The Winter Olympic Games have kicked off in Vancouver, Canada, this week. The biggest of all sport events attracts thousands of people and usually there’s an increased demand for energy, which generally equals increased GHG emissions. The organizers of this winter’s games aim to make them the greenest ever.
Winter sports depends ice and snow, and [...]
30 Mar 2009
by Marianne Osterkorn (Director General REEEP) - Category: REEEP
Many developing countries, such as India, are hungry for energy and cannot get enough of it, because they are cultivating and creating industries. But efforts over the last 20 years to build new electricity generating capacity to supply this demand have not gone according to plan, and India for some years has been searching for [...]
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 [...]
23 Apr 2008
by Florian Bauer - Category: Events
The Virtual Energy Forum is happy to make reegle users aware of a unique event taking place June 10-11, 2008 called the Virtual Energy Forum. The event is focused on how leading companies can adopt better energy management practices to cut cost, while at the same time adopting clean energy alternatives — presenting [...]