Monday 27 May 2013

Opinions on blogs about renewal energies and energy efficiency - 27 May 2013

Examining the Prejudices of Renewable Energy Zealots | The ...
By Schalk Cloete
Renewable energy is ideologically very attractive. But such ideological perfection can easily switch off the critical thinking of environmentally-conscious individuals and this is exactly what we are seeing at the moment.
The Energy Collective - The world's...

CBO | H.R. 316, Collinsville Renewable Energy Promotion Act
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on May 16, 2013H.R. 316 would authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to reinstate the licenses and extend the deadline for beginning ...
ExcitingAds! Gov

Ernest Moniz, Natural Gas and the Renewable Energy Future
By Tina Casey
New Energy Department chief Ernest Moniz calls natural gas a "boon," but the real Moniz natural gas position spells doom and gloom for the industry.
CleanTechnica

Veto renewable energy bill, Gov. Hickenlooper - The Idea Log
A new round of costly, onerous renewable-energy mandates now at Gov. John Hickenlooper's desk simply makes no sense.
Denver Post: All Blogs

Electrical Project Manager - Renewable Energy, Helix Electric
Mid Level Full Time Electrical Project Manager - Renewable Energy for Helix Electric located in San Diego, CA.
SustainableBusiness.com Green Dream Jobs

Vice President of Structured Finance, Renewable Energy, GCL ...
Senior Level Full Time Vice President of Structured Finance, Renewable Energy for GCL Solar Energy Inc located in San Francisco Bay Area, CA.
SustainableBusiness.com Green Dream Jobs

Fuel Fix » Moniz: 'This is the crucial decade' to develop renewable ...
By Simone Sebastian
Newly appointed Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz credits natural gas for helping the United States lower carbon dioxide emissions in recent years, characterizing the energy revolution as a gift to the country. “This natural gas boom,” he said, ...
Fuel Fix

Liberal Vision » Blog Archive » Renewable Energy vs. Shale
By Sara Scarlett
Um… if these figures are correct (£29bn investment = 30,000 jobs) then by implication it costs £1,000,000 to create 1 job in renewable energy? Contrast with shale gas where £50,000 = 1 job (£3.7bn investment, 74,000 jobs). Maths is fun.
Liberal Vision

Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation: New Challenges ...
By Eliza Cava
It's a challenge: how do we advance clean energy projects while also protecting sensitive wildlife and their habitat?
Defenders of Wildlife Blog

ReNewable Now: Last week's radio show is now available 24/7 on ...
By Arpin Renewable Energy
ReNewable Now Partners with Live Well Network. The internet's first show that is totally dedicated to the "Business of Green". Our mission is to educate, inform and motivate people when it comes to smarter living through alternative energies ...
ReNewable Now

Counting Renewable Energy Instead of Carbon Emissions | The ...
By robertwilson190
Counting renewable energy, and not carbon is bad arithmetic. We keep our eye on the progress of renewables, yet the resurgence of coal in Europe gets ignored.
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Europe Votes for Higher Renewable Energy Targets
By Industrial Info Resources
GALWAY, IRELAND--May 24, 2013 --Written by Martin Lynch, European News Editor for Industrial Info (Galway, Ireland) Renewable energy targets for member states within the European Union (E.U.) will be pushed higher than the existing ...
IIR Industry News Alerts

EPA Proposes Renewable Fuel Standard Modifications ...
By Environmental Leader Staff
RINs are serial numbers used to track the production use and trading of a batch of renewable energy. Under the proposals, renewable compressed natural gas/liquefied natural gas produced from landfill biogas would also be allowed to ...
Environmental Management & Energy News

Eskom turns to renewable energy | Infrastructure news
By infrastructurene.ws
Eskom is a step closer towards achieving its goal of producing cleaner energy.
Infrastructure news

Google buys flying wind-turbine startup Makani Power : TreeHugger
By Michael Graham Richard
Google, already an investor in the clean energy startup, apparently decided that if owning part of it was good, owning all of it would be even better!
Latest Items from TreeHugger

Anti-Renewable North Carolina Bill Defeated! | CleanTechnica
By Ross
One way they are doing so is by attacking every incentive for clean, renewable energy that they can. State renewable energy policies have been a particular focus of attack as of late. One of the closest battles along these lines was recently ...
Comments for CleanTechnica

Germany must spread cost of energy shift fairly: IEA | The Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
The International Energy Agency said Friday that Germany must shield its consumers from paying too much of the cost of its ambitious switch from nuclear power and fossil fuels toward renewable energy. The IEA also said Europe's biggest ...
The Raw Story

Investorideas.com Newswire - Boston Scientific showcases one of ...
Boston Scientific showcases one of the largest rooftop solar power installations in Massachusetts -- 3900-panel project at the company's international distribution center in Quincy.
Investorideas.com renewable energy...

Peak Energy: Apple now uses renewable energy for 75% of its needs
By Big Gav
Apple has released its environmental report and, among other interesting things, it now states that is uses 100% renewable energy for its data centers and 75% for its needs overall, up from 35% in 2010. The end goal is 100% renewable ...
Peak Energy

Prison Planet.com » German Firms Flee to U.S. to Avoid Staggering ...
By yihan
“If we don't get on top of the country's energy transition to renewables and are not able to rein in energy costs in the process, German industry's competitiveness stands to suffer,” the chief of the Federation of German Industry (BDI), Ulrich Grillo, ...
Prison Planet.com

Fuel Fix » Energy security, not independence, should be nation's ...
By Emily Pickrell
But Stanislaw cautioned that nation's shale resources are finite and should be used in part to finance longer-term investment in renewable energy. “We are in a world of energy abundance, not energy scarcity. But abundance doesn't mean that ...
Fuel Fix

Green Energy Cleared As Buyer For Davison Landfill « CBS Detroit
By Matt Roush
DETROIT — Green Energy Renewable Solutions Inc. (OTC: EWRL) announced Thursday that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has confirmed the company as the sole bidder to acquire the Davison ...
CBS Detroit

Renewable Energy Stocks- Insight Into Global Green Investing ...
By www.Investorideas.com
Renewable Energy Stocks Blog; news and info for solar stocks, wind stocks,electric car stocks and more. This blog is part of the www.investorideas.com cleantech investor research content. Follow us on Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/ ...
Renewable Energy Stocks- Insight...

