News from January 2011
Enigin News - Viet Nam's Ministries to Strive for Energy Efficiency
VIET NAM’S Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung is urging governmental ministries, sectors and grass-root authorities to provide adequate power supply for business production and increased demand. Dung has asked State agencies and offices to present plans to save power, issue regulations on power use, and use energy-efficient equipment and lights. Ministers, heads ...
Sunday 30th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - China Needs more Stimulus for Energy Efficiency Gains
ECONOMIC development plans in China need to promote a low carbon economy even further, so says a new WWF report assessing the climate and energy impacts of China’s stimulus package. The study found that China’s stimulus package (approximately $586 billion) has been successful in boosting economic growth mainly through investments in ...
Thursday 27th January 2011 | Read full article
Romania get Energy Efficiency Funding Boost
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstructions and Development (EBRD) is continuing to support private industrial companies in Romania with a new €10 million loan. The loan is being provided to Raiffeisen Bank S.A. as part of EBRD’s drive to improve energy efficiency in Romanian businesses. Extended under the EU/EBRD Energy Efficiency Financing Facility ...
Thursday 27th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Industry to Pay Millions for Energy Efficiency
THE INDIAN Power Ministry revealed today that eight industrial sectors would invest Rs 30,000 crore ($6.6 million) to save 10 million tonnes of oil equivalent in the next three years. The Power Ministry has notified the industrial sectors affected; thermal power plants, fertilisers, cement, pulp and paper, textiles, chlor-alkali, iron and ...
Thursday 27th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Efficiency Building Code for Syria
SYRIA and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) yesterday announced they have teamed up to produce an energy efficiency building code document for the middle east country. The project aims at reducing CO2 emission in buildings through the new code, which will focus on a buildings performance, including efficiency standards for ...
Wednesday 26th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin Update - Energy Efficiency & Renewables Advances in Rural U.S.
US DEPARTMENT of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack yesterday revealed on his White House Blog the advances made in agriculture and rural areas in energy efficiency and renewables. He posted: At President Obama’s direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) is working hard to unleash the power of America’s innovators and entrepreneurs to ...
Tuesday 25th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - €165 Million Energy Efficiency Financing for Slovakia
THE EUROPEAN BANK for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is adding a further €15 million loan to the €150 million previously in place to help private companies in Slovakia improve energy efficiency. The loan has been made to the UniCredit Bank Slovakia to finance sustainable energy projects under the bank’s Slovakia Sustainable ...
Tuesday 25th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Energy Saving Body Suffers Funding Cut
THE UK government has slashed by half its funding of the Energy Saving Trust (EST), the Guardian newspaper reports. The EST provides grants and advice to businesses, public entities and the public to aid them to reduce their energy use, costs and greenhouse gas emissions. The UK government has said that energy ...
Tuesday 25th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - EU Commissioner has Ambitious Energy Efficiency Plans
EUROPEAN Union (EU) commissioner Gunther Oettinger has outlined an ambitious programme designed to boost the EU's energy role. Speaking today, the German official also said he was "confident" next week's summit of EU leaders will "send a clear signal to accelerate energy efficiency targets". Oettinger, who is responsible for energy policy, detailed ...
Monday 24th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Future Energy Predictions
ACCORDING to a study by oil giant BP, energy consumption in developed countries in 2030 will be only slightly higher than today, while consumption in emerging markets will double. The BP Energy Outlook 2030 provides their projections for future energy trends, estimating that world primary energy consumption grew by 45 percent ...
Sunday 23rd January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Vietnam Ripe for Energy Savings
IN VIETNAM power outages are becoming more frequent, so many enterprises are looking to use energy-saving technologies and products. Experts are hence predicting that the trend is set to strengthen the country’s energy saving businesses. Huynh Kim Tuoc, director of the Ho Chi Minh City Energy Conservation Center, said saving power helps ...
Sunday 23rd January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - ExxonMobil Predict Gloomy Future on CO2 Emissions
THE WORLD’S largest oil company, ExxonMobil, predicts global CO2 emissions to rise by nearly 25 percent in the next 20 years, according to the company's annual Outlook for Energy report. The report, due to be published in the next few weeks, makes the startling claim which in effect, states the UK’s ...
