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11Renewable energy development — TOC Renewable energy development covers the advancement, capacity growth, and use of renewable energy sources. Modern interest in renewable energy development is linked to concerns about exhaustion and greenhouse gases of fossil fuels and… …
12Renewable energy in China — China’s rapid economic growth and heavy reliance on increasingly expensive foreign oil, the vast environmental toll that is one of the most apparent costs of China s economic success, persistent rural poverty in China and periodic power shortages …
13Renewable energy in Africa — The developing nations of Africa are popular locations for the application of renewable energy technology. Currently, many nations already have small scale solar, wind, and geothermal devices in operation providing energy to urban and rural… …
14Renewable energy in Australia — Australia s renewable energy industries cover numerous energy sources and stages of commercialisation. Renewable energy technologies currently contribute about 6 per cent of Australia s total energy supply and some 8 per cent of Australia s… …
15Renewable energy in the European Union — The countries of the European Union are currently the global leaders in the development and application of renewable energy. Promoting the use of renewable energy sources is important both to the reduction of the EU s dependence on foreign energy …
16Renewable energy industry — The present day renewable energy industry is an energy industry focusing on new and appropriate renewable energy technologies, which excludes large scale hydro electricity. Investors worldwide have paid much greater attention to this emerging… …
17Renewable energy in Spain — Spain as a whole has the target of generating 30% of its electricity needs from renewable energy sources by 2010, with half of that amount coming from wind power. In 2006, 20% of the total electricity demand was already produced with renewable… …
18Renewable Energy Law — The German Renewable Energy Law ( Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz , or EEG), promotes the development of renewable energy sources via a system of feed in tariffs. [English translation of EEG legislation… …
19Renewable energy in Honduras — In Honduras, there is an important potential of untapped indigenous renewable energy resources. Due to the likely long term trend of high oil prices, such resources could be developed at competitive prices.Currently only hydropower and biomass… …
20renewable energy — any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric power, that is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel. Also called soft energy. [1970 75] * * * also called … …