Investorideas.com Newswire - Getting to One-Planet Living
Washington, D.C. - May 21, 2013 (Investorideas.com renewable energy newswire) As the world continues down the path of unmitigated and unsustainable development, it is becoming increasingly clear that we have successfully pushed ...
Investorideas.com renewable energy...

Susan Osborne Explains Why Boulder Opted For A Clean Energy ...
By John Farrell
But the release of a recent report on municipalization suggests that the city can significantly increase renewable energy, reduce emissions, lower costs, and improve reliability. In other words, there seems little reason to settle for the status quo.
CleanTechnica

ČR to push for cut in subsidies to renewables at EU summit | Prague ...
"The system of renewable energy sources with subsidised prices has led to a situation yesterday when a classical energy market does not exist and it does not pay off at all to invest in new (classical) sources," said Necas. Although this does ...
Prague Monitor

Top 5 Ways The U.S Military is Utililizing Renewable Energy - Solar ...
By SolarFeeds
The U.S. Military is all about efficiency and effectiveness. In the eyes of the military, the best way to approach any operation is one in which the greates.
Solar Feeds

Grid-Scale Energy Storage on the Cusp of True Market Entry
By Eric Wesoff
Energy storage is often called the holy grail of renewable energy. The problem with the "grail" language is that the grail was never located. At least not with a compelling business case.
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Report: Ohio energy laws save consumers millions | Midwest Energy ...
By Ken Paulman
***SPONSORED LINK: Connect with Renewable Energy business leaders, investors, technology innovators, government officials and university educators September 9-11 at RETECH 2013! Midwest Energy News readers receive 10% off with ...
Midwest Energy News

Energy Outlook: Can Energy Storage Make Wind and Solar Power ...
By Geoffrey Styles
Assessing that potential requires, among other things, recognizing that energy storage is neither new nor monolithic. Nor is the intermittency of renewable energy a single challenge. For example, the output of a wind turbine and the wind farm ...
Energy Outlook

European officials, industry leaders seek energy reform - Oil & Gas ...
By OGJ editors
The European Parliament's resolution called for a share of renewable energy in the overall energy mix to 2050 greater than the European Commission's current working assumption of 30%. It passed an amendment calling for a proposal by ...
General Interest

Community Solar May Be Next Big Thing In Australia Renewables ...
By Giles Parkinson
CLEANaS, which stands for the Clean Energy Association of Newcastle and Surrounds, is a not for profit association which is launching the Lighthouse Community Renewable Energy project. Daniel MacDonald from CLEANaS said the group ...
CleanTechnica

Institute for Energy Research | IER/AEA: A Free Market Energy ...
By Robert Bradley
We criticize and expose rent-seeking by politically-connected firms (including Enron, where I worked for 16 years, challenging the firm's climate alarmism and renewable-energy subsidies). The list of energy firms who forsake the real market ...
Institute for Energy Research

Will Nicaragua turn to coal to lower energy costs?
By Tim Rogers
Nicaragua has made remarkable strides to adopt new clean energy technologies over the past five years. But the benefits of the country's gradual switch to renewable energy are not trickling down to consumers. Six years after the darkest days ...
Nicaragua Dispatch

Calls for Action at U.S. - India Energy Partnership Summit in DC ...
By Grace Gill
However, the rights group was critical of the Delhi Government's handling of the renewable energy issue. “Power Minister Haroon Yusuf has no plans to deal with the electricity crisis. He has hardly enunciated as to how he intends to deal with ...
Switchboard, from NRDC

Study IDs two compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the ...
Study IDs two compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest. 13 hours ago. Not just blowing in the wind: Compressing air for renewable energy storage. Researchers at PNNL and BPA have identified two possible sites in ...
Phys.org - latest science and...

Clean energy means more jobs, not less | Arizona Capitol Times
By Josh Coddington
Given that our neighboring states and utilities around the country are abandoning coal and investing heavily in natural gas and renewable energy generation, is sinking good money into a 40-year-old plant our only choice? When studies show ...
Arizona Capitol Times

Minnesota's new solar law: Looking beyond percentages | Midwest ...
By Dan Haugen
“A production-based incentives gives the money to the best producers instead of just rewarding whoever puts up a system,” said Laura Cina, managing director for the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society. The shift to production incentives ...
Midwest Energy News

Blogs – Energy efficiency.

