Energy Saving News
Thursday 22nd December 2011
THIRTY-SIX facilities across the U.S. state of Minnesota will realise more than $3 million in permanent, ongoing energy savings every year for the foreseeable future.
These substantial savings are thanks to a one-time, $4.1 million energy upgrade grant programme administered by the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Division of Energy Resources (DER). ...
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Thursday 22nd December 2011
DENMARK will take over the presidency of the European Union in January and believes that the current financial crisis presents the region an opportunity to convert to a greener economy.
Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building, Martin Lidegaard stated that the answer to the current financial problems is to invest ...
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Wednesday 21st December 2011
THE PennFuture Energy Center for Enterprise and the Environment released a new study by Optimal Energy detailing the impact of energy savings law, on Pennsylvania's businesses, environment, families and economy.
"The energy savings law is an unqualified success," said Courtney Lane, Senior Energy Policy Analyst for Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) ...
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Wednesday 21st December 2011
THE EU Environment Committee yesterday voted on measures aiming to get the EU on track to meet its 20 percent energy efficiency target by 2020.
The Environment Committee supported the European Commission's broad approach to improving energy efficiency, but called for Member States to have "mandatory national targets" and greater flexibility ...
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Tuesday 20th December 2011
FYR Macedonia's Ministry of Health is running a pilot programme focussing on improving the energy efficiency of the countries hospitals.
Two-pilot institutions - Gostivar General Hospital and Stip Clinical Hospital - have been chosen for the two-year study as part of an agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO).
"We not only ...
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Tuesday 20th December 2011
OPTIMISM in the UK cleantech sector has witnessed a surprisingly strong increase over the last eight months, claims new research published yesterday by Ernst & Young.
However, the market remains less optimistic than a year ago in the UK Coalition Government’s ability to establish the conditions necessary for energy sustainability, cleantech ...
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Monday 19th December 2011
PROPOSALS for an EU directive designed to encourage countries to reduce their energy consumption has been called "too rigid and top-heavy" by the UK’s NHS Confederation.
They also claim that it could cost the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) organisations millions of pounds at a time when the service is already ...
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Monday 19th December 2011
THE Sri Lankan Ministry of Industry and Commerce has launched an energy efficiency programme for the countries industries to combat rising energy and production costs.
Using a Public Private Partnership model, the aim of the programme is to help companies to upgrade their energy efficiency, cutting down on the cost of ...
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Friday 16th December 2011
UKRAINE should make improving energy efficiency a national priority, Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Sergiy Tigipko has said.
"Euro 2012 has shown that we can allocate rather significant resources in the country if we want this," Tigipko said in an interview with Interfax- Ukraine, "energy saving is now one ...
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Friday 16th December 2011
THE purpose of the proposed European Commission's Energy Efficiency Directive is to save energy while increasing growth, but how to combine both still needs to be decided upon by member states.
British MEP Fiona Hall told EurActiv, “We are working hard to get compromises on this directive.”
The proposal has been ...
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Thursday 15th December 2011
RESEARCH shows that UK businesses and organisations want to improve their energy efficiency and can now overcome the negatives of the current economic climate with help from a financing scheme.
The estimated market for energy efficiency equipment finance in the UK is enormous, with research estimating that the market over the ...
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Thursday 15th December 2011
U.S. AGRICULTURE Secretary Tom Vilsack yesterday announced loans and grants for agricultural producers and rural small businesses to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency measures.
The funding is provided through USDA Rural Development's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP).
"Stable energy costs create an environment for job growth in rural America," ...
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Wednesday 14th December 2011
INDIAN Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh has reiterated India’s commitment to increasing energy efficiency and clean energy, as spelt out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change.
Singh was inaugurating the National Energy Conservation Day function in New Delhi today, where he stated that the target of 9 percent ...
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Wednesday 14th December 2011
WITH financial problems still troubling Europe many are surprised to see new ventures start up or grow, but as in the following example the time is perfect for the energy saving business.
In the UK’s west country a businessman reveals that despite the European wide financial problem there is still much ...
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Tuesday 13th December 2011
GOVERNMENT and industry need to work together to use fewer resources, improve energy efficiency and encourage businesses to come up with solutions, the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) announced yesterday.
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Businesses are increasingly seeking to improve their resource efficiency, particularly energy efficiency, because it offers them a competitive advantage and reduces ...
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Tuesday 13th December 2011
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to support Romania’s energy security strategy by boosting funding to the real economy to increase energy savings and reduce carbon emissions.
The Bank selected the 10 best projects financed under a joint EU-EBRD programme called the Energy Efficiency Finance Facility (EEFF). ...
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Monday 12th December 2011
THE UN climate talks in South Africa have been heralded a success after a climate change deal was struck in the early hours of Sunday morning.
194 parties have spent the past two weeks in Durban discussing how to cut emissions to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees to ...
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Monday 12th December 2011
THE Moldovan Economics Ministry and the Agency for Energy Efficiency has launched the energy efficiency campaign Moldova ECO-Energy.
Moldova ECO-Energy is a comprehensive campaign, whose goal is to promote energy efficiency and alternative energy sources. The campaign is conducted by the Moldovan government in partnership with The European Union the United ...
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Friday 9th December 2011
SOUTH AFRICA’S Department of Energy has signed an Energy Efficiency Leadership Network Pledge along with Business Unity SA (BUSA) and the National Business Initiative (NBI).
The Pledge aims to improve energy efficiency in South Africa, with the signatories developing an energy efficiency road map, the required energy efficiency targets, work with ...
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Friday 9th December 2011
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is scaling up energy efficiency and renewable-energy financing in Thailand by partnering with Bangkok Mitsubishi UFJ Lease Ltd.
The collaboration will help companies find funding for projects that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and use sustainable energy.
IFC’s risk-sharing facility agreement with Bangkok Mitsubishi ...
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Thursday 8th December 2011
THE European Parliament is calling for a binding global deal on climate change to be agreed by 2015, but the "ping pong blame game" between the US and China is holding up progress.
This “game” that is preventing progress must come to an end, said Jo Leinen, Chair of the European ...
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Thursday 8th December 2011
UK ENERGY Secretary Chris Huhne has today announced a £20 million boost to the existing public sector energy efficiency loan scheme and £10 million for local community energy projects.
Huhne said: “This is great news for the public sector. Not only do we need to encourage energy efficiency in our schools, ...
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Wednesday 7th December 2011
The South African government is progressing with the implementation of their Industrial Energy Efficiency Project (IEE) claimed South African Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies.
Davies explained that the energy efficiency project promotes industrial energy management systems, energy system optimisation and energy standards development training for SMEs.
Davies was speaking at an ...
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Wednesday 7th December 2011
THE UK’s Carbon Trust has revealed that businesses and the public sector can make their own lighting more efficient and save up to £700m a year.
The Carbon Trust advises that cost-effective measures such as lighting refurbishment and sensor-based controls can lead to annual cost savings of 20 percent across all ...
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Tuesday 6th December 2011
THE 2011 National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings promises to bring a 25 percent improvement in the energy efficiency of the country’s buildings.
Some 245 technical changes have been made to the 2011 National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings to accommodate new technologies and construction practices that have emerged ...
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Investment in Efficiency Produces Big Energy Savings for Minnesota
