MÜNCHEN, DEUTSHCLAND/ Kurz nach dem Gewinn des vom Bundesverkehrsministerium ausgeschriebenen Wettbewerbs.

„Vision – elektromobile Stadt der Zukunft“ stellt die EIGHT GmbH & Co. KG nun auf der eCarTec in München erstmals einen seriennahen Prototypen seiner neuartigen Solarladestation vor.

PADERBORN, GERMANY/ According to a new report by analysts the global installed base of smart meters will reach 535 million units by 2015.

Further it is projected that the installed base of smart meters will continue its growth beyond 2015, reaching 963 million units by 2020.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM/ Strong social and environmental safeguards are needed to protect people and the planet from unsustainable bioenergy expansion.

Bioenergy is any energy made from materials such as wood, sugarcane, corn and algae with a growing production in Latin America, for example, a continent with big extensions of ground that allows this kind of plantations.

ISTANBUL, TURKEY/ The announcement was done by the Austrian company OMV, during a Capital Markets Day and Media Summit in Istanbul where the company presented its new market strategy.

The strategy builds on growing OMV’s upstream portfolio, on expanding its integrated gas business and on restructuring the oil downstream segment.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM/ The EU should reconsider a 25% emission reduction target by 2020 in order to achieve the agreed goal of an 80%-95% drop by 2050.

This was recommended by the European Economic and Social Committee in an opinion on the European Commission's roadmap for moving to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM/ Last Monday European Union Commissioner Andris Piebalgs was appointed as a member of the High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for all. Piebalgs was promoted with leaders from business, government, international organisation and civil society.

The High-level Group, recently launched, will work to develop a global agenda to achieve the objective of Sustainable Energy for All by 2030 and to provide clear actions to take at the global and regional level.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM/ The photovoltaic industry has grown in 2010 more than ever. The sector reached a world-wide production volume of 23.5 gigawatt (GW) of photovoltaic modules.

Since 1990, photovoltaic module production has increased more than 500-fold from 46 megawatts (MW) to 23.5 GW in 2010, which makes photovoltaics PV) one of the fastest-growing industries at present. 

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA/ 28 years ago, the Australian Supreme Court banned the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the Franklin River, Tasmania, in a case which came to be internationally known as Tasmania v. Commonwealth.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the unemployment rate in Tasmania was 10 per cent (the highest in the country), and the local liberal government together with some big businesses and industries saw the construction of the Franklin dam as the remedy for all evils.

GERNSBACH, DEUTSCHLAND/ Der Brancheninformationsdienst EUWID Neue Energien erscheint ab Ende September im wöchentlichen Rhythmus.

Damit reagiert der Europäische Wirtschaftsdienst (EUWID) auf die hohe Dynamik, mit der sich die Energiewende seit den Ereignissen in Fukushima vollzieht.

WIEN, ÖSTERREICH/ Man kennt das von der Lottoziehung: Ein Luftstrom bläst in den Behälter mit den Kugeln und lässt sie wild umherströmen, fast wie eine Flüssigkeit.

So ähnlich kann man sich das Wirbelschichtverfahren vorstellen. Feste Stoffe werden durch Einströmen von Gas oder Flüssigkeit in einen Zustand versetzt, in dem sie sich beinahe wie Flüssigkeiten verhalten.