Energy Efficiency at the Forefront in First Speech by DOE Secretary ...
By cnunez
In his first official remarks as Energy Secretary Tuesday, Ernest Moniz focused on an aspect of energy policy that lends itself to consensus perhaps a bit more easily than others: the need for greater efficiency.
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Living Green: Companies Offer Rebates for Energy Efficiency - 8 ...
By Sherry Swensk
Hot, Las Vegas summer months mean higher utility bills, but there are ways people can save money and energy at the same time.
Las Vegas News from 8NewsNow.com

Reducing Wireless Power Demand Through Energy Efficiency | The ...
By SilvioMarcacci
The GreenTouch consortium outlines energy efficiency measures that could reduce the net energy consumption of global data and communications networks up to 90 percent by 2020, compared to 2010 levels.
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Malta Solar PV Feed-in Tariff, Solar Hot Water, & Energy Efficiency ...
By Tim Tyler
Malta is following the lead of many of its European colleagues with a new feed-in tariff for solar PV. It's also implementing some solar hot water and energy efficiency rebates. Here are more details repost from Solar Love. In an effort to increase ...
CleanTechnica

Ohio group creates statewide energy efficiency fund | Midwest ...
By Ken Paulman
NOTE TO READERS: Midwest Energy News will be taking a break for Memorial Day. The email digest will resume on Tuesday, May 28. SOLAR: Minnesota's governor.
Midwest Energy News

MEPC of IMO Pushes Forward with Energy-Efficiency Implementation
By World Maritime News
The Committee made significant progress in its work on further developing energy-efficiency regulations; adopted an MEPC Resolution on Promotion of Technical Co-operation and Transfer of Technology relating to the Improvement of Energy ...
World Maritime News

LETTER: Energy Efficiency Will Help Sooner Than Hydro - Courant ...
The May 22 editorial asserting that hydropower from beyond our borders can lower Connecticut's high electricity costs misses the mark ["Pass The Clean-Energy Bill"]. Large hydro might help at some point -- maybe -- but it will require the ...
Letters - Courant.com

Seattle Municipal Efficiency Measures Save $1.25m · Environmental ...
By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
While this is the first time city building energy use has been made public, Seattle says it has a history of monitoring and improving the energy efficiency of its facilities, including recent energy efficiency upgrades at 17 city-run sites, according to ...
Environmental Management & Energy News

Top 8 Energy And Water-Saving Landscaping Tips | CleanTechnica
By Dan Thiede, CERTs
Dan Thiede is the Communications Coordinator for the Clean Energy Resource Teams, or CERTs, at the University of Minnesota. CERTs works to advance the adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in communities ...
CleanTechnica

Energy of the future: Transforming Germany's energy system | Left ...
By Guest
The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change meant that the only way forward was an expansion of renewable energy sources and greater energy efficiency. Germany set itself two targets: a 50 per cent reduction in ...
Left Foot Forward

St. John's Makes Energy Upgrades To 36 Buildings, Installs Building ...
By Dan Thiede, CERTs
And when the stimulus-funded Commercial and Industrial Grant Program from the Minnesota Department of Commerce came along, it made energy efficiency easy. St. John's Hospital in Maplewood, MN, received a $300,000 grant for a $1 ...
CleanTechnica

Get peace and quiet inside and energy efficiency all around with this ...
From SIPs to straw bales, there are several alternative approaches to traditional wood-frame...
Houzz

Motors and drives for efficient control - ABB Conversations
By Edvard Csanyi
With electric motors accounting for an estimated 65 percent of industrial energy use, any increases in efficiency clearly provide the potential for major savings. The energy consumption of electric motors can be reduced in two main ways – by ...
ABB Conversations

Efficiency Bill Could Be a 'Poison Pill' for LEED Green Building ...
By Stephen Lacey
Energy efficiency proponents rejoiced last month when Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) reintroduced a sweeping bill that would provide incentives, technical assistance and new standards for energy efficiency in ...
Greentech Media: Headlines

Ernest Moniz Gives His First Speech as Energy Secretary ...
By Stephen Lacey
He wants to move efficiency “way, way up” on the Energy Department's list of priorities. ... Secretary Moniz spoke to a crowd at the Energy Efficiency Global Forum about his upcoming agenda as secretary. "Efficiency is going to be a big focus ...
Greentech Media: Headlines

EnerMotion: Hot Savings for the trucking industry - MaRS
By MaRS Discovery District
EnerMotion, an Ontario-based startup and MaRS client, has developed a method of capturing waste exhaust heat from a vehicle and converting it into useful, practical and efficient energy. EnerMotion's Hybrid Power & Energy Recovery ...
MaRS Discovery District

New GridSTAR Center: Smart Grid Research, Energy Innovation
By ECSKris
The first phase of assembling the GridSTAR Center is already underway, with plans to have a research facility, classroom laboratory and a showcase for energy efficiency to be completed in time for the start of fall semester. Later phases of the ...
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Greater Efficiency “Absolutely Critical” to Energy Future
WASHINGTON – Using energy more productively and efficiently moved to the top of the nation's agenda when a new U.S. secretary of energy took the oath of office on Tuesday. “The efficiency agenda will be absolutely critical,” said incoming ...
Latin American Herald Tribune

GROWN 2013 : The 1st International Workshop on GReen ...
This workshop provides an international forum for the research community working in the area of energy efficient wireless communication networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Green wireless network architecture • Energy ...
WikiCFP

Construction Ministry, IFC promote energy efficiency — TalkVietnam
By vietnamplus
The Ministry of Construction (MoC) and the Investment Climate Advisory Programme of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on May 24 signed a cooperation agreement on green and energy efficient building developments in Vietnam, ...
TalkVietnam

EEMBC and Volkswagen developing automotive benchmark ...
By John Day
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) announced an expanded working group project with the Volkswagen Group to establish a microcontroller (MCU) energy-efficiency benchmark aimed at making automotive end ...
John Day's Automotive Electronics

Capital Business Blog » Transforming New York's Energy Future
By Kristin Legere
New York is properly located for growth in its chemical industry, a sector that provides significant employment and the opportunity for additional innovation in energy efficiency and energy recovery.” Darren Suarez, director of government affairs ...
Capital Business Blog

