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"Environmental campaigners were celebrating tonight after controversial plans for a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent were shelved, as the company behind the scheme postponed the project and blamed the recession."

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"We need low carbon energy, it needs to be from reliable sources, and it needs to be affordable. E.ON believes that everyone should be involved and have the chance to ask questions, and be informed and consulted. That's what this Talking Energy channel is for. "

e.on has created a YouTube channel to discuss our energy future

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If it makes it beyond the drawing broad, Desertec would be the world's largest, most ambitious and expensive green energy project ever: a series of solar thermal power plants across the Sahara desert connecting Africa under the Mediterranean Sea to Europe's power grid.

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IT IS an old idea. Build solar power stations in the Sahara desert and transport the electricity produced to Europe using high-voltage, direct-current (HVDC) cables. It is simple in theory, but hard in practice—and very, very costly. But it is a carbon-dioxide-free way of making a lot of electricity, and a collecting area the size of Austria could supply the world.

A meeting on July 13th might get the ball rolling

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