| Barack Obama has assembled a powerful policy team in the area of energy and the environment. Two complementary policies appear to be emergin...
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| Barack Obama is expected to turn around America’s energy policy by boosting renewable energy sources and energy efficiency, and by vigorousl...
| Brandenburg, once East Germany’s coal mining centre, is transforming itself into arenewable energy hub. Wind, biomass and solar energy compa...
| Despite heavy opposition from environmentalists and scientists, brown coal continues to be the backbone of Germany’s energy supply. This wil...
| With generous incentives and the prospect of generation costs soon falling in line with market prices, foreign companies are taking position...
| More and more solar technology companies are establishing themselves in the eastern German state of Saxony. The conditions in the state prov...
| Thanks to generous subsidies, the development of solar power has taken off in Belgium. Many players even fear that ‘oversubsidising’ could l...
| France, which used to be a pioneer in solar technology, produces only a fraction of the solar output of market leader Germany. But new, attr...
| China’s coal-driven economy has become the largest emitter of CO2 in the world. This is not about to change any time soon, though high price...
| “We must treat energy security and climate security as two sides of the same coin”, this was said by Tony Blair on the 20th of november 2006...