In late August, the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program-ESMAP launched its new website, which provides access to information on ESMAP’s programs, activities, knowledge products and achievements. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program is a global, multidonor technical assistance program aimed at promoting environmentally sustainable energy solutions for poverty reduction and economic growth. Their new Web [...]
09 Jul 2010
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: News
Organisations promoting clean energy around the world have been honoured at an awards ceremony in London.
The Ashden Awards announced the winners of its 2010 Sustainable Energy Awards at a ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society on 1st July.
Presenting the awards, Sir David Attenborough said:
“These award-winners are champions at delivering practical ways of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
04 Jun 2009
by Maaike Göbel, REEEP South East Asia and Pacific - Category: News
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 [...]
30 Apr 2009
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: News
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 [...]