energy consumption habit News
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Can we save energy by changing our behaviour?
In 2010, European households consumed almost 13% more energy than two decades ago and generated 25 % of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. This trend must be reversed for the EU to reach its goal of reducing primary energy consumption by 20 % by 2020. Today, the European Environment Agency (EEA) publishes a report which investigates what it takes to achieve energy savings through changing ...
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Elexicon Energy, Opus One Solutions, and Marshall Homes Design Canada's First Preplanned Nested Microgrid Residential Community
Elexicon Energy, the fourth largest municipally-owned electricity distributor in Ontario, real estate developer and builder Marshall Homes and Canada's Opus One Solutions, a top 100 Global Cleantech Company, have partnered together to create a living smart grid pilot community called Altona Towns.Funded by Ontario's Ministry of Energy, Northern Development under the Smart Grid and Grid Innovation ...
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UK business `too busy to be green`
New research finds senior business leaders expect the looming economic recession to hamper efforts to reduce energy consumption, including 'green' IT purchasing habits. A survey of senior UK business leaders has found that, with a pessimistic economic outlook, they are 'too busy to be green'. That's bad news from a technology perspective, where expenditure on installing energy efficient ...
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Brits Most Guilty of Energy Wasting Habits
Untitled Document LONDON, UK , October 23, 2006 (ENS) - Brits are the most wasteful people in Europe, according to a survey of the energy habits of 5,000 Europeans. A report today by the UK's Energy Saving Trust found Germans are the most efficient in their energy use, followed by the Spanish, but Brits top the European Energy Wasters' league. 'The Energy Saving Trust ...
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