CHINA RENEWABLE SECTOR EYES GOVT SUPPORT AMID NUKE SAFETY FEARS
BEIJING, March 30 (Reuters) - Officials from China's renewable energy sector called for more government support on Wednesday as an ongoing reactor crisis in Japan put Beijing under increasing pressure to scale back its ambitious nuclear building plans.
Speaking at an industry conference, they said the promotion of clean energy sources such as wind, solar or hydropower could help fill the supply gap that might arise were China's nuclear programme to slow as a result of safety concerns.
CHINA'S TOP WIND POWER REGION TO HAVE 13 GW CAPACITY - EXEC
BEIJING, March 30 (Reuters) - Installed wind power capacity in Inner Mongolia, China's leading builder of wind farms by region, will top 13 gigawatts (GW) by the end of this year, an executive with local power grid firm said on Wednesday.
The capacity would be more than half of China's total at the beginning of this year, according to data from the National Energy Administration.
RENEWABLE ENERGY CEOS PLEAD WITH U.S. CONGRESS ABOUT LOANS
LOS ANGELES, March 29 (Reuters) - U.S. renewable energy companies called on lawmakers on Tuesday to preserve a loan guarantee program for innovative green technologies they say will create tens of thousands of jobs and generate billions of dollars in investment.
The chief executives of 34 solar, wind, geothermal, biomass and biofuel companies said in a letter to House of Representatives and Senate Republican and Democratic leaders that the proposed cuts to the Department of Energy's renewable energy loan guarantee programs would not only "destroy thousands of pending jobs," but also "defeat America's effort to compete with China, Germany and others in the clean technology marketplace."
SAFRICA TO MEET 2013 RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGET -OFFICIAL
JOHANNESBURG, March 29 (Reuters) - South Africa will accelerate its renewable energy programme to meet a target of producing 10,000 gigawatt hours by 2013, an energy official said on Tuesday.
Africa's biggest economy is struggling to meet fast-rising demand for power. State-owned utility Eskom has said supply would remain tight until 2015, and especially over the next two years.
RENEWABLE ENERGY A PILLAR IN JAPAN RECONSTRUCTION VISION -EDANO
March 29 (Reuters) - Renewable energy will play an important role in Japan's reconstruction, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said on Tuesday as the country struggled to bring a damaged nuclear power plant under control.
"When considering the damage from this accident, there is no doubt we are moving towards making renewable energy sources a pillar," Edano told reporters.
SWISS ENERGY MIN CAUTIONS OVER NUCLEAR EXIT-PAPER
ZURICH, March 26 (Reuters) - Swiss Energy Minister Doris Leuthard cautioned about the consequences of a hasty decision to abandon nuclear energy but said she was exploring options for such as move.
"It is fairly easy to demand not using nuclear energy. But first one should talk seriously about what that would mean," Leuthard was quoted as saying on Saturday in an interview with Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger.
ITALY EYES SPENDING, NOT CAPACITY, CAP ON SOLAR AID
MILAN, March 24 (Reuters) - Italy is considering capping the money it spends on incentives every year to attract investment into solar energy, replacing the present system which sets limits on capacity that can be incentivised, a trade union official said.
"The idea is to very gradually reduce (solar) incentives for this year and then next year to introduce a cap according to the overall amount spent on incentives," Paolo Carcasso, head of sustainable energy for the UIL trade union said on Thursday.
JAPAN CRISIS, HIGH OIL TO HELP GREEN ENERGY-PWC
LONDON, March 28 (Reuters) - The consequence of Japan's nuclear crisis and oil prices above $100 per barrel are likely to boost the global renewable energy industry in the short term, consultancy Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) said on Monday.
"There's certainly strong potential that the lack of investment in nuclear means people have to look elsewhere at low-carbon investments, so renewables is the place to go," said Ronan O'Regan, director in renewables and clean technologies at the consultancy.
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