Turkey Gas Market
Turkey expected the natural gas demand to rise to 85 bcm in 2015, and planned to greatly develop the electricity production capacity from ga...
Shale Gas and Gas Import Capacities in Europe
In its latest World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency announced an upcoming golden age for natural gas with the strong growth ...
Smart grids: The regulatory is still not in place
Smart grids are seen by many as an effective solution to address some of the toughest challenges the electricity industry has faced so far; ...
Retrofitting of buildings: a cost-efficiency analysis
In 2010, the French Ministry of Research funded a three-year study to analyse possible solutions leading to a reduction in CO2 em...
Poland Energy Efficiency
In compliance with the European Directive on energy efficiency adopted in 2006 (2006/32/EC), Poland presented its National Energy Efficiency...
India’s Black Tuesday - July 31st 2012
The Black Tuesday on July 31st marked perhaps the greatest power outage in world history: the blackout occurred in 20 of India's ...
Policy impacts on biofuels development
Implementation of biofuels polices is complex due to diversity of interests and concerns. Countries around the world are utilising different...
Understanding electrification of industrial consumption
Over the last 20 years, coal consumption and -to a lesser extent- oil consumption have steadily decreased to the advantage of electricity in...
Strong development of wind power capacities in The United Kingdom
The country’s target is to reach 7 000 wind turbines (3 000 of which offshore) by 2020 with an installed capacity of 34 GW. In January 2010,...
Côte d’Ivoire Energy Market Overview
Côte d’Ivoire has an installed capacity of 1 400 MW (2011), 600 MW of which is hydro. The production assets mainly consist of 10 power plant...
Fukushima – The Aftermath
Strong dependence on nuclear energy
The Japanese are large electricity consumers; their consumption per capita reached 7,700 kWh in 2010,...