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Looking back on the energy year 2006
Submitted by Hans De Keulenaer on Fri, 2006-12-22 11:05.
The year 2006 has been a spectacular year for energy. Hereby Leonardo ENERGY's list of 10 highlights.
- Energy Efficiency becomes top priority in Europe (and beyond). See Hans Nilsson's analysis on the energy efficiency action plan.
- Many world records broken on renewable energy technologies, among others:
- the largest wind farm
- the largest wind turbine
- the largest solar power station
- the most efficient solar cell
- the largest wave power station
- The emergence of the smart grid concept with smart metering
- The turnaround of US on energy & climate policy, through the 25 x 25 vision (Renewable Energy World, Dec issue, p 113), 8 states introducing CO2 restrictions, ...
- Among others, Al Gore's movie has made climate change a public issue, addressed daily in mass media
- A comeback for nuclear appears imminent
- A blackout leaves 10 million Europeans in the dark.Regulators need to start regulating beyond price.
- The first year of full operation of the European Emission Trading Scheme
- Passive Houses emerge as a mainstream technology, offering the potential to almost eliminate low temperature heat demand in buildings.
- Reality dawns on the illusion of the hydrogen economy
Comments, suggestions and additions welcome.


The Year 2006 in Energy
From MIT's TechnologyReview: Biowaste to fuels, cars that plug in, lithium-ion batteries that don't explode, and cheap energy from the sun.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/17944/
Looking forward to the energy year 2007
Clean energy trends for 2007, about the many new B$ markets emerging, available as freely downloadable report (after registration):
http://makower.typepad.com/joel_makower/2007/03/clean_energy_tr.html