Brendan Haley, Senior Director of Policy Strategy at Efficiency Canada provides his comments on the recently released Canadian government report on its national electricity strategy. What Canada’s new electricity strategy means for energy efficiency Strategy includes demand-side solutions, retrofit supports. Focus on doubling supply and accelerating electrification could be complemented by goal to double … Continue reading Doubling Canada’s grid Is not enough without energy efficiency
Blog by Jane Marsh – Electrical modernisation as energy efficiency: why home panel upgrades matter for carbon reduction
The UK’s transition to a low-carbon future depends on more than renewable energy generation. It also depends on whether homes can support the technologies driving electrification. Across the country, households are installing heat pumps, electric vehicle (EV) chargers, solar panels and battery storage systems at record rates. Yet many homes still rely on outdated electrical … Continue reading Blog by Jane Marsh – Electrical modernisation as energy efficiency: why home panel upgrades matter for carbon reduction
From energy efficiency to energy sovereignty: the role of better building data
Andrés Jonathan Guízar Dena, Researcher and PhD student | BIM Modeler and Building Energy Design and Management Specialist, Universidad de Navarra writes on The Conversation website about the need for better data if we are to predict how well energy-saving measures will work. The blind spot in Europe’s energy strategy: almost all of its … Continue reading From energy efficiency to energy sovereignty: the role of better building data
Smarter lighting, healthier buildings, lower energy use
In an article on The Conversation website, Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano, Catedrático de Universidad en el área de Construcciones Arquitectónicas, Universidad CEU San Pablo writes about the benefits of smarter lighting. How switching to smarter lighting can cut energy bills and boost your health Lighting accounts for almost 8% of the world’s energy usage. It makes … Continue reading Smarter lighting, healthier buildings, lower energy use
New EEA assessments on circularity
Stepping up a circular economy offers the European Union the potential for significant positive impacts on Europe’s environment and poses an untapped and strategic economic opportunity in terms of better access to materials and the creation of new businesses. Three new assessments on circularity, published this week by the European Environment Agency (EEA), also stress … Continue reading New EEA assessments on circularity
Energy in Demand News, May 17-18, 2026
The Financial Times reports that one of the largest US pension funds “is re-evaluating its stake in TotalEnergies following the French oil major’s decision to accept $1bn from Donald Trump’s administration to exit offshore wind power in the US. . . . The New York State Common Retirement Fund, which owns a $1.6mn stake in … Continue reading Energy in Demand News, May 17-18, 2026
We can help children to use eco-anxiety as a foundation for action
In an article on The Conversation website, Hannah Kirk, Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, Monash University and Sashka Samarawickrama, PhD Candidate (Clinical Psychology), Monash University discuss how the experiences of primary school children to environmental change are poorly understood. ‘I’m mad at the people who could have solved the problem’: what kids told us … Continue reading We can help children to use eco-anxiety as a foundation for action
Antarctica Was Supposed to Change Slowly. It Didn’t.
In an article on The Conversation website, Aditya Narayanan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton & UNSW Sydney; Alberto Naveira Garabato, Professor, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton; and Alessandro Silvano, NERC Independent Research Fellow in Oceanography, University of Southampton, write that the speed of the recent sea ice decline has come as a shock. … Continue reading Antarctica Was Supposed to Change Slowly. It Didn’t.
NATO is openly backing renewables
Ben Makuch writes on the Politico website that NATO sees clean power as a logical replacement for fossil fuels. This position likely to deepen tensions with the United States. NATO backs renewables as solution to energy security, despite US skepticism NATO is openly backing renewables and other non-fossil fuel sources of energy as key … Continue reading NATO is openly backing renewables
Five myths about renewable energy — and what the data really shows
Mitota P. Omelere writes on the Earth.org website about five myths about renewable energy. For much of the past decade, discourse around renewable energy has been shaped by persistent concerns over cost, reliability, and environmental trade-offs. While some of these critiques reflected genuine limitations during the early stages of deployment, the global energy landscape has … Continue reading Five myths about renewable energy — and what the data really shows
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