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Europe is not yet on track with its energy transition goals, but it is best positioned to succeed in reaching them, according to French multinational energy management company Schneider Electric. In order for Europe to reach climate neutrality by 2050, it needs to carry out its energy transition through increasing its contribution of renewables and the phasing out of fossil fuels. But the energy crisis that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led to a setback in the continent's achievements and higher emissions. Talking to Euronews Business at the company's recent innovation summit i...
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More than 400,000 plug-in solar systems have been installed in Germany, most of them taking up a seamless spot on people’s balconies. New data shows at least 50,000 of the PV devices were added in the first quarter of 2024 alone. A boom born from Germany’s “very strong solar culture”, in the words of one expert. Solar balconies are a piece of the wider energy transition across Europe, explains Jan Osenberg, a policy advisor at the SolarPower Europe association. “We see them as a subset of rooftop solar, but also as something different,” he tells Euronews Green. “We basically see it as a trend ...
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A greenhouse gas 24,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide is being driven up by China’s growing electricity needs, according to a new study. CO2 is the number one greenhouse gas on our radar for good reason. A gas naturally present in the atmosphere but turbocharged by humans’ fossil fuel combustion, it is the single biggest contributor to the climate crisis. But an overload of carbon isn’t the only gas threatening Earth’s climate; international agreements cover a number of other gases including a man-made grouping of fluorinated (F) gases. Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) falls within this po...
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Kharkiv Metro briefly suspended operations on all 30 stations on the morning of April 5. Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, has been at the forefront of Russian attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and saw an escalation in strikes in recent weeks. The subway consists of three lines operating 38.7 kilometers (24 miles) of the route. Kharkiv Metro's press service did not specify the reason. Later the same day, Kharkiv Metro's press service reported resuming operations. A Russian attack on Kharkiv in the late evening of April 4 damaged a car repair show and windows of a nea...
Kyiv Independent
Kharkiv Metro briefly suspended operations on all 30 stations on the morning of April 5. Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, has been at the forefront of Russian attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and saw an escalation in strikes in recent weeks. The subway consists of three lines operating 38.7 kilometers (24 miles) of the route. Kharkiv Metro's press service did not specify the reason. Later the same day, Kharkiv Metro's press service reported resuming operations. A Russian attack on Kharkiv in the late evening of April 4 damaged a car repair show and windows of a nea...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Kharkiv Metro briefly suspended operations on all 30 stations on the morning of April 5. Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, has been at the forefront of Russian attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and saw an escalation in strikes in recent weeks. The subway consists of three lines operating 38.7 kilometers (24 miles) of the route. Kharkiv Metro's press service did not specify the reason. Later the same day, Kharkiv Metro's press service reported resuming operations. A Russian attack on Kharkiv in the late evening of April 4 damaged a car repair show and windows of a nea...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
The world could save $2 trillion (€1.85 trillion) by 2030 if it implements the necessary technology to decarbonise the energy sector, according to Schneider Electric. "We have the technology to get rid of 70% of CO2 emissions that are generated by energy," said CEO Peter Herweck as he called on global leaders from across industries to speed up their efforts. The CEO of the French multinational company, specialising in digital automation and energy management, was speaking at the company's flagship Innovation Summit in Paris on Wednesday. It chose the occasion to announce a number of new soluti...
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32-year-old green energy entrepreneur Yetunde Fadeyi will never forget what inspired her to start a clean energy company in Nigeria. As a six-year-old, Fadeyi’s best friend, Fatima, was killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in her Lagos home, along with her father and pregnant mother. “She often came over for sleepovers. But that day she didn’t,” says Fadeyi. “It was the time that they were stealing people’s generators, so they kept [the generator] in an enclosed area and by the time it was morning they were dead.” Petrol-powered generators like the one Fatima’s family had are valuable assets be...
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Slovakia stopped production at its last coal-fired power plant this week. Its electricity will now come almost entirely from nuclear and renewable sources. The Vojany power station, located in the Michalovce district in eastern Slovakia, opened in 1966. Slovenské elektrárne, the company that owns the plant, announced that all of the electricity generated in the Eastern European country will be free of direct CO2 as of June 2024. Slovakia originally slated its coal phaseout for 2030 but has now expedited this to mid-2024, when it will join Belgium, Austria, Sweden and Portugal as a coal-free co...
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The wind gusting across north German farm country brings much to the village of Sprakebuell: fog and rain from the sea, the occasional migrating stork, and the faint smell of manure in the newly fertilised fields. And perhaps best of all, money - from selling the electricity generated by the wind turbines studding the flat green fields stretching out to the North Sea. A slice of the cash goes to the villagers themselves, with the local buy-in making this windy farming enclave near the border with Denmark a showcase for ways to push ahead with renewable energy projects. It's not easy when headw...
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