Policy & Regulatory South Africa eases rules for private power generation above 1 MW 2 Nov 2020 The South African government has authorised the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to grant permission to process licence applications for self-generation power plants of above 1 MW, even if they don’t comply…
Publication – Global Energy Trends UPDATE 2020 has been nothing like we expected. The constant evolution of the Covid19 pandemic has drastically impacted the global energy demand, as lockdowns all over the world have led to reduced economic activity. At Enerdata, we have been monitoring the global energy markets continuously,…
Policy & Regulatory The Philippines implements a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants 30 Oct 2020 The Philippines has decided to cease coal-fired power plant developments. The moratorium on new coal-fired power plants will not concern projects that are already approved or that have secured permits. Read more China’s 14th…
Volume 4 Issue 11, November 2020 Realistic experiments A comparison of the plant communities in two long-term grassland experiments (The BioDIV Experiment, Cedar Creek, Minnesota, United States — see picture — and the Jena Experiment, Jena, Germany) to those of related real-world sites shows that accounting for unrealistic experimental communities…
Policy & Regulatory South Korea pledges to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 29 Oct 2020 South Korea has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The country plans to spend KRW8,000bn (US$7.1bn) on a Green New Deal, aimed at developing a low-carbon economy that would focus on developing electric and hydrogen…
Publicaciones, conferencias, Ver vídeos: TV, conferencias Biodiversidad: nueva y urgente llamada Hay una disonancia global, una más: sabemos, y está suficientemente investigado y demostrado, que de seguir como vamos, seguiremos destruyendo el basamento natural sobre el que se sostienen los sistemas productivos y sociales, el soporte del que depende nuestro…
Policy & Regulatory Thailand’s updated NDC keeps GHG emissions reduction target unchanged 28 Oct 2020 Thailand has updated its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), keeping its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target unchanged. The country intends to reduce its GHG emissions by 20% by 2030 compared to the business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, using its…
Policy & Regulatory The Japanese government targets carbon neutrality by 2050 27 Oct 2020 Japan intends to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. To cut greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions to zero by 2050, the country will invest in new solar cells and carbon recycling, intensifying research and development in those areas, and…
Actualidad científica: Del 1 al 27 octubre, 2020 Neurogénesis Una hormona intestinal regula la formación de nuevas neuronas en el hipocampo El hallazgo podría tener implicaciones en el tratamiento de la demencia asociada a la enfermedad de Parkinson. Marta Pulido Salgado Sistema solar Descubren nuevos depósitos de agua en la…
Table of Contents: October 2020 Addendum | 22 October 2020 Editorial Expression of Concern: Coincident locations of rupture nucleation during the 2019 Le Teil earthquake, France and maximum stress change from local cement quarrying Vincenzo De Novellis, Vincenzo Convertito, Sotiris Valkaniotis, Francesco Casu, Riccardo Lanari et al. Communications Earth &…
Companies EDPR plans to develop 900 MW of wind capacity in Greece 26 Oct 2020 Portugal’s renewable energy group EDP Renováveis (EDPR) has signed an agreement with the Greek infrastructure group Ellaktor to jointly develop an onshore wind portfolio with a capacity of 900 MW. The wind projects are currently under…
Policy & Regulatory France awards 599 MW of solar and wind projects through tenders 23 Oct 2020 The French Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MTE) has unveiled the results of the tenders for ground-mounted solar PV projects, onshore wind projects and self-consumption solar PV projects. For the ground-mounted solar PV call…
Policy & Regulatory Bangladesh releases plan for 40 GW of solar capacity by 2041 22 Oct 2020 Bangladesh has unveiled a draft 20-year National Solar Energy Action Plan, which envisages almost 40 GW of solar capacity by 2041; solar would then account for half of the country’s installed capacity. The solar…
Policy & Regulatory India maintains deadline for the privatisation of oil refiner BPCL 21 Oct 2020 The Indian Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) has decided not to extend the date for the sale of the state-owned majority stake in the Indian oil company Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL)….
