Tag Archives: efficiency
Oregon Releases 10 Year Energy Plan
Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber released a 10-year Energy Plan, and unlike that of the House in Congress, it focuses on energy efficiency and clean energy. It starts by saying, “Energy is THE issue of our time – both globally and here in Oregon – and no single issue will have a greater impact on our state’s [...]
No Go: New UK Energy Efficiency Plan
Green Campaigners are extremely disappointed with the result of a recent Energy Council meeting, in which the UK succeeded in making the EU-wide agreement on energy efficiency much more lenient than the plan originally proposed. They argue that eliminating the mandatory target efficiency while building in various exceptions and loopholes to the new plan significantly [...]
How Cool Roofs are Helping Climate Change
It makes so much difference and is so easy to do that NYC is in the midst of a massive effort to paint all its roofs white. Since 2010, NYC °CoolRoofs has coated 2.6 million square feet of New York City rooftop, and a million more square feet will be painted this year … all [...]
American Homes: Using Less Energy
You used to be able to predict how much energy a home would use, just based on how big it was. Either heating or cooling took more energy to change the temperature of a larger space. We can’t do that anymore. Homes increased in size from 1,800 square feet when built in the 1980s to [...]
Top 10 Ways San Antonio Keeps it Green
San Antonio is not new to clean technologies as Texas is one of the leaders in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. Not to be done under like other cities, including Houston and Austin, San Antonio has numerous projects, initiatives, and institutes in the city with two major goals in mind – promote clean technologies [...]
DOE Creates Efficiency Committee
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has formed an interagency committee to test and evaluate energy efficient technologies that can be deployed across the federal government and save taxpayer money. The goal is to accelerate and integrate the use of innovative products and technologies in the federal government. The Senior Executive Committee for Technology Deployment includes people from the DOE, General Services [...]
Europe Pushes Energy Efficiency
Although the European Union is on track to meet its climate targets, there’s one area where it has been falling behind – energy efficiency. The European Commission, Parliament and President agreed on a legislative proposal to fix that, which now needs approval from member states. The legislation requires greater efficiency from utilities. The original proposal [...]
Replacing Nuclear Power with Energy Efficiency
Is energy efficiency more cost effective and better for the economy than replacing nuclear power plants? The folks over at Energy Savvy seem to think so. And they do a damn good job at backing up their argument, crunching the numbers and offering the following. . . In this comparison, a new nuclear power plant [...]
More Efficient Diesel Engines Hit the Market
Preserving the environment has become a main concern of people and governments all around the world. The realization that the Earth is a place to be protected has come to the forefront of many people’s minds. One way people have decided to help protect the Earth is by working towards driving vehicles with more environmentally [...]