Digital Transformation of Energy Utilities – Shifting Gears?
Since 2014, utilities have been increasing their investment in digital infrastructure. This is the key finding of the IEA report “energy and digitalization ” which was published in November 2017. This…
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Short article about German start-up Visual Selling. Their business is to create visual and digital communication (content) which helps companies to sell complex product and services. This is likely important in industrial energy efficiency markets as the time of just replacing a motor or a pump is coming to an end. Today the system perspective is more important - but also more complex to sell! For…
Read Full Business PracticeRiding the Green Wave: The Meteoric Rise of Sustainability-Linked Bonds
Financing the energy transition remains a challenge. However, new financing mechanism have entered the world of finance during recent years. While green bonds seem to be already part of the finance…
Read Full articleTechnical translation
Energy Efficiency is not only about technology. From time to time we are highlighting related services of relevance so that companies do not forget the little, but often important pieces in the jigsaw to market their energy efficiency solutions internationally. An example is this short paper about technical translation. TAKE THE WORD “OBSTRUCT”. A German technical dictionary offers six different…
Read Full Business PracticeICP Street Lighting: 1st Technical Forum webinar
Technical Forum meeting to develop Street Lighting Protocol of the Investor Confidence Project. Register for 1h kick-off webinar here Background The ICP project supports growth of investments in street lighting in Europe (next to industry and…
DetailsEU Sustainable Energy Week 2017
Meet EEIP at the EU SEW 2017! The Policy Conference is the most important European conference dedicated to sustainable energy policy issues. Sessions organised by the European Commission and energy stakeholders debate new policy developments, best…
DetailsWhat are green loans and how are they linked to the EU Taxonomy Regulation?
The EU Taxonomy Regulation is a key part of the European Union's strategy to combat climate change and drive investment towards environmentally sustainable activities. It sets out a common…
Read Full articleReining Heisskühlung
Reining Heisskühlung = Well-matured concepts. For more than 50 years ago, Reining have commenced the development of hot cooling plants in order to reduce substantially the immense cooling water consumption for industrial plants and, apart from other advantages, to achieve a better energy recovery. In 1994 Reining became a…
Getting to grips with the complexities of industrial decarbonisation using soft systems
On the 12th October I moderated a panel on industrial decarbonisation at the Carbon Forward London conference . Not being a carbon markets specialist I was out of my comfort zone – which is always a…
Read Full articleBatteries included: Gigafactories advance German energy transition
First published here . Wind farms connected to batteries can help Germany go fossil-free (Photo by Frank Schwichtenberg , CC BY 3. 0) Energy storage is going to be a huge industry in the transition to…
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