On Monday morning, UK Government announced the official outcomes of the second auction of renewable energy. The cost of winning offshore wind projects (57.50 pounds per megawatt hour) are now 50% lower than the first auction held in 2015. This auction allocated 15-year contracts for the winning projects, to give certainty for clean-energy investors and […]
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The ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ (ARWU), which is popularly known as ‘Shanghai Ranking’, is one of the three most influential lists of the best universities, which is produced yearly by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy since the year 2003. The ranking of 2017 was published this week, and the first position was for the Harvard […]
Find out why virtually all the onshore wind farms winning the first auction in Germany are small projects developed by grassroots initiatives and cooperatives, which are very popular across the country. On Friday, Germany unveiled the results of their first onshore wind auction held under the new Renewable Energy Sources Act, which came into force […]
According to the governor of the province of Río Negro, Alberto Weretilneck, there is a Chinese commitment with the Argentine government to finance the construction of the fifth Argentine nuclear power plant in Patagonia. “The National Government agreed in China to install in Río Negro the fifth nuclear power plant in Argentina. The contruction will […]
Although we find the use of umbrellas as an everyday fact when it is raining, in mid 18th century in England they were unknown rare gadgets coming from France and reserved for the noblewomen of that country to protect themselves from the sun. However, an unconventional English traveler named Jonas Hanway was the responsible to […]