Reuters: Austria’s government agreed measures on Wednesday that will double the proportion of alternative energy generated to 15 percent over seven years, ministers said on Wednesday. “With this new law we can achieve 15 percent alternative energy in Austria by 2015, a doubling, with the emphasis on wind energy and hydro power,” Environment Minister Josef Proell told reporters. “This produces half the CO2 savings that we wanted to achieve by 2012,” Chancellor Alfred …