How to convince senior management to take energy efficiency seriously

Kit Oung, Director, Energy Savings for Energy Efficien:ology gives some good tips on the GreenBiz website of how to convince senior management that saving energy can bring many benefits. 7 tips on selling energy efficiency to senior management When it comes to energy efficiency, middle management is in a unique and tactically strong position. … Continue reading How to convince senior management to take energy efficiency seriously →

Consumer report in UK calls for radical new approach to energy efficiency

Karl Mathiesen writes in The Guardian about a new report by Which? that says successive governments’ failures mean UK’s housing stock remains the least energy-efficient in Europe and that a radical new approach is needed. With a national election coming in May, it would be good to think that at least one of the political … Continue reading Consumer report in UK calls for radical new approach to energy efficiency →

Improving the energy efficiency of high-performance computers

Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World writes a good article on the InsideHPC website about recent developments in Europe to improve energy efficiency and reduce high energy costs in high-performance computing. Is Europe Leading the Energy Efficiency Race? On Monday of this week, PRACE, the European partnership for advanced computing, announced that it has … Continue reading Improving the energy efficiency of high-performance computers →

Investments in residential sector energy efficiency in Turkey

Olga Rosca writes on the Financial website from Georgia about a major bank in Turkey joining an important financing facility to invest in residential energy retrofits. Işbank joins EBRD’s home energy efficiency programme in Turkey Türkiye İş Bankası AŞ (İşbank) has joined the US$ 350 million financing facility launched by the European Bank for … Continue reading Investments in residential sector energy efficiency in Turkey →

Call for an EU buildings energy renovation strategy

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission this week launched a new report Energy Renovation: The Trump Card for the New Start for Europe. The report highlights that a more comprehensive approach to energy renovation is instrumental for reaching the EU 2020 goals for energy savings. Furthermore there are important implications for growth and … Continue reading Call for an EU buildings energy renovation strategy →

Rethinking energy efficiency

Andrew Warren of the UK's Association for the Conservation of Energy provides an excellent article in Building Magazine about how the European Commission is now treating energy efficiency as the first fuel. He commends this approach and contrasts this with the latest UK position to put old-fashioned supply-side solutions first. What can you say about … Continue reading Rethinking energy efficiency →

Making wiser energy decisions: the large gap between intention and action

Alex Verkhivker and Jared Meyer provide an important article on the economics21.org website. Jared Meyer is a fellow at Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and Alex Verkhivker is a contributor to Economics21. They argue that as the academic literature on behavioural economics continues to grow, energy efficiency’s future is poised to engage … Continue reading Making wiser energy decisions: the large gap between intention and action →

The challenge European car manufacturers face in cutting emissions

The EU has quite stringent standards for reducing the carbon emissions levels of vehicles. This is used instead of a fuel economy standard and reflects the importance of reducing emissions for many reasons. Andy Sharman writes in the Financial Times about the difficulty that many of Europe’s car manufacturers are having in achieving the targets. … Continue reading The challenge European car manufacturers face in cutting emissions →

Nationally recognised standards for competency-based certification programs important for improving energy performance of buildings

Lauren Zullo, a staff member of the US Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) writes an important article on the NRDC staff blog website about the importance of better training and certification of building energy professionals. Hopefully we are seeing the same attention to workforce guidelines in Europe. New Workforce Guidelines Will Promote Energy Efficiency … Continue reading Nationally recognised standards for competency-based certification programs important for improving energy performance of buildings →

It’s important to get our numbers straight

EiD was at a workshop at the International Energy Agency this week where the issue of data quality came up. Andy Frank, founder and CEO of Sealed provides a good article on the Energy Efficiency Markets website about the importance of good data. To have an intelligent conversation about energy efficiency and create rational public … Continue reading It’s important to get our numbers straight →