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2018 will be a year of education and customer nurturing for connected lighting. Wesley Whited is a Senior Consultant for Advanced Lighting and Controls at DNV GL. He predicts that Bluetooth will win the protocol war and become the standard for wireless communication of connected lighting systems. Whited believes that we can begin to capitalize on these trends by educating our customer base on total value. Before we can transform the marketplace, we need to educate and nurture it. Click here to read the full interview with Dr Steven Fawkes at EEIP. © © 2018 WVU. The first part of a 2- 2-part series where we will examine four trends in Smart Lighting. You can follow us on Twitter @EDLighted lighting and blog @dNV GL. You can find out more about the trends in the future of the marketplaces in the next phase of the connected lighting and follow us here. The next part of this article. Back to.
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Interview to Rod Janssen - "We can't oversell energy efficiency"
Energy efficiency used to be the poor cousin of renewable energy. Unlike for renewables, targets for efficiency were not binding. Today, more policy-makers claim that energy efficiency must come first. The European Parliament has taken a much more ambitious approach to Energy.
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Q&A: Why cement emissions matter for climate change
If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world. In 2015, it generated around 2.8bn tonnes of CO2, equivalent to 8% of the global total. This is a greater share than.
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TOP 3 Articles in Energy Finance from the 2nd quarter of 2018
The Investor Confidence Project Europe (ICPeurope) will be holding training for project developers. It will allow you not only to get access to the investor network but also crack a typical dilemma: Energy supply market requires long-term financial commitment.
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The Hera Group experience with green bonds - energy efficiency is the top financed category
Hera Group is the first Italian utility to launch a Green Bond to finance or refinance sustainable projects. A total of 26 projects were financed or refinanced from 2006 to 2016 for a total investment of €732M. The majority of the funds.
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Climate change might double the cost of a beer
Scientists expect that extreme droughts and heat waves will become more frequent and intense in the regions that grow the grain. Many farmers are already adapting to the slowly warming planet. Budweiser is investing in new breeds of drought-resistant barley strains.
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TOP 3 EEIP articles 2nd quarter 2018
Is ICP the Alexander the Great of century XXI? And what has this to do with the Gordian Knot? The 2018 Energy Efficiency Barometer is here. You have time until the 30th of September to participate and have the chance to consider.
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Are ZNE-ready manufactured homes on the horizon
Tina Aardemae is a senior engineer with DNV GL. She has been working in energy efficiency and sustainability since 2009. Incentives could be offered to move the production line entirely to ENERGY STAR®-levels.
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Houston, we have a problem...
The recent IPCC special report should be the game changer, says Rod Janssen. The energy efficiency community has much to do to convince the wider public why energy efficiency first has to be taken much, much more seriously. This is the perfect time.
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Depleting stupidity
Dr Steven Fawkes says the potential using proven technology, current economics and standard thinking about energy efficiency is always about 30%. He says setting a target of zero energy may not actually result in zero but it certainly expands the way the design team and others think.
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