Around 40% of greenhouse gas emissions  derive from the building sector,  in fact  more than from transportation or any other sector . It’s clear there’s a huge potential  in cutting GHG emissions by improving efficiency. The good news is that it’s also the cheapest way to do so! Improving energy efficiency can cut one third [...]

There’s a new roadmap that looks interesting for helping China improve energy efficiency in buildings.  According to UNEP buildings apparently account for 42% of Chinese energy consumption, and China already has done a lot of legislating on energy efficiency — current building codes demand that new residential buildings are 50% more efficient that those built [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]