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The Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs (MARM) today introduced the report Terramar. Agriculture, food, fisheries and rural areas in the Mediterranean. This year the report is an atlas, and it analyzes, from a geographic, economic and social development, the main issues affecting agriculture, rural, fisheries and food of the Mediterranean countries.
The report, prepared annually by the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), is presented this time in an atlas illustrated with a large number of maps and graphs. Terram 2010 examines the transition of the Mediterranean population and the demographic contrasts between the various regions, especially between rural and urban, and socio-economic inequalities that have occurred.
Inequality also addressed from a geographical point of view, set out the concerns about land and problems of water scarcity.
According to Santiago Menéndez de Luarca, deputy secretary of MARM, translating the differences in rural areas of the countries that form the Mediterranean basin has been a challenge.
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Integrating renewable energy in an electrical network originally designed to transport electricity from a central production is both a technical challenge and an economic challenge. Not only because renewables deliver lower power, but also because they are less controllable and less predictable. When conditions of exposure to sun and wind are the best, sites to generate a maximum output current, but it is also necessary that this maximum corresponds to periods of high demand, which is rarely the case. Besides the phenomena of intermittent production.
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The energy experts in India and particularly those working in the field of renewable energy believe that coal will not always be present to fuel power stations. The views of the current situation, the strong energy dependence of India and share major responsibility for the use of fossil fuels in climate change, it becomes important for India to develop the use of renewable energies it is at least the opinion of GMPillai, Director General of World Institute of Sustainable Energy (WISE).
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A research project of 1 million £ 1 examines how thickets and grass crops can be used to produce renewable energy and sequester carbon in the soil long term.
Led by Professor Gail Taylor, an expert on plants and the environment at the University of Southampton, a team of British scientists will follow in the case of plants and herbs, transfer, or “flow” of carbon s ‘performs naturally during photosynthesis. During this biochemical process, plants capture CO2 from the air and converts it into organic material that enters the soil through their roots, or by organic waste and agricultural residues. The soil thus becoming a carbon sink.
The team will also compare the process to that of arable food crops such as wheat, which will test the idea that bioenergy crops enhance carbon sequestration in soil and use fertilizers and fuels derived from oil less intensively.
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From the Alps to Sicily, through the mountains of Gran Sasso, the proposed GSE (Manager of Energy Services) provides continuous monitoring of wind farms, solar plants and hydroelectric power and biomass throughout Italian territory. A three-year agreement was signed with Astra Broadband Service for the establishment of 5,000 satellite terminals to monitor the sources of renewable energy.
“Every day in real time, we have records of wind, water and sun exposure. Using the curves of production, it will be possible to predict with 24 hours in advance.
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The Standing Committee on Climate Change, chaired by Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, has approved today the launch of the International Cooperation Center for Renewable Energy (CICERO) in Valencia. The center will facilitate access to energy, contribute to the fight against climate change and build on the use of renewable energy in developing countries through international cooperation.
The new International Renewable Energy Cooperation (Cicero) further contribute to the Millennium Development Goals United Nations, such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and ensuring environmental sustainability.
Among its main objectives, the CICER promote use of renewable energy in developing countries as a means of exploitation of indigenous energy resources, in collaboration with national and international development. Development opportunities will also identify and propose projects in collaboration with national experts.
Spain in the Mexico Summit on climate change
The Standing Committee on Climate Change has discussed the priorities that keep Spain in the framework of meetings of ministers and heads of state of the European Union (EU) and the forthcoming climate summit to be held in Mexico in late 2010.
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The Regional Community generates 917 MW of renewable energy such, outperforming countries such as Greece, Sweden, Ireland and Belgium. Installed wind power in Navarra (917 Mw) accounts for 1.62% of the EU-27 (56,535 Mw). This is indicated by the annual reports on wind energy recently published by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), which highlights the contribution of the Autonomous Community to the development of renewable energy.
According to data of 31 December 2007, the 917 MW of installed wind power currently in Navarre is greater than countries like Greece (871 MW), Ireland (805 MW), Sweden (788 MW), Belgium (287 MW), Poland ( 276 Mw), Czech Republic (116 Mw) and Finland (110 MW). The European countries are ahead of the Autonomous Community are Germany (22,247 MW), Spain (15,145 MW), Denmark (3,125 MW), Italy (2,726 MW), France (2,454) and UK (2,389 MW), according stated in the attached table.
