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Pain in Spain: New Retroactive Changes Hinder Renewable Energy

In his Poetics, the Greek philosopher Aristotle draws a distinction between Tragedies and Epics: he states that while Tragedies are confined to one revolution of the sun (i.e. one year), Epics can be of unlimited duration. In light of the seemingly unending...

The Future of Electricity Markets

British philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once wrote "fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas."

Spain Imposes "Temporary" Halt to New Renewable Energy and Co-generation Projects

Faced with growing fiscal challenges and the specter of increasingly trigger-happy credit rating agencies, the new center-right Spanish government has acted to temporarily put a halt to awarding new feed-in tariff (FIT) contracts starting in January 2013....

Toby Couture

Toby Couture

Toby Couture is Director of Renewable Energy at IFOK GmbH, an international consultancy with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Bensheim, Munich and Boston. He works on the environmental, economic and financial aspects of energy markets and is...

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