclear in 2022
30 May 2011PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Environment: Green energy — but not in my back yard!
6 May 2011206 4 Il Post Milan -
Portrait: Power, not nuclear
2 May 2011153 2 VoxPublica.ro Bucharest -
COP16: The end of easy green money
29 November 201060 Il Foglio Milan -
Renewable Energies: Green revolution will cost you
24 September 2010175 4 Der Spiegel Hamburg -
Renewable energies: A new frontier for green power
20 August 2010208 1 The New York Times New York -
Renewable energies: Is the EU’s global warming policy all wrong?
19 July 201034 1 The Daily Telegraph London -
Solar energy: Set the electricity grid free
8 April 201026 2 La Vanguardia Barcelona -
COP15: Save the planet - get rid of the state
22 December 200912 2 El País Madrid -
Renewable Energy: Scam with the wind
16 December 200930 1 International Herald Tribune Paris -
COP15: Fossil fuels, for the dinosaurs
10 December 200927 El Mundo Madrid -
Wind power: Answer is blowing in the North Sea wind
8 December 20091PresseuropDe Morgen -
Energy: Flemish government turns to green power
6 July 2009PresseuropDe Standaard
From a lack of investment to an underdeveloped renewable energy sector, plus competition from American coal: the domestic energy market faces a slew of obstacles. This is driving concerned European groups begin to put the EU under pressure. 
After two years of radical austerity the Irish economy is going through an upswing, thanks to new revenue the state is collecting from renewable energy and from taxing fossil fuels and rubbish. 
Instead of causing an explosion of “green energies”, the exit from nuclear that Angela Merkel announced in 2011 will bring about the building of new – and highly polluting – coal-burning plants. It’s an option that hasn’t annoyed Germany’s environmentalists. 
Crisis-hit Italian farmers are turning to the intensive cultivation of maize for biogas production, which is more profitable than growing it for food. But they’re laying themselves open to the mercies of speculators -- and they’re threatening biodiversity too, declares the founder of the Slow Food movement. 
Germany is phasing out nuclear power and Italy has rejected its reintroduction. This about-face by two founding members of the European Union could encourage other member states to turn the nuclear page and to develop renewable energies. 
The end of nuclear power in Germany and Switzerland and reduced tolerance for this energy source in many countries in Europe has given a new lease of life to projects based on renewable energy, like the one backed by a German consortium in North Africa. 
Will Germany really phase out nuclear power by 2022 at the latest? Angela Merkel’s decision has been welcomed by the opponents of nuclear energy but raises a host of questions for the future, writes the German press. 
Odd as it may seem, the main victims of environmental conservation appeals are not nuclear power plants or incinerators, but the hydroelectric power stations, solar energy installations and wind farms much-loved by the Green and ecologically minded. 
Founder of one of the first cooperatives for producing renewable energy, Germany’s Ursula Sladeck has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in the United States. 
The crisis has put a dent in carbon emissions – and in the foundations of Europe’s planned green economy. By calling subsidies for inefficient technologies into question, that blow might yet be a boon for the renewable energy sector. 
Chancellor Angela Merkel's vision of completing Germany's conversion to renewable energy by 2050 is bold and ambitious. But she has remained silent about the risks and the tremendous costs the green revolution will entail -- for Germany and all of Europe. 
Pioneering Portugal has radically reduced its dependence on fossil fuels. This year nearly half of its electricity will come from renewable sources. 
The EU's 20/20/20 policy, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, will cost billions but be of very little benefit in the fight against climate change, argues Bjørn Lomborg. 
Current power grid management systems make energy self-sufficiency impossible, even in homes that produce solar power, reports La Vanguardia. However the Catalan daily hopes that artificial restrictions imposed on home energy production by large corporations that run power networks will soon be a thing of the past. 
The main obstacle to a climate deal at the Copenhagen Conference was state sovereignty. The solution, argues political scientist José Ignacio Torreblanca, lies in exporting the EU’s know-how and institutional approach. 
Renewable energies have been high on the agenda during the Copenhagen climate conference. In Europe, however, with €6 billion in EU subsidies up for grabs, the eco-friendly wind farm industry is fast attracting green swindlers of all sorts. A report by the International Herald Tribune. 
Changing our energy system is the key to curbing CO2 emissions and global warming. In the run-up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15), the European Union has announced plans to generate 20% of its energy using renewable sources.