In fact, Navarre has become in recent years, as previously cited reports stand out in a world leader in clean energy production, mainly from wind power. The Regional Community ended 2007 generating 65% of energy consumed electira through renewables, mostly wind power.
Regarding wind energy, Navarre home thirty parks, with about 1,100 windmills. Technological advances will enable future renewal of equipment (less power but larger mills), which will reduce environmental conditions.
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The partnership between three organizations Galician and Portuguese allowed the implementation of ER-INNOVA, a European innovation project that has just started with the aim to improve the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in the renewable energy sector of the Galicia -North of Portugal through the Information Technology and Communications (ICT).
Under the motto ‘The power of ICT’, the project will be implemented in a pilot deployment of technological tools in about a hundred SMEs, with the intent to extend below the entire renewable s sector and even be transfer to other areas of activity, with the necessary adaptations.
The project partners are Tecnoloxico Parque de Galicia (Tecnopolo), acting as leader, the Association of Internet Galegas adica e as novas Tecnoloxías (Eganet) and Fundacion para o Fomento da eo Desenvolvemento Tecnoloxico Calidade Industrial de Galicia, through its Office of Program Internacionais R & D + i (OPIDi) and NET Novas Empresas e Tecnologias, SA-Business and Innovation Center of Porto (Porto NET-BIC).
The initiative is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), European Union and developed under the Operational Program for Trans-boundary Cooperation Spain-Portugal 2007-2013. His frame is biennial (2009-2010) and has a total funding of € 931,693.68, of which 75% comes from the ERDF.
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Researchers at the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) have calculated the energy and economic potential of municipal solid waste, sewage sludge and livestock waste to generate electricity in Spain. These residues are alternative sources of renewable energy, greening and in the case of municipal solid waste more profitable.
Using waste to generate electricity has economic and environmental benefits: “revalued waste as fuel can be considered a zero or even negative cost when paid for collection fees,” points out to SINC Norberto Fueyo, lead author of the study and researcher Fluid Mechanics Group of the UNIZAR.
According to the investigator, the generation of electricity from waste avoids the effects “unhealthy.” If the degassing of landfill methane and other gases removes pollutants, solid waste incineration reduces the volume of waste reaching landfill and underlying risks themselves from landfills (possible leaks of methane into the atmosphere).
The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Renewable Energy, Has identified that in Spain the waste can generate between 8.13 and 20.95 TWh (terawatts-hour).
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two-wheeled electric-powered hydrogen was carried dall’Itae-CNR, and will be presented all’H2Roma Energy & Mobility Show
A bicycle that hydrogen has a range of 150 kilometers and recharges in a quarter of an hour. Is the new two-wheeled electric developed by ‘Institute of Advanced Technologies for Energy of the National Research Council (ITAE-CNR) in Messina in collaboration with the Tozzi Renewable Energy (Three SpA). The prototype model, which is landing on the Italian market, will be presented at the meeting “H2Roma Energy & Mobility Show, In progress until 5 November in Rome.
“Cycling is completely powered hydrogen storage system using a solid state, can provide a range of 150 kilometers electricity: a full cost around 18 euros for a charge of about 12 cents per mile,” he told the Research Manager George Pantry.
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According to data of 31 December 2007, the 917 MW of installed wind power currently in Navarre is greater than countries like Greece (871 MW), Ireland (805 MW), Sweden (788 MW), Belgium (287 MW), Poland ( 276 Mw), Czech Republic (116 Mw) and Finland (110 MW). The European countries are ahead of the Autonomous Community are Germany (22,247 MW), Spain (15,145 MW), Denmark (3,125 MW), Italy (2,726 MW), France (2,454) and UK (2,389 MW), according stated in the attached table.
A bicycle that hydrogen has a range of 150 kilometers and recharges in a quarter of an hour. Is the new two-wheeled electric developed by ‘Institute of Advanced Technologies for Energy of the National Research Council (ITAE-CNR) in Messina in collaboration with the Tozzi Renewable Energy (Three SpA). The prototype model, which is landing on the Italian market, will be presented at the meeting “H2Roma Energy & Mobility Show, In progress until 5 November in Rome.