Renewables push greenhouse gas emission savings in Europe
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the community to understand why it’s important for these data to be made available.” Other organizations are also providing resources to participants. Elsevier’s Materials Today has partnered with HPCC Systems, a high-performance computing platform, to provide training and computation time, and Springer will provide solvers with free access for a limited time to their SpringerMaterials database of over 3000 physical and chemical properties of more than 250,000 materials and chemical systems. The Materials Accelerator Network, a partnership among Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin, has assembled on their website a comprehensive list of available resources. For the federal agencies, the challenge mechanism offers advantages over a traditional grant solicitation. Both Warren and Ward expect the concept of a challenge to garner excitement and better awareness of
the value of digital data in the materials community. “We’re putting $50,000 in and . . . we’ll leverage far more effort than with a single $100,000 grant,” Ward says. He also believes the mechanism will be effective because of its broad scope. “We don’t specify you must solve this problem. . . . We’re giving folks the opportunity to demonstrate possibilities that we may not be able to put down on paper in a normal solicitation, and I’m hopeful we’ll see new insights or discoveries, or even new ways of thinking about how you might use data that we haven’t thought of yet.” The Challenge is open to everyone—internationally. Solvers should submit their entries, in the form of a written research report, by March 31, 2016. Along with receiving monetary prizes, winners will be invited to present their work at the Materials Science & Technology 2016 Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ashley White
The EU has a directive to fulfill at least 20% of its total energy needs with renewables by 2020—to be achieved through the attainment of individual national targets. The JRC has released a set of reports analyzing renewable energy progress based on member states’ national renewable energy action plans. JRC scientists examined the status of burden sharing for the 2020 climate and energy targets, foreseeing a 20% reduction in GHG emissions from 1990 levels, a shared increase of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources to 20%, and 20% improvement in the EU’s energy efficiency. In October 2014, EU leaders agreed on more ambitious goals for 2030, with a domestic emission reduction target of at least 40% below 1990 levels, an increase of renewable energy share of at least 27%, and an energy efficiency goal of at least 27%.
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reenhouse gas (GHG) emission savings due to renewable energy consumption in electricity, cooling/heating, and transport sectors in Europe rose at a compound annual growth rate of 8.8% from 2009 to 2012, confirming the great potential of renewables in climate change mitigation, according to a new report
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