Kees van der Leun

Energy, the European Union and Russia

Saturday, March 8, 2014 / Energy / 2 Comments

The ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia is an excellent occasion for the European Union to assess its dependence from foreign fossil fuels, especially oil and natural gas from the Russian Federation. As Kees van der Leun noted on his Twitter last week, the EU buys to Russia over half a billion euros of oil …

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Solar PV to become the cheapest option by 2018

Friday, March 15, 2013 / Cleantech, Energy / Leave a Comment

Currently, the world is relying massively on coal to generate electricity as it is cheap, awfully cheap – if you don’t take into account the negative externalities as it is polluting our air, our soil and is one of the main factors to climate change. But what if solar became even cheaper than coal ? …

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