Business is trying to push Congress to wake up and take climate change seriously. Burt Helm writes in the New York Times about the Risky Business Project, an unusual collection of business and policy leaders who are determined to prepare American companies for climate change. And that means serious lobbying of Congress. Climate Change’s … Continue reading The Risky Business Project in the US pushing for a realistic approach to climate change
Author: Rod Janssen
How would you find out whether your building was suitable for solar-powered energy?
The Leicester Mercury in England provided an interesting news item about an aerial photography firm that has a prototype website allowing people to assess if a building is suitable for a PV system. This is a very interesting concept. Aerial photography firm Bluesky launches Eagle energy website An aerial photography firm has launched a … Continue reading How would you find out whether your building was suitable for solar-powered energy?
Impact of EU carbon policy on support for energy savings and renewable energy
Trading System (EU ETS). We have another article by Laurens de Vries and Jörn Richstein published by the Huffington Post UK that raises even more concerns about EU ETS. Why EU's carbon policy discourages subsidies for energy savings and renewables Brussels has just launched a major policy diplomatic offensive aimed at securing a global … Continue reading Impact of EU carbon policy on support for energy savings and renewable energy
New report on the LED market
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has recently published its 2014 update on the status of the LED market. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), a type of solid-state lighting, are revolutionizing the lighting market. In just the last few years, LED performance has accelerated quickly and a wave of new commercial, industrial and institutional LED fixtures has … Continue reading New report on the LED market
Trends in energy efficiency venture capital
Elisa Wood provides a good review on the energyefficiencymarkets website of the energy efficiency and energy storage deals from 2015 in the US. It is interesting to see how dynamic the market is. Energy Efficiency Venture Capital: Who Got What? So it may seem like energy storage is the big star these days. But … Continue reading Trends in energy efficiency venture capital
Reviewing the impact on both consumers’ and utilities’ implementation of energy efficiency
Jonathan Kleinman, vice president of policy, design and evaluation at CLEAResult, writes an important article on the Intelligentutility website about five trends that will have an impact on both consumers and utilities. 2015: the year of the energy efficiency economic balancing act Adoption of energy efficiency programs provided by electric power utilities has seen … Continue reading Reviewing the impact on both consumers’ and utilities’ implementation of energy efficiency
Sustainable energy gets boost by new advisory council from leading experts
The transition to a sustainable energy system will be strengthened by the creation by 12 eminent experts of the International Energy Advisory Council. As they say, their focus is the replacement or avoidance of the incumbent centralized fossil-fuel and nuclear-energy systems by a combination of greatly improved energy efficiency and decentralised energy. This is a … Continue reading Sustainable energy gets boost by new advisory council from leading experts
Reflecting on the role of behaviour change
Increasingly we are reading about the importance of behaviour change and energy efficiency. NestLee Lupkin writes an important article on the energyefficiencymarkets.com website on insights from a recent conference of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy conference. This must be music to the ears of the members of Task 24 of the IEA Demand … Continue reading Reflecting on the role of behaviour change
Linking renewable energy and economic growth
Michigan has had a rough ride over recent years with the demise of the car industry and other such structural changes. But all is not lost. Importantly, there is increasing awareness that economic growth is going to be affected if there is not a more ambitious shift to renewable energy. Emily Lawler writes an important … Continue reading Linking renewable energy and economic growth
Impact of energy efficiency standards in the US
Donald Elliott from Covington & Burling LLP writes an informative article on The National Law Review website about the quiet success of energy efficiency standards. It would be good to see an equivalent article on the success of the Ecodesign Directive in Europe. Energy Efficiency Standards A Quiet Success Electricity consumption in the United … Continue reading Impact of energy efficiency standards in the US