Policy & Regulatory The US will support NuScale’s 2.5 GW nuclear project in South Africa 20 Oct 2020 The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), which was authorised by US authorities to support nuclear power projects abroad in July 2020, has signed a letter of intent (LoI) to support NuScale, a US…
Policy & Regulatory The EU is on track to meet its GHG emissions cut target by 2030 19 Oct 2020 The European Commission has adopted the 2020 State of the Energy Union Report and released individual assessments of the 27 National Energy and Climate Plans, which analyses the pathway and…
Volume 3 Issue 10, October 2020 Dust and infant mortality Air pollution impacts health globally, but studying this effect is challenging because economic development worsens pollution while bettering health. Burke and colleagues focus on the health effects of distant Saharan dust, unlinked from economic activity, and find that it leads…
Policy & Regulatory India plans to allow Coal India units to set prices independently 16 Oct 2020 The Indian government plans to allow units of state-owned coal mining company Coal India Ltd (CIL) to independently set coal prices in a bid to foster competition and cut the price of coal in…
Volume 5 Issue 10, October 2020 Polymer collector passes current Current collectors are needed to support electrodes and collect electrical energy from them in Li-ion batteries, however they do not contribute to the battery’s energy output. Cui et al. report a polymer-based current collector that not only makes batteries store…
Policy & Regulatory The European Commission unveils a regional strategy for energy efficiency 15 Oct 2020 The European Commission has unveiled its Renovation Wave Strategy to improve the energy performance of buildings, which intends to at least double renovation rates in the next decade and to make sure renovations lead…
Policy & Regulatory Ethiopia plans to unbundle state-owned Ethiopian Electric Power 14 Oct 2020 The Ethiopian government is considering unbundling the national power utility Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), by separating transmission and generation activities to ensure an equal access of independent power producers (IPPs) to the grid. EEP has an installed…
Policy & Regulatory Romania will sign a deal with the US for Cernavoda nuclear project 12 Oct 2020 Romania and the United States have agreed to cooperate for the construction of Units 3 and 4 and the refurbishment of Unit 1 at the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania. Romania…
Policy & Regulatory Germany’s Bundestag approves a national price of €25/t for CO2 emissions 9 Oct 2020 The Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament, has passed a text introducing a national price of €25/t of CO2 emissions in the transport and building sectors from 2021, which will be raised to…
Policy & Regulatory India vows to shift from coal-fired power capacity to renewables 8 Oct 2020 According to the Ministry of Power, India is considering closing some of its coal-fired power plant, in a bid to cut the country’s carbon footprint. The coal-fired power plants would be replaced with renewable…
Volume 1 Issue 10, October 2020 Vegetation fires are integral to some ecosystems, but can be economically and environmentally destructive. This Review discusses contemporary and future fire regimes, adaptation to fire in the Anthropocene and the need for increased transdisciplinary research to achieve better fire management. See Bowman et al….
Policy & Regulatory The UK targets 40 GW of offshore wind power capacity by 2030 7 Oct 2020 The UK government has raised its target for offshore wind power capacity by 2030 from 30 GW to 40 GW. The authorities intend to release a 10-point programme for a “green industrial revolution”…
Companies Brazil’s Supreme Court authorises Petrobras to sell 8 refineries 6 Oct 2020 The Federal Supreme Court of Justice, which is Brazil’s highest appellate court for non-constitutional questions of federal law, has authorised the Brazilian national oil and gas company Petrobras to create subsidiaries to sell 8 refineries, accounting for…
Policy & Regulatory Poland will take over nuclear development firm PGE EJ 1 by end-2020 5 Oct 2020 The Polish State Treasury has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with the 57.4% state-owned power utility PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna to acquire 100% of PGE EJ 1, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) in…
Policy & Regulatory India receive 82 bids for 23 mines in its first-ever coal auction 2 Oct 2020 India’s first-ever tender to commercially mine and sell coal has received 82 bids from 46 companies for 23 coal mines, while a total of 38 coal mines were put for auction. The…
Diversidad de maíces en México ¡Celebremos nuestros maíces! 5 años de Mosaico Natura México Nuevo protocolo de monitoreo marino #SabrososSanosSustentables Naturalista destacado Calendario de eventos Compartir ¡Celebremos nuestros maíces! El 29 de septiembre se celebra el Día Nacional del Maíz, pero durante todo el año, los mexicanos día a día…