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Another Edition of Europe's Premier Energy Fair Foregrounds Smart Energy

Smart meters, smart control, smart energy. This was all brought to the fore, as two years ago, when Energetika.NET first visited E-World, the biggest energy trade fair on the European continent. This ...

Date: 13.02.2015, Category: Reports

Blue Corridor NGV Rally: Comita Joins Gazprom and E.On on their Natural Gas Journey across Europe

A special gas-vehicle rally arrived in Ljubljana last Friday. Called the Blue Corridor NGV Rally, it began its journey in St. Petersburg, Russia, and continued its way through the Baltic States, Polan...

Date: 28.10.2014, Category: Reports

Who or What Is behind Nuclear Renaissance

Three years ago, the small British town of Rotherham was visited by the Queen. In the newly launched Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre she was given 3D glasses and shown a short film, whi...

Date: 18.08.2014, Category: Reports

KWB: The Future Lies in Biomass, We Need Regional Energy Independence

The dependence on fossil fuels is still too high, their prices are dictated by foreign suppliers. We should focus on the energy source we have available around us. Forests cover more than half of Slov...

Date: 04.08.2014, Category: Reports

Pahor on Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior III: Climate change can only be tackled if there is political will to do so

Greenpeace's legendary sailing yacht Rainbow Warrior III has lowered its sails last week in the town of Koper, Slovenia. As part of an energy campaign across the Mediterranean, a 15-member crew is pro...

Date: 28.07.2014, Category: Reports

Nuclear Britain, Day 4: What Impact a Nuclear Power Plant Has Had on Standard of Living of a Small Town

“Every single nuclear programme creates at the same point new jobs in a local environment,” noted Gary Shuttleworth, project manager for new projects at Westinghouse, during the media visit to the nor...

Date: 07.07.2014, Category: Reports

Nuclear Britain, Day 2: On Enriching the Nuclear Future

In the town of Capenhurst, not far from the historical city of Chester which is some 60 kilometres away from Manchester, there is a two square kilometre complex with a number of research facilities wh...

Date: 03.07.2014, Category: Reports

Chinese Labourers Working on Construction Site of Biggest Energy Investment in SE Europe

Last Thursday at noon sharp, the ribbon was cut to mark the opening of a new cultural centre in Doboj, a municipality with about 1,300 inhabitants. Inside the cultural centre, children and youngsters ...

Date: 15.04.2014, Category: Reports

How Politicians in Spain Paralyzed Renewables Industry

Last year in Spain, wind farms generated 21 percent of all electric power in the country, ranking 1st in the list of energy sources. “We should be celebrating this,” President of the European Wind Ene...

Date: 30.04.2014, Category: Reports

“The heaviest handsome” finally at the site where it will stand for the next 40 years

At the end of the last week the 355-tonne transformer, one of the biggest Alstom ever produced, arrived – from Turkey with pit stops in Rotterdam and Linz - at its final destination the Šoštanj Therma...

Date: 18.04.2013, Category: Reports