News from October 2010
Enigin News - Chinese Claim Energy Saving Campaign Back on Track
CHINA’S efforts to make its fuel hungry economy energy efficient is making progress again after rapid growth caused setbacks through increases in energy-intensive industries, the government said yesterday. China is approaching the end of their latest five-year plan to cut energy intensity, the power consumed per unit of economic output, by ...
Thursday 28th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Raising Energy Efficiency Standards in Government Buildings
THE U.S. General Services Administration is raising energy efficiency standards of all of its new federal building construction projects, it announced yesterday. The GSA is the U.S. federal government's workplace solutions provider and they have now decreed that projects must achieve LEED Gold certification, the second-highest rating from the U.S. Green ...
Thursday 28th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Public Library sets Example in Energy Saving
BOISE Public Library, U.S., yesterday received an Idaho Power incentive cheque of $66,992 for energy-efficient upgrades to the Main Library lighting system while demonstrating the savings from energy efficiency. The Idaho Statesman reports the story of Idaho's State Capital's Public Library and it details the substantial savings which are available to ...
Wednesday 27th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin Update - Unspent Money to be Used for Energy Efficiency Projects
THE European Parliament’s Energy Committee has given a green light to free up €146 million of uncommitted funds to finance energy saving, energy efficiency and renewables projects. Amended legislation on the European Energy Recovery Plan (EERP), will channel the unspent money into a new fund to finance energy efficiency improvements in ...
Wednesday 27th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency Priority for Europe's Energy Strategy
ENERGY efficiency should be a key priority of Europe's energy strategy for 2011-2020, said the Energy Committee yesterday. MEPs (Members of European Parliament) urged the European Commission to exploit existing European Union (EU) energy legislation and projects to the full. MEPs stress that energy efficiency should be a key priority of any ...
Tuesday 26th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency Hardline from Medvedev
RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday how he is unhappy with the slow pace of a government programme aimed at promoting energy efficiency across the country. Medvedev made his views known at a meeting of the Commission for Modernisation and Technological Development of Russia’s Economy devoted to implementing energy efficiency projects ...
Tuesday 26th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Angola Consider Energy Efficiency
A DELEGATION led by the Angolan secretary of State of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, is currently participation in the fifth International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Moscow. According to a statement from the Department of State of Energy and Water the meetings aim is to increase international co-operation on ...
Tuesday 26th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - China's Energy Conservation Measures Bite
CHINA'S energy demand growth is expected to slow in the last quarter of this year due to the country’s energy conservation efforts. Senior Chinese official Wang Siqiang, a deputy director at the NEA, told reporters yesterday that energy demand is expected to be curbed further after slowing in the third quarter ...
Monday 25th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Indian Foundries urged to become Energy Efficient
POWER quality and availability is a major stumbling block for the growth of the foundry industry in India, according to N. Krishna Samaraj, the Managing Director of Magna Electro Casting. Samaraj inaugurated a workshop on “Strategies to Promote Energy Efficiency in the Foundry Sector” organised by the Southern India Engineering Manufacturers' ...
Sunday 24th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Mid-East Tourism must Save Energy
HUGE cost saving energy-efficient solutions need to be implemented throughout the Middle East's tourism industry if it is to continue to grow, claims an influential industry figure. Louis Hakim, Chairman of Philips Middle East - who will be speaking at next month's World Green Tourism Abu Dhabi conference - believes the ...
Sunday 24th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - New Energy Efficiency Code for Buildings
THE INTERNATIONAL Code Council (ICC), which develops commercial and residential building standards, is to vote on proposals that will improve energy efficiency by 30%. The organisation’s I-Codes are recognised in the US at state and jurisdictional levels and are enforced by a number of U.S. federal agencies. At its tri-annual meeting in ...
Friday 22nd October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Russia Approve new Energy Conservation Plan
THE RUSSIAN government approved an energy conservation program yesterday, revealed Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko. "The program has been approved in principle. There were some minor comments that the colleagues made concerning technical revisions," Shmatko told reporters at a news briefing. The minister also predicted a dramatic increase of investments into the field ...
