Finally, a year-long project has come to end: I have established the bioenergy potentials for 32 European countries for implementation into the reegle map! I have calculated the technical and theoretical potentials for these countries in regard to solid biomass, liquid biofuel and biogas. The study ‘Bioenergy Potentials in Europe’ is my diploma thesis marking [...]
30 Sep 2010
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: DIREC, Events
In the week when I’ve booked my ticket for COP in Cancun in Mexico (seems only yesterday the whole world was in Copenhagen…) I’ve got the latest on the big event in Delhi, plus a REEEP event in Johannesburg and carbon trading in Singapore, as well as the call for entries for the Ashden Awards [...]
28 Sep 2010
by Florian Bauer - Category: Events
ore than 140 investors, financiers and other clean energy experts have gathered in Johannesburg for the Africa Forum for Clean Energy Financing (AFRICEF), where they were presented with business plans from nine different finalist project developers, and where an international panel of judges selected the top businesses as winners of the CTI PFAN Clean Energy [...]
DIREC (Delhi International Renewable Energy Conference 27-29 October 2010) will focus on several sectors of renewable energy: solar, wind, biomass & cogeneration, hydro, geothermal and energy efficiency. India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) consists of eight key National Missions; one of them is the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. Its ambitious aim is [...]
16 Sep 2010
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: DIREC, Events, REEEP
Let’s launch this Events Listing with… a job vacancy. REEEP’s Southern Africa Secretariat is looking for a Technical Advisor. Looks like a fun job, lots of visits to our fascinating portfolio of projects in the region, etc. If I were qualified I’d consider applying myself! Some more non-events news later with a tender for concentrating [...]
Ever since the industrial revolution economic growth has been inseparably linked to the exploitation of fossil energy sources. Yet, since the oil embargo in the seventies and the oil price shock in 2008 it has become increasingly clear that new sources of energy will be substantial in order to allow further growth of wealth without [...]