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Solar cells at the doorstep of energy revolution

South Shropshires parliamentary candidate for the Green Party is calling for residents to produce their own energy and invest in mini power plants to provide electricity for their own homes.

The Labour party government of the United Kingdom has announced plans to establish an aggressive overhaul of national energy markets, shifting to 40% low-carbon energy sourcing, across all industries, by 2020. The energy secretary, Ed Milliband, will be given control of allocation of electricity across the energy grid, in an effort to speed the green-energy revolution to allow the UK to meet its legally-binding agreed emissions cuts of 34% by 2020.

For the first time in U.S. history, a nationwide fixed cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will be in place. ‘The American Clean Energy and Security Act calls for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.’ Thus, all energy producers in the United States by 2020 should be sourcing at least 15 percent of their respective energy sources from wind, solar, or other renewable energy resource. An ambitious goal but doable if funded with loads of politic

VIENNA, - Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Kandeh K. Yumkella stressed here on Monday that the international community had to place emphasis on helping developing countries carry out green energy revolution. At the beginning of the Vienna International Energy Conference held on Monday, he said, although in the context of the global financial and economic crisis, the international community had to focus on the development of green energy, a