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BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is drafting legislation seeking to break regulatory and financial logjams preventing the European Union (EU) achieving ambitious planned gas infrastructure investments. A Commission working paper predicts the proposal will come in October and warned red-tape and financial shortages are potentially delaying cross-border interconnection and pipeline projects worth billions of Euros.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LITTLE more excites the international auto industry more than the search for an alternative to fossil fuels, and an American company is now looking seriously into the idea of using a heavy element thorium to generate locomotive power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Medicines Agency (EMA) will allow public access to its databases with information on the potential side effects of medicines. Its announcement follows criticism that EMA has been too secretive with such data. In a communiqué, the agency said it would henceforth produce monthly reports summarising information held in its EudraVigilance database for all medicines with central EMA authorisation.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, KATHERINE DUNN, MARTINA MARECKOVA, GERARD O’DWYER and MINDY RAN

Pantelleria Airport, located on the small, volcanic island of Pantelleria in the Strait of Sicily, is about to become the first airport in Italy to make use of an innovative new co-generation technology project co-funded by the US’s Solergy Inc.…

BY MARK ROWE

IN the global push to make transport greener, the aviation industry is just beginning to take a serious look at how to ease the sector into using less fossil fuel. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS), like many other airlines, is currently looking into projects that scrutinise kerosene biofuel blends in the quest to make transportation more environmentally friendly.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, KATHERINE DUNN, MARTINA MARECKOVA, GERARD O’DWYER and MINDY RAN

Austria’s newest combined-cycle power plant (CCPP) – the 412-MWe/100 MWt Timelkam power plant in Vöcklabruck district, Upper Austria, which was handed over to its owners Energie AG Oberösterreich and the Swiss Groupe E at the end of 2008 – has introduced a number of technical refinements which are bringing about major advances in fuel efficiency, environmental control and cost savings to Austria.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, MINDY RAN, GERARD O’DWYER and MARTINA MARECKOVA

FOR an industry that generates energy, heat and maybe cooling, the European cogeneration sector has been operating on a decidedly low output in recent years.…

BY MARIANNE BROWN and KEITH NUTHALL

A CHINK of light in the gloom spread over the nuclear industry by Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster can be seen to the south, where south-east Asian governments seem keen to push ahead with their nuclear expansion plans regardless.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, MARK ROWE, GERARD O’DWYER, ALAN OSBORN and MJ DESCHAMPS

COGENERATION has been something of a test-bed for European Union (EU) energy development policy, and like any experiment, some things have worked and others have not. Also, because other energy priorities have become the subject of more effective legislation recently, cogeneration has been left behind to some extent in the EU’s push for a cleaner, greener, sustainable and more liberal energy sector.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, KATHERINE DUNN, MARTINA MARECKOVA, GERARD O’DWYER and MINDY RAN

The Winter Olympics have proven to be something of a catalyst for funding and investment in co-generation in provincial Russia – right down to the 2014 venue itself: the Black Sea resort in the city of Sochi.…