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Monday 28th July 2014
THE European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing €22.47 million to finance the second phase of an energy efficiency retrofit program in Bucharest, Romania. The project is expected to result in around 50% savings in the energy consumption of the buildings concerned. The menu is the first tranche of a loan worth ...
Friday 25th July 2014
THE Canadian province of British Colombia's (BC) government have announced a new Power Smart program to improve energy efficiency and reduce electricity costs for paper and pulp mills. The program will help producers remain globally competitive, supporting thousands of jobs throughout the province, while reducing overall electricity demand, keeping rates ...
Thursday 24th July 2014
THE EU looks set to accept a 30% energy saving target by 2030, with the European Commission proposing the goal in a communication yesterday. The proposal claims new opportunities for European businesses, affordable energy bills for consumers, increased energy security through a significant reduction of natural gas imports and a positive ...
Wednesday 23rd July 2014
Jean Claude Juncker, the President elect of the EU Commission, is backing a 30% energy efficiency target for 2030 for the bloc. During a speech last week to the European Parliament Juncker nailed his colours to the current president Manual Barroso’s proposal of 27-29%, stating: “A binding 30% energy efficiency target ...
Tuesday 22nd July 2014
GERMANY comes in first in a new energy efficiency ranking of the world’s major economies, followed by Italy, the European Union as a whole, China, and France. According to the 2014 International Energy Efficiency Scorecard published today by the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). New to the rankings ...
Monday 21st July 2014
UK supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has obtained a £200M green loan from Lloyds and Rabobank to fund their numerous sustainability programs, which the firm calling a breakthrough in commercial loans. The commercial loan is the first to be officially classified "green" loan taken out by a British blue chip company, which will ...
Friday 18th July 2014
UK business, industry and other organisations will get help to cut their energy costs with £10 million available this year to improve efficiency and reduce energy demand, and more to follow. The announcement was made yesterday by UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey at the CBI’s Energy Conference. He ...
Thursday 17th July 2014
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and HSBC Bank Armenia CJSC for a $10 million loan to be directed to the industrial and renewable energy sectors. The funds will allow HSBC Armenia to support its borrowing clients in their energy efficiency and renewable energy investments. These funds will be ...
Wednesday 16th July 2014
A NEW report by a UK government watchdog warns that “limited progress” has been made in persuading UK businesses to improve energy efficiency, The report from the Committee on Climate Change states that progress has been limited, notably in energy efficiency improvement in the commercial and industrial sectors and in the ...
Tuesday 15th July 2014
Since 2008, Luxembourg’s energy policies through to 202 has focused on mitigating CO2 emissions in and on supporting renewable energies and energy efficiency. The country’s greenhouse gas emissions have stabilised as energy-intensive industries have scaled back their activities and the government put strong energy efficiency policies in place, notably for ...
Monday 14th July 2014
ALMOST £300m was invested in UK commercial-scale independent renewable energy projects by businesses, communities, farmers and landowners last year, new figures reveal. The statistics compiled by SmartestEnergy for this year’s Energy Entrepreneurs Report show 843 new projects, with an average cost of £353,000 each, came on supply. The 2,930 non-Big Six projects ...
Friday 11th July 2014
THE Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA), working on behalf of more than 140 Northwest utilities and energy efficiency organizations, released its 2015-19 Strategic and Business Plans. The NEEA is a non-profit organization working to maximize energy efficiency in the Pacific Northwest through the acceleration and adoption of energy-efficient products, services and ...
Thursday 10th July 2014
A $64.573 million program to enhance operational efficiency of Guyana Power & Light, improve corporate performance, fund infrastructure investments and reduce energy waste has been instigated. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved loans totaling approximately $37.6 million and has also secured non-reimbursable investment financing from the European Union totaling approximately ...
Wednesday 9th July 2014
THE European Commission has awarded €1 billion funding to 19 projects to fight climate change under the second call of the so-called NER 300 funding programme. The funding for the projects comes from revenues resulting from the sale of emission allowances in the EU Emissions Trading System. This makes the ...
Tuesday 8th July 2014
THE U.S. Department of Energy issued a loan guarantee solicitation, making as much as $4 billion in loan guarantees available for innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. The projects have to be located in the U.S. and avoid, reduce, or sequester greenhouse gases. This solicitation represents the next step in ...
Monday 7th July 2014
THE Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given “state-designated agency” status to the State Energy Conservation Mission, tasking it to coordinate, regulate and enforce energy conservation and efficiency. India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency and the Energy Conservation Committee estimate that the state can make savings of about 20% on energy ...
Friday 4th July 2014
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to support energy efficiency improvements in the Kyrgyz Republic with a loan under the Kyrgyz Sustainable Energy Financing Facility (KyrSEFF). Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank (KICB) will receive a loan of $5 million, which will then be used for on-lending to ...
Thursday 3rd July 2014
A $62 million energy saving project is to be implemented in 15 schools and three Jamaican Government agencies, as the administration works to reduce the high energy bill within the public sector. This was announced by Jamaican State Minister for Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Julian Robinson, who noted that the ...
Wednesday 2nd July 2014
A NEW survey finds many American cities are already responding to record high heat and extreme weather events through energy efficiency measures. The survey of North American cities by the American Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy (ACEEE) and the Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA) finds that confronting the challenges of ...
Tuesday 1st July 2014
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing €35 million in credit lines to improve energy efficiency in Moldova. EBRD’s Moldovan Residential Energy Efficiency Financing Facility (MoREEFF) is providing the funding to local partner banks, which will then on-lend to customers to finance the energy efficiency improvements in residential ...
Monday 30th June 2014
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan announced a trust fund to support the adoption of advanced low-carbon technologies and energy efficiency in its developing member countries (DMCs). A grant of ¥1.8 billion (about $17.65 million) from the Government of Japan will seed the fund. The Minister of the Environment of ...
Friday 27th June 2014
THE Carbon Trust is calling on British businesses to save billions on energy bills through implementing the energy efficiency opportunities identified through the new Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS). The new scheme is expected to help reduce energy bills for large enterprises by £300 million in 2016, but the Carbon ...
Thursday 26th June 2014
THE UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) and its fund manager Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) yesterday announced £1m of funding to help SMEs to make investments in energy efficiency. The £1m will be matched by another £1m from SI Capital R&S1, with the £2m invested into ReEnergise Finance Ltd’s Smart ...
Wednesday 25th June 2014
A MAJOR new UK construction industry coalition has urged for improvement in the energy efficiency of UK building stock, with the government committing to retrofit a million homes a year by 2020. In an open letter to the UK infrastructure minister Lord Deighton, 20 organisations from the construction, housing and environment ...
Tuesday 24th June 2014
THE French government have introduced an much expected bill to cut the country’s reliance on nuclear energy and fossil fuels. The bill is the focus of Environment Minister Ségolène Royal, who wishes to reduce France’s energy use by 50% by 2050, based on 2012 figures, and reduce fossil fuel use by ...