PowerCell unveils clean & energy efficient fuel cell system ...
By energynext
PowerCell, a Swedish energy technology company, has unveiled a functioning full-scale prototype of its PowerPac fuel cell system. PowerPac is the first functioning full-scale prototype fuel cell system in the world for production of electricity ...
EnergyNext

Can local chambers be catalysts for clean energy? | GreenBiz.com
By Diane Doucette
“Even chambers in states known for oil and coal production are helping their members dramatically reduce their energy use and utility bills using simple energy efficiency upgrades.” In North Carolina, the Asheville Area Chamber recognized ...
GreenBiz

News on energy efficiency and renewal energies - 27 May 2013

Companies share energy efficiency secrets
USA TODAY
Unlike some aspects of Obama's "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, efficiency has garnered broad support. A bipartisan bill in Congress to improve the efficiency of appliances, buildings and corporate supply chains passed a Senate panel earlier this ...
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UK Needs Energy-Efficiency Goals to Hold Government to Account
Businessweek
The Department of Energy and Climate Change hasn't set out a time line of how many homes it wants insulated under the Green Deal and Energy Companies Obligation programs set up in January to improve efficiency of the nation's 26.9 million residencies.
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COSE unveils statewide energy-efficiency funding program to lower utility bills
Plain Dealer
Now the Council of Smaller Enterprises, or COSE, is about to offer the first program in the nation that will allow participants throughout the state to pay for energy efficiency programs of up to $1 million in the same way they pay their utility bills ...
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Energy savings hopes dashed by EU leaders' 'political cowardice'
EurActiv
Progress on energy efficiency was blocked at an EU summit on Wednesday (22 May) by a cocktail of myopic business interests and timid leadership, according to Hans Nilsson, a board member of the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy ...
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Energy savings could total billions, Greens say
Sydney Morning Herald
Households generating clean power through solar panels would be rewarded by a dedicated "energy savings agency" being proposed by the Australian Greens. The minor party on Friday said it wanted to set up a new federal government agency to find $1 ...
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Consumers push Georgia Power for more solar, energy efficiency
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Clean energy advocates said at a hearing Tuesday that consumers could be saving money and breathing cleaner air if the utility beefed up its renewable energy and energy-efficiency programs. “People are paying so much more on energy … sometimes it ...
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PSC to revisit energy efficiency program debate
Seattle Post Intelligencer
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Public Service Commission will reconsider a decision to shelve a planned statewide energy efficiency program, after a lawsuit challenged the commission's previous handling of the issue. Four organizations sued ...
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Energy Efficiency Bill Is a Big Step in the Wrong Direction
Heritage.org (blog)
Senator Byron Dorgan (D–ND) told Greenwire (subscription required) that an energy efficiency bill that passed through the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee would be a necessary “first step” to more federal efforts to overhaul energy policy.
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New Energy Secretary Moniz is all about energy efficiency
Grist
Ernest Moniz addressing an energy efficiency conference, several hours after he was worn in as Energy Department on YouTube Ernest Moniz addressing an energy-efficiency conference, just hours after being sworn in as energy secretary. The cleanest ...
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McKinley, Welch introduce bipartisan energy efficiency bills
State Journal
Two bills are aimed at spurring energy efficiency investments in residential and commercial buildings and creating construction jobs. Two bills are aimed at spurring energy efficiency investments in residential and commercial buildings and creating ...
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La. PSC to revisit energy efficiency program
Businessweek
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's utility regulatory agency will reconsider a decision to shelve a planned statewide energy efficiency program. The Public Service Commission has been sued over its handling of the issue, with three organizations ...
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Super-Energy Efficient Homes Built To Inspire More Stringent Codes
OPB News
At least that's the hope of a Portland-based non-profit showcasing 13 super energy efficient homes in four Northwest states. The question is, can you afford to buy one of these houses? The model homes are scattered among many of the big cities in ...
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UK energy efficiency could deliver £2.3billion in savings
The Information Daily
Ed Davey, Minister for Energy and Climate Change said "there is significant potential for greater energy efficiency in the UK, which could ultimately deliver £2.3 billion in savings up to 2030 in addition to lowering energy bills, reducing emissions ...
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Groups want to keep OH energy efficiency laws
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Small Business Majority, Moms Clean Air Force, and the Ohio Environmental Council are campaigning to stop what they say are a FirstEnergy subsidiary's efforts to repeal Ohio's energy efficiency laws. The groups want Ohioans to pledge not to become ...
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Arab Energy Efficiency Day: Need to raise public awareness
Saudi Gazette
The Arab world is celebrating Arab Energy Efficiency Day today. The Arab Ministerial Council for Electricity has set aside May 21 each year as the day for the Arab world to raise awareness about the importance of energy efficiency. On this day Arab ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Customers' Desire for Energy Savings Drives Demand for ...
Sacramento Bee
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 23, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- With space heating and cooling accounting for close to 40 percent of all the energy consumed in the building sector in the United States, there is a pressing need for energy-efficient heating ...
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Energy Efficiency Could Cut Wireless Data Power Demand 90% By 2020
CleanTechnica
Good thing a new study from the GreenTouch consortium outlines energy efficiency measures that could reduce the net energy consumption of global data and communications networks up to 90% by 2020, compared to 2010 levels. GreenTouch is comprised ...
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Winchester wins state energy-saving award
Torrington Register Citizen
The town received a Top Town Hall Honorable Mention at the Power of Change Awards, which recognizes achievement and innovation in energy-efficiency in Connecticut's municipal and state buildings. The award also recognizes the savings for taxpayers ...
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Greentech Media Conference Highlights Cutting-Edge Business Trends in ...
Sacramento Bee
BOSTON, May 20, 2013 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Greentech Media announces a new conference for power producing utilities, project financers, technology innovators and building professionals focusing on energy efficiency: "Avant EE: Innovations Reshaping the ...
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TERI organises promotional program for energy efficiency
Times of India
BANGALORE: The Energy and Research Institute (TERI) organized a promotional program for 'Energy Efficiency in New Residential Construction in India' here recently. The program aimed to revolutionize the approach in developing the largest sector in ...
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VIDEO: npower home energy saving tips in Sheffield
The Star
Want to keep the warmth in, the costs down and win £500? Then visit the npower roadshow this weekend in Sheffield city centre, writes Graham Walker. The npower trailer is visiting to give energy saving tips and free energy efficiency packs to help ...
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Australia at the centre of network energy efficiency research
iTWire
Telecommunications networks have traditionally been built without much regard to their energy-efficiency. But as data volumes on these networks grow exponentially, the amount of energy being used to power the many components of these networks is also ...
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Over 100 Leading Organizations Tap EDF Climate Corps to Catalyze Energy ...
Sacramento Bee
"Leading energy management practices in our operations is a key pillar of GM's sustainability strategy, and EDF Climate Corps will provide a fresh perspective that can enhance our energy efficiency efforts," said Mike Robinson, vice president of ...
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The link between energy efficiency and $275B in advanced tech
Fierce Energy
