News you might have missed: 10 June 2009
Need some help keeping up with all the latest developments in cleantech? Here’s Greenbang’s daily roundup of news and headlines:
- After an approximately two-year construction period Siemens has handed over the new Timelkam combined-cycle power plant in Austria to Energie AG Oberösterreich and the Swiss Groupe E;
- A new study underlines Vienna’s status as a model city for modern mobility;
- The Government’s statutory target to eradicate fuel poverty (PDF), as far as reasonably practicable, in vulnerable households by 2010 (and in all households by 2016) is likely to be missed, according to a new report from the House of Commons’ Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee;
- The Blackpool to Fleetwood Tramway is to get a £100-million upgrade, Transport Minister Sadiq Khan announced today;
- As the global climate changes, some land bird species will be forced to move to new habitats, expanding and shifting their natural geographical range, in order to maintain suitable living conditions, according to a new study from Imperial College London;
- The EBRD is providing an equity investment of €18.85 million to Freenergy AS, an Estonian investor in renewable energy in eastern Europe, to boost the volumes of green energy generated in the Baltic states;
- This week in Berlin, Daimler AG, Deutsche Post DHL, the energy group OMV, the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG public transportation company, and the Finnish oil company Neste Oil took part in a discussion-oriented event titled “Diesel from renewable sources — A step toward zero-emission transportation?”;
- The Government has so far failed to warn consumers that decarbonising the UK’s electricity supply will involve significant price hikes, according to the chief executive of RWE npower;
- Marks & Spencer has released its annual “How We Do Business Report,” which documents progress on its five-year, 100-point sustainability plan, Plan A.
