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Press Digest 30, May – 13, June 2011

ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫЙ ОБЗОР

изданий на английском языке

29, May – 13, June, 2011

CONTENTS

EU 6

EU's Barroso stands firm in airline emissions row
//Reuters 6

Governments urged to cut emissions using renewable solutions at Bonn climate summit
// GreenPeace.org/ 6

UNIDO 7

World should double renewable energy by 2030: U.N.
//Reuters 7

IEA 8

Prospect of limiting the global increase in temperature to 2ºC is getting bleaker
// www.iea.org 9

Renewable Energy 10

Germany Seeks to Double Production of Renewable Energy Within Decade
//Bloomberg 10

Positive outlook for renewables set to boost mergers and acquisitions
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 10

Cheap gas will overtake renewables, energy chief warns
// The Guardian 11

University to launch world’s first online renewable energy MBA
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 13

Clean tech will be third largest sector in the world in 2020
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 13

S. Korea Aims to Create 1.5 Million Jobs in ’Green Energy’
//Bloomberg 16

LED 17

Chinese LED Maker SunSun Gets Funding for Efficient Light Bulbs
//Bloomberg 17

Green Power 17

Government policy changes hit clean technology sector's confidence //Ernst & Young finds only 14% of those working in renewables and energy efficiency upbeat about jobs and growth
// The Guardian 17

Wind Power 19

Vestas seeks to cool rumours it secured a 300 MW order
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 19

Santiago-based company to be first to manufacture turbine towers in Latin America
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 19

China agrees to halt subsidies to wind power firms
// Reuters 20

Geothermal Energy 22

Japan May Tap Geothermal Power to Offset Atomic Loss, BNEF Says
//Bloomberg 22

Sh6 billion grant for geothermal power search in Kenya
// Daily Nation 23

Smart Grid 24

White House to announce IT-powered smart grid on Monday
// ZDNet 24

Solar Energy 25

Samsung makes moves to strengthen its solar business
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 25

Etrion Chooses ABB to Complete Solar Project in Italy
// Azocleantech.com 25

Masdar supplies first full-size modules for Slovakian solar parks
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 26

New efficiency record of 22.4% set by SunPower
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 27

Solar-Gas Hybrid Plant 29

GE Wins First Solar-Gas Hybrid Plant From Turkey’s MetCap
//Bloomberg 29

China 30

IEA believes new policy could lead to positive outlook on energy mix
// China Daily 30

Biofuels 31

EU 32

60,000 tonnes of biocoal capacity under construction in EU
// BiofuelsDigest 32

Large biomass potential not being realised, says European Climate Foundation, WWF
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 32

US soybean producers to fight EU emissions standards as unfair trade barier
// BiofuelsDigest 34

Algae to feature strongly at European Biomass Conference
// RenewableEnergyMagazine 34

GERMANY 36

20 German organizations launch aviation biofuels initiative
// BiofuelsDigest 36

FINLAND 37

E10 ethanol achieves only 1% less fuel economy than E5: study
// BiofuelsDigest 37

CHINA 37

China’s CNPC sets $1.5B new energy development budget for 2011-20
// Biofuels Digest 37

USA 37

DOE awards $36M to six projects for drop-in fuels, chemicals
// Bofuels Digest.com 37

KiOR raises target to $241M from upcoming biofuels IPO
//Biofuels Digest. 39

US ethanol production hits five-month high in June
// Biofuels Digest 40

Laidlaw to Acquire 14-Megawatt Biomass Project in California
//Bloomberg 40

R&D 40

Deinove rakes in $2.38M after reaching cellulosic ethanol milestone
// Biofuels Digest 40

Bacteria as biofuel: It’s coming
// Biofuels Digest 41

Biobutanol from wood 'the next generation of biofuels'
// new Kerala.com 41

AVIATION BIOFUELS 42

Runway cleared for aviation biofuels surge in 2012
// Biofuels Digest 42

NEWS OF THE COMPANIES 44

Myriant’s $125M IPO 44

IPO Myriant’s $125M IPO: The Complete Digest analysis
// Biofuels Digest 44

Petrobras investing US$400 million in biofuels research 2010-2014
// Green Car Congress 46

Shell, Cosan close $12B JV – Iogen, Codexis holdings transferred to Raizen
//BiofuelsDiges 47

Cargill, USJ form major Brazilian ethanol, sugar, power JV
// BiofuelsDigest 47

EU

EU's Barroso stands firm in airline emissions row
//Reuters

By Pete Harrison

BRUSSELS | Wed Jun 8, 2011 10:39am EDT
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is not considering changing its law obliging airlines flying to Europe to buy carbon emissions permits, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday.
"The inclusion of aviation in the ETS is not a proposal, it is now European law. It was approved unanimously by the member states of the European Union, and it was adopted ... with a very strong backing by the European Parliament. So we are not thinking at all about the possibility of changing our legislation," Barroso told a news conference.
From January 1 next year, the EU will require all airlines flying to Europe to be included in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), a system that forces polluters to buy permits for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit above a certain cap.
China is leading opposition to the plan, saying it will cost Chinese airlines 800 million yuan ($123 million) in the first year and more than triple that by 2020.
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) and aircraft maker Airbus wrote to EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard last month, saying they were worried the dispute would result in trade conflict and retaliatory measures.
A group of U.S. airlines is challenging their inclusion in the ETS in European courts.
The EU counters that it chose to include aviation in its carbon trading scheme only after airlines in the International Air Transport Association (IATA) had given their support to carbon markets as the most cost-effective tool for the job.
IATA, which represents about 240 airlines, called the European scheme "illegal" at its annual meeting on Sunday, but later conceded that it still supported emissions trading. Its main complaint is about the details.
Barroso reiterated the EU's willingness to discuss the measures. EU law allows the exemption of airlines from countries that are making equivalent efforts to curb emissions from aviation.
"The goal is to reduce emissions," he said. "All the world should unite in some kind of directive like this one."
(Reporting by Pete Harrison and Christopher Le Coq, editing by Rex Merrifield)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-eu-climate-aviation-idUSTRE7572UT20110608