Energy efficiency is a good decision for businesses, homeowners and the government, John Mandyck, chief sustainability officer at UTC Climate, Controls & Security told attendees at the Energy Efficiency Global Forum in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
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Groups push Congress, White House to approve energy-efficiency bill
The Hill (blog)
“We ask Congress to maintain energy efficiency as a top priority in shaping energy policy for the country. Our organizations, representing all sectors of the economy, recognize energy efficiency is a powerful tool with strong bipartisan support ...
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Division of Energy hosts Energy Efficiency Conference
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
“We used to be a low-cost energy producer and now we're kind of in the middle as far as our costs go. Our electric costs have gone from roughly 5 cents to 9 cents a kilowatt hour, a substantial increase and that increase makes a lot of these energy ...
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PSC to revisit “Energy efficiency” program
The Advocate
The chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission on Tuesday acknowledged that he cut off testimony prior to a vote that rolled back a program that included incentives for consumers to improve their homes and buy energy-efficient appliances.
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Owners of energy-efficient homes are less likely to default on mortgages
Explorer News
The study, conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Community Capital and the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting energy efficiency, sends a strong message about ...
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Businesses hail plans for energy efficiency payments
Business Green
With energy efficiency advocates arguing that this so-called "negawatt" approach is typically more cost effective than constructing new power plants it is hoped the new measures will encourage significant efficiency gains, raising the prospect of ...
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LETTER: Energy Efficiency Will Help Sooner Than Hydro
Hartford Courant
The May 22 editorial asserting that hydropower from beyond our borders can lower Connecticut's high electricity costs misses the mark ["Pass The Clean-Energy Bill"]. Large hydro might help at some point -- maybe -- but it will require the construction ...
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A third of councils 'in breach' of EU energy efficiency laws, FOI reveals
Business Green
A third of all local authorities in England and Wales could be in breach of an EU directive designed to improve the energy efficiency of public buildings. The low-level of compliance with the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), with which ...
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VW Heads Microcontroller Energy Efficiency Standards Group
Environmental Leader
Volkswagen will chair an expanded working group to establish an energy-efficiency benchmark for microcontrollers aimed at making automotive end products more energy aware. Semiconductor vendors including Freescale, Fujitsu, Infineon, Microchip, NXP, ...
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NRA Show '13: Energy-efficient equipment proves its ROI
Pizza Marketplace.com
Sarah Puls, business unit manager at Hobart, said consumers initially drove the "green" trend, but operators balked because of costs. Now, operators are driving the movement. "Operators are starting to realize there is an ROI (to energy efficiency) and ...
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TVA Rewards Logan Aluminum for Energy Efficiency Efforts
WBKO
“We thank Logan Aluminum for their leadership and support of energy efficiency in Kentucky,” said Brent Powell, one of the managers of the TVA EnergyRight Solutions for Industry. BOWLING GREEN, KY― Logan Aluminum in Russellville is saving electricity ...
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West Hartford Wins Two Power Of Change Awards For Energy Efficiency Efforts
Hartford Courant
WEST HARTFORD — — The town and school district received top honors at Tuesday's Power of Change municipal awards ceremony for their energy-saving efforts. The town earned "Top Town Hall" and the schools took first in the Innovation category in the ...
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Consumers Energy awards $4.3 million in energy-efficiency incentives to ...
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
“More and more of our businesses and schools are discovering the power of energy efficiency to strengthen their finances,” Fred Alatalo, director of business energy efficiency programs for Consumers Energy, said in a statement. “This program helps ...
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Government confirms plan to use capacity market to boost energy efficiency
Business Green
The government has today unveiled long-awaited plans designed to encourage businesses to curb their electricity consumption and invest in energy efficiency, but Ministers have rejected plans for an energy efficiency feed-in tariff as the means of ...
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Energy-Efficient Agricultural Irrigation
Precision Pays
AgGateway_Logo AgGateway and the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) are co-sponsoring the launch of a cross-industry collaboration project that will help growers better manage water and energy use by integrating weather, soil moisture, soil ...
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Weatherization, energy efficiency supporters rally to celebrate progress
SouthCoastToday.com
At the same time, the coalition pushed officials to provide more information on renters, who may not be benefitting as much as owners, to try to boost energy efficiency across the state. "There's a lack of information on how many renters are being ...
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Glastonbury Awarded For Energy Efficiencies At Three Buildings
Hartford Courant
A couple of years ago, the school system came up with a comprehensive plan to fund and improve energy efficiencies in older school buildings by replacing boilers. The town also installed a digital control system to manage the system and increase ...
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China Looks to Ramp Up Energy-Saving Retrofits
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
The fifteen-story building, formed of three connected towers, boasted a 50,000-square-meter “double skin breathing” glass wall—two panels of glass sandwiching a layer of air circulating between—which was about 40 percent more energy efficient than a ...
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Secretary Moniz Speaks at the 2013 Energy Efficiency Global Forum
YouTube
Sign in. Transcript Statistics Report. Published on May 21, 2013. Read More: http://go.usa.gov/bcpF. Secretary Ernest Moniz delivers his first remarks, after being sworn in as the new energy secretary, at the 2013 Energy Efficiency Global Forum.
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New Ohio Efficiency Resource Fund to Help Upgrade Buildings, Save Energy ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
The new Ohio Efficiency Resource Fund provides otherwise hard-to-get financing for small and medium-sized businesses to make energy-efficiency improvements, with no upfront costs and no risk. This innovative approach bridges the funding gap that has ...
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IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee 65th session pushes forward ...
Carbon Positive
The Committee made significant progress in its work on further developing energy-efficiency regulations; adopted an MEPC Resolution on Promotion of Technical Co-operation and Transfer of Technology relating to the Improvement of Energy Efficiency of ...
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Fulper Farms hosts energy efficient breakfast
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
Recently, they installed a solar energy system to increase energy efficiency, sustainability, and revenue, while decreasing the farm's carbon footprint and utility costs. Installed in 2011, the freestanding, ground-mounted system creates 500 kWh daily ...
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UK Energy Efficiency Failing Due to Lack of Tax Breaks and Hard Regulation
IBTimes.co.uk
Britain is failing to become more energy efficient and is stunting economic growth by not implementing tax breaks to production companies, says a former special Adviser to UK Parliamentary Committees on energy. Speaking with IBTimes UK, Professor ...
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Buildings in efficiency challenge cut energy use, save $58 million
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Participants across the country in the Better Buildings Challenge reduced their energy intensity by 2.5% last year, achieving about $58 million in annual energy savings. Those results are contained in a progress report published by the Department of ...
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The Best Ways To Profit From Greater Energy Efficiency
StreetAuthority
When it comes to investments in energy efficiency, the payback can be 200% or even 400%, according to various studies. That's why there is a fresh push to step up our pace of energy efficiency investments, as I discussed in Part One of this two-part ...
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Saturday 25 May 2013

