Renewable energy in Russia

[Fledermaus]

"The programme looks at wind energy (in Russia’s South and Northeast, as well as the Far East) and biomass energy (in Russia’s South, predominantly) as its priority development areas.

2010 marke another year in alternative energy’s steady advance across the globe: More and more countries seem to grasp the benefits of renewable energy and start making concrete moves toward introducing power and heat producing technologies based on green energy sources. Even though, on balance, the share of renewables in global energy production does not yet exceed three percent, experts note a confident growth in this field.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), in January to September 2010, the share of energy production based on renewable energy sources (excluding hydropower) grew from two percent to three percent in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member nations, compared to the same period of 2009 – just as the share of nuclear energy dropped one percentage point, sliding from 22 percent to 21 percent in the same period. At the same time, fossil fuels and hydropower retained their positions in the OECD energy market, with shares of 62 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

http://www.evwind.es/noticias.php?id_not=9609

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[NNadir]

1. Russia LOVES renewable energy!!! It makes a great bait and switch tool for Gazprom.

It's um, why, Gazprom pays Gerhardt Schroeder, who formerly moonlighted as, um, "Chancellor of Germany" 300,000 Euros per year.

He was really great selling the wind and solar scam - which doesn't, in fact, work - all the while whoring for new gas pipelines from Russia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901755.html">Gazprom Gerhardt: Check Please!