20.08.2013 - 90pct of utilities fail to meet carbon dioxide reduction targets
Nine of the nation’s 10 utilities failed to meet their self-imposed five-year targets for reducing carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 20 percent, an industry body said Monday. Their failure was caused mainly by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which forced them to revert to thermal power generation after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake triggered the shutdown of virtually all of the reactors in Japan...............................................Full Article: Source
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