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En relacion a eficiencia energetica / / about energy efficiency:

Boston College Recognized for Energy Efficiency · Environmental ...
By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP) will recognize Boston College as a 2013 State Champion and Northeast Business Leader for Energy Efficiency at NEEP's summit gathering in June.
Environmental Management & Energy News

Energy Efficiency and Cost Gap Between Ethanol and Gasoline ...
By Mark Green
While it's true that on a gallon-to-gallon basis ethanol historically has been cheaper than gasoline, ethanol contains far less energy than gasoline and therefore has cost consumers more to travel the same distance.
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Gintech unveils 19.5% energy efficiency multi-crystalline solar cell
Taiwan-based Gintech has unveiled a multi-crystalline solar cell with the highest possible conversion efficiency of 19.5% and mass production average conversion rate of 18.4-18.8%, a conversion rate comparable to mono-crystalline solar ...
DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia

Energy Efficiency: Still Wasting in the Building | IGEL @ Wharton
By sschmid
Last week's conference “Building Energy Efficiency: Seeking Strategies that Work” offered the opportunity to discuss the many barriers to advancements in energy efficiency beyond current standards. The event was cohosted by the Wharton ...
IGEL @ Wharton

Long Beach Partners For Energy Efficient Street Light Project
By Editor
The LED street lights placed in Long Beach have previously undergone an evaluation by SCE for energy savings potential, as well as overall p..
Everything Long Beach

Improved Cable Set Top Box Energy Efficiency | Cable Tech Talk
By John Solit
But cable technology is pretty interesting, especially as it relates to energy efficiency. There are millions of set-top boxes and cable modems in America – making sure they consume as little power as possible while still doing everything we ...
Cable Tech Talk

California Could Save $1.2 Billion by Setting Efficiency Standards ...
By Pierre Delforge
These are the significant energy and water savings the California Energy Commission estimates could come from making things like our computers, toilets and faucets, swimming pool pumps, and some of our lighting work more efficiently.
Switchboard, from NRDC › Pierre...

