Category: energy efficiency

Company in the news – SUSI Partners AG

SUSI Partners AG is a socially and ecologically responsible Swiss investment advisor which offers together with Sustainable SàRL Luxembourg sustainable investment funds to qualified investors seeking to diversify their portfolio. The funds advised by SUSI Partners AG finance renewable energy infrastructure, energy efficiency retrofits as well as electricity storage and distribution capacity in Europe. In … Continue reading Company in the news – SUSI Partners AG →

Measuring up residential buildings in New York

New York City has been a leader in improving the energy performance of its buildings and now it is publishing data to compare residential buildings.  This article by Mireya Navarro in the New York Times explains what appears to be one of the important legacies of Mayor Bloomberg’s time in office. A Fresh Set of … Continue reading Measuring up residential buildings in New York →

New books you need to read

There are two excellent new books that have come across the EiD desk this week.  These are authored or co-authored by friends of EiD and should definitely be of interest for those involved in various aspects of sustainable energy Energy Efficiency: The Definitive Guide to the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Source of Energy by Steven Fawkes … Continue reading New books you need to read →

Taxing times in France to support renewable energy and energy efficiency

Tara Patel writes in Business Week about the recent announcement in France about a new levy on nuclear energy and a tax on carbon emissions to support the transition to a low carbon, energy-efficient economy.   France to Tax EDF Nuclear Output for Energy Shift to Renewables France will introduce a levy on nuclear energy … Continue reading Taxing times in France to support renewable energy and energy efficiency →

New homes in England not showing energy performance improvements

The Green Building Press provides some disturbing news about the average efficiency of new homes in England.   Energy efficiency of new homes goes down not up The average energy efficiency of new homes in England has dropped from last year, official figures reveal. Figures released by the Communities and Local Government department on Friday … Continue reading New homes in England not showing energy performance improvements →

New academic paper – “The Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation”

Jan Rosenow, Senior Consultant at Ricardo-AEA, and Nick Eyre, Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, put together the first comprehensive academic peer-reviewed paper on the British Green Deal published in the journal ‘Energy’ of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The Green Deal, introduced alongside the Energy Company Obligation, marks a substantial change … Continue reading New academic paper – “The Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation” →

Global slowdown in energy efficiency

ESI-Africa.com, the on-line power journal of Africa, reports on the new study soon to be published by ADEME, the French national energy agency, for the World Energy Council that gives some worrying evidence that efforts on energy efficiency are waning.   Slowdown in energy efficiency improvements Dr Christoph Frei, the World Energy Council (WEC) secretary … Continue reading Global slowdown in energy efficiency →

New publication on modernising building codes

At her last working day at the IEA, Yamina SAHEB launched the joint IEA-UNDP report on how building energy codes can be modernised with the aim of limiting pressure on global energy supply, improving energy security, and contributing to environmental sustainability. The IEA and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnered to analyse current practices … Continue reading New publication on modernising building codes →