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Helping the Middle East and North Africa with their water supply: Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Israel
06/01 | The Middle East/North African Region, also known as MENA, is well known for its scarce water resources. As the region expects its population to double to more than 600 million within 40 years, and with climate change raising global temperatures, the regions’ water demands are growing at a fast pace, putting tremendous pressure on their already strained water resources. Therefore governments and NGOs are uniting to find solutions to the water shortage, solutions that make the most of the regions’ existing resources and landscapes.
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Offshore wind: energy from the sea
05/12 | According to a study by the European Commission, Spain could have 25.52 GW of offshore power installed in 2020, which would double the energy extracted from the earth. Thewind farms at sea, known as offshore, are gaining in popularity in recent times. The main advantage is that the power of ...
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Turkey's renewable energy potential
05/12 | The Republic of Turkey, with its significant geostrategic importance lying at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, is not only a major regional power but it also aims to take its place among the top 10 largest economies by 2050. However, this ambitious growth comes at a cost: Turkey's rising ...
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Tatiana Soukiassian has joined the group Efficient Energy
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Country spotlight: Turkey
14/11 | Turkey will need to utilize both sustainable and diversified energy resources if it is to keep up the pace of its growing economy, and its increasing need for energy. Economic growth, urbanization and industrialisation are fueling strong growth in demand for all types of energy in Turkey.
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Tatiana Soukiassian added a comment to France: EDF CEO defends nuclear power
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Energy Storage for the Future
28/10 | As part of its 20-20-20 goals, the European Union aims to achieve a share of power generation from renewable sources of 20 percent by 2020. With this growing share of renewable power in the energy mix comes a challenge, however: as opposed to traditional power plants, renewables do not continuously generate power, causing fluctuations in the power grid. Highly flexible back up power generation solutions like GE’s FlexEfficiency 50 combined cycle plant are one way of balancing out the grid. Another one must be the vast expansion of energy storage.
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Tatiana Soukiassian has joined the group Smart grids