Enigin News
July 2010
Enigin News - Pakistan's Energy Conservation Plan Extended
THE Pakistani federal government on Tuesday decided to maintain two-day weekly off and early markets’ closure by another three months till Oct 31, 2010. Pakistan has been facing stringent measures to reduce energy use since April, when office closures and early closing of markets were implemented, with stronger punishments added as ...
Thursday 29th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Empire State Building's Energy Saving Retrofit Makes Business Sense
THE world famous Empire State Building, a New York City skyline landmark is undergoing a major energy efficiency retrofit that will bring 40% reduction in costs and energy use. The Malkin family have been part owners of the building since 1961 and they now supervise the current building managers W&H Properties. ...
Thursday 29th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Turkey's Urgent Need for Energy Efficiency
Turkey’s 2009 Review shows that the country is likely to see the fastest medium to long-growth energy demand among the IEA member countries according to the study Energy Policies of IEA Countries. Mr Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA said "Turkey has progressed significantly in all areas of energy policy ...
Wednesday 28th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - UK Businesses to face 26 per cent Energy Bill Rise
UK Businesses' energy bills could rise by 26% in the next decade owing to UK policies to cut emissions, according to reports published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The estimates came as UK’s Energy Secretary Chris Huhne delivered the first annual energy statement to the British Parliament in ...
Wednesday 28th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Chinese Vice Premier Highlights Energy Efficiency
ON Friday Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, appealed for greater effort in developing and in using advanced energy technologies as a way of boosting energy conservation and efficiency, while helping to fuel China’s economic growth. Enigin Distributors have some of the most advanced energy saving technology available to help commerce, industry ...
Tuesday 27th July 2010 | Read full article
UAE Needs Energy Efficiency
WITH utility bills in United Arab Emirates (UAE) for commercial buildings rising by over 50 per cent over the last two years, many more companies are embracing energy-saving measures to reduce costs and carbon emissions, reports Anita Mathews, exhibition director of Middle East Electricity. The financial as well as environmental issues ...
Tuesday 27th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - New Zealand Draft new Energy Efficiency Strategies
NEW ZEALAND (NZ) businesses, the public service and households will be encouraged to save energy to help make the country as energy efficient as its Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) partners. The Draft New Zealand Energy Strategy sticks to the last NZ (Labour) government's 2007 target of having 90% ...
Monday 26th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - U.S. Commercial Buildings Need Energy Efficiency Retrofit
COMMERCIAL building space in the United States covers a total of 79 billion square feet, and buildings are one of the leading sources of energy consumption and carbon emissions. With more than 80% of commercial buildings being more than 10 years old, they also represent a significant opportunity for energy savings ...
Thursday 22nd July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - UK Firms and Organisations Face Energy Use Fines
ONE third of UK companies could miss the 30th September deadline for registering for the UK's energy efficiency scheme requiring them to reveal information on their energy use, this will result in fines of up to £5000 ($7,644) each, an environmental consultancy revealed yesterday. The UK's mandatory Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy ...
Wednesday 21st July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - China Challenges IEA Report
CHINA is challenging the credibility of an International Energy Agency (IEA) report that branded the country the world's top energy consumer, surpassing the United States, claiming that the estimation is inaccurate, according to the Global Times. "The IEA's data on China's energy use is unreliable," Zhou Xian, an official with China's ...
Wednesday 21st July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - South Africa Sets Energy Efficiency Regulations for New Buildings
NEW energy efficiency regulations will soon be in place for all new buildings being built in South Africa. The South African Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies has published amendments to the energy efficiency regulations. This move will make it compulsory for all new buildings to be designed and built ...
Tuesday 20th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Index Reveals More Energy Efficiency Needed in Buildings
FOR the second year in a row Norway heads a global list of countries who are working towards zero carbon buildings. Second was Brazil followed by the UK in the 2009 RICS (Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) ‘Global Zero Carbon Capacity Index’ produced by Professor Yvonne Rydin, a co-director at the ...
Monday 19th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Emissions Figures Revised but Tougher Measures in Place
CHINA is again grabbing the energy efficiency headlines after the People’s Republic revised the gains they have made already in energy efficiency over the last four years, with the new calculations purporting that the country has almost achieved it’s five year target early. Although the revised figures seem to put China ...
Friday 16th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - IFC to Stimulate Chinese SMEs Energy Efficiency
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, said this week that it is offering more help to Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in support of the countries efforts towards greater energy efficiency. Dai Cunfeng, operations officer and team leader of the China Utility-Based Energy Efficiency ...
Thursday 15th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Saving Scheme at the Right Time for Property Owners
AN expert claims that the UK’s Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme is providing property owners with a benchmark enabling them to measure their energy efficiency. Don Jordison, managing director at property investment firm Threadneedle, stated yesterday that the CRC is providing the property industry a "legislative framework with teeth", ...
Thursday 15th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Canada and New England Together on Energy Efficiency
A conference held yesterday, in the U.S. State of Massachusetts with the New England Governors and five Eastern Canadian Premiers outlined a series of key agreements to boost the regions energy efficiency. Governor Debal Patrick said: “As the region that started the Industrial Revolution, the Northeast can also be the region ...
Wednesday 14th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Australian Standards and Awards for Business Energy Efficiency
AN Australian National Energy Savings Scheme is likely to provide a combination of energy efficiency standards and financial rewards for businesses that make long term investments to cut their power use. Rob Murray-Leach, Chief Executive of the Australian Energy Efficiency Council (EEC) said, ''Our position is that a national energy efficiency target ...
