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Big energy lobbying: How BP undermined EU support for renewables
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Renewables: ‘Electricity war between Berlin and Brussels’
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Renewable energy: The Feldheim model
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Renewable energy: ‘Energy giant axes £4bn UK turbine project’
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Nuclear energy: UK finds ‘nuclear power is the cheapest way’ to reduce emissions
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German elections 2013: Energy, an election issue and luxury
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Germany: ‘Plan B for green energy’
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Renewable energy: Germans pay dearly for ‘energy transformation’
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Poland: ‘Green energy’s collapse’
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Renewable energy: The lessons of Desertec
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European Council: Casting shadows on energy policy
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Biomass: Wood – Europe’s fuel of the future, really?
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Renewable energy: ‘EU: End to green energy subsidies’
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Germany: ‘The electricity price brakeman’
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Renewable energy: Ireland back in the green
La Repubblica (Rome) -
Germany: Green energy producers cheating with coal
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Renewable energy: Commissioner Oettinger rails against state subsidies
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Germany: Goodbye to nuclear, welcome back coal
Wprost (Warsaw) -
Biofuels: Brussels will have to revise its policy
Respekt (Prague) -
Environment: Statistical fog in battle against CO2
The Guardian (London) -
Africa: Biofuels won’t feed the people
La Repubblica (Rome) -
Environment: 'Clean' energy, scourge of our countryside
La Repubblica (Rome) -
Debate: Rome-Berlin, new anti-nuke axis
Corriere della Sera (Milan) -
Renewable energy: Desertec to take over from nuclear power
Le Monde (Paris) -
German press review: Where does the nuclear exit lead to?
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Germany: Beyond nuclear in 2022
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Environment: Green energy — but not in my back yard!
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Portrait: Power, not nuclear
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Germany: Biofuel E10 inflames motorists
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Environment : Europe devours Amazon, claims NGO
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COP16: The end of easy green money
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Renewable Energies: Green revolution will cost you
Der Spiegel (Hamburg) -
Renewable energies: A new frontier for green power
The New York Times (New York) -
Renewable energies: Is the EU’s global warming policy all wrong?
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EUROPHRENIA: Biofuel, it’s not so cool
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Solar energy: Set the electricity grid free
La Vanguardia (Barcelona) -
Renewable Energies: Technology transfer - now
NRC Handelsblad (Amsterdam) -
COP15: Save the planet - get rid of the state
El País (Madrid) -
Renewable Energy: Scam with the wind
International New York Times (Paris) -
COP15: Fossil fuels, for the dinosaurs
El Mundo (Madrid) -
Wind power: Answer is blowing in the North Sea wind
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Biodiversity: Copenhagen treaty may endanger rainforests
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Energy: Flemish government turns to green power
Presseurop De Standaard
BP was part of oil and gas lobby that successfully undermined EU renewable energy targets and subsidies in favour of gas as a climate fix in 2011, reveal some documents seen by The Guardian. 
This village near Berlin is the only place in Germany that is completely autonomous in terms of energy supply. Thanks to wind turbines in their backyard and an independent grid, residents pay minimum prices for electricity. It’s an example for environmentalists everywhere. 
While Germany and France are trying to reduce their reliance on nuclear power, the UK has announced a deal to build its first new nuclear power plant in almost 20 years. A risky choice, but one for which the economic rationale is clear, writes the European press.
The “energy transformation” is getting more and more costly for the Germans, who are increasingly unwilling to go along with it. Der Spiegel explains why electricity prices are rising and what have been the main mistakes made till now. 
The Desertec project hoped to exploit the energy potential of deserts to supply Europe with green electricity. A great idea, but it’s struggling to make headway. It’s a symptomatic failure that we must learn from, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung. 
From a lack of investment to an underdeveloped renewable energy sector, plus competition from American coal: the domestic energy market faces a slew of obstacles. This is driving concerned European groups begin to put the EU under pressure. 
In order to produce energy without further increasing CO2 emissions, what could be easier than using existing furnaces to burn trees that could be replaced as they are used? Although this idea has much financial backing, it is only efficient over the long term.
After two years of radical austerity the Irish economy is going through an upswing, thanks to new revenue the state is collecting from renewable energy and from taxing fossil fuels and rubbish. 
Instead of causing an explosion of “green energies”, the exit from nuclear that Angela Merkel announced in 2011 will bring about the building of new – and highly polluting – coal-burning plants. It’s an option that hasn’t annoyed Germany’s environmentalists. 
To achieve its CO2-emissions goals, the EU encourages biofuel crops to be grown on European farmland that once produced food. The result, though, is that the growing of the food crops is shifting to developing countries – along with the CO2 pollution and biodiversity impacts. Those unintended consequences are forcing the Commission to redraft its laws. 
The EU’s plan to reduce CO2 emissions is lauded for being the most ambitious scheme of its kind. But unclear criteria and wayward accounting put into doubt the success of steps taken so far. 
Seeking to meet new regulations on low-carbon emission fuels, Europeans are battling over millions of hectares of African land in order to grow biofuels. This is detrimental to food crop production, warn NGOs. 
Crisis-hit Italian farmers are turning to the intensive cultivation of maize for biogas production, which is more profitable than growing it for food. But they’re laying themselves open to the mercies of speculators -- and they’re threatening biodiversity too, declares the founder of the Slow Food movement. 
Germany is phasing out nuclear power and Italy has rejected its reintroduction. This about-face by two founding members of the European Union could encourage other member states to turn the nuclear page and to develop renewable energies. 
The end of nuclear power in Germany and Switzerland and reduced tolerance for this energy source in many countries in Europe has given a new lease of life to projects based on renewable energy, like the one backed by a German consortium in North Africa. 
Will Germany really phase out nuclear power by 2022 at the latest? Angela Merkel’s decision has been welcomed by the opponents of nuclear energy but raises a host of questions for the future, writes the German press. 
Odd as it may seem, the main victims of environmental conservation appeals are not nuclear power plants or incinerators, but the hydroelectric power stations, solar energy installations and wind farms much-loved by the Green and ecologically minded. 
Founder of one of the first cooperatives for producing renewable energy, Germany’s Ursula Sladeck has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in the United States. 
The crisis has put a dent in carbon emissions – and in the foundations of Europe’s planned green economy. By calling subsidies for inefficient technologies into question, that blow might yet be a boon for the renewable energy sector.