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CROATIA GENERATED THE NEEDED POWER FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES FOR FOUR DAYS
In December 2023, Croatia made a significant step forward in generating electricity from renewable sources, which had a 19.5 per cent share in the total available electricity, excluding hydroelectric plants, thus ranking first when it comes to the production of…
Great britain’s ambitious plans for nuclear energy
The United Kingdom relies heavily on renewable wind energy and gas as well. In recent years, there has been a similar demand for gas and wind and these two sources are the country’s main energy pillars. However, the country is…
China’s petrochemical surge is driving global oil demand growth
The global petrochemical industry – essential to the production of clothing, tyres, detergents, fertilisers, and countless other everyday products – is currently going through a momentous period of transition. Driving this change is a towering wave of new petrochemical plants,…
The EU built a record 17 GW of new wind energy in 2023 – wind now 19 per cent of electricity production
According to WindEurope data, the EU built 17 GW of new wind farms in 2023: 14 GW onshore; 3 GW offshore. These numbers are slightly up on 2022 and are the most the EU has ever built in a single…
Massive expansion of renewable power opens door to achieving global tripling goal set at COP28
The world’s capacity to generate renewable electricity is expanding faster than at any time in the last three decades, giving it a real chance of achieving the goal of tripling global capacity by 2030 that governments set at the COP28…
Drop in EU imports of energy products in Q3 2023
In the third quarter of 2023, the EU imported 35.4 billion euros worth of energy products amounting to a total of 65 million tonnes. Compared with the same quarter of 2022, imports decreased both in value (-49.1 percent) and in…
New Wind Charter and national wind pledges underline ambition for wind power in Europe
The EU’s ambition to advance wind energy took two further steps forward in the margins of Energy Council in Brussels, following up on two of the measures outlined in the recent European Wind Power Action Plan. Firstly, the vast majority…