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Wind energy and solar is actually cheaper than energy from coal and nuclear...

Taking into account health and environmental damage, wind and solar power from new plants in Europe is actually cheaper than energy from coal and nuclear power plants, according to a new report. Many...

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Wind Energy continues to increase its contribution to the Ontario electricity...

CanWEA today applauded Premier Dalton McGuinty’s announcement that Ontario will fully abandon coal-fired electricity a year ahead of schedule. The province has reduced use of coal by 90 per cent since...

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China burns half of coal consumption worldwide

China overtook the US as the world’s biggest carbon emitter in 2007 and became world’s largest energy consumer in 2010. Coal consumption in China grew more than 9% in 2011, continuing its upward trend...

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Solar Energy To Beat Coal Prices in New Mexico

A new solar power plant opening in New Mexico will be selling electricity at record low prices. First Solar, a large thin-film solar manufacturing company based in Tempe, Ariz., recently announced that...

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Australia wind energy cheaper than fossil fuel

The cost of wind power generation had fallen by 10 per cent since 2011 due to lower equipment expenses, even as the cost of solar power had dropped by 29 per cent. ”The fact that wind power is now...

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Australian coal plant uses more land than wind energy

While wind turbines get spread out over a wide area, apart from the bases of the wind turbines and the roads built to service them, almost all the land is still available for its original purpose which...

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Growth in China’s Wind Energy Eclipses Growth in Coal

China’s use of wind power to generate electricity grew faster than coal for the first time in 2012, according to just released numbers from the China Electricity Council. While fossil-fired generation...

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China’s wind energy grew more than coal

China’s wind power production grew more than coal power production for the first time ever in 2012, according to statistics from the China Energy Council. Thermal power using mostly coal increased by...

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China is now using curtailed wind power to displace coal-fired heating

The National Energy Administration (NEA) of China aims to reduce the waste of wind power and cut emissions from the coal-fired central heating system. The atmospheric pollutants generated from burning...

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Coal’s hidden health costs: 40 billion euros a year

Coal-fired power stations cost the European Union up to €42.8 billion a year in health costs associated with coal-fired power stations, a new report says. The study — ‘The Unpaid Health Bill: How coal...

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Phase out fossil fuel subsidies and limit use of coal-fired plants, IEA says

The world is not on track to reach its goal of limiting global temperature increase to 2°C, warned the International Energy Agency (IEA) on Monday. Highlighting the need for intensive action in the...

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Beyond Coal: Obama Makes the Right Choice

Here at the Asia Clean Energy Forum in the Philippines, President Obama’s speech on climate change has been greeted with enthusiasm.  In particular, his decision to redirect U.S. financing of coal...

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Renewables outpace coal, oil and nuclear in U.S.

Renewable energy sources, including wind energy, solar power, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy, accounted for 24.93% of all new U.S. electrical generating capacity installed in the first six months...

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Wind energy at parity with new coal in India, solar power to join by 2018

Wind energy has become one of the most favored forms of clean power in India and it has helped promote economic growth in some of the country’s states. Recently, wind energy achieved a major feat that...

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Wind Energy Results – Life Cycle Assessment Harmonization

To better understand the state of knowledge of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from utility-scale wind power systems, NREL developed and applied a systematic approach to review life cycle assessment...

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Fossil fuels dominate energy consumption

Coal, natural gas, and oil accounted for 87 percent of global primary energy consumption in 2012. The International Energy Agency predicts that by 2017 coal will replace oil as the dominant primary...

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Concentrated solar power, photovoltaic and wind power battle with coal in...

Entrenched political interests are fighting to expand coal’s role in the national economy despite the promise of renewable energy, reports Yale Environment 360. Environment Guardian Environment Network...

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What A Year: 45 Fossil Fuel Disasters The Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know...

While coal, oil, and gas are an integral part of everyday life around the world, 2013 brought a stark reminder of the inherent risk that comes with a fossil-fuel dependent world, with numerous pipeline...

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9 Reasons Why 2013 Was Not The Best Year In Human History

If you’ve been paying attention to the state of the world’s climate, you may have been shocked to read that 2013 was the best year in human history. It wasn’t. In 2013, enough fossil fuels were burned...

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Rising energy demand a threat to water supplies

Rising demand for energy, from biofuels to shale gas, nuclear power, coal and oil, is a threat to freshwater supplies that are already under strain from climate change, the United Nations said in a...

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