
3rd Clean Energy Finance Europe Conference
3rd Clean Energy Finance Europe Conference will be taking place on 21st & 22nd March 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany . The conference will look at the global and European clean energy finance markets, as well the main drivers amongst end-products. The…
DetailsFinding your own energy transition
We are bombarded daily with news about climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainability, the circular economy, the energy transition, and so on. It is hard to know how much we…
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Recently I published an article on my personal website about a study in Canada that shows the potential for greenhouse gas emissions by small and medium-sized enterprises. I entitled the post “A…
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VR event @ Hannover Messe 2018 Wednesday, 25th April, 16:00 - 16:45 at Digital Energy Pavilion, hall 12, D45 Contact: juergen.ritzek@ee-ip.org Energy Efficiency is boring We cannot even count time how…
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Three energy efficiency and renewable energy projects from Spain, the UK and Austria have won the prestigious EU Sustainable Energy Europe Awards for their innovative, consumer-empowering ideas.…
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Industry is starting to get some answers Since the oil crises in the 1970s, industry has been treated specially, although not always in ways that led to important improvements in energy performance.…
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“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker Curt Monhart was sitting across the desk from an organization’s facility manager discussing a…
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