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3 Ways How Your Renewable Energy Business Can Thrive

With the economic crisis on the rise, how can a renewable energy company survive the harsh global market? There are more than just three ways on how a sustainable energy business can thrive under the world’s current situation. But for now we will be limiting ourselves to the best tips there is. It is best that a clean  energy company remain optimistic and make this economic crisis into an opportunity.

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Spain will have to triple renewable energy

According to the Prime Minister, Spain will have to triple renewable energy if it wants to achieve targets set by Europe in 2020. “The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has acknowledged that the objectives set by the European Council last week to reduce greenhouse gases and use renewable energy sources” are ambitious, “and that Spain will required to “triple” 2020, representing the current share of renewables in energy production.

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Biomass Plant in Cuéllar

Biomass plant Cuellar, Segovia, funded 50% by the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDEA), Public Entity Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade and the Regional Authority for Energy ( ENRD) of the Castile and Leon, was the first facility of its features that has been done in Spain, having been, since its inception in 1999, both its reliability and its perfect integration into the social and economic environment of the municipality de Cuellar. The plant gets energy saving and use of indigenous renewable resources to the daily lives of its inhabitants.

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Bag vs. Direct Investment in Renewable Energy

We return once more to the clarion call of the Stock to remember their historic returns given the risks involved. One strategy a priori is smart to stay out when you go down to enter only when they climb. I say a priori that what seems obvious, of course not easy to perform.

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Seizure on the Stock

Today IBEX35 returned to close in negative. It is premature to judge whether this is a very strong correction or a change of cycle. In any case, it’s time to revert to Renewable Energy as a possible haven investment.

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20% Renewable Energy by 2020

Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Joan Clos said the last day 15 the “serious commitment” from Spain to renewable energy, biofuels and the interconnections on arrival at the Energy Council in which he confided that the Twenty – to achieve “a consensus” on these issues, despite the differences of time.

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Financial Leverage

To understand the investment in renewable energy in all its breadth is necessary to clear the basis of financial leverage. This will take us several chapters.

Following the philosophy of the Blog, will try to explain in a simple and understandable, giving very general examples and avoiding jargon.

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Why Do We Need Renewable Energy?

The Renewable Energy sector is today widely spoken. Development is unthinkable without state support in the form of tariffs, premiums, incentives and grants. The question immediately arises, are expensive renewable energy? The Minister of Environment Ms. Cristina Narbona was in this sense resounding: NO.

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What is Renewable Energy?

Renewable energy is defined as that which is obtained from natural sources continuously inexhaustible on a human scale. They are a real clean alternative to conventional energy with minimal environmental impact.

We could divide them into 6 major groups:

  • Solar energy (photovoltaic, thermal, thermoelectric)
  • Wind Energy
  • Hydraulic Power
  • Energy of the Sea (marine, undimotrz, maremotérmica)
  • Geothermal Energy
  • Biomass Energy (Residual Biomass, Biofuels, energy crops, municipal solid waste)

RenovablesThe latter has its own peculiarities as it produces CO2 emissions. However, these emissions can be considered carbon neutral since it is already found in the natural cycle of life, and not released into the bargain as with the exploitation of fossil fuels.

We will explore in depth each.

As a contrast, are non-renewable energy, those that are limited and once irrestituibles fully exploited. Curiously also note that it is the worst polluters.

  • Petroleum
  • Coal
  • Natural Gas
  • Nuclear Energy

It is possible to replace it before the last four for the first six …

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Europe is “wet” with the Renewable

In Europe we pledged to meet 12% of our energy needs from renewable sources by 2010. We have done our homework, and now we lost the first assault by … but not the war.

The MEPs adopted that 25% of primary energy consumed in Europe in 2020 is from renewable sources. The exercise has different guidelines outlined in a roadmap will be implemented from 2010.

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