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WORLD ENERGY MONITOR
Politics, Market, and
New Energy Order
Volume 3, Number 3, March 2012
FOCUS
Biofuel: The New Fulcrum
Contents
Focus . . . . . . . . . . 1, 5, 8, 12
Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Energy Innovations . . . . . . 14
Briefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Editor’s Notes
The current issue of World Energy
Monitor features competing views on
whether biofuels can usher in a new
era to meet growing global energy
needs in a sustainable manner? While
Steen Skjold-Jørgensen terms biofuels
as a new fulcrum of world economic
progress, Kirk Haney sees new non-food
energy on the horizon. Michal Rosenoer,
on the other hand, emphasizes the
growing disenchantment with the firstgeneration biofuels and also cautions
of the detrimental effects of secondgeneration biofuels on environment and
society. Focusing on the water impacts
and the energy return on investment,
Kelly M. Twomey, Colin M. Beal,
Carey W. King and Michael Webber of
University of Texas could currently see
only a limited role for biofuels to meet
the growing energy and environmental
challenges of our times. Featured
energy-related developments of the past
month, including alerts and intelligence,
appear in the regular Highlights, Briefs,
and Innovations sections. BioGasMax
Project (EU) and IndiGo Solar Power
System (South Sudan/Kenya) in the
Project section and Amsterdam’s
Water and Energy Company and Year
of Sustainable Energy for All in the
spotlight section, and the profile of Dr.
Bernd Krautkremer of IWET (Germany)
completes this issue.
editor@wef21.org
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