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The Dutch government said it will invest 7.5 billion euros in energy supply between now and 2011 with priority given to renewable energy, energy saving and CO2 reduction in order to reduce the country’s dependency on oil and gas, Dutch newspapers reported on Thursday.
In its energy policy unveiled on Wednesday the government said the country’s […]

How much computing can mankind afford? That is a question the computer and telecoms industries hate to hear. They do not see themselves in the same dirty league as airlines or carmakers, sources of huge amounts of carbon dioxide, but instead as part of the solution. In a pre-emptive strike, a group of technology firms […]

Britain could invest more than £100bn in renewable energy over the next decade and still fail to meet an EU target on clean technology, the government’s own renewables advisers have warned.The Renewables Advisory Board (RAB), made up of senior figures from across the industry, says the best the UK could realistically hope for is to […]

Greenpeace says green renewable energy can be cheaper, cleaner, and create more jobs than fossil fuels.The organisation also says that if the alternative energy is embraced now, it could see the phasing out of coal use by 2030.
In a new report titled Australia’s Energy Revolution, the group says the right recipe would deliver 40 per […]

The United States should focus its energy efforts, in part, on renewable energy sources, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said Sunday.The North Dakota official said on “Fox News Sunday” that offshore oil production should be increased, and that finding new and renewable sources would be beneficial for the nation.
“I believe we need to do a lot […]

The wind is free and almost limitless in this huge, coal-dependent country, but harnessing its power for energy is more expensiveWhen glimpsed from afar, the huge wind turbines look impossibly silent. Eleven machines, with 34-meter-long rotor blades, have been erected on the fringe of a large recreational park in Shanghai’s Nanhui district, about 34 kilometers […]

The US and China will announce an agreement on energy and the environment at their Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) meeting next week, a senior Treasury official said today.Ambassador Alan Holmer, the Treasury’s special envoy for China, told reporters the agreement would cover clean air, clean water, clean and efficient production and transmission of electricity, and […]

U.S. Senator Barack Obama today released the following statement following the Senate’s votes on the Consumer First Energy Act (S. 3044) and the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act (H.R. 6049). Both measures were blocked today.”Today, Senate Republicans turned a blind eye to the plight of America’s working families and our nation’s worsening dependence on […]

The computer you’re reading this article on might just be getting more electricity from renewable energy. That’s because a new, renewable energy power plant just started generating electricity earlier this week. The bio-mass power plant is located in eastern Arizona in the town of Snowflake. A bio-mass power plant takes materials that would normally be […]

Helping developing nations fight global warming and sharing views on soaring oil and food prices were among the topics on hand at a Group of Eight finance ministers’ meeting opening Friday.The two-day meeting also will address other global issues, including aid for Africa and possibly exchange rates, officials say.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, one of […]