News from December 2011
Enigin News - Hawaii Leads the Way in Energy Performance Contracting
HAWAII is leading the U.S.A. for investment in energy saving performance contracting for public buildings - also aiming for 70 percent energy needs from clean energy sources by 2030. Hawaii is ranked first according to the listing from the Energy Services Coalition, with the State’s overall energy saving investment exceeding $150 ...
Thursday 29th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Texas Faces Summer Blackouts
THE U.S. State of Texas could face outages next summer unless action, including improving energy efficiency, is taken to allow for more power reserves. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid operator and manager of the wholesale electric market, released its biannual assessment for the next 10 years ...
Wednesday 28th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - $29M Savings Through Energy Efficiency for Long Beach Schools
LONG Beach Unified School District (LBUSD), California, have been officially recognised for their energy efficiency improvements, as well as benefitting with substantial financial savings worth $29 million. The school district has received Energy Star certification from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The certification is ...
Wednesday 28th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Nigeria Must Address Energy Challenge
NIGERIA needs to develop its power supply if it wishes to become a top 20 world economy according to United States Agency for International Development (USAID), mission director, Dana Mansuri. Inconsistent power for the nations businesses, hospitals and schools. let alone households, hits a nations economy and production. Mansuri disclosed that ...
Tuesday 27th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - New EU Presidency Wants a Greener Economy
DENMARK will take over the presidency of the European Union in January and believes that the current financial crisis presents the region an opportunity to convert to a greener economy. Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building Martin Lidegaard stated that the answer to the current financial problems is to invest ...
Tuesday 27th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Sustainability at Centre of Irish Government's Recovery
THE Irish government released today their draft paper ‘Framework for Sustainable Development’ which will state that the “green economy” must be at the centre of Government policy. The paper is published by the Irish Department of the Environment and aims to affect policy over the next 10 years to combat climate ...
Thursday 22nd December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Investment in Efficiency Produces Big Energy Savings for Minnesota
THIRTY-SIX facilities across the U.S. state of Minnesota will realise more than $3 million in permanent, ongoing energy savings every year for the foreseeable future. These substantial savings are thanks to a one-time, $4.1 million energy upgrade grant programme administered by the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Division of Energy Resources (DER). ...
Thursday 22nd December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - EU Environment Committee Call for Mandatory Energy Efficiency Targets
THE EU Environment Committee yesterday voted on measures aiming to get the EU on track to meet its 20 percent energy efficiency target by 2020. The Environment Committee supported the European Commission's broad approach to improving energy efficiency, but called for Member States to have "mandatory national targets" and greater flexibility ...
Tuesday 20th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin New - Pennsylvania's Energy Saving Law Works Wonders
THE PennFuture Energy Center for Enterprise and the Environment released a new study by Optimal Energy detailing the impact of energy savings law, on Pennsylvania's businesses, environment, families and economy. "The energy savings law is an unqualified success," said Courtney Lane, senior energy policy analyst for Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) ...
Tuesday 20th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Macedonia to Improve Energy Efficiency in Hospitals
FYR Macedonia's Ministry of Health is running a pilot programme focussing on improving the energy efficiency of the countries hospitals. Two-pilot institutions - Gostivar General Hospital and Stip Clinical Hospital - have been chosen for the two-year study as part of an agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO). "We not only ...
Monday 19th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - EU Energy Efficiency Directive to Cost UK Hospitals £70M Annually?
PROPOSALS for an EU directive designed to encourage countries to reduce their energy consumption has been called "too rigid and top-heavy" by the UK’s NHS Confederation. They also claim that it could cost the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) organisations millions of pounds at a time when the service is already ...
Monday 19th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Saving Must be Main Focus for Ukraine
UKRAINE should make improving energy efficiency a national priority, Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy Minister Sergiy Tigipko has said. "Euro 2012 has shown that we can allocate rather significant resources in the country if we want this," Tigipko said in an interview with Interfax- Ukraine, "energy saving is now one ...
Monday 19th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Sri Lanka Aim to Improve Industry Energy Efficiency
THE Sri Lankan Ministry of Industry and Commerce has launched an energy efficiency programme for the countries industries to combat rising energy and production costs. Using a Public Private Partnership model, the aim of the programme is to help companies to upgrade their energy efficiency, cutting down on the cost of ...
