There are a few new reports that are well worth spending time reading. The first is a comparison of German and UK experience in evaluating energy efficiency programmes. The second concerns climate policy and industry, policy interaction and the external environment. The third is on developing roadmaps for a retrofit strategy. Evaluating the evaluations: … Continue reading New reports for your spring reading
Author: Rod Janssen
More interaction . . .
In the past few months, we have had data hubs from the IEA’s Sustainable Building Centre and the BPIE. They are both excellent, and constantly evolving, which is good. On February 8th, EiD had a post that included reports coming from ENTRANZE, a project funded by Intelligent Energy Europe to support policy making to encourage … Continue reading More interaction . . .
Target setting and the role of consumer behaviour – ask an expert
EiD recently wrote Dr Sea Rotmann, the Operating Agent for the IEA DSM Implementing Agreement Task 24 [Closing the Loop - Behaviour Change in DSM: From Theory to Policies and Practice] and asked her: Given the role of behaviour in affecting energy demand, how can governments ever agree to a binding target for energy savings? … Continue reading Target setting and the role of consumer behaviour – ask an expert
Potential for energy savings in Romania
Romania Insider provides a good article on energy efficiency measures that can be deployed in Romania to good effect. It is based on the study from a new industry association promoting energy efficiency in Romania. Study: Energy efficiency measures can save Romania some EUR 7.4 billion Romania has the potential to cut its energy … Continue reading Potential for energy savings in Romania
LEDs shed some light on the future
David Pogue writes an excellent article in the New York Times on why consumers should shift to using LED light bulbs. As he ends the article, you’d have to be a pretty dim bulb not to realise that LED light is the future. New Reasons to Change Light Bulbs People sometimes have trouble making small … Continue reading LEDs shed some light on the future
Numbers of the week
From the New York Times: The United States consumes 9% less energy for each $1 of GDP than it did five years ago. Total energy use has fallen about 5% in the last five years. From the Guardian: 29,000 people die prematurely from it every year in Britain from air pollution, twice as many as … Continue reading Numbers of the week
Impact of air pollution in the UK
John Vidal writes in the Guardian about air quality in UK cities, although primarily London, and what it is doing to health. One monitoring station in London shows the fourth highest levels of NO2 of over 2,000 monitoring stations in Europe. Cities are missing targets set under EU laws, but questions arise as to who … Continue reading Impact of air pollution in the UK
The benefits of better information on energy efficiency
Meg Handley writes in USNews.com about a new report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy on the savings that consumers could achieve if there was better information available. Consumers Could Save $1 Trillion With Better Energy Efficiency Information "The report is spot on—existing technologies and anticipated technologies could be realized without significant … Continue reading The benefits of better information on energy efficiency
Thought for the week
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and … Continue reading Thought for the week
Take the time to watch . . .
Benoit Lebot, well known to many EiD readers, works for the United Nations Development Programme in Dakar, Senegal but he recently was able to attend the Australian Alliance to Save Energy (A2SE) Summer Study on Energy Efficiency and Decentralised Energy in Sydney, Australia. A2SE is now on YouTube and presented Benoit as the charismatic and … Continue reading Take the time to watch . . .
