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Sep 11

Twist on Alcoa’s plant in Sardinia

Italian Ministry of Development Corrado Passera shows today an opening on negotiations to find alternative investors for the aluminium plants in Sardinia isle. After denying the Ministry received firm bids to buy the installations (here), he denies he “ever said it is a mission impossible” (here) and invites Glencore and Klesch (that put their bids in …

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Sep 11

Denmark, 100% RES by 2050

The most ambitious plan for the exploitation of renewables energy sources passed the vote of the Parliament of Denmark in March. It paves the road to total transition to renewables by 2050 and sets the goal of 35% of energy generation from RES by 2020. 50% of the final target energy supply will be generated …

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Sep 09

The mysterious bids on ALCOA’s plant in Sardinia

The Italian government has received only generic expressions of interest in Alcoa Inc’s loss-making aluminium plant on the island of Sardinia and there is no firm bid on the table, Industry Minister Corrado Passera told Reuters on Sunday. But Unions and Regione Sardegna disprove and say that Glencore and Klesch are interested and made their …

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Sep 09

Oil price

The following chart (by Petrolio) shows the oil price trend from August 2003 to August 2012. Still below 100$/bbl, but street prices do not reflect its dynamics.

Sep 08

Government and media in Italy

This article (part 1; part 2) reports on the liaison between the media system in Italy and the government of Mario Monti. From Berlusconi to the “professors”, few changes appears in the uncritical support to power by major media in Italy. Definitively not a watchdog, now warming up the engine to push for a second …

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Sep 08

China and Russia sound alarm on global economy

China sounded the alarm about the state of the global economy on Saturday at APEC summit, and Russian President Putin also expresses concern. Chinese leaders call for stronger integration in APEC Countries (Reuters), while promising they will work to provide a better policy environment to attract foreign investments in China (Reuters). Meanwhile, chinese companies keep …

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Sep 06

EU FP7: SME and RTD Partners search for energy clustering

G. D’Annunzio University of CH-PE is looking for project partners on FP7 Programme Research for the benefits of SMEs. The project aims to research, model and diffuse integrated approaches to research and innovation for startup, development and management of sustainable energy clustering of enterprises (and society) in different industries. SMEs associations/groupings, other universities and research …

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