Schiphol Airport to become ‘carbon neutral’ by 2012

11 April 2008 - Schiphol Group has revealed its ‘Climate Plan’ on how the company expects to reach the ‘carbon-neutrality’ status by 2012. Daan van Vroonhoven, Schiphol senior adviser, also told a conference in Amsterdam this week that 20% of the total energy consumption is expected to be generated by on-site renewable energy sources by 2020.
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Concerns about legal status of trading GoOs paragraphs in Directive

10 April 2008 – At present, many parties doubt if the paragraphs concerning the trade of Guarantees of Origin in the new proposal for a renewable energy Directive will hold against the EU Treaty. The Commission confirms that the paragraphs are legally sound, but both Member States and organisations are criticising that view.
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"Two parallel systems for green power certificates"

9 April 2008 - Traders all over Europe are utterly confused about the trade paragraphs in the new Directive for renewable energy, proposed in January. Despite some clarifications from the Commission during the Rexchange event yesterday, the green power trading community still is convinced that the voluntary market is in great danger. 
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"Feed-in tariff may lead to market distortion"

9 April 2008 - With the increase of the renewable share in the power supply, authorities will have to re-consider their instruments for supporting renewable energy. This is the view of Paul van Son, manager of Deutsche Essent and chairman of the European Federation of Energy Traders.
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EC’s GO proposals need tweaking to encourage disclosure - AIB

9 April 2008 - The European Commission’s (EC) renewable energy package needs to be amended to encourage the voluntary Guarantee of Origin (GO) market for disclosure purposes, the Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) told delegates at the REXchange 2008 conference, Amsterdam on Wednesday.
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Renewables industry argues for a cross-border GO certificate

8 April 2008 - The European Commission’s (EC’s) renewables proposals came under fire on Tuesday, as delegates at the REXchange 2008 conference in Amsterdam blamed the EC Directive for “more or less ignoring the consumer”. Most attendees argued in favour of “letting the market decide” how to meet the 20% renewable energy target by 2020 and opposed the EC’s proposals to restrict the trade of Guarantees of Origin (GOs), which are currently internationally tradable certificates of renewably generated power.
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Read the new special publication of GreenPrices News Desk. In cooperation with Renewable Energy Focus magazine, we analyse the Climate Package, the position of Member States and of the different stakeholders.
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