
Sustainable finance: Simplicity liberates action!
For nearly ten years Energy Efficiency in Industrial Processes (EEIP) has been working on the policies and tools enabling financing of energy efficiency in industry. Complexity of investing in energy…
Read Full articleWhat the energy efficiency community can learn from the Club of Rome
One step at a time We are confronting a lot of doom and gloom. On the one hand, we have the student climate activists and the Extinction Rebellion shaking our complacency to show that globally we are…
Read Full article45% TCO - Industrial Pumps fight for efficiency: Part 2/4
Increase efficiency : focus on 2 components In my first pumps-post « 45% TCO – industrial pumps fight for efficiency » I introduced the topic related to energy efficiency improvement for industrial…
Read Full articleCompressed Air: Energy efficiency at the top of the ComVac agenda (HM17)
The latest edition of ComVac will soon be staged: from 24 to 28 April 2017 in Hannover, Germany, under the umbrella of HANNOVER MESSE. All up, some 260 exhibitors will be there in halls 26 and 27 to…
Read Full articleChina is investing $13 trillion in construction. Will it pursue zero carbon buildings?
China is in the midst of a construction mega-boom. The country has the largest buildings market in the world , making up 20% of all construction investment globally. And it’s only set to grow: China…
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Challenge Efficiency: At SWEP, we believe our future rests on giving more energy than we take – from our planet and our people. That’s why we pour our energy into leading the conversion to sustainable energy usage in heat transfer. Over three decades, the SWEP brand has become synonymous with challenging efficiency. SWEP is a…

Elvira Rakova
Elvira Rakova, Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with a focus on the energy efficiency of compressed air systems from TU Dresden. Founder of Direktin, expert company and marketplace of efficient solutions in the industry.
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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 PracticeUshering in the decade of digital
2019 was quite a year for “digitalization” in the Utility sector. Almost every major gathering of Utility peers sported the digital theme in some way shape or form. Internal presentations and meeting…
Read Full articleEnergy Transition of the EU Building Stock
The report entitled “Energy Transition of the EU Building Stock -Unleashing the 4thIndustrial Revolution in Europe” estimates the EU energy renovation market at EUR 109 billion in 2015 and 882,900…
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