Executive Briefs on the global energy issues page 10

11 February 2013

In its latest World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency announced an upcoming golden age for natural gas with the strong growth ...

10 December 2012

Smart grids are seen by many as an effective solution to address some of the toughest challenges the electricity industry has faced so far; ...

26 October 2012

In 2010, the French Ministry of Research funded a three-year study to analyse possible solutions leading to a reduction in CO₂ em...

07 September 2012

In compliance with the European Directive on energy efficiency adopted in 2006 (2006/32/EC), Poland presented its National Energy Efficiency...

03 August 2012

The Black Tuesday on July 31^st marked perhaps the greatest power outage in world history: the blackout occurred in 20 of India's ...

31 July 2012

The year 2011 was a record year for the solar photovoltaic industry, with more than 29 GW new capacity installed worldwide, corresponding to...

25 July 2012

Implementation of biofuels polices is complex due to diversity of interests and concerns. Countries around the world are utilising different...

03 July 2012

Over the last 20 years, coal consumption and -to a lesser extent- oil consumption have steadily decreased to the advantage of electricity in...

10 May 2012

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,...

06 April 2012

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...

29 March 2012

Strong dependence on nuclear energy The Japanese are large electricity consumers; their consumption per capita reached 7,700 kWh in 2010,...

15 March 2012

Natural gas production grew steadily between 1991 and 2004 (by an average of 6.5%/year) and has remained relatively stable since then (44 bc...