Thursday 21st October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Funding for Agricultural Energy Efficiency
U.S. AGRICULTURE Secretary Tom Vilsack announced yesterday that the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing loans and grants of $1.6 million for several energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in North Carolina. The financing is being provided under the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). Vilsack announced: "These loans and grants will ...
Wednesday 20th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - EU Delay GHG Reduction Target Increase
EUROPEAN UNION (EU) ENVIRONMENT ministers meeting in Brussels have delayed a decision until next year on increasing Europe’s emissions reduction target from 20% to 30%. We have carried several reports on these pages over recent weeks of the need to increase the target for reducing green house gas (GHG) emissionsthrough enforced ...
Tuesday 19th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - UK Property Industry to get Common Energy Efficiency Language
THE UK property industry has agreed on common metrics for measuring energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions. In “Establishing the Ground Rules for Property”, a new report by the Green Property Alliance gives investors and tenants the first ever set of industry-agreed metrics that can be used to measure and compare ...
Tuesday 19th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Hotels Ripe for Energy Efficiency Benefits
THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claim that American hotels spend around $2,200 per room on energy annually, about six percent of all operating costs presenting an opportunity for major savings. A reduction in energy consumption of just twenty per cent could be the same as raising the average annual room rate ...
Monday 18th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Government Energy Efficiency Targets need Building Upgrade Framework
GOVERNMENTS could reduce their energy consumption by as much as 20 percent by encouraging investors to upgrade buildings to make them more energy efficient, claims an energy expert. Investment opportunities open to officials could be worth as much as $300 billion a year worldwide through the creation of an investing in ...
Monday 18th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency instead of Carbon Cap
IN THE absence of a U.S. national policy to put a cap on carbon emissions more emphasis needs to be put on energy efficiency, according to energy and environmental experts. Energy efficiency advocates reckon the potential benefits to the environment, the economy and balance sheets cannot be ignored. In a 2007 study ...
Monday 18th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - China to set Tough Energy Efficiency Goals
THE Financial Times (FT) reports that Chinese leaders met this weekend to finalise the country’s 12th five-tear plan which includes targets for energy efficiency and CO2 emissions. Today the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist party will complete the plan which will go for approval from next years National ...
Sunday 17th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Carrot and Stick for Philippines
THE EUROPEAN Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) is calling for a law that will provide both incentives and penalties to promote energy conservation. "What’s happening is that building owners have no interest to invest in energy efficiency. So what we want to have is a carrot and stick." ECCP ...
Friday 15th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - States doing more on Energy Efficiency than U.S. Government
THE United States Congress may have failed to implement climate and energy legislation in 2010 but states across the country achieved major new strides as they nearly doubled their energy efficient budgets. This is according to the 2010 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard from the nonprofit and independent American Council for an ...
Thursday 14th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Commercial Property Energy Efficiency Upgrades worth $190 Billion
A NEW report has estimated that the market potential for energy efficiency retrofits or upgrades in commercial real estate in the U.S. is projected be worth $190 billion over the next ten years. The report from the Urban Land Institute (ULI), entitled "New Tools. New Rules”, acknowledges that retrofitting commercial building ...
Wednesday 13th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - New Energy Efficiency Legislation for Uganda
THE UGANDAN government is in the process of drafting a bill to enhance energy efficiency across the country, so said State Minister for Energy, Mr Simon D’Ujanga. D’Ujanga, speaking at the opening of a two-day regional energy efficiency conference in Kampala yesterday, stated: “When the Bill is passed into law, it will ...
Wednesday 13th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - $2.3 Trillion Indian Energy Efficiency Plan
INDIA is to spend $2.3 trillion as a boost its energy sector by 2030 through improving energy efficiency and the use of clean technology which will help the country balance growth with environmental aims. India needs to continue burning cheaper fossil fuel to be able to expand the reach of electricity ...
Tuesday 12th October 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Industry Leaders Propose Energy Efficiency Task Force
INDUSTRY leaders from some of Europe’s leading companies operating in the energy efficiency sector have met with the EU Energy Commissioner, Günther Oettinger to investigate further cooperation on energy efficiency. The senior business executives are members of the Energy Efficiency Industrial Forum (EEIF) and urged Commissioner Oettinger to focus on ...
Tuesday 12th October 2010 | Read full article
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