1st Energy Efficiency Management Conference Planned for July 4
By St. Kyoobi
Dr. Kwabena Donkor, Chairman, Parliamentary Committee on Mines and Energy -Amidst growing economy, power demand & staggering power.
SpyGhana.com

Energy Efficiency Management Conference And Seminar
By Ghana News -SpyGhana.com
Theme: Strategies for Reducing Electricity Cost in Small, Medium and Large Consumer Set-Ups Date: 4th-5th July, 2013 Venue: Volta Hotel,
SpyGhana.com

Business groups lower local emissions, without mentioning climate ...
By ClimateWire
Republished with permission. By Evan Lehmann. Cleveland's chamber of commerce is ready to launch an unusual program to help businesses get loans for energy efficiency retrofits. In Salt Lake City, the local chamber is promoting “clean air” ...
Midwest Energy News

New interactive case studies showcase the chemistry driving U.S. ...
By Ryan Baldwin
ACC members are on the leading edge of developing energy efficiency innovations that help save energy while reducing costs for American families and businesses.
American Chemistry Matters

US presents revised energy efficiency proposal to IMO - Bunkerworld
Its purpose is to drive improvements in the energy efficiency of new and existing ships, thus resulting in cost savings to shipowners and operators as well as significant reductions in air emissions," said the US in a submission to MEPC 65.
Bunkerworld News

Amtrak to roll out high-efficiency trains with regenerative braking ...
By Jon Fingas
Commuters won't immediately notice the difference when ACS-64 trains reach the rails between this fall and 2016, but there should be important behind-the-scenes savings. Amtrak reckons that the new vehicles could lower energy ...
Engadget RSS Feed

IES » Energy Management in Schools – what's your view?
By John G
Getting the energy management of our schools right has multiple benefits. Firstly, the savings on energy bills for schools will free up much needed funding for educational resources such as extra teachers and assistants. Spending money on ...
IES

CivicInfo BC Careers - Energy Management Engineer - Metro ...
Develop the energy management program which will involve: collecting and analyzing energy management related data to identify savings opportunities; identifying further information needs; organizing and facilitating workshops with process ...
CivicInfo BC | New Jobs

MIT Cheetah Robot Runs Fast, and Efficiently - IEEE Spectrum
By Jason Falconer
Now, at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the MIT team has shown its cheetah-inspired robot running at a respectable 22 km/h (13.7 mph). And more: the robot has an energy efficiency that rivals that of ...
IEEE Spectrum Recent Content

Nevales Networks Introduces MIPS-Based Energy-Efficient High ...
New plug-and-play ready devices designed for modern cloud-based networking requirements with increased performance and 90% less energy consumption | Virtual Strategy Magazine is an online publication devoted entirely to virtualization ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine - News

Land of Fruits and Nuts – Joining Team ENERGY STAR
By Jennifer
ENERGY STAR is a program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that is designed to help us save money and protect the environment through energy-efficient products and practices. Now, for my husband, energy efficiency is more ...
The Smart Mama

Gartner Names BuildingIQ a “Cool Vendor in Green IT & Sustainability”
By wendyw
As one of six vendors selected by Gartner, BuildingIQ is recognized for its software's ability to overcome energy efficiency challenges in commercial buildings, aiding in the reduction of HVAC energy costs by as much as 25 percent. For this ...
BuildingIQ

Efficiency program from Entergy Arkansas could save you money ...
By David Koon
Entergy Arkansas, however, might have a solution for some of those summertime blues: a program that gives rebates and incentives to homeowners looking to make their homes more energy efficient. In some cases, subcontractors working in ...
Arkansas news, politics, opinion,...

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Renewable Energy in Marrakech: Solar Water Pumps & More (Video ...
By Juan Cole
Morocco has enormous solar and wind energy potential and plans to get 40% of its electricity from green energy sources by 2020, only 7 years from now. This documentary explores the potential of clean energy in a country with loads of wind ...
Informed Comment

Renewable Energy's Popularity: Support for Wind Farms?
By robertwilson190
How many people support renewables or nuclear energy, or for that matter fracking? A closer to look at polls shows that support numbers should be treated with caution.
The Energy Collective - The world's...

We Owe Our Veterans a Renewable Energy Way of Life : Greentech ...
By Nat Kreamer
There is nothing like a natural resource war to give you religion about renewable energy.
Greentech Media: Headlines

Renewable energy bill fueling controversy - KKCO
Senate bill 252 doubles the percent of energy that must come from renewable sources for rural electricity co-ops.
KKCO - HomePage - Headlines

Brief: Solar PV Manufacturer Solopower Sells Off Equipment ...
By Justin Moresco, Associate Editor, Power Engineering
SoloPower, a manufacturer of photovoltaic solar modules, sold thousands of dollars' worth of equipment from its California headquarters last week and is preparing for more layoffs, according to a report from the Oregonian.
Renewable Energy News - RenewableEner...

New IREC Concept Paper Takes Fresh Look at (Decades)Old DG ...
By IREC Editors
The Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Inc. (IREC) has released a concept paper that considers states' ability to expand options for distributed generation (DG) technologies. Due to the rapidly growing appetite for solar and other forms of ...
Interstate Renewable Energy Council

Renewable-energy family class coming May 25 at Green Ridge ...
By suzanne miller
From the Roanoke County website: Renewable Energy Family Class Coming May 25. Bring your family members ages 8 and up to Green Ridge Recreation Center this Saturday to get creative with wind and solar technologies! We'll design an ...
SWoCo

US Military and Renewable Energy Goals | The Energy Collective
By HermanTrabish
The Army, Navy and Air Force are using more than 130 megawatts of solar energy, with intentions toward 3 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2025 as part of a much bigger Department of Defense commitment.
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Democratic Energy from Ontario's 'Buy Local' Renewable Energy ...
By John Farrell
Wind and sun are available everywhere, so renewable energy can be economically harnessed at small scales across the country. This nature of renewable energy, and the exponential increase of renewable energy generation, promises to ...
Institute for Local Self-Reliance...

Tesla, SolarCity: Alternative Energy Plays Headed in Different ...
By Paul Ausick
Source: ThinkstockShortly after the opening bell this morning, Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) posted an all-time intra-day high of $97.12, at the end of price spike that has seen shares rise more than 60% since the all-electric car maker ...
24/7 Wall St.

