Interview: "The new Rhône-Alpes regional Climate Plan"
21/02 | 2012 marks the year in which there will be a significant number of energy saving and environment protection plans announced by the French regions. With the milestone year of 2020 only eight years away, many regions are accelerating their initiatives to save energy and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Regions such as Midi–Pyrénées (see the article French region Midi Pyrénées: A new energy plan on REFER) and Rhône-Alpes have already done so and have both published a Climate Plan at the beginning of 2012. REFER spoke with Benoît Leclair, the regional Vice-President for Energy and Climate for Rhône-Alpes about this new plan:
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Michael Chaplin has joined the group Regions' energy mix
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Michael Chaplin has joined the group Smart grids
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Michael Chaplin has joined the group Efficient Energy
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Jo-Anne Duff has joined the group Regions' energy mix
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ITALY: Lombardy, zero energy buildings within 2015
12/04 | One of the key points of the new ‘Act for growth’, approved last week the Regional Council of Lombardy, is the new law to promote energy efficiency measures in buildings, which aims to anticipate to 2015 the requirements of Directive 2010/31/CE for public and private buildings set for 2020. The ...
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Scottish government approves new wind farm development for the Shetlands
04/04 | Plans have been approved to build a controversial wind farm in the Centre of Shetland. The new development will feature 103 wind turbines and will be the third biggest wind farm in Scotland once completed. Concerns have been raised over the size of the project and fears that it would ...
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Turkish renewables sector calls for support
04/04 | Turkey should increase feed-in tariffs to improve the competitiveness of renewable energy investments according to top sector professionals. “The government should abandon the current feed-in tariffs for renewable energy producers,” said Kor Özay, assistant general manager of Ağaoğlu Energy, speaking at the third annual Wind & Solar in Turkey Conference in Istanbul. ...
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General Assembly of the Photovoltaic Industry Association committed to uniting Spanish Photovoltaic Sector
04/04 | At the general assembly of the Photovoltaic Industry Association (ASIF) on March 27th in Madrid, the group moved to establish a single national PV association. The decision by ASIF, as required by law, was adopted bya majority of two thirds of the members but now depends on at least two ...
