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Renewable energy to account for 27% of EU’s energy consumption:



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EU 2030 framework for climate and energy policies “encouraging” and “an important message to world leaders”: Minesto CEO (WK-intern) - Anders Jansson, CEO of Nordic marine energy technology company Minesto, finds the EU action on climate very encouraging and the most visionary major policy document ever produced in the renewable energy field, hopefully to be followed by other nations and regions outside the EU. Gothenburg, Sweden -  The 2030 framework for climate and energy policies was proposed by the Commission in 2014 and is built on the experiences and lessons learnt from the 2020 climate and energy framework. On March 19, 2015 the leaders

Durchbruch bei der Meeresenergietechnologie von Minesto



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Reflections from breakthrough marine energy trials The renewable energy industry was excited late last year when marine energy technology company Minesto announced that it had successfully managed to produce electricity from low velocity currents off Northern Ireland, the first in the marine energy era. The marine power plant Deep Green has now been producing electricity for more than a year, and Minesto’s founder and CEO Anders Jansson shares his experiences from the trials in this article. The lush hills of Strangford Lough are truly a place of magic scenery. Portaferry, a small fishing village, is located one hour’s drive from Belfast in Northern

First Flight Wind appoint Natural Power for Ecological survey work



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(WK-intern) - Leading renewable energy consultancy Natural Power has been appointed by First Flight Wind Ltd, the developers of Northern Ireland’s first offshore wind farm, to provide bird and marine mammal advisory and survey works over the Wind Resource Zone off the Co. Down coast of Northern Ireland. First Flight Wind, a consortium comprising of B9 Energy, DONG Energy and Renewable Energy Systems Ltd (RES), was awarded a Wind Resource Zone of approximately 438km² off the Coast of County Down, Northern Ireland, by The Crown Estate in Autumn 2012. Starting in July 2013, Natural Power’s experienced Ecology team commissioned a local Kilkeel

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