Sunday 18th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - EU's Energy Efficiency Directive Needs More Work
THE purpose of the proposed European Commission's Energy Efficiency Directive is to save energy while increasing growth, but how to combine both still need to be decided upon by member states. British MEP Fiona Hall told EurActiv, “We are working hard to get compromises on this directive.” The proposal has been referred ...
Thursday 15th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Pay as You Save with UK Energy Efficiency Finance Scheme
RESEARCH shows that UK businesses and organisations want to improve their energy efficiency and can now overcome the negatives of the current economic climate with help from a financing scheme. The estimated market for energy efficiency equipment finance in the UK is enormous, with research estimating that the market over the ...
Wednesday 14th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - U.S. Agricultural and Rural Small Businesses Energy Efficiency Funding
U.S. AGRICULTURE Secretary Tom Vilsack yesterday announced loans and grants for agricultural producers and rural small businesses to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency measures. The funding is provided through USDA Rural Development's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). "Stable energy costs create an environment for job growth in rural America," Vilsack ...
Wednesday 14th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Indian Prime Minister Calls for Increased Energy Efficiency
INDIAN Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh has reiterated India’s commitment to increasing energy efficiency and clean energy, as spelt out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change. Singh was inaugurating the National Energy Conservation Day function in New Delhi today, where he stated that the target of 9 percent annual ...
Tuesday 13th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin Distributor Helps Local Businesses Cut Energy Costs
WITH financial problems still troubling Europe many are surprised to see new ventures start up or grow, but as in the following example the time is perfect to be an Enigin Distributor. In the UK’s west country a businessman reveals that despite the European wide financial problem there is still much ...
Tuesday 13th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Call for Government and Industry to Work Together to Save Energy
GOVERNMENT and industry need to work together to use fewer resources, improve energy efficiency and encourage businesses to come up with solutions, the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) announced yesterday. Businesses are increasingly seeking to improve their resource efficiency, particularly energy efficiency, because it offers them a competitive advantage and reduces ...
Monday 12th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - £58M EU-EBRD Energy Efficiency Funding for Romanian SMEs
THE European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is continuing to support Romania’s energy security strategy by boosting funding to the real economy to increase energy savings and reduce carbon emissions. The Bank selected the 10 best projects financed under a joint EU-EBRD programme called the Energy Efficiency Finance Facility (EEFF). ...
Monday 12th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - COP17 Legal Climate Treaty Agreement
THE UN climate talks in South Africa have been heralded a success after a climate change deal was struck in the early hours of Sunday morning. 194 parties have spent the past two weeks in Durban discussing how to cut emissions to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees to ...
Sunday 11th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Moldova Launches Energy Efficiency Campaign
THE Moldovan Economics Ministry and the Agency for Energy Efficiency has launched the energy efficiency campaign Moldova ECO-Energy. Moldova ECO-Energy is a comprehensive campaign, whose goal is to promote energy efficiency and alternative energy sources. Moldovan government in partnership with The European Union the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Moldova are ...
Sunday 11th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin Update - Energy Efficiency Pledge by South African Government and Business
SOUTH AFRICA’S Department of Energy has signed an Energy Efficiency Leadership Network Pledge along with Business Unity SA (BUSA) and the National Business Initiative (NBI). The Pledge aims to improve energy efficiency in South Africa, with the signatories developing an energy efficiency road map, the required energy efficiency targets, work with ...
Thursday 8th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency Financing Helps Thai Companies
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is scaling up energy efficiency and renewable-energy financing in Thailand by partnering with Bangkok Mitsubishi UFJ Lease Ltd. The collaboration will help companies find funding for projects that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and use sustainable energy. IFC’s risk-sharing facility agreement with Bangkok Mitsubishi UFJ Lease ...
Thursday 8th December 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - COP17: US-China "Ping-Pong" Must End
THE European Parliament is calling for a binding global deal on climate change to be agreed by 2015, but the "ping pong blame game" between the US and China is holding up progress. This “game” that is preventing progress must come to end, said Jo Leinen, Chair of the European Parliament’s ...
Wednesday 7th December 2011 | Read full article
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