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France Preps 17GW Renewables Surge, as German Records Tumble
Just days before he secured his overwhelming victory in France’s presidential election, President-Elect Emmanuel Macron’s plans to double France’s wind and solar capacity by 2022 received a major boost. Late last week the European Commission granted State Aid approval to…
Mark van Wees: Support for Serbia through IPA project
In mid-September last year the representatives of the GFA Consulting Group took participation at the conference in the Serbian Chamber of Commerce where the beginning of work on the Strategy on Climate Change with the Action plan was presented. GFA…
MEPs vote to ban the use of palm oil in biofuels
MEPs have voted overwhelmingly to ban biofuels made from vegetable oils including palm oil by 2020, to prevent the EU’s renewable transport targets from inadvertently contributing to deforestation. A new palm oil regulation, minimum sustainability criteria, customs duty reforms and…
Report: Renewables Knock 10 Per Cent off EU Carbon Emissions
The EU is on track to meet its goal of sourcing 20 per cent of its energy from renewable sources and is successfully displacing fossil fuels through its increased use of renewables. That is the conclusion of a new report…
Northern Irish Energy Storage Cave Project Secures €90m Grant
The UK may be on its way out of the EU, but for the next two years it remains an EU member and eligible for EU clean tech funding. As such, an innovative energy storage project proposed for Northern Ireland…
EU Agrees end to Confusing A+++ Energy Labels
After years of criticism the EU looks set to retire the much-maligned A+++ energy labelling scheme and return to a simpler A-G rating system. The EU originally used an A-G system of labels to inform consumers of the most energy…
Radmila Šerović: Waste Materials of One Industry Will Become Raw Materials of Another
The Chief of the Department for Waste Management at the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection is Ms Radmila Šerović who has been working in the state administration since 2002. More precisely, she has been engaged in waste management in…