Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, REEEP‘s Director General attended the Cancun conference and was recently quizzed on her thoughts about the outcome. Looking at the Cancun Agreements, would you rate COP16 as a success or failure? I’d say Cancun was a qualified success in that there was an agreement at all – albeit a fairly weak one. [...]
What a great goal we have: reducing our emissions, and for some of us, saving money at the same time. Energy efficiency is growing more important and getting more attention from all sides. But wouldn’t it all be easier if it were done automatically? The concept called Home Energy (or Power) Management System (HEMS) attempts [...]
23 Apr 2010
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
New low-carbon, web-based service uses behavioral factors to nudge householders to use less electricity. Welectricity, a free web application for tracking and reducing household electricity consumption, has been launched by startup Welectricity Inc on April 22nd 2010, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Founder Herbert A (Haz) Samuel, a Caribbean energy consultant, notes that households [...]
10 Mar 2010
by Florian Bauer - Category: reegle
We just issued a press release regarding the new reegle maps statistics and animation mode … I attached it below – would be great if some of the reegle blog readers pick that up and help us to increase the outreach of our clean energy search engine Screenshots first … then the Press Release … [...]
05 Feb 2010
by Frauke Urban, Climate Change and Development Centre, IDS - Category: Contributed News
The China Low Carbon Platform (CLCP) has been launched this week. CLCP is a new knowledge-sharing platform for low carbon energy and low carbon development for China. The aim of CLCP is to disseminate and share information in Chinese and English on low carbon energy systems and low carbon development strategies that reduce poverty and [...]
Yesterday a new feature called “energy statistics Europe” was launched on reegle. The aim of the underlying project was to create a tool to visualise renewable energy and relevant energy statistics on the reegle worldmap. The first step is done, you now can overlay the map with several different statistics (source: Eurostat) including: Share of [...]