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RE & EE Events Listing: online, Liechstenstein, Portugal, Singapore, UK & USA

Welcome to a new series of regular two weekly Events Listings. We kick off with a free online training programme, plus face-to-faces in Liechstenstein, London and Lisbon, San Francisco and Singapore.
Come to sunny London
It is today, honestly, and there’s plenty going on in RE & EE over the next few months.
The new Renewable Energy Directive [...]

I just read a new publication from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies called “From Silos to Systems: Issues in Clean Energy and Climate Change” which I would like to recommend to all of you. It is a comprehensive report on the work of the Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) Network of the [...]

Policy & Regulatory Review on China and Chinese Provinces

A special review on China and the status of renewable energy in its provinces has been launched recently by the Sustainable Energy Regulation Network (SERN) at REEEP’s Wilton Park Conference 2010.
SERN operates as a sub-network of REEEP for those involved in energy regulation. Each year, it publishes an annual review of energy [...]

During 2009, REEEP marked the fifth anniversary of its operation as a public-private partnership. In a new article for the 2010 edition of the Energy for Sustainable Development journal, REEEP has synthesised some of the key lessons learned from 129 projects that have been offered funding and moved to implementation.
The article, entitled Lessons for low-carbon [...]

Building Your Dreams on the Pacific Coast Highway

I had the chance to visit two interesting companies last week in Shenzhen, a new metropolis in the Pearl River delta region of China which is a hub of economic activity in China. Shenzhen used to be a fishing village in the 70s, before it was turned into a Special Economic Zone and is located [...]

Three leading energy efficiency and renewable energy organizations – the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), the Alliance to Save Energy (Alliance) and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) – have jointly released their Compendium of Best Practices: Sharing Local and State Successes in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [...]

Some smart aspects of Smart Metering

Smart Metering is about replacing one of the ultimate bastions of outmoded electromechanic technology by a new generation of smart electric meters. What seems to be an evolutionary development accompanying the global trend from an analog into a highly digital world could have a rather revolutionary impact on the iron patterns of today’s power industry. [...]

News from Southern Africa (January 2010)

What happened recently in Southern Africa? Our Southern Africa Regional Secretariat put together a short list of the most important new from the region:
Electricity: Cabinet has approved the Integrated Resource Plan (IPR), formulated under the Electricity Regulation Act, and it will guide government on how it can meet the country’s electricity demands. see: http://www.buanews.gov.za
Air pollution: [...]

CDM: Make renewables additional

CDM must work to promote low-carbon energy
REEEP position: classify all renewable energy and energy efficiency technology projects additional
There is little dispute that the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is in urgent need of reform. The entire concept of additionality, where a project must show that it yields an outcome that would not otherwise have happened, is [...]

In Copenhagen alongside the COP15, Dr. Osterkorn (Director General of REEEP) gave an interview describing REEEP’s role in the climate change environment.

 

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