Author(s): Miriam Berg In 2011, energy efficiency helped create jobs, cut costs and make the United States more energy independent. Read on for the biggest advances made last year in energy efficiency. Policy Many pieces of bipartisan ...
Tags: Transportation, Technology, Policy, Energy Efficiency
(China Glass Network) The PV testing center constructed jointly by Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE), Chinese academy of sciences (CAS) and Baoding High-tech Zone is officially located in Baoding High-tech Zone. The project is the ...
Tags: PV testing center, IEE, CAS, PV system testing lab, controller, inverter
The Ministry of Economic Affairs(MOEA)announced yesterday(Nov.28)that the government will aim to increase photovoltaic power generation by 130 MW in 2013,30MW higher than the goal for 2012,but the purchasing rate will drop ...
Tags: MOEA, photovoltaic power generation, renewable energy, overseas markets
November 21, 2012 - Two new GNWT strategies aim to increase the use of biomass and solar energy in the Northwest Territories. “We are looking at all the ways we can minimize our costs and reliance on fossil fuels in the long ...
Tags: biomass, solar energy, energy strategy
November 20, 2012 - A new chapter in the development of Manitoba’s clean energy resources is being written, said Dave Chomiak, innovation, energy and mines minister. “Building on our strengths, this new plan sets the province on ...
IT must move beyond just measuring a datacentre's energy efficiency and power consumption to assessing its overall environmental impact to make meaningful changes and ensure IT facilities are truly sustainable. As businesses come under ...
Tags: datacentres, Green Grid, datacentre-efficiency, green credentials
Marks&Spencer(M&S)gives an update on Plan A,its 180 commitment eco and ethical programme that aims to make M&S the world's most sustainable major retailer by 2015. Richard Gillies,Director of Plan A at M&S,says:"We continue to engage our ...
Tags: Marks&Spencer, eco and ethical programme, sustainable living
It seems almost too absurd to be true, but in the land of leviathan government, where the layers of bureaucracy are so intertwined it is impossible to navigate them, comes the revelation that the U.S. government has now taken to fining ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Oil
Canadian Solar today said it has provided its CS6P-P solar modules for a a 540kW solar power plant at Izmir Airport, the first project under the new Turkish solar energy legislation, YEK, for solar power plants under 500kW. This is the ...
Tags: market view, Solar Power
December 18, 2012 - To address “an unprecedented severe skilled labour shortage facing the renewable electricity industry”, Electricity Human Resources Canada (EHRC)—formerly Electricity Sector Council (ESC)—is ...
Tags: Electricity Human Resources, Consumer Electronics, labour market
The Sustainable Production Centre (SPC) of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has organized an introductory awareness session on ISO 50001 with the support of GIZ REEE at a local hotel. More than 50 participants from textile ...
The global PV industry is experiencing “cold current” now, the domestic consumer demand for PV products may help a number of PV enterprises in China coping with crises. During the “2012 China Symposium for PV Module and PV ...
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The western United States, from Tacoma, WA all the way down to San Diego, CA, sits on a newly tapped resource that, if utilized correctly, could revolutionize the HVAC industry. That resource is geothermal energy. Geothermal energy is ...
Tags: learning center, Heat Pump
Australia’s only remaining solar PV panel manufacturer, the Adelaide-based Tindo Solar, has called on the federal government to enforce anti-dumping legislation to stop the flood of cut-price panels from China. The Tindo Solar ...
Tags: industry trends, solar PV panels
In their second debate, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama each tried to outdo the other's love of fossil fuels: Obama extolling his record on oil and natural gas production, Romney vowing to take "advantage of the oil and coal we have here. " ...
Tags: market view, Solar energy