People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognise necessity when a crisis is upon them. -Jean Monnet. French political economist and diplomat who was one of the founding…

Despite the efforts made over the last 20 years, research suggests that there remains an important potential to reduce energy consumption in energy intensive industry by 15-25%. The same research…

First published here . I was glad to see that Amory Lovins returned to the subject of the size of the energy efficiency resource in a recent paper in Environmental Research Letters . Amory mentions…

The European Energy Efficiency Financing Coalition (EEEFinCoalition) has been launched today at the European Commission . Its objective is facilitate a dialogue, ensuring a favourable market…

Do you know where you stand? ‘Energy Efficiency Barometer’ taking stock of manufacturing sectors’ position on energy efficiency How energy efficient is production in the industrial sectors? How does…

If an energy efficiency building upgrade doesn’t benefit both the property owner and the tenant – especially with a triple net lease – it’s often easier to simply leave things the way they are even if…

Following our last article on " Artificial Intelligence in Energy Management Software ", we got many responses from vendors and users alike. Over the next couple of weeks and month we will follow them…

Some of us are old enough to remember the oil crises of 1973-74 and again of 1979. It wasn’t funny. No driving on Sundays, lights out in stores outside business hours, turned off street lights and…

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…