Middle East
Dubai’s Jafza achieves more than $1 million in energy efficiency savings
Monday, 06 June 2011 Dan McCue Jafza, the flagship entity of Dubai’s Economic Zones World and operator of the Emirate’s Jebel Ali Free Zone logistics mega-hub, announced that in striving to reduce its carbon footpr...
UK
Innovative storage tank can save domestic carbon emissions and heating bills by up to 30%
Thursday, 26 May 2011 With energy prices set to rise, reducing carbon emissions will continue to become increasingly important as new legislation comes into force and householders look for ways to reduce their ever increas...
International Energy Agency
New report sees potential for dramatic energy savings in building sector by 2050
Monday, 16 May 2011 A new report from the International Energy Agency shows how heating and cooling technologies that are energy-efficient and emit little or no carbon dioxide can dramatically reduce energy consumption w...
ABB invests in breakthrough technology for data centre energy efficiency
Friday, 13 May 2011 ABB, the global power and automation technology group, has purchased a controlling interest in US-based Validus DC Systems, a provider of energy-efficient direct current (DC) power infrastructure equi...
US
Target Joins EPA's GreenChill energy saving programme
Tuesday, 03 May 2011 Minneapolis-based Target Corp. has joined the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) GreenChill programme, designed to reduce refrigeration emissions by adopting green refrigeration technologies i...
Europe
High-tech glass could save 100 million tonnes of carbon per annum
Wednesday, 27 April 2011 Toby Price Last week we reported on how auto manufacturers are being encouraged to use high-tech glass to reduce energy consumption in the transport industry, while yesterday we explained how MIT was developing ...
Europe
Cutting transport energy demand using high-tech glass
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 Toby Price Glass for Europe, the trade association for Europe’s manufacturers of flat glass, has welcomed the Mobile Air Conditioning (MAC) Initiative launched recently by the European Commission to decrea...
A kilo more of copper increases environmental performance by 100 to 1,000 times
Thursday, 14 April 2011 It may sound strange, but the European Copper Institute has revealed that there is an inverse relation between the amount of copper used in a system and its energy use. According to the ECI, “li...
Europe
Business alliance demands more on building energy efficiency
Friday, 08 April 2011 The European Alliance of Companies for Energy Efficiency in Buildings (EuroACE) has issued a position paper criticising the European Union’s Energy Efficiency Plan 2011 (EEP). In a communiqu&eac...
Exclusive interview
A trillion-dollar market size seems pretty sexy
Monday, 28 March 2011 Toby Price Green Analytics, Inc. from Arkansas (US) has a portfolio of energy efficiency solutions which it claims provide immediate savings on energy costs and Returns on Investment in only three years or less....
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The Quest for Sustainable Bioenergy
Ethanol Industry Outlook 2012: the challenge is still on