Energy Saving News
Friday 17th May 2013
THE American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Energy Efficiency Standardization Coordination Collaborative (EESCC) is taking its next steps in developing a standardization roadmap, advancing energy efficiency in the built environment.
The collaborative’s five working groups (WGs) have scheduled a series of June-July workshops in Washington, DC, to begin the gap analysis ...
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Thursday 16th May 2013
MELBOURNE, Australia, has introduced an amendment to their planning scheme which is designed to improve energy efficiency in new buildings and to reduce the city’s carbon footprint.
The vast majority of new buildings constructed in the city will be required to meet a strong set of industry accepted and recognized minimum ...
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Wednesday 15th May 2013
THE Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, announced yesterday that the State’s Department of Environmental Protection has awarded $32,880 in grants to help small businesses to invest in energy-efficiency.
“Investment in small business is a cornerstone to sound economic growth,” Corbett said. “These grants will help small business owners continue to thrive ...
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Tuesday 14th May 2013
THE European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $12 million loan to Azerbaijan’s largest furniture manufacturer, Embawood, to finance in part, energy efficiency improvements.
The EBRD loan is complemented by €120,000 Technical Cooperation funds provided by the Early Transition Countries Initiative and the Regional Energy Efficiency Program for ...
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Monday 13th May 2013
Energy Trends Insider reports how US retailers are benefiting from energy efficiency measures, which means that they can keep a competitive edge over rivals.
With reference to the efforts of convenience store chain Wawa, it revealed saving over $1 million annually in energy costs just due to LED lighting retrofit. Meanwhile, Kohl’s ...
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Friday 10th May 2013
EUROPEAN Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, yesterday pushed to make significant progress on energy and tax fraud and evasion at the European Council on 22 May.
Writing to other European leaders, President Barroso highlighted: "We can tackle these challenges better together. Energy prices differ considerably across the EU, because our market ...
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Thursday 9th May 2013
SUSTAINABLE energy projects across Pacific states received a $2 million injection following an agreement signed by the Secretariat of Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The funding will be provided through the Small Island Developing States' Sustainable Energy Initiative and are provided by Denmark’s Government ...
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Wednesday 8th May 2013
IN the USA’s Energy Star National Building Competition, set up by the Environment Protection Agency, 179 federal buildings reported negative energy efficiency for last year, while 15 received commendations.
As a prime example the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, home to most of the White House offices, saw energy consumption rise by ...
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Tuesday 7th May 2013
AN organisation that represents leading UK industries have expressed `grave concern' about the low priority the UK Government has given to energy saving, claiming that their prime initiative is doomed to fail.
They state in a letter to Ed Davey, UK Secretary of State for energy and climate change, that the ...
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Friday 3rd May 2013
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, is looking for proposals from Azerbaijan’s Banks to start funding energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Azerbaijan.
The IFC recently publicised that it is to provide funding to Bank Respublika to start financing such projects, particularly expanding finance to ...
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Thursday 2nd May 2013
THE Jamaican Observer reports that more energy efficiency and renewable energy devices can now be imported into Jamaica duty free - which will boost energy efficiency across the island.
The suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET) on clean energy technology by the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will ...
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Wednesday 1st May 2013
SOUTH Africa’s utility Eskom has been proactive in promoting energy efficiency with a threat of load shedding due to generation under capacity, but commercial and governmental buildings are not complying.
TV company eNCA’s reporter Thabang Masanabo (see video report below) drove around the streets of Johannesburg discovering that many office lights ...
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Tuesday 30th April 2013
PAKISTAN’S SMEs averaged a nine percent saving on their energy costs, valued at over Rs61 million, after energy saving measures were taken by 22 companies over the last 12 months.
The majority of savings were made in the textile sectors in Karachi, Lahore Faisalabad and Sialkot and are the result of ...
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Monday 29th April 2013
PUTTING energy efficiency at the top of the list when considering renewable energy projects is vital according to an excellent article in the Farmer’s Guardian.
The publication refers to the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) figures revealing that in 2012 total electricity generated from renewables rose 20 percent ...
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Friday 26th April 2013
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) is set to launch the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Africa Hub initiative according to Donald Kaberuka, the Bank’s President.
Kaberuka revealed the intended launch during the first Advisory Board Meeting of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative, saying the launch will take place at ...
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Thursday 25th April 2013
BULGARIA is looking to Denmark to aid them in their pursuit of energy efficiency improvements due to the Danes experience in energy saving.
Realizing that the Danish Government are also willing to provide financial support for energy efficiency projects is also an attraction for Bulgaria.
“Denmark will help Bulgaria boost its energy ...
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Wednesday 24th April 2013
THE school district in Green Bay, Wisconsin USA, has saved big time through energy efficiency measures across their buildings.
The Green Bay Press Gazette reports that the savings have run into millions of dollars over the past 10 years. District officials revealed that such improvements as energy-efficient light bulbs, lighting control, ...
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Tuesday 23rd April 2013
SINGAPORE’S industrial sector mandatory energy management requirements kicked in yesterday, April 22, all part of the Republic’s aim to improve energy efficiency through their Energy Conservation Bill.
Businesses who consumed large amounts of energy, 54 terajoules every year, in at least two of the years since 2010 will have to have ...
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Monday 22nd April 2013
THE Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced a $50 million Energy Efficiency Finance Facility, for companies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The energy efficiency fund will be available to those companies that invest in energy saving improvements and self-supply renewable energy projects. The IDB will provide small-scale financing for projects that ...
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Friday 19th April 2013
THE urgent need for improvement in energy efficiency globally has been dramatically highlighted by the International Energy Agency's (IEA) annual report released Wednesday.
The rapid expansion of renewable technologies is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the IEA said in ...
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Thursday 18th April 2013
IT is vital for India to crank up its energy efficiency, claimed US Energy Secretary Steven Chu in Delhi on Tuesday.
The country sources around 80 percent of its energy via overseas supplies, hence the call for the improvement in energy efficiency to reduce dependence on expensive energy imports.
Chu said to ...
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Wednesday 17th April 2013
BULGARIA is another Eastern European country to receive an energy efficiency funding boost in the past week from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
The Bulgarian arm of Raiffeisenbank and the EBRD have signed a second line of credit under the Bulgarian Program for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ...
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Tuesday 16th April 2013
THE Slovak Republic is getting a financial boost to energy efficiency across the country with a €15m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
The funds will be on-lent via Vseobecna uverova banka, a.s. (VUB) to municipal borrowers, private municipal service providers, energy service companies and housing associations ...
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Monday 15th April 2013
KAZAKHSTAN’S Energy Strategy should focus on energy efficiency said, Timur Kulibayev, chairperson of the Kazenergy Association, while meeting with representatives of national companies, and ministries.
"Energy efficiency is the main and primary trend in the development of the national energy strategy. The goals for 2020 should be defined clearly. Achievement of ...
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Friday 12th April 2013
U.S. President Barack Obama is proposing a sizable increase in the countries clean energy budget, improving support for energy efficiency, clean transport, renewable power and other "green" technologies.
The money for the increase will come from eliminating tax breaks and subsidies to fossil fuel producers, the oil, gas and coal industries. ...
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Developing an Energy Efficiency Roadmap for US Buildings
