The second day of the Vienna Energy Conference started today morning with a short summary of the key findings from yesterday which are split into two parts – the challenges we are dealing with and possible solutions.
The challenge is … that there is no single challenge! We are dealing with fundamental questions like energy security, [...]

Today the International Enery Conference 2009 started in Vienna covering the topics around Securing Sustainable Policies and Investments’ . The conference is very well attended (I think there are a lot more than the proposed 500 participants, I do not see a single emtpy chair in the conference room) and we already listened to the [...]

Heralded as a landmark move by the government, in December 2008, the Philippine president signed the Renewable Energy Act (RE Act), demonstrating the country’s commitment to developing renewable energy (RE) in its objective to utilise sustainable energy practices. The Act seeks to make the country 60% energy sufficient by 2010 and to mitigate problems caused [...]

Thanks to Urban Ziegler of RETScreen for putting me onto this fascinating book by David JC MacKay, a Physicist at Cambridge University.  Sustainable Energy – without the hot air sets out to crunch the numbers on a potential sustainable energy future for the UK. You can download the entire book (in three sections) or a [...]