Ulchin Nuclear Power Plant won’t be closing any time soon, although President Moon had hoped to reduce the share of nuclear in Korea (Photo by IAEA , edited, CC BY-SA 2.0 ) From Yi hyun kang, Energy…

Smart Energy Fest is an international meeting platform around energy efficiency, its impact on sustainable development and the collaborative construction of new opportunities for the future. Smart Energy Fest is open to different actors: companies,…

An old saying in Ireland goes: ‘there is no strength without unity’. When it comes to distributed energy resources (DER ), it couldn’t be more true. DER, acting individually, has a very limited…

The following is the text of my presentation made in Cairo on the 18th December 2023 at a UNIDO organised event presenting the results of a project on ESCO contracts completed by a consortium…

HYDROGEN - AN ALL-ROUNDER Great hopes are being placed in hydrogen as an energy carrier. Hydrogen seems to be the solution, especially for economic and industrial sectors that are difficult to…

Building on the results of 7 EU-funded projects*, this session provides guidelines and good practice to implement energy efficiency solutions and to facilitate the energy transition. SMEs have a high untapped energy saving potential which can be…

1 - What's next for industrial energy efficiency? By Paul Noble Why don't companies do more? This is the question to understand why organizations don't engage a holistic energy efficiency approach…

As stated in a recently proposed directive (COM(2016) 761 final), “Energy efficiency first” is a key element of the Energy Union. The most recent Commission proposals include a 30% binding energy efficiency target for 2030 . Reaching this ambitious…

First published here . A few weeks ago I wrote about the need for better business cases for energy efficiency projects. More and more it seems that one of the most effective ways of building better…

Meet the EEIP Twitter stars at Hannover Messe 2017 - on Wednesday at 15:00 at the Wattline booth in hall 27, N30 at the Energy Efficiency Center This year, my colleague Juergen Ritzek is attending…