News from August 2010
Enigin News - China and Japan Talk Energy Conservation
CHINA and Japan pledged on Saturday to enhance dialogue and exchanges on energy conservation, climate change and environmental protection. The two countries, met in Beijing and agreed to make a combined effort to implement the Joint Statement on Climate Change between China and Japan. The two sides will conduct pragmatic cooperation in ...
Monday 30th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency Vital for Public Sector with new Scheme
The UK’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment, requires businesses and organisations which are intensive energy users to register on the scheme by the end of September, then they will have to buy British government permits for the carbon emissions their operations produce. The Scheme will ...
Monday 30th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - South Africa Needs Energy Efficiency
AN interesting article on allafrica.com highlights the importance of energy efficiency in South Africa (SA). The author of the piece, Siseko Njobeni, reckons SA will be caught out when their economy recovers and the demand for electricity increases, because currently the country seems to have put energy efficiency on the back ...
Thursday 26th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - School Saves Over $1.5 Million throughout Energy Efficiency
THE Cambridge-Isanti School District in Minnesota,USA, have received an award for a 30 percent improvement in energy saving. During a school board meeting it was revealed that the school district joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) list of ENERGY STAR® Leaders, which is an elite group of organisations who have improved ...
Wednesday 25th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Ghana Saves $38 Million Through Energy Efficiency Programme
Ghana has saved around $38 million in an energy conservation exercise which started in 2007. The programme, among other things, saw the replacement of incandescent bulbs with energy-saving ones throughout the country. The exercise resulted in the conservation of 124 mega-watts of energy. Victor Owusu, public affairs officer of the Energy Commission, ...
Wednesday 25th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - China Struggling to Save Energy
IN China’s east Zhejiang province, a coastal region which consumes a large amount of energy, the head of Shaoxing County Government, Sun Yunyao, has introduced a series of tough measures to reduce energy usage in the area. A letter of commitment by the Shaoxing County Government has been signed to shut ...
Tuesday 24th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Asian Energy Efficiency Conference
AN Energy Efficiency Conference will take place in Mumbai, India, from tomorrow. The conference will concentrate on energy management technologies and strategies, and industry trends in energy efficiency. The Echelon Corporation will provide best-practice case studies for implementing energy management systems at the conference. The rapid economic growth in Southeast Asia ...
Monday 23rd August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Airport Cuts Energy Usage for One Hour
TO PROVE what savings can be achieved the Allegheny County Airport Authority (ACAA) took part in a regional energy conservation test program, called PJM Demand Response, at their Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) last. The airport spokeswoman JoAnn Jenny said that this is an effort to “lighten the load” on the electric ...
Monday 23rd August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News -Businesses Urged to Use Energy Efficient Apparatus
Call to Businesses to Invest in Energy Efficiency BUSINESSES have to look at environmental data more closely and consider their office equipment and consumer products to become more energy efficient, at least according to Euan Murray, the general manager of the UK's Carbon Trust Footprinting company. His suggestion is that companies should ...
Sunday 22nd August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Saving Lighting Trial Returns 60% Saving
LUDHIANA city, in Punjab India, have had a 60% saving on energy through a trial of energy-efficient lighting for their street lights. City officials have asked the Indian Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) to consult for the trial, by the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation. The city installed around 20 LED lights on a trial ...
Sunday 22nd August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Farmers Get $6.5 Million in Energy Efficiency Stimulus
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has made available $3,6m in loan guarantees plus $2,9m in grants to 61 Iowa farms in a bid to assist farmers and rural small businesses to make energy efficient improvements to their operations. The funding is available through the Rural Energy for America Program, enabling ...
Friday 20th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Well Done Canada, But Could Do Better
THE CANADIAN Federal Government has received a B+ on a Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance 2009 National Energy Efficiency Report Card The Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance (CEEA) released their 2009 National Energy Efficiency Report Card yesterday. Every two years the Report Card is released reporting on federal, provincial, and territorial governments and their energy efficiency performance. This ...
Thursday 19th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Use of Energy Saving Technology Encouraged
ENERGY SAVING technology is to be incentivised in the UK after the government revealed that local councils are to be allowed to sell renewable energy to the National Grid. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has revealed that the ban on local authorities selling excess power from solar and ...
