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Thursday 23rd May 2013
A €5 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will enable Kosovo’s business to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. The loan to Turk Ekonomi Bankasi (TEB), will open up loans for financing of rational energy utilization and assist small and medium-sized enterprises in combating ...
Wednesday 22nd May 2013
OVER a third of all local authorities across England and Wales are in breach of the European Energy Directive, designed to improve the energy efficiency of their public buildings. A recent Freedom of Information (FoI) request by the Property and Energy Professionals Association (PEPA) to all authorities in England and Wales, ...
Thursday 16th May 2013
MELBOURNE, Australia, has introduced an amendment to their planning scheme which is designed to improve energy efficiency in new buildings and to reduce the city’s carbon footprint. The vast majority of new buildings constructed in the city will be required to meet a strong set of industry accepted and recognized minimum ...
Wednesday 15th May 2013
THE Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, announced yesterday that the State’s Department of Environmental Protection has awarded $32,880 in grants to help small businesses to invest in energy-efficiency. “Investment in small business is a cornerstone to sound economic growth,” Corbett said. “These grants will help small business owners continue to thrive ...
Tuesday 14th May 2013
THE European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $12 million loan to Azerbaijan’s largest furniture manufacturer, Embawood, to finance in part, energy efficiency improvements. The EBRD loan is complemented by €120,000 Technical Cooperation funds provided by the Early Transition Countries Initiative and the Regional Energy Efficiency Program for ...
Friday 10th May 2013
EUROPEAN Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, yesterday pushed to make significant progress on energy and tax fraud and evasion at the European Council on 22 May. Writing to other European leaders, President Barroso highlighted: "We can tackle these challenges better together. Energy prices differ considerably across the EU, because our market ...
Thursday 9th May 2013
SUSTAINABLE energy projects across Pacific states received a $2 million injection following an agreement signed by the Secretariat of Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The funding will be provided through the Small Island Developing States' Sustainable Energy Initiative and are provided by Denmark’s Government ...
Tuesday 7th May 2013
AN organisation that represents leading UK industries have expressed `grave concern' about the low priority the UK Government has given to energy saving, claiming that their prime initiative is doomed to fail. They state in a letter to Ed Davey, UK Secretary of State for energy and climate change, that the ...
Friday 3rd May 2013
THE International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, is looking for proposals from Azerbaijan’s Banks to start funding energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in Azerbaijan. The IFC recently publicised that it is to provide funding to Bank Respublika to start financing such projects, particularly expanding finance to ...
Thursday 2nd May 2013
THE Jamaican Observer reports that more energy efficiency and renewable energy devices can now be imported into Jamaica duty free - which will boost energy efficiency across the island. The suspension of the Common External Tariff (CET) on clean energy technology by the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will ...
Tuesday 30th April 2013
PAKISTAN’S SMEs averaged a nine percent saving on their energy costs, valued at over Rs61 million, after energy saving measures were taken by 22 companies over the last 12 months. The majority of savings were made in the textile sectors in Karachi, Lahore Faisalabad and Sialkot and are the result of ...
Thursday 25th April 2013
BULGARIA is looking to Denmark to aid them in their pursuit of energy efficiency improvements due to the Danes experience in energy saving. Realizing that the Danish Government are also willing to provide financial support for energy efficiency projects is also an attraction for Bulgaria. “Denmark will help Bulgaria boost its energy ...
Monday 22nd April 2013
THE Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) announced a $50 million Energy Efficiency Finance Facility, for companies in Latin America and the Caribbean. The energy efficiency fund will be available to those companies that invest in energy saving improvements and self-supply renewable energy projects. The IDB will provide small-scale financing for projects that ...
Friday 19th April 2013
THE urgent need for improvement in energy efficiency globally has been dramatically highlighted by the International Energy Agency's (IEA) annual report released Wednesday. The rapid expansion of renewable technologies is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the IEA said in ...
Thursday 18th April 2013
IT is vital for India to crank up its energy efficiency, claimed US Energy Secretary Steven Chu in Delhi on Tuesday. The country sources around 80 percent of its energy via overseas supplies, hence the call for the improvement in energy efficiency to reduce dependence on expensive energy imports. Chu said to ...
Tuesday 16th April 2013
THE Slovak Republic is getting a financial boost to energy efficiency across the country with a €15m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The funds will be on-lent via Vseobecna uverova banka, a.s. (VUB) to municipal borrowers, private municipal service providers, energy service companies and housing associations ...
Friday 5th April 2013
THE energy efficiency sector in Thailand shows that a robust governmental lead aligned with access to international funding can combine to develop an energy efficient economy. This is the conclusion reached by Louise Brown and Athena Ballesteros in an article on GreenBiz.com, where they report that in the early 1990's, Thailand’s ...
Wednesday 3rd April 2013
THE U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that they are accepting applications to provide assistance to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. Funding has been made available from USDA's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) to keep the focus carrying out its mission, ...
Tuesday 2nd April 2013
THE European Commission last week took the first step towards developing a 2030 framework for EU climate change and energy policies, with an adoption of a Green Paper launching public consultations. The consultation will be in the content of the 2030 energy framework. The Commission also adopted a report assessing Member ...
Thursday 28th March 2013
THE Malaysian Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry is completing its energy efficiency strategy with the aim to launch it in the middle of the year. The Ministry’s secretary-general Datuk Loo Took Gee said at a press conference: “We’re reviewing the numbers to ensure the target rates are realistic to further ...
Monday 25th March 2013
NEW analysis underlines that the UK’s business and industrial sector is losing £3.7 billion annually through wasted energy. The ‘Energy Efficiency Financing’ (EEF), a ‘pay as you save’ lending scheme, supported by Siemens and the UK’s Carbon Trust, supplied the analysis revealing how much is being lost through poor energy efficiency. Data ...
Thursday 21st March 2013
SOFIA news agency novinite.com report that Bulgaria's caretaker Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Ekaterina Zaharieva, wants to improve energy efficiency in the country. She said that efforts need to be made on drafting a common program for increasing the energy efficiency of all industrial, commercial, ...
Tuesday 19th March 2013
A new report from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) highlights 16 policies that would remove barriers in the U.S. to investments in energy efficiency. The report, 'Overcoming Market Barriers and Using Market Forces to Advance Energy Efficiency', provides the U.S. Congress and state policymakers with a road map ...
Wednesday 13th March 2013
THE UK government completed its Green Deal energy efficiency scheme, with Greg Barker, Climate Change Minister, releasing £244 million of funding to the non-profit Green Deal Finance Company. The Finance Company will provide funding for businesses and homes looking to improve energy efficiency. BusinessGreen reports that the details of the agreement ...
Tuesday 12th March 2013
THE Pennsylvania, U.S., Department of Environmental Protection has awarded $290,010 in grants to help 36 small businesses across the State to invest in energy-efficiency projects. “Since 2004, DEP has invested $7.5 million in 1,756 small businesses statewide,” DEP Secretary Mike Krancer said. “We are committed to investing in energy and pollution-saving ...