Energy Saving News
Monday 2nd August 2010
THE government of Singapore is looking at energy management practices for companies in their country.
Dr Amy Khor , Senior Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources (MEWR), stated at a two day National Sustainability Conference that her ministry introducing an Energy Conservation Act, propose to ...
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Thursday 29th July 2010
THE Pakistani federal government on Tuesday decided to maintain two-day weekly off and early markets’ closure by another three months till Oct 31, 2010.
Pakistan has been facing stringent measures to reduce energy use since April, when office closures and early closing of markets were implemented, with stronger punishments added ...
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Thursday 29th July 2010
THE world famous Empire State Building, a New York City skyline landmark is undergoing a major energy efficiency retrofit that will bring 40% reduction in costs and energy use.
The Malkin family have been part owners of the building since 1961 and they now supervise the current building managers W&H Properties. ...
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Wednesday 28th July 2010
Turkey’s 2009 Review shows that the country is likely to see the fastest medium to long-growth energy demand among the IEA member countries according to the study Energy Policies of IEA Countries.
Mr Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA said "Turkey has progressed significantly in all areas of energy policy ...
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Tuesday 27th July 2010
UK Businesses' energy bills could rise by 26% in the next decade owing to UK policies to cut emissions, according to reports published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
The estimates came as UK’s Energy Secretary Chris Huhne delivered the first annual energy statement to the British Parliament in ...
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Tuesday 27th July 2010
ON Friday Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, appealed for greater effort in developing and in using advanced energy technologies as a way of boosting energy conservation and efficiency, while helping to fuel China’s economic growth.
Li made the remarks while meeting with prize winners awarded for their contributions to China's energy ...
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Tuesday 27th July 2010
WITH utility bills in United Arab Emirates (UAE) for commercial buildings rising by over 50 per cent over the last two years, many more companies are embracing energy-saving measures to reduce costs and carbon emissions, reports Anita Mathews, exhibition director of Middle East Electricity.
The financial as well as environmental issues ...
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Sunday 25th July 2010
NEW ZEALAND (NZ) businesses, the public service and households will be encouraged to save energy to help make the country as energy efficient as its Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) partners.
The Draft New Zealand Energy Strategy sticks to the last NZ (Labour) government's 2007 target of having 90% ...
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Thursday 22nd July 2010
COMMERCIAL building space in the United States covers a total of 79 billion square feet, and buildings are one of the leading sources of energy consumption and carbon emissions.
With more than 80% of commercial buildings being more than 10 years old, they also represent a significant opportunity for energy ...
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Wednesday 21st July 2010
LANCASTER city, in the American state of Pennsylvania, have revealed that their maintenance workers used to change the incandescent bulbs in the city's traffic lights every year - but they haven’t touched them for three years and do not expect to do so for at least another seven, if not ...
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Wednesday 21st July 2010
ONE third of UK companies could miss the 30th September deadline for registering for the UK's energy efficiency scheme requiring them to reveal information on their energy use, this will result in fines of up to £5000 ($7,644) each, an environmental consultancy revealed yesterday.
The UK's mandatory Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy ...
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Wednesday 21st July 2010
CHINA is challenging the credibility of an International Energy Agency (IEA) report that branded the country the world's top energy consumer, surpassing the United States, claiming that the estimation is inaccurate, according to the Global Times.
"The IEA's data on China's energy use is unreliable," Zhou Xian, an official with China's ...
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Tuesday 20th July 2010
NEW energy efficiency regulations will soon be in place for all new buildings being built in South Africa.
The South African Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies has published amendments to the energy efficiency regulations. This move will make it compulsory for all new buildings to be designed and built ...
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Monday 19th July 2010
ENERGY demand in the Asia Pacific region is increasing at a fast pace, primarily with the upward demand being fueled by rapid economic growth across Southeast Asia, India, and China.
Asian governments and industrial leaders are also heavily focused on creating a more sustainable and energy-efficient economy and these worthwhile goals ...
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Monday 19th July 2010
FOR the second year in a row Norway heads a global list of countries who are working towards zero carbon buildings.
Second was Brazil followed by the UK in the 2009 RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) ‘Global Zero Carbon Capacity Index’ produced by Professor Yvonne Rydin, a co-director at ...
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Friday 16th July 2010
The Victoria State Government in Australia has been strengthening their energy saving scheme, which will now also target businesses.
John Brumby, Premier of Victoria, has launched an election climate-change policy, which expands the current energy-saving scheme to target 500,000 small and medium businesses.
This has doubled the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target (VEET), ...
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Friday 16th July 2010
CHINA is again grabbing the energy efficiency headlines after the People’s Republic revised the gains they have made already in energy efficiency over the last four years, with the new calculations purporting that the country has almost achieved it’s five year target early.
Although the revised figures seem to put China ...
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Thursday 15th July 2010
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, said this week that it is offering more help to Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in support of the countries efforts towards greater energy efficiency.
Dai Cunfeng, operations officer and team leader of the China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency ...
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Thursday 15th July 2010
AN expert claims that the UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme is providing property owners with a benchmark enabling them to measure their energy efficiency.
Don Jordison, managing director at property investment firm Threadneedle, stated yesterday that the CRC is providing the property industry a "legislative framework with ...
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Wednesday 14th July 2010
A conference held yesterday, in the U.S. State of Massachusetts with the New England Governors and five Eastern Canadian Premiers, outlined a series of key agreements to boost the regions energy efficiency.
Governor Debal Patrick said:
“As the region that started the Industrial Revolution, the Northeast can also be the region ...
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Tuesday 13th July 2010
AN Australian National Energy Savings Scheme is likely to provide a combination of energy efficiency standards and financial rewards for businesses that make long term investments to cut their power use.
Rob Murray-Leach, Chief Executive of the Australian Energy Efficiency Council (EEC) said,
''Our position is that a national energy efficiency target ...
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Tuesday 13th July 2010
ACCORDING to new research healthcare organisations are more likely to invest in energy efficiency for their facilities compared to other industry sectors.
According to PR Newswire in March American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE), Johnstone Controlls and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), commissioned the 2010 Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) survey, ...
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Monday 12th July 2010
BUSINESS groups in Australia are appealing to the government to use tax breaks to improve energy efficiency, rather than the planned carbon tax or emissions trading scheme, at least until there is an international consensus on climate policy.
The current Labor government is due to meet tomorrow, Tuesday 13th July, to ...
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Saturday 10th July 2010
FRANCE announced on Friday that it is providing a 46 million Euros loan to Pakistan for energy saving and rehabilitating a power plant to promote energy efficiency and enhance Pakistan’s supply against the backdrop of electricity outages that have been plaguing the country.
Secretary Economic Affairs Division (EAD), Sibtain Fazal Halim, ...
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Friday 9th July 2010
THE European Union (EU) may need new legislation to produce the required long term reductions for carbon emissions, so stated the European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger yesterday during the annual Greenpeace energy revolution roadmap.
Oettinger did not advocate any new specific legislation, only hinting that the EU could bring in laws ...
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