Wednesday 18th August 2010 | Read full article
Energy News - Indian Parliament Boosts Energy Efficiency
THE INDIAN Parliament has passed the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill 2010 to provide a major boost to energy efficiency in the sub-continent. This Bill supplies the legal framework to kickstart the ‘Perform, Achieve and Trade’ (PAT) scheme, which sets out the energy efficiency improvement targets for larger energy-intensive industries and facilities ...
Wednesday 18th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Mayors Gather to Act on Energy Efficiency
THE U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM), an official nonpartisan organisation of cities with populations of 30,000 or more, hosted a one-day meeting in San Francisco to discuss how cities in the U.S. State of California are using federal stimulus dollars to make their local communities energy efficient while also creating ...
Tuesday 17th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - U.S. Study Reveals Americans Unsure on Energy Saving
A STUDY by Columbia University in the U.S. reveals that many Americans maybe in the dark regarding efficient ways to save electricity. In the survey researchers found the majority believe that they can make real energy savings with small changes in habits, but underestimating the massive energy saving available through changing ...
Tuesday 17th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - The More Power You Save, the More Money You will Save
TAIPOWER, a Taiwan power company, reported at the weekend that a power-saving drive they launched for July proved very successful, in terms of cutting energy consumption and reducing emissions of CO2. The energy saving initiative was launched in response to a Taiwanese government call for energy saving and carbon reduction. The ...
Monday 16th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Russia Struggle to Become Energy Efficient
RESIDENTS of the Veshnyaki neighborhood in southeast Moscow were in for a surprise last month when the radiators in their apartments started heating at full blast while it was nearly 40 degrees Celsius outside. No problem, district authorities told reporters, we’re just checking the system. These and other problems with the way ...
Monday 16th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - US Energy Efficiency Grant Money Still to be Spent
A US government audit released on Friday reveled that most of a pot of money authorised for an energy efficiency program in last year's stimulus plan has remained untouched. The Energy Department's inspector general’s report reported that only 8.4 percent of $3.2 billion planned to help state and local governments become ...
Monday 16th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Saving Power Cuts Closes Factories
EAST China’s Anhui province has suspended electricity supply to factories and enterprises in the region due to a failure to meet the energy conservation and emission reduction goal set by the provincial government. Many of the factories being closed down are in industries that require high-energy consumption but could still find ...
Sunday 15th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Businesses Told they can Save Money Through Energy Saving
AUSTRALIAN and New Zealand business leaders reckon they could cut carbon emissions by at least 15 per cent respectively and save money. A report from the Australia-New Zealand Climate Change and Business Conference reckons efforts taken across power, building, industry, forestry, agriculture and transport sectors can lower emissions to the benefit ...
Thursday 12th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - US Industry Propose GHG and Energy Efficiency Policy
THE Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA) have released a report claiming that a package of amendments to the USA’a Clean Air Act, along with financial incentives for energy efficiency investments, would reduce energy related green house gas (GHG) emissions by 13 percent by 2020, relative to baseline conditions. Parts of ...
Wednesday 11th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - Business Owners to Focus on Energy Efficiency
TO reduce costs business owners are choosing commercial premises with a close eye on energy efficiency. So claim reports published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the UK, business energy bills are expected to rise by 26% over the next decade and in other countries even more rapidly, ...
Wednesday 11th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin News - CRC Scheme 50 Days Left for Business to Register and Start Saving
WITH just 50 days to go until the end of registration for the UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC), Greg Barker, Energy and Climate Change Minister, is calling on the remaining organisations to register now. Launched in April 2010 the CRC requires large public and private sector organisations to ...
Tuesday 10th August 2010 | Read full article
Enigin Update - Hospital Saves $700,000 a Year Through Energy Efficiencies
PROVIDENCE St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington State USA, and local utility company Puget Sound Energy have combined forces in an effort to save the hospital energy and money - with significant results. Over the past 10 years, Washington state’s largest investor-owned utility company has awarded almost $2 million in energy ...
Monday 9th August 2010 | Read full article
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