Energy saving

Alliance Names Four Innovators as 2019 Stars Of Energy Efficiency

Thursday, 11 July 2019 REM The Alliance to Save Energy announced it would be awarding Alabama Power, Ingersoll Rand, OhmConnect, and Pepco Holdings its 2019 Stars of Energy Efficiency, celebrating their accomplishments in pioneering ...

Energy Efficiency Challenge Aims to Find Ways to Recover Heat from Soda Production Waste

Monday, 08 July 2019 REM Ennomotive, an open innovation platform for engineering challenges, has launched a competition to find new solutions to recover energy/heat from the waste originated in the soda manufacturing process. ...

G20 Energy and Environment Ministers Raise Importance of Energy Efficiency at Joint Ministerial Meeting

Wednesday, 03 July 2019 REM Energy and environment ministers from G20 countries met for their first ever joint ministerial meeting held in June in Karuizawa, Japan. Held under the G20 Presidency of Japan, the G20 Ministerial Meeting ...

IEA Launches Global Commission for Action on Energy Efficiency

Thursday, 27 June 2019 REM The launch of the International Energy Agency’s new commission on energy efficiency took place at the start of its Global Conference on Energy Efficiency which was held in Dublin, Ireland, from June ...

New Study Shows Ohio Families Save Money Every Month Due to State’s Energy Efficiency Resource Standards

Tuesday, 25 June 2019 REM Resource Insight has released a new report detailing the impact of Ohio’s energy efficiency programs on wholesale energy prices paid by all Ohioans, and determined that Ohioans are saving an additional ...

Wisconsin's Energy Efficiency Program Tops in the Nation

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 REM Wisconsin already led the nation in milk production, cranberry production and NFL championships. Now, Wisconsin can also boast that it runs the most-cost-effective energy efficiency programs in the country. ...

Canada

GE upgrades Hydro Quebec’s Montagnais substation to meet growing transmission needs

Friday, 07 June 2019 Robin Whitlock

GE’s Grid Solutions business has been awarded a contract to perform key upgrades on Hydro Quebec’s Montagnais substation’s protection and control systems.

EcoDataCentre and Fortlax merge with the ambition to create a Nordic data centre giant

Monday, 03 June 2019 Robin Whitlock Swedish developer of climate-positive data centres EcoDataCentre has reached a merger agreement with the owners of the data centre company Fortlax, helping to support the ambition to consolidate the data ...

ComEd Customers Save $4 Billion Thanks to Energy Efficiency Offerings

Friday, 24 May 2019 REM Customers of Commonwealth Edison Company, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, have saved a total of $4 billion on their electricity bills since the company introduced its energy efficiency program ...

US climate goals nearly impossible without big energy efficiency gains

Tuesday, 21 May 2019 Robin Whitlock Significantly reducing carbon emissions to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement will almost certainly require major energy efficiency improvements, Alliance to Save Energy President Jason Hartke ...