Renewable Energy Sources
Pan-Hellenic Network responds to ELETAEN and wind farm lobby
The Pan-Hellenic Network of Energy Collectivities published an extensive text which contradicts the positions of the lobby of the wind...
Read More ...Map of wind farms currently in operation
Click on the image to open the map of wind farms in Greece that are currently in operation.
Read More ...Renewable future is built on exploitation
Fossil fuel companies have long been criticized for violating human rights. Turns out the renewable energy industry is just as...
Read More ...How are the energy needs of Greece covered?
Because the numbers often tell the truth, see from the official data of the Independent Electricity Transmission Operator (IPTO) how...
Read More ...Solar parks instead of wind farms
It is clear that achieving the climate targets requires the deployment of large-scale renewable energy. But this doesn’t necessarily mean...
Read More ...Aigaio Wind park project rejected
A major victory for Greece’s anti-wind parks movement and a heavy defeat for the wind energy industry, is the rejection...
Read More ...Research rooftop solar photovoltaic potential in EU
Another substantiated counter-proposal to the industrialization of virgin nature for energy:A very important paper, which calculates which % of the...
Read More ...Sustainable locations for wind parks
Wind energy is the leading renewable technology towards achieving climate goals, yet biodiversity trade-offs via land take are emerging. Thus,...
Read More ...Floating wind farms: What is Greece doing in the Aegean?
The launch of an open public consultation for the formation of a new operational institutional framework for marine wind farms...
Read More ...Offshore wind farms and energy transition
To help meet the EU’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050, the European Commission recently presented the EU Strategy on...
Read More ...Wind turbines out-competed by Covid-19
Wind and solar investment collapses post-pandemic and Covid-19 proves to be the world’s greatest carbon reduction program. Click on the...
Read More ...A dishonest campaign
For a week now, Kathimerini newspaper has been publishing opinion pieces which have the obvious purpose of attacking the increasing...
Read More ...Power reliability wind turbines
Power reliability coming from wind turbines is found to be well below 10%, requiring ever-running backups from expensive natural gass...
Read More ...Windturbines: truth behind the myth
An online article in Kosmodromio about the thruth behind the wind farm industry (in Greek). Click on the image to...
Read More ...Why renewables can’t save the planet
Environmentalists have long promoted renewable energy sources like solar panels and wind farms to save the climate. But what about...
Read More ...France: Stop wind farm proliferation!
From an article in Le Figaro of 7 May: “France’s long-term energy program was adopted on the fly by government...
Read More ...Much more enthusiasm for solar energy in the Netherlands
There is much more enthusiasm for solar energy in the Netherlands than for new wind turbines. This picture emerges from...
Read More ...Germany: Mutiny in the Land of Wind Turbines
Spiegel International published an extended article by Matthias Shulz in July 2013 which took a long, withering look at the...
Read More ...Wind farm projects at risk
The global wind power boom is facing a sharp slowdown as coronavirus restrictions hit supply chains, threatening projects with delay...
Read More ...Worn-out turbines could cost billions
According to power companies the life time of a wind turbine is about 20 years. But in reallity after about...
Read More ...Tilos project
Tilos is located on the North-West of Rhodes Island and is the first non-interconnected autonomous island in the Mediterranean to...
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