The Climate Group and Royal Philips both call on all cities around the globe to switch before 2025 to LED for lighting their streets. In addition, a campaign was launched with a name making quite clear why this switch should happen: “LED = Lower Emissions Delivered”. The goal of the campaign … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. To listen to the right wing crazies tell it, global warming and climate change are fictions created by treehuggers and do-gooders on the left who want to interrupt the neverending flow of government dollars that prop up the global business community — those public spirited business … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Jennifer Cole The Byron Rogers building, located in downtown Denver and owned by the U.S. General Services Administration, is a model of how deep energy retrofits can create more efficient, financially valuable, and more productive workspaces. The anticipated building energy use savings when compared … [continued]
Check ’em out: Vice President Biden – Give Oil Industry’s Tax Credits to Clean Energy Vice President Joe Biden says the oil industry no longer needs the $5 billion in annual tax credits that the government has doled out for years. Instead, he recommended applying half of those credits to … [continued]
Originally published on Energy Post. By Sonja van Renssen With his invention of the SolarLease for SolarCity, he revolutionised the US residential solar market. Now, David Arfin, CEO of First Energy Finance, wants to take his business model to other parts of the world, including Europe, and apply it to … [continued]
US and China climate leaders held a summit in Los Angeles on September 15–16. The meeting fulfilled a key element of the US–China Joint Announcement on Climate Change by Presidents Obama and Xi last November. It will help ensure that ambitious actions on the part of the #1 and #2 carbon-polluting … [continued]
Originally posted at ilsr.org. The U.S. electricity system is undergoing the biggest change in its 130-year history. The scale of electricity generation is rapidly shrinking, from coal and nuclear power plants that can power a million homes to solar and wind power plants that power a few to a few … [continued]
The global market size for home energy management systems (HEMS) is poised to grow to more than $2 billion by 2019, with an overall growth rate of 26.8%, according to a new report by Technavio. The Global Home Energy Management Systems Market 2015–2019 report by the global technology research and … [continued]
Adding appropriate daylighting to a building has a number of benefits to the both the owners and the occupants, whether it’s a home or a business. Daylighting can reduce lighting energy costs, as well as other lighting equipment costs (replacement bulbs, ballasts, drivers, hardware, etc.) and can be a key … [continued]
Cree revealed this week “a better LED bulb” that it says “delivers an even better light with better performance, a longer life and more energy savings.” Announced on Monday, Cree, the US-based lighting revolutionary, unveiled its new Cree LED Bulb in 40- and 60-watt-equivalent models, which goes against the current … [continued]
