Commenting on the first quarterly Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation statistics, Greg Barker, Minister for Energy and Climate Change, said: “The Green Deal is an ambitious and uniquely long-term programme designed to upgrade the energy efficiency of Britain’s homes. It’s only just getting started, but the early signs are encouraging. “Today we’ve seen that ...
Local Authorities across the country are to receive a share of £88 million to help deliver the Government’s Green Deal home energy efficiency improvement programme. The scheme will be rolled out on a street-by-street basis and will aim to help around 32,000 households install energy efficiency home improvements like solid wall insulation and hew heating systems so that they have ...
Secretary of State Edward Davey was in the North East on Thursday, 24 May to help spread awareness of the Green Deal. He began his visit at St Gabriel’s Church in Newcastle, where he met with local providers of energy efficiency measures as part of an Energy Awareness Day event. Among the organisations present were Carillion Energy Services, Rockwool, NPower, Age UK, Women Institute and ...
News was released recently as VPhase was placed into administration. The pioneering VPhase brand placed into administration on the 4th September 2013 contributed greatly to the awareness of energy saving within the home through managing the incoming voltage levels. Many independent studies have been carried out which confirm the principal of energy saving through voltage management within the ...
The International Energy Agency will launch its annual market report on energy efficiency on Monday, 4 November, at 6:00 am Paris time. Energy Efficiency 2019 is the IEA’s global tracker of energy efficiency trends, providing policy makers and other energy decision makers with crucial insights. Energy efficiency has tremendous potential to spur economic growth, achieve cost savings for ...
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the 20 collegiate teams selected to compete in the next U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon which will be held on the National Mall in Washington, DC in the Fall 2011. For two weeks, teams of college and university students from across the United States and the world will compete to design, build, and operate the most ...
A new report from Navigant Research analyzes the global market opportunity for residential Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including forecasts for shipments, installed base, and revenue, segmented by region and device type, through 2025. As device manufacturers continue to embed communications technologies, sensors, and intelligence into an array of products, the residential IoT market ...
Making the most of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will be the main topic for discussion when MWA Technology makes its debut at The Energy Event 2013 later this month (September 10-11). The independent metering specialist is looking to raise awareness of the Government programme, which is looking to financially incentivise home owners, businesses and organisations to use renewable energy ...
Expectations that a National Energy Strategy would emerge from this week's meeting of Canada's energy ministers in Kananaskis, Alberta were dampened when what emerged was a carefully worded 'national approach' signalling a consensus on certain key energy issues and a 'broad-strokes' voluntary collaboration agreement. The official meeting communiqué cited acceptance of "a shared vision for ...
Top 10 States Ranked in Energy Efficiency Scorecard: MA, CA, NY, OR, CT, RI, VT, WA, MD, and IL 5 States Most Needing Improvement : ND, WY, SD, AK, MS 5 Most Improved States: MS, ME, KS, OH, and WV Energy efficiency measures are thriving in state capitals around the United States, with several states---including Mississippi, Connecticut, Illinois, and West Virginia---taking major steps that ...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA will take new steps to save consumers money on their energy bills in partnership with rural electric cooperatives. USDA plans to provide rural electric cooperatives up to $250 million to lend to business and residential customers for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy systems. "Energy efficiency retrofitting can shrink ...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with Western Area Power Administration, will present the next Tribal Renewable Energy Series webinar, Energy Efficiency, Zero Energy Ready Homes, and Off-grid Hybrid Power Generation Systems, on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain time. Attendees will learn about Zero Energy Ready Homes and ...
U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman today announced the winners of the 2009 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Team Germany, the student team from Darmstadt, Germany, won top honors by designing, building, and operating the most attractive and efficient solar-powered home. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
The home and building energy management systems (HEMS/BEMS) markets face push factors, such as EU Directives that support smart technology in energy monitoring and management, as well as pull factors from the demand side as technology improves and becomes more easily available. Together with rising prices of energy, these two factors will lead the HEMS and BEMS market to double-digit growth over ...
Georgia Power recently announced it is adding to its smart home offerings by working with Vivint, a Georgia Power preferred provider, to bring customers the latest in-home security and automation solution. As one of Georgia Power's preferred providers, Vivint is exclusively offering Georgia Power's customers who sign up for Vivint's home security and automation system a $0 activation fee, free ...
The European Commission has made a first assessment of National Energy Efficiency Action Plans (NEEAP), which Member States were required to submit by 30 June 2007. The Plans present national strategies on how Member States intend to achieve their adopted energy savings target by 2016. Although the Action Plans provide some encouragement, there appears to be a gap between the political commitment ...
America lacks a comprehensive vision of how a market economy can achieve these transformational goals, says the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), one of America"s leading climate-related think tanks. RMI has that vision, and is now building its detailed roadmap, which it calls Reinventing Fire™. This strategy will bring together RMI"s 28 years of innovation and engage the world in its most ...
“In the global fight against climate change, the industry and power sectors both play a key role,” said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in Paris. “Industry is one of the largest users of electricity, and together, both sectors account for almost two-thirds of global energy-related CO2 emissions,” Mr. Tanaka stressed at the launch of two new IEA ...
HVAC named one of four technologies stimulating energy-efficient job growth According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), American energy-efficiency jobs are on the rise. Per the DOE’s second annual “National Energy Employment Analysis,” a total of 6.4 million Americans now work in the traditional energy and energy-efficiency industries. More than 300,000 net new jobs were ...
Energy efficiency measures continue to flourish in states across the country, with several states—including California, Maryland, Illinois, Texas and the nation’s capital, Washington, DC—taking major steps that improved their scores in the ninth annual edition of the State Energy Efficiency Scorecard, released today by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy ...