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Easter affects electricity demand with household consumption spiking due to increased time spent at home and festive activities, while industrial demand declines. Data from Easter help forecast energy patterns and inform efficiency strategies for utilities managing high domestic usage. Homeowners are advised to adopt energy-saving practices during holidays, including efficient appliances and maximizing natural daylight. Returning from vacations is an opportunity to check systems and unplug devices, reducing standby consumption. The chocolate industry, notably active during Easter, can improve energy efficiency through audits and optimizations, benefiting the environment and reducing costs. Sustainable rabbit farming also aligns with Easter traditions, decreasing resource use and carbon emissions. Research points to the broader environmental impact of holidays and animal farming on energy systems and greenhouse gases. Efficiency measures across sectors are crucial, leading to economic savings and mitigating environmental impacts. Easter promotes energy efficiency awareness and action. Embracing this holiday as an efficiency catalyst can lead to adopting sustainable habits, contributing to ongoing renewal and growth in energy management.
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Hop into a Green Easter: Renewables, Efficiency, and Energy Savings!
Easter influences electricity markets, with household energy use rising, industrial consumption dropping, and the UK setting record-low carbon intensity levels due to high renewable energy contributions during the holiday. Seasonal solar energy benefits and energy efficiency practices at homes and industries enhance sustainability.
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Digital Matchmaking for Industrial Sustainability: How Knowledge Platforms Enable Circular Economy
A discussion of the challenge of managing information for industrial symbiosis, focusing on digital tools developed for matchmaking and economic assessment. It underlines the importance of integrating technology with human relationships and adapting to regulatory changes that promote data standardization and transparency.
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Demystifying Industrial Symbiosis: A Comprehensive Guide to Opportunity Identification
Industrial symbiosis (IS) optimizes resource use and minimizes waste by exchanging resources among industries. European initiatives invest in IS methodologies to enhance market adoption but face challenges like complexity and data availability. The identification process involves mapping, screening, and matchmaking, requiring collaboration and long-term viability assessments.
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Biomass Gasification: A Key to Decarbonizing Energy-Intensive Industries
The EU project CORALIS explores biomass gasification's techno-economic feasibility for decarbonizing energy-intensive industries, highlighting its potential with syngas and biochar production as fossil fuel alternatives. Larger-scale operations demonstrate better economic returns, with significant positive impacts on industrial decarbonization efforts.
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Revolutionizing Urban Living: Insights from the STARDUST Project
The STARDUST project exemplifies sustainable urban transformation through smart integration in energy, mobility, and ICT in "lighthouse" and "follower" cities, focusing on renewable infrastructure, innovative technologies, regulatory adaptability, stakeholder engagement, and novel business models to foster replicable sustainable city initiatives.
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How new technology can allow factories without chimneys
Professor Hussam Jouhara discusses the development of the Heat Pipe Condensing Economiser (HPCE), designed to reduce industrial energy consumption and emissions by recovering waste heat and water. Supported by the EU's Horizon 2020, HPCE overcomes challenges such as exhaust stream variability and corrosive condensates, aiming to enhance efficiency and environmental sustainability in industries, especially in the chemical sector, by promoting energy and material recovery.
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Facilitating Knowledge Sharing in Industrial Symbiosis Networks: The Key to Sustainable Innovation
Facilitators are essential in industrial symbiosis for effective knowledge exchange, optimizing resource use and fostering collaboration among industries, enhancing sustainability, and improving competitiveness. Their roles include knowledge brokering, trust building, capacity development, innovation catalyst, and regulatory navigation, crucial to forming and growing symbiotic networks.
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Industrial Symbiosis And How To Engage Stakeholders
The CORALIS project highlights the importance of stakeholder engagement in promoting industrial symbiosis (IS) through participatory processes, as demonstrated in case studies from Spain, Austria, and Turkey, to overcome IS adoption barriers and foster sustainable industry practices.
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Harnessing Industrial Symbiosis For Sustainable Growth and Circular Economies
Industrial symbiosis (IS) promotes sustainability via resource-sharing among firms, yet faces challenges in implementation due to economic, regulatory, and technological barriers. Future success depends on innovation, policy support, and cross-sector collaboration to overcome these hurdles.
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