Call for Spain to switch fully to renewables
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Some 4,000 environmental campaigners gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to press the government to commit Spain to switch fully to renewable energy sources by 2050, Greenpeace said.
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Solar and wind-power generators will reduce dependence on petroleum, which is increasingly hard (and dangerous) to procure.
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MADRID/LONDON  - Spain's Iberdrola has bid 11.6 billion pounds ($22.5 billion) in cash and shares for Scottish Power to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy.
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Spain will ask Chile to implement a distress resolution issued in 1998 by Spanish Courts on the assets of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet and his family members, a lawyer said on Monday.
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AMs are to decide on a full debate on a controversial plan for a windfarm off the south Wales coast.
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Governments need to urgently provide clear climate policies to attract the necessary invest in new technologies.
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BRUSSELS -- Europe yesterday embarked on a bold path to fight climate change, agreeing that a fifth of the energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable sources such as the sun and the wind, and challenging the rest of the world to follow.
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Triple digits will further encourage investors to get deeper into alternative energy and cleaner fuels. But governments still have to encourage the transition
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The EU is expected to tell the UK that 15% of energy needs must be met from renewable sources by 2020.
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By Jeff Gelles, The Philadelphia Inquirer Jun. 20--If wind energy ever plays a big role in Pennsylvania's economy, a little-noticed 2003 recycling conference in Bilbao, Spain, may merit some of the credit.
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Spain should grow at a 3.O percent pace over coming years, generating enough jobs to bring down unemployment, a key concern, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Wednesday as all eyes turn to general elections in March.
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The European wind energy industry, thriving as climate change tops the global agenda, says it could eventually supply all the continent's electricity, but must first overcome public resistance over eyesore turbines.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has ended a visit to Spain by joining his counterpart Jose Luis Zapatero in a call for Europe to meet the challenges posed by developing economies.
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A push into the solar sector could benefit the company.
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Spain is prepared to compromise to find an institutional treaty for the European Union but expects Poland to do the same, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said after talks here Friday.
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Richard Branson of Virgin plans to invest in efforts to find renewable, sustainable energy sources.
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Alstom, a maker of coal-fired power stations, agreed to buy EcotÃ¨cnia of Spain to enter the wind energy market. Alstom will pay 350 million euros ($471 million) for EcotÃ¨cnia, which also makes solar panels, it said. The purchase will help Alstom, which is based in Paris, expand in the United States and Asia, it said. Buying EcotÃ¨cnia strengthens Alstomâs presence in renewable energy as governments seek alternatives to coal, gas and oil. Alstom also sells hydroelectric equipment and worked with Russiaâs state nuclear agency in April to develop atomic plants.