World Energy

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.

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