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Natural Gas and Renewable Fuels: Competitors, Collaborators or Both?
This webinar is presented by the USAEE and ACORE Both natural gas and renewable fuels are expected to provide a significantly increasing share of US electricity due to increasing environmental pressures on coal. In one sense, promoters of natural gas and promoters of renewables will be key competitors vying to …
Hope on the horizon: Will the G-20 really start the final countdown on unsustainable energy subsidies?
Feature Commentary Hope on the horizon: Will the G-20 really start the final countdown on unsustainable energy subsidies? By Cees van Beers and André de Moor For decades there has existed a community of researchers – spanning government ministries, international organisations, academia and civil society – working to increase the …
Watch videos from Solar Power International 2010
Watch the Event Broadcast from SPI Solar Power International is the premier business-to-business solar expo and conference in the United States. See RenewableEnergyWorld.com’s coverage of the event — see what you missed in Los Angeles, California and find out what’s happening in the world of solar! Dr. Schenk Dr. Schenk …
Mainstream Energy Investment Meets SRI
Opal Financial Group’s Energy Investment Forum will bring together experts from throughout the country to discuss the most important topics in the energy sector. Attendees will represent many of the nation’s pension funds, endowments, and trusts as well as representing utility companies, federal and state government agencies, and energy-equipment companies. …
EU Energy Strategy 2011-2020 Must Focus More on Energy Efficiency, but NOT on White Certificates
A Bucket of NEW Policies are in Need Today, the EU Commission has released “Energy2020. A strategy for competitive, sustainable and secure energy”. It timely warns about future energy supply crisis and sets energy efficiency as the first priority. Unfortunately, the most direct, new energy efficiency proposal is the introduction …
Accelerating the deployment of shallow geothermal heat and cold resources in Europe
ABSTRACT The principle objective of this paper is to promote the large scale deployment of shallow geothermal heat and cold in Europe. Based on Europe wide potential estimates and several shallow geothermal case studies in the building sector, it is shown that for a real large scale deployment the perception …
Building A Green Future: Emerging Trends in the Construction and Maintenance of Green Facilities
Greetings! Green buildings, as represented by the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System of the U.S. Green Building Council, are an undisputed market success. In the ten years since the launch of LEED, green has firmly established itself among mainstream leaders in the building sector, …
Communicating the Benefits of Efficiency Encourages Saving Energy
Washington, D.C. (November 2, 2010): Motivating customers and organizations to change their behavior can lead to significant energy savings. A new report from ACEEE, Visible and Concrete Savings: Case Studies of Effective Behavioral Approaches to Improving Customer Energy Efficiency, profiles a variety of programs that spur individuals and organizations to …
How to calculate the efficiency of your data centre
A free to download white paper on the problems and solutions of measuring data centre efficiency Before data centre infrastructure efficiency can be benchmarked using PUE or other metrics, there must be agreement on exactly which power consumptions constitute IT loads, which consumptions constitute physical infrastructure, and which loads should …