Reegle’s country energy profiles now include even more relevant information for our users! Since reegle has been embracing the principles of (linked) open data, we have bee able to offer you exiting resources such as our comprehensive country energy profiles. We already have interesting facts like energy statistics (visually presented), the policy and regulatory overview, [...]
Australia has passed the Clean Energy legislative package through the House of Representatives! It has taken almost a decade and four attempts, but in short this means a Carbon Tax will be implemented once the Bill has passed through the Senate in November. The package, which includes 19 Bills to boost the Clean Revolution in [...]
Whilst the discussion about the environmental problems of hydropower (especially large scale) and the apparent danger for birds with regard to wind engines are very commonly discussed I just came across an article dealing with Indian relics and transmission lines for wind energy. In Montana where once the Blackfeet Indians roamed the plains it has [...]
The US has, so far, been reluctant to sign any binding document limiting CO2 emissions such as the Kyoto protocol. With a change of leadership and some new legislation in the US under President Obama, many were hopeful that a change in policy towards climate change was viable.
New legislation concerning energy, and especially green energy, sometimes proves to have a negative, unwanted influence for the development of renewable energy technologies. In France, such a law was about to come into force; luckily some of its worst impacts have now been averted by some amendments. The wind power sector in particular would have [...]
The Russian Ministry of Energy is focusing on developing and adopting additional renewable energy regulations in order to accelerate the further development of the renewable energy sector. “It is true that we are the world’s leading nation in terms of energy resources. This does not mean, however, that we should consume these resources irresponsibly.” said [...]