It’s done – the ‘new’ reegle clean energy info portal is online! We worked very hard in the last weeks to launch the new reegle tomorrow alongside the EE-Global in Brussels (say hallo to me if you are there!) and I have to say: It was definitely worth the hard work! One of our most [...]
This is the next blog based on the encyclopedia of energy, this time focusing on the Philippines. The archipelago is in the south of Taiwan and north of Indonesia and consists of over 7,000 islands. About a third of its population live below the poverty line, and only 65% have permanent and stable access to [...]
The next South-Pacific Island I would like to bring some attention to is the Kingdom of Tonga. Again I much of this article is based on an article from Daphne Barbotte for the REEEP series for an energy encyclopedia. The constitutional monarchy in the South Pacific is populated by 120,898 people (July 2010), with 75% [...]
14 Mar 2011
by Florian Bauer - Category: REEEP
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) has opened its 8th programme cycle with a call for proposed clean energy projects targeting Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa. The Partnership expects to fund approximately 30 projects with €4.5 million contributed by the Governments of the United Kingdom and Norway. The level of funding [...]
10 Mar 2011
by Paul Savage, CEO Nextek Power Systems - Category: Contributed News
True, the field of interested observers from industry has been growing. But, with the notable exception of Japan, governments have been unengaged. So how is it that global standards are emerging for how we use direct current (DC) electrical power? Economics are the key driver behind this, and that’s what’s causing the technical barriers to [...]
Today a new very useful application was launched to put European energy targets into a context and visualise data from (mainly) Eurostat. Eurostat provides free to re-use, open data – which is really useful and even more useful if you put these datasets in a context. The team of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) did [...]