
PDS Street Lighting 2019 (BUL)
The ICP Europe Project Development Specification (PDS) brings the many complex details of an energy efficiency project into focus, providing a clear direction to the entire team with regards to requirements, tools, expectations, and quality management. Its unified approach to project development ensures that projects compliant with the ICP Protocols can be trusted to be consistent in their…
Read Full Business PracticePDS Street Lighting 2019 (ENG)
The ICP Europe Project Development Specification (PDS) brings the many complex details of an energy efficiency project into focus, providing a clear direction to the entire team with regards to requirements, tools, expectations, and quality management. Its unified approach to project development ensures that projects compliant with the ICP Protocols can be trusted to be consistent in their…
Read Full Business PracticeHydraulic system - energy efficiency optimization
This paper describes the 4 step approach of KSB to optimize the energy efficiency of a hydraulic system. While focussing on the entire life-cycle, the aim is to lower operating costs. The approach starts with a system analysis to detect optimization potential and ends with usage of smart pump technology and services during operation - see also paper on industry 4.0 and smart pump technology. It…
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As one of the industry’s leading suppliers of premium quality centrifugal pumps, we help our customers to achieve sustainable environmental improvements in their fluid handling systems. About twothirds of the electricity used in industry is consumed by motor systems. As pumping systems account for around 25% of this electrical…

Ainara Alonso
Ainara Alonso is the Communication Manager at the Low Carbon & Circular Economy Business Action (LCBA) in Latin-America. The LCBA Latam is an EU-funded Doing-Business platform aimed at developing B2B relations between EU providers and companies based…
Author detailsPDS Energy Performance 2016 (ENG)
The ICP Project Development Specification (PD Spec) brings the many complex details of an energy efficiency project into focus, providing a clear direction to the entire team with regards to requirements, tools, expectations, and quality management. The Project Development Specification provides a clear roadmap for Project Developers to correctly implement each requirement based on current best…
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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 Practice10 Facts about Heat Pumps
Heat pump technology is efficient and mature. Capacities range from 20kW to 100kW for residential applications and even higher capacities for commercial applications. Industrial and district heating heat pumps reach capacities of several MW. Operating the unit when surplus electricity is available and storing that surplus energy in the form of heat provides significant demand response capacity to…
Read Full Business PracticeThe European Investment Bank (EIB) revises energy lending criteria
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will phase out support to energy projects reliant on fossil fuels: oil & gas production, infrastructure primarily dedicated to natural gas, power generation or heat…
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A short article about Deutsche Bahn rail vehicle test bench and the use of flexible power converters. This flexibility also enables the deployment of this kind of converters in a variety of other applications: from energy-efficient automation and drive solutions to solutions for the varying forms of power generation. Find out more about Knorr-Bremse Powertech solution offerings in the world’s…
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