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$100M IFC Financing for Sri Lanka's Energy Efficiency & Renewable Projects
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Wednesday 16th March 2011
THE call for energy efficiency and conservation not only benefits business financially but also has advantages for this and future generations. This is the message that the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) Mindanao wanted the business people of the island to understand in its promoting of energy efficiency. Approximately, Php 60 ...
Tuesday 15th March 2011
IN A GLOBAL executive study on energy efficiency half of executives stated it has improved their organisation’s bottom line and will play a more important role in the future. Ingersoll-Rand plc together with the Economist Intelligence Unit announced yesterday the results of the global C-level executive study on energy efficiency and ...
Tuesday 15th March 2011
THE UN Foundation said recently that governments should exploit energy efficiency as their energy resource of first choice. Referring to this comment U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said at an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference on green buildings that energy could be the definitive challenge of our time, as ...
Monday 14th March 2011
BRITISH businesses can save around £23 billion a year by improving the way they use energy amongst other things. The figures come from research published by the UK Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman and along with energy, water and waste management make up the potential savings. The research identifies these huge potential savings ...
Friday 11th March 2011
IMPROVING energy efficiency is a key strategy for Singapore said Yaacob Ibrahim, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, in a recent speech. Singapore achieved a decrease of 8 percent in energy intensity between 2005 to 2009, but Ibrahim added: “We will need to continue our efforts to meet our target, under ...
Thursday 10th March 2011
THE IFC revealed in their report, “Energy Efficiency: A New Resource for Sustainable Growth” Armenia’s industrial sector could save 14.5 percent of energy costs through improving energy efficiency. IFC (International Finance Corporation) Regional Head for the Caucasus, Thomas Lubeck, revealed the extent of potential savings at the Energy Efficiency Expo 2011, ...
Tuesday 8th March 2011
UK GOVERMENT data has revealed that there are three times as many properties in the lowest energy efficiency category than in the top bands. The release of new figures highlight the immensity of the challenge facing the UK government in its plan to improve energy efficiency across the public sector, with ...
Monday 7th March 2011
CHINA is the world’s second largest economy so their efforts to raise the country’s energy efficiency is important for their own and the worlds economy. They have so far managed to cut energy consumption per unit of GDP by 19.06 percent between 2006 and 2010 on the 2005 levels, however ...
Monday 7th March 2011
RAPID economic growth in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region significantly increased energy demand, which has in turn lead to a greater focus on energy efficiency according to a new report. Pike Research’s report, “Energy Efficient Buildings: Asia Pacific” analyses market issues and opportunities related to energy efficiency solutions for commercial buildings ...
Thursday 3rd March 2011
40 FILIPINO companies in the Davao City region have made a commitment to practice energy efficiency and energy management systems after attending a national workshop on energy efficiency. Jesus C. Anunciacion, the assistant director for Philippines Energy Efficiency and Conservation Division, said that the companies who made the commitment during the ...
Thursday 3rd March 2011
JO LEINEN, chair of the European Parliament's environment committee, warned the European Union (EU) executive that it will have a fight over binding energy-efficiency targets. Leinen told EurActiv: "The Parliament will strongly lobby for a binding target. We can criticise the executive of the EU and at the very end we ...
Wednesday 2nd March 2011
HIGHER fuel costs are pushing energy efficiency up the agenda for British businesses but fear that action will be too expensive in the short term according to a new survey. Energy advisors energyrethinking today released the results of the survey they commissioned in association with the Institute of Directors (IoD). Over ...
Wednesday 2nd March 2011
SOUTH AFRICA’S state-owned power company Eskom said yesterday that it wants the government to set a mandatory energy efficiency scheme as a safety net. We revealed recently that Eskom expects there to be further difficulties for South Africa as they try to rank up their generating capacity, which is currently struggling ...
Monday 28th February 2011
U.S. PRESIDENT Barack Obama has outlined a plan to offer incentives to commercial buildings that implement energy efficiency measures. Obama’s “Better Buildings Initiative” announced recently aims to boost energy efficiency by 20 percent in commercial type buildings, including schools, universities, offices, stores, municipal facilities along with commercial buildings. Obama made the announcement ...
Wednesday 23rd February 2011
INVESTING two percent of global GDP into ten key sectors can kick-start a transition towards a low carbon, resource efficient Green Economy a new report launched this week states. The report, ‘Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication’, says that investing 2% of worldwide GDP, which about ...
Tuesday 22nd February 2011
FOR PUBLIC and private sector organisations to become energy efficient more is needed than technology, at least according to a new study. Kathryn Janda, a researcher at the UK Energy Research Centre, authored a report which revealed the importance of educating and informing people about energy use, efficiency and hence changing ...
Monday 21st February 2011
ENERGY efficiency is key to achieving zero energy use in commercial buildings, reveals two reports in the United States. The two new reports from the Zero Energy Commercial Buildings Consortium (CBC) on achieving net-zero-energy use in commercial buildings say "high levels of energy efficiency are the first, largest and most important ...
Monday 21st February 2011
AUSTRALIAN businesses are set to be hit by soaring electricity costs, with prices predicted to be double 2008 prices by 2015, a report by Australian Industry Group (AIG) reveals. The report “Energy shock: confronting higher prices” delivers a grim message for businesses, with the federal government’s renewable energy scheme expected to ...
Friday 18th February 2011
IRELAND’S Energy Minister Pat Carey has stated that an updated and more ambitious Energy Efficiency Action Plan is needed for his country. “Ireland’s first action plan succeeded in focusing national energy policy on measures which can deliver a sustainable energy future.” Carey explained. “The actions outlined in the National Energy Efficiency Action ...
Friday 18th February 2011
CHILE’S government has plans to reduce voltages to cut energy consumption nationwide and avoid potential energy cuts in the future. Chilean media report that the risk of blackouts is growing as a result of reduced rainfall, necessary to feed Chile’s hydroelectric reservoirs, and have predicted a 10 percent rise in energy ...
Wednesday 16th February 2011
ENERGY efficiency programmes offer relatively inexpensive, easy fixes resulting in reduced costs and emissions leading to many States across the U.S. grabbing what has been labelled "low-hanging fruit". Many American states appreciate the need for energy efficiency and are pushing ahead, full-steam, with energy-savings targets. Together, these states will help the ...
Tuesday 15th February 2011
SOUTH AFRICAN government minister Sibusiso Ndebele said today that energy efficiency is vital for the countries progress and crucial for the next few years.. Business Report detailed Transport Minister Ndebele’s words to the media on behalf of the infrastructure cluster of ministries. “Energy efficiency will play an increasingly important role in our ...
Tuesday 15th February 2011
SINGAPORE has the greatest investment potential in Southeast Asia when it comes to energy efficiency improvements, with other countries close behind, according to a new report funded by the British government. The benefits of energy efficiency initiatives are clear, as the investments would help the region's businesses cut back on ...
Friday 11th February 2011
ALMOST 90 percent Fortune 1000 senior executives feel a moral responsibility to make their companies more energy efficient, and only 13 percent motivated by environmental concerns. A poll by Harris Interactive, on behalf of Schneider Electric, found that 88 percent of executives feel a moral responsibility to cut energy use, beyond ...
Friday 11th February 2011
THE EUROPEAN Union will impose legally binding energy efficiency targets within two years according to draft documents seen by Reuters. We have reported over the last couple of months the to-ing and fro-ing in the EU’s energy efficiency binding targets debate, but it now seems to be coming to a head. Last ...