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EU

08/09/10 Smart grids play key role in modern energy infrastructure

The EU's ambitious goals of a 20 percent increase in energy efficiency, a 20 percent increase in renewables and a 20 percent reduction of carbon dioxide emissions - all by the year 2020 - are a huge undertaking.

Category: Carbon Emissions (CO2)and carbon capture, European Community

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08/09/10 EU looks to free up €115m in extra low-carbon funding

Proposed changes to EU rules on financial assistance look set to free up about €115m (£95.6m) in otherwise unspent funds that could be used to support clean and efficient energy projects.

Category: Carbon Emissions (CO2)and carbon capture, European Community, Business Services

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Biodiesel

07/09/10 European Commission investigating possible illegal entry of US biodiesel from Singapore and Canada

The European Commission (EC) has called for an investigation of "sufficient evidence" that anti-dumping and countervailing measures imposed on imports of biodiesels originating in the US are being circumvented by importing biodiesel consigned from Canada and Singapore at lower, subsidised prices.

Category: Biodiesel, European Community, USA

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Biomass

06/09/10 Autoclave firm outlines “very exciting” waste-to-energy plans

Waste treatment company Sterecycle has revealed it is looking at the potential for developing biomass and anaerobic digestion technology to recover energy from waste at its Rotherham autoclave facility.

Category: Biomass, other than pellets, Residues and waste, European Community

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Biogas

06/09/10 The winner takes it all

Can the EU-backed Nabucco and the Russian-backed South Stream pipelines both be built?

Category: Biogas, European Community

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Biomass

31/08/10 Europe's renewable future with biomass

The issue of renewable energy has become a key priority for countries across the world, but European states are particularly keen on the issue due to official targets which are in place.

Category: Biomass, other than pellets, European Community

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Biodiesel

30/08/10 Global Biodiesel Production and Market Report

The EU continues its reign as the world’s largest biodiesel producer, but nearly two-thirds of the region’s installed production capacity is currently idle.

Category: Biodiesel, European Community

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EU

27/08/10 EU demands new rules for controversial CDM gas projects

The EU's top climate change official yesterday waded into the debate surrounding alleged loopholes within the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), arguing that the offsetting scheme needs a "major overhaul".

Category: Climate Change, Carbon Emissions (CO2)and carbon capture, Tradeable Tickets and Rights, European Community, Politics

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22/08/10 The ENI option

The moment of truth for both the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline and the Russian-backed South Stream pipeline is getting closer.

Category: European Community

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Biodiesel is being dumped on the European market by illegal methods

19/08/10 EC launches anti-circumvention investigation

The European Commission launched an investigation into imports of U.S.-based biodiesel to Europe as it seeks to find out if anti-dumping measures that were imposed on the U.S. in March 2009 are being circumvented.

Category: Biodiesel, Glycerol, USA, European Community

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Bioenergy

09/08/10 ‘Beware cascading effects of EU energy directive’

Major palm oil producing countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia must be watchful for the "cascading" effects of the proposed European Union's (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) next year, warned a visiting European economist.

Category: Biomass, other than pellets, Sustainability , European Community

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Biodiesel

09/08/10 EU says US soy biodiesel does not meet emission standards

In Germany, the United Soybean Board filed a second GHG balance for soy derived diesel from the U.S.

Category: Biodiesel, European Community, USA, Germany, Sustainability

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US B99 biodiesel exports to the EU before and after anti-dumping and countervailing duties. Source: USDA

03/08/10 Persisting unfair trade practices impede the EU potential for biodiesel production

The lower growth rate of 17 percent instead of the previous 35% EU biodiesel production and the reduced capacity utilisation rate are to be primarily is explained by the persistence of unfair trade practices on the worldwide biodiesel market.

Category: Biodiesel, European Community

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29/07/10 Eastern Europe struggling to meet EU climate targets

The EU's Eastern European newcomers, who still need to catch up with the rest of the Union in terms of economic and social development, face an uphill battle to attain the 'climate targets' laid out in the bloc's 'Europe 2020' strategy, a round-up of articles from the EurActiv media network reveals

Category: Climate Change, European Community

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23/07/10 European industry leaders want higher CO2 prices

Twenty-seven European industry leaders have attached their names to a letter to the Financial Times, in which they ask the three Environment Ministers of Germany, France and Britain for more stringent CO2 reduction goals. The British Financial Times published the letter this Wednesday.

Category: European Community

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Renewable Energy

20/07/10 European Commission boosts environmental research with €205m

Environmental research projects across the EU are to get a €205 million leg-up courtesy of the European Commission.

Category: Biomass, other than pellets, European Community

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EU

20/07/10 Eastern Europe struggling to meet EU climate targets

The EU's Eastern European newcomers, who still need to catch up with the rest of the Union in terms of economic and social development, face an uphill battle to attain the 'climate targets' laid out in the bloc's 'Europe 2020' strategy, a round-up of articles from the EurActiv media network reveals.

Category: Climate Change, European Community

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14/07/10 EU reports shows sustainable cheap energy is on the rise

Renewable cheap energy sources accounted for almost two-thirds of new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU last year, a new survey reveals.

Category: Sustainability , European Community

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Emissions

14/07/10 EU and US intensify power plant emissions crackdown

Fossil fuel-fired power plants on both sides of the Atlantic are set to face tough new emissions rules after the EU and US this week moved forward with plans to tackle air pollution.

Category: Pollution, European Community, USA

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Discussion about biofuels

08/07/10 Europe’s biofuel ambitions thrown into question

Behind closed doors, the biofuels debate has been raging. The dialogue between lobbyists, scientists and high-ranking European civil servants has been intense and their opinions often disparate.

Category: Bioethanol, Biodiesel, Politics, European Community

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