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

In November 2010, Dutch company Remeha released the world’s first, commercially available, micro-CHP combination-boiler for single-family households; the Remeha eVita. This energy-efficient micro-CHP unit, which works with a simple room thermostat, is the result of intensive research and development over the last five years.…

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 KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched an in depth investigation into Euro EUR255 million public financing of infrastructure improvements at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle airport, making it more likely Brussels could demand that money be repaid. The Commission has now gone on record saying it considers illegal the money paid to operator Flughafen Leipzig/Halle GmbH by its public shareholders, mainly the regional governments of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE BRITISH government’s attempts to try and meet the European Union (EU) 2020 renewable energy goals through feed-in tariff payments for household energy production have been attacked by Conservative MEP Roger Helmer, who calls these tactics "absurdly over-generous" and unsustainable.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE PLANNED takeover of Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Metal Forming (TKMF) by Spanish-owned Gestamp Automoción has cleared a major hurdle, receiving regulatory approval from the European Commission. It has cleared the deal without condition, using its European Union (EU) competition powers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a Euro EUR1.5 million study into concerns that European Union (EU) animal welfare and food safety rules could harm the global competitiveness of EU meat and other livestock sectors.

Brussels has asked research teams to bid for a major study comparing compliance costs for EU and non-EU country meat producers.…

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

Since the 1960s, E.ON Örebro has been Sweden’s most technology-driven combined heat and power producer. Owned by E.ON Värme Sverige AB, the Swedish subsidiary of Germany’s electricity and gas energy giant E.ON…