Thursday 20th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - EU Set for Crunch Energy Summit
Europe's lagging energy efficiency standards are emerging as a key issue ahead of a February meeting of European Union (EU) heads of state, EurActiv report. Apparently several German ministries are discussing the country's positioning on energy efficiency standards ahead of the summit, including the Ministries of Environment, Energy, Finance and Foreign ...
Wednesday 19th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - India Reveals Plans for a Sustainable Future
ACTION is being taken around Asia to deal with the expected massive increase in energy demand up to 2030, panelist heard at the four-day World Future Energy Summit. The Summit taking place in Abu Dhabi this week and a panel convened to discuss sustainable environment solutions around the world, with Indian ...
Wednesday 19th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Emergency Energy Saving Measures for South Korea
THE KOREAN government is implementing emergency energy-saving measures as demand for electricity skyrockets amid record-breaking cold weather. Following a Cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae on Tuesday, the Korean government announced a series of measures which include limiting the interior temperature of energy-hungry big buildings and operating fewer subway trains. With the ...
Tuesday 18th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin Update - U.S. Energy Saving Industry Gains Momentum
AUTHOR Bracken Hendricks of the Center for American Progress thinks the momentum energy efficiency is experiencing in the U.S. is due to a change in the forces driving it forward. He feels that the desire for energy efficiency has changed from being driven primarily by public programmes to produce a robust ...
Tuesday 18th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - China Considers Regional Emission Targets
Decision makers in commerce and industry often turn to their local Enigin Distributor for energy efficiency technology. Whether its lighting, air-con, refrigeration or motor controllers Enigin have the solutions to help reduce emissions, energy demand and hence energy costs. Whatever targets are set by governments globally local Enigin Distributors are enabling ...
Monday 17th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Latin America and the Caribbean get Energy Efficiency Boost
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support energy efficiency and renewable energy in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Memorandum is designed for the mitigation of climate change, one of the key priorities of the JICA in its aim ...
Monday 17th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Industrial Leaders Want Energy Saving Action
EUROPEAN industry chiefs said yesterday that Europe's leaders need to take a stand on power savings as the continent continues to miss reduction targets. Chief executives of companies, such as Whirlpool Europe, AB Electrolux Bosch and Siemens, are insisting that politicians do more to bring about binding energy savings targets. Following another ...
Monday 17th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Compulsory Energy Audits Considered for Maharashtra
THE MAHARASHTRA government, in western India, is considering framing a specific policy making energy audits mandatory for commercial, government and semi-government buildings. A government official said that the aim is to ensure energy conservation: "With a view to reduce consumption of power and check its misuse, the government is contemplating to frame ...
Sunday 16th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Nigeria Look to Energy Efficiency and Renewables
A SCHEME aimed at cutting Nigeria’s carbon footprint through reducing energy use and implementing renewable energy sources has received the backing of the central government. The scheme entitled the Nigeria Clean Energy Access Programme (NCEAP), it will be promoted by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Environment. Despite these efforts it is ...
Sunday 16th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Renewables Priority for Turkey
CHANTELLE - PLEASE DELETE THIS LINE - JUST TO LET YOU KJNOW THIS IS BEING POSTED AT 35 MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT BUT IS APPEARING AS AN ARTICLE ON THURSDAY'S DATE - DELETE THIS LINE RENEWABLE energy is a priority in terms of both legislation and culture, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz ...
Friday 14th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Chinese City Freezes for Energy Saving Target
ALMOST 20,000 people were left in the cold when the central heating in Linzhou City, central China's Henan Province, was suspended last week, allegedly to save energy. Despite restoration of much of the heating, the city’s population may have to endure freezing weather for the rest of this winter after part ...
Wednesday 12th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Local Governments Turn to Energy Saving Industry
HEAVILY strained governmental budgets have convinced state and local governments across the United States to adopt a new form of performance-based investments in energy efficiency offered by ESCOs. An ESCO, and energy services company, provides energy-efficiency-related and other value-added services often with performance contracting as a core part of its energy-efficiency ...
Wednesday 12th January 2011 | Read full article
Enigin News - Small Businesses Missing out on Energy Savings
SMALL businesses in the U.S. spend over $100 billion a year on energy costs yet know little about energy saving or the financial benefits it brings revealed a recent survey. A survey by students of Bentley University in the U.S. of small-business owners across New England in the north east United ...
Tuesday 11th January 2011 | Read full article
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