Tuesday 13th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin Update - Healthcare Benefits from Energy Efficiency Investments
ACCORDING to new research healthcare organisations are more likely to invest in energy efficiency for their facilities compared to other industry sectors. According to PR Newswire in March American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE), Johnstone Controlls and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), commissioned the 2010 Energy Efficiency Indicator (EEI) survey, ...
Tuesday 13th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Australian Businesses Request Tax Breaks for Energy Efficiency
BUSINESS groups in Australia are appealing to the government to use tax breaks to improve energy efficiency, rather than the planned carbon tax or emissions trading scheme, at least until there is an international consensus on climate policy. The current Labor government is due to meet tomorrow, Tuesday 13th July, to consider ...
Monday 12th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - France Provide Pakistan 46 Million Euros for Energy Efficiency
FRANCE announced on Friday that it is providing a 46 million Euros loan to Pakistan for energy saving and rehabilitating a power plant to promote energy efficiency and enhance Pakistan’s supply against the backdrop of electricity outages that have been plaguing the country. Secretary Economic Affairs Division (EAD), Sibtain Fazal Halim, ...
Saturday 10th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - EU Energy Efficiency Legislation Possible
THE European Union (EU) may need new legislation to produce the required long term reductions for carbon emissions, so stated the European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger yesterday during the annual Greenpeace energy revolution roadmap. Oettinger did not advocate any new specific legislation, only hinting that the EU could bring in laws ...
Friday 9th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - U.S. DOE Ignores Its Own Advice
THE U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) web site publishes energy saving and efficiency advise – as you would expect, but the New York Times reports that it’s a case of “do as I say, not what I do” for the DOE An internal audit revealed on Wednesday that many of the ...
Friday 9th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Iran Plan Energy Conservation
THE Iranian Supreme Leader has announced a policy for energy conservation and consumption. After a consultation with Iran's Expediency Council, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei declared the mechanism for reforming consumption patterns, especially for the conservation of energy and water resources. The Ayatollah has forwarded a ...
Thursday 8th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Manila Police to Arrest Energy Use
THE Eastern Police District (EPD) of Manila is being forced to take energy efficiency measures to be able to pay its utility bills, by arresting the amount of energy wasted. Police chiefs are strictly implementing energy saving at district and station level after continuing increases in energy consumption across their precincts. EPD ...
Thursday 8th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency Report for the World's Governments
A report on energy efficiency published by Energy Regulators from around the world has been sent to the energy ministers of all the G8 countries, fulfilling a commitment made by energy regulators last year. The report highlights how energy efficiency is one of the major issues regarding climate change and compiles ...
Wednesday 7th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficient Buildings for India
INDIA is seeing a 10% annual increase in commercial buildings with the increase in the energy demand projected to be 5.4 billion kWh annually. The need for businesses in India to design and construct ‘high performance buildings’, so that the use of electricity can be controlled is imperative. Due to ...
Tuesday 6th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency Twice the Impact of Clean Energy
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that energy efficiency will achieve 65% of the worldwide carbon cuts in the energy sector by 2020. Meaning that by 2020 energy efficiency could have almost twice the impact of renewable energy, nuclear power and clean coal will have, combined. The IEA is an ...
Tuesday 6th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - New Energy Code for NYC Buildings
NEW YORK'S Department of Buildings launched the New York City Energy Conservation Code last week. It is just one step in New York’s target to cut CO2 emissions by 30 percent by 2030. The new regulations affects lighting, power, and HVAC for renovations and new building projects. Enigin Distributors will be able ...
Tuesday 6th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - EU invest 10 Million Euros in Chinese Energy Efficiency Fund
THE European Commission (EC) announced today that it is going to invest €10 million into the Greenstar Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Private Equity Fund, making it China’s first energy efficiency focused private equity fund. The investment and further energy efficiency activity is much needed, as China’s great efforts towards reducing ...
Monday 5th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Report Reveals SMEs Can Save a Fortune Through Energy Efficiencies
THE Committee on Climate Change in the UK has underlined the fact that substantial savings are just waiting for small and medium-sized businesses to claim through energy efficiency Although focused on UK SMEs the benefits apply worldwide for any business or organisation. The Committee reported that in the UK, and many other ...
Monday 5th July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency can save Canadian Businesses $100,000s
SAVING hundreds of thousands of dollars in operational costs through energy conservation and efficiency is not that difficult, so heard an audience of business leaders in the Canadian City of Guelph, at the Guelph Chamber of Commerce Environmental Sustainability Forum this week. They discovered it can be a simple to save ...
Friday 2nd July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Sri Lanka to Focus on Energy Saving
THE Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA) is to host the Vidulka Energy Week energy saving exhibition next month in Colombo. The exhibition will inform Sri Lankans about energy conservation and will also address concerns and questions of energy professionals, the energy industries, academics and the general public. The exhibition will be ...
Friday 2nd July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Sticks not Carrots for SME Energy Efficiency
I don't think incentives work, sticks do." so said Bob Wigley, chairman of the UK government’s Green Investment Bank Commission. Wigley encouraged the UK government to show they have “the guts” by imposing financial penalties on businesses who fail to become energy efficiency and accept their environmental responsibilities. Wigley, speaking yesterday at ...
Thursday 1st July 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Western Australia Misses Out on $50 Million from Energy Saving
THE Western Australia (WA) Government has been criticised for wasting $50 million dollars on energy after an audit discovered they had failed to meet energy reduction targets. The Energy Smart Government program started in 2002 and set a target of reducing energy use by 12 per cent within five years, but ...
Thursday 1st July 2010 | Read full article
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