30 Dec 2008
by Lauri Kinnunen (www.energy-enviro.fi) - Category: Contributed News
There is evidence the dawning New Year may carry “green” expectations of environmental action on climate change, according to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Old and new environmental benefactors are making enthusiastic pledges on the policy front. Voluntary action, on the other hand, continues to be a major driver on the ground. In December 2009, [...]
Next week (on December 10th and 11th) the Virtual Energy Forum will take place the second time. In June this year the organisers (PlatformQ) did the first edition of this online only event – and the response was so positive that they decided to do another one in December this year. The specialty of this [...]
Today at the EE Forum, industrial and building companies spoke about their activities to lower energy consumption through efficiency measures. Both Mitsubishi and Saint Gobain spoke about manufacturing initiatives and taking a “kaizen” approach to incremental improvements.
Mitsubishi has an “e-F@ctory” solution which is primarily based on intelligent comms & data collection throughout the IT systems [...]
At the 2nd Annual Euromoney-REEEP Energy Efficiency Finance and Investment Forum today in London, utilities, investment managers and energy efficiency experts spoke about the importance of energy efficiency in lowering carbon emissions.
Englefield Capital stated the market in Europe for energy efficiency, using existing technologies, is more than EUR 100 billion (excluding transport). However the energy [...]