Goldman Sachs to invest in Japanese green energy ventures | The ...
By Agence France-Presse
US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs said Monday it will start investing in Japanese renewable energy projects, with a reported $2.9 billion outlay over the next five years. The injection comes after Japan's government stepped into the ...
The Raw Story

Investorideas.com Newswire - Investing Ideas - Fossil Fuel Free ...
Investing Ideas - Fossil Fuel Free Investing/Next Big Thing in SRI?
Investorideas.com renewable energy...

Studying the Math Behind Claims of Wind Energy in China | The ...
By robertwilson190
Apparently, this feel-good renewable energy headline originates from the fact that Chinese thermal generation increased only about 0.3% in 2012. This was mostly because hydropower generation came roaring back after a drought in 2011, ...
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Blog Archive » IT Sligo Showcases Green Energy Creativity
By tarag
Renewable energy is an unmistakable theme in them. And, like many of her classmates, ... 'After graduation, I would like a career in ocean energy', says Aoife, who is from Mullaghmore, Co Sligo. Twenty-three students, working in seven teams ...
Institute of Technology Sligo

Evaluation gives high marks to Wisconsin efficiency program ...
By Dan Haugen
And more than a million residential and business customers received direct incentives for energy efficiency or renewable energy projects, a nine-fold increase from the previous year. “It's clear that the program is back on track and seeing the ...
Midwest Energy News

Green Future: The Latest Advancements In Renewable Energy ...
By Tech News 24h
Reports indicate that renewable energy currently accounts for 12% of the power created in the United States. This amount will grow thanks to research and investment combined with government initiatives. In the past 5 years (2008-2013), 35% ...
Tech News 24h

Tri-State CEO urges governor to veto rural co-op renewable-energy ...
By The Denver Post
Tri-State CEO urges governor to veto rural co-op renewable-energy bill. POSTED 05.15.2013 ON The Denver Post. The bill that is either a push to boost renewable energy on Colorado's plains and mountains or part of "a war on.
Politics in Stereo

Yes Vermont Yankee: The 90% Solution: What 90% Renewables ...
By Meredith Angwin
I am attempting to see how we could possibly meet these goals, and to answer the question what does moving to 90% renewable energy – or trying to – really mean? In particular, what impact would it have on our natural environment and ...
Yes Vermont Yankee

Sun shines again on UWO, Wisconsin Public Service, high schools
By Derek Paulus
SolarWise for Schools Manager Mike Moore said the Solar Olympics are a culmination of everything the students learned over the course of their classroom education on renewable energy. It is an opportunity for students to put classroom ...
UW Oshkosh Today

Senate Confirms MIT Prof Moniz as Energy Secretary, Antis Mad ...
By willisja
It is imperative that we drastically reduce extraction and consumption of oil and gas and instead boldly pioneer a renewable energy-based economy. Doing so would also stimulate our economy and create jobs. Studies show that money ...
Marcellus Drilling News

Renewable power generation grew 7 percent in Texas last ... - Fuel Fix
By Jeannie Kever
... the latest figures from the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. The council, which operates the power grid for most of the state, reported that energy from renewable fuel sources reached 33.9 million megawatt-hours, up 7 percent from 2011.
Fuel Fix

Energy Democracy -- Video & Campaign | CleanTechnica
By Thomas
Here at CleanTechnica we try to cover developments in renewable energy as broad and in-depth as possible, but as our name indicates, there is a clear focus on technology. However the transformation/evolution of our energy system also has ...
CleanTechnica

SFM Co-Hosting Green Sukuk Webinar on May 23 | Network for ...
By Cary
Financing renewable energy in the Islamic World. From the Green Sukuk Working Group: Gulf Bond & Sukuk Council / Climate Bonds Initiative / Clean Energy Business Council MENA. Hosted by The Sustainable Investment Professional ...
Network for Sustainable Financial...

npower's Wayne Mitchell's Blog | Energy Live News
By Geoff Curran
I'm heartened to see that public support for renewable energy in the UK has risen to an all-time high, according to the results of a poll released by DECC at the end of April. And perhaps just as well, because compared to most other European ...
Energy Live News

Germany grapples with nuclear energy phaseout - The Local
Germany's energy transition project - in which nuclear power will be phased out and replaced with energy from renewable sources - is facing the challenges of cheap coal, unresolved energy storage and an out-of-date electricity grid.
The Local - Germany's news in English

Leaders to discuss taxation and energy at summit | European Voice
The leaders will also discuss the need for increased funding for back-up power sources as the EU increases its share of renewable energy. Because renewable power is intermittent, back-up is essential, notably with gas power plants that can ...
European Voice - RSS

Energy Policy and Liquified Natural Gas: To Export or Not to Export ...
By JimPierobon
If Obama's first term on energy was mostly about incentivizing renewable energy, his second term is all about whether to embrace growing U.S. supplies of fossil fuels. What a difference a few years make. At about $4.30 per million BTUs ...
The Energy Collective - The world's...

Ghana's energy plan ambitious – US energy advisor
By ekow
A senior US energy advisor has lauded Ghana for having an ambitious plan for the development of its energy sector, he says by putting in place all the necessary energy policies such as the renewable energy policy, it is time for ...
Ghana Business News

SE4ALL Mission Team Ends Visit To Ghana | MoEn Ghana
By Communications Unit
THE Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Mission Team has ended its trip to Ghana with some site visits to two cookstove manufacturers/distributors and some farming communities in the Keta Municipality using renewable energy for ...
MoEn Ghana

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