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Monday 23rd March 2015
15 Romanian companies have been honoured by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) for promoting energy efficiency. Included in the 15 are a cereal grower, a car-servicing company, a manufacturer of antique-style furniture, a fruit and vegetable processor, several bakeries, a paper producer, and ...
Friday 20th March 2015
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are helping Georgia tap its hydropower potential. By investing in the construction and operation of the Shuakhevi hydropower plant will also see the country achieve energy self-sufficiency. The $250 ...
Thursday 19th March 2015
THE California Energy Commission approved $21 million in grants for energy innovation and efficiency programs at its monthly business meeting. Almost a dozen innovative projects - including one to convert forest residues to electricity and another to turn dairy manure into biogas - were funded through four key grant and loan ...
Wednesday 18th March 2015
FOUR financial institutions are providing a €20 million financing to the Moroccon BMCE Bank and its leasing subsidiary Maghrebail. THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) have combined to strengthen sustainable energy measures in ...
Tuesday 17th March 2015
Generating energy while you drive to charge an electric vehicle’s (EV) battery would seem to be a perfect combination. Just such a solution could be on the horizon from Goodyear - the tire company. At this years Geneva International Motor Show Goodyear revealed a concept tire the “BHO3” – which offers ...
Tuesday 17th March 2015
DATA from the International Energy Agency (IEA) indicate that global emissions of carbon dioxide from the energy sector stalled in 2014. This marks the first time in 40 years in which there was a halt or reduction in emissions of the greenhouse gas that was not tied to an economic downturn. "This ...
Monday 16th March 2015
A NEW solar thermal electricity facility in South Africa’s Northern Cape region is getting a ZAR 455 million ($37 million) from the International Financial Corporation (IFC). The 100-megawatt Xina Solar One facility being developed by Abengoa is expected to produce clean energy for more than 95,000 households, create jobs and reduce ...
Friday 13th March 2015
THE U.S. Energy Department yesterday released a new report looking at the future of wind power through 2050 and the economic benefits that come with a robust wind industry. The report, "Wind Vision: A New Era for Wind Power in the United States", confirms that with technological advancements driving projected cost ...
Thursday 12th March 2015
THREE U.S. Senators yesterday re-introduced their legislation to strengthen and reauthorize the heart of the federal government’s energy efficiency strategy. Senators Chris Coons, Susan Collins, Jack Reed, and Jeanne Shaheen re-introduced the Weatherization Assistance Program and to reauthorize the vital work of the State Energy Program. The Weatherization Enhancement and Local ...
Wednesday 11th March 2015
INTERNATIONAL and local experts discussed smart solutions to energy challenges in Cyprus, at a high-level conference in Nicosia yesterday. The conference – Smart sustainable energy: International experience and Cyprus – was a forum for sharing examples from across Europe of best practice in the industry. It was organised by the Cypriot Ministry ...
Tuesday 10th March 2015
IN 2013, the share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy reached 15.0% in the European Union (EU), compared with 8.3% in 2004, the first year for which the data is available. The share of renewables in gross final consumption of energy is one of the headline ...
Monday 9th March 2015
TO help achieve India’s energy saving target under the government’s Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation (EE and EC) programme, they will make Andhra Pradesh ‘an incandescent bulb free state’ by 2016. The HANS India report that under the programme, all municipalities in the state have been directed to switch the incandescent street ...
Friday 6th March 2015
A newly revised standard from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and IES seeks to provide greater guidance and a more comprehensive approach to retrofit of existing buildings for increased energy efficiency. The ANSI/ASHRAE/IES Standard 100-2015, Energy Efficiency in Existing Buildings, provides comprehensive and detailed descriptions of ...
Thursday 5th March 2015
THE U.S. Department of Energy announced the third round of Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Renewable Energy Project Development Assistance, providing tribal governments support to accelerate clean energy projects. Through the START Program, the U.S. Energy Department Office of Indian Energy and Energy Department National Laboratory experts provide technical assistance ...
Wednesday 4th March 2015
AN Action Plan designed to significantly improve the energy efficiency of Houston’s buildings, improving market competitiveness, has been released. The action plan is based on the recommendations of the Houston Energy Efficiency in Buildings Laboratory (EEB Lab) held jointly by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United ...
Tuesday 3rd March 2015
REGULATING comfort in small commercial buildings could become more efficient and cheaper due to an innovative wireless sensor being developed by researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Sara Shoemaker, from the U.S. ORNL, explains that buildings are responsible for about 40% of the energy consumed in the United States. ...
Monday 2nd March 2015
WORLD leading competitive auctions have led to contracts being offered to 27 renewable electricity projects, which together could power 1.4m homes in the UK. The green energy auction has driven down prices, by as much as 58% for one technology. The projects will lead to the UK emitting 4m fewer tonnes ...
Friday 27th February 2015
IF an atlas is a window on the world, the new International Energy Association (IEA) Energy Atlas offers panoramas on every aspect of energy on a global basis and for 138 individual countries. With interactive maps and customisable charts that detail and compare a host of data based on the Agency’s ...
Thursday 26th February 2015
ONE of Belarus’s largest milk processing plants will reduce energy costs and minimise losses of power supply significantly with help from the EBRD's Belarus Sustainable Energy Finance Facility (BelSEFF). Annual heat and electricity savings at the Kalinkovichi Dairy are expected to be worth more than $2.9 million annually, enhancing its profitability ...
Wednesday 25th February 2015
KENYA is benefitting from major investments in geothermal energy that is also supplying reliable and clean energy and by lowering the cost of electricity to consumers. Geothermal power, which is generated from natural steam from the earth, some from as far as three kilometers underground, is a renewable source of energy ...
Tuesday 24th February 2015
SYDNEY Australia has released its Energy Efficiency Master Plan, which runs through 2030, with the aim of cutting energy costs by (Aus)$600m for the cost of (Aus)$396m. Consultants pitt&sherry formulated the plan, through which they reveal energy efficiency savings would achieve half the city's emissions reductions, with renewable energy, tri-generation and ...
Monday 23rd February 2015
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC), is investing $15 million for a new wind farm in Sindh province as part of its effort to support renewable power generation in Pakistan. IFC’s investment in Gul Ahmed Wind Power, an independent power producer, will help the company build and operate the 50-megawatt facility ...
Friday 20th February 2015
LONDON'S greenest building has received a top energy efficiency award, the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) building has been recognized by ASHRAE, a North American authority, as this London is in Ontario, Canada. UTRCA has just gained international recognition for their Watershed Conservation Centre having received the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers ...
Thursday 19th February 2015
NEW York State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced this week funding for a new energy competition that will award up to $20 million for the most forward-thinking, advanced energy projects in five state areas. First proposed by the Governor in 2014, the projects in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Yonkers, aim ...
Wednesday 18th February 2015
TWO new financial instruments to encourage greater private sector involvement in schemes to reduce energy use and conserving natural capital, especially biodiversity, in Europe have been launched. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Commission have joined forces to back investment through these two initiatives that support Europe’s contribution ...