energy efficiency improvement Articles
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Lack of funding: main barrier for energy efficiency improvements
New Energy Efficiency Indicator survey for Europe shows companies place increasing priority on energy management, but they struggle with funding. In a context of rising energy costs and expected government mandates on energy efficiency, executives in Europe are placing a high priority on energy management in buildings, but struggling with funding, according to a survey. This is the ...
By Vital Energi
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Residential sector energy efficiency improvements and CO2 production in Indonesia: an input-output analysis
This study examines the production of CO2 by the Indonesian economy in 1990 and 2000 using an input-output (I-O) model. It also assesses the implication of residential sector energy efficiency improvement programmes for CO2 production by the Indonesian economy in 2000. The study shows that the CO2 emissions from Indonesia would increase from 165 million tons in 1990 to 371 million tons in 2000 in ...
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The potential of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement in reducing CO2 emissions in Taiwan
The growing concerns over the global warming and energy security problems in Taiwan have led the government to design and promote renewable energy policies more aggressively over the past decade. This paper aims at examining to what extent the renewable-energy policies will contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions in Taiwan. Our analysis results, using a specific CGE model, show that simply ...
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Romanian prospects and achievements regarding cooperation with developed countries in the energy sector
Romania, a country in transition to a market economy, is associated to the European Union and has applied to become a member. It signed the European Energy Charter and is highly committed to harmonising its legislation with EU laws and regulations. In 2001, the Romanian Government approved "The National Strategy for Development of Romanian Energy Sector" in the medium term 2001-2004. ...
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Improving energy use efficiency in Nigeria's industrial sector: a case study of a beverage plant
Industrial energy is a major component of the total energy use in a nation. However, energy is not without a cost in its production, availability, use and even its environmental impact on society. In addition, most of the energy resources are depletable, thereby necessitating their sustainable use through energy efficiency improvement programs. In this investigation, an attempt was made to study ...
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USDA revises renewable energy loan guarantees
On December 29, 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published the final rule for the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP). REAP is intended to help mainly businesses, as well as some state, local, and tribal governments develop solar, wind, and biomass projects. This new rule will change the requirements for those applying for funding from the grant and loan guarantees for ...
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Technological change, energy consumption, and the costs of environmental policy in energy–economy–environment modelling
An increasing number of empirical models analyse the economic and environmental impacts of policies that aim at reducing global climate change. Assumptions about technology are found to play a crucial role. Applied energy-economy-environment models propose different approaches to deal with technological change. Bottom-up models take into account many alternative technologies for future energy ...
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Modelling energy demand of Croatian industry sector
Industry represents one of the most interesting sectors when analysing Croatian final energy demand. Croatian industry represents 20% of nation’s GDP and employs 25% of total labour force making it a significant subject for the economy. Today, with around 60 PJ of final energy demand it is the third most energy intensive sector in Croatia after transport and households. Implementing ...
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Risk management issues in the Romanian energy sector
Romania, a country in transition to a market economy, is associated to the European Union and has applied to become a member. It signed the European Energy Charter and is highly committed to harmonising its legislation with EU laws and regulations. In 2001, the Romanian Government approved 'The National Strategy for Development of Romanian Energy Sector' in the medium-term. The main objective of ...
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Enabling the workforce to save energy
The task To spread the energy efficiency and environmental improvement messages to the wider workforce. How we helped Traditionally, middle managers and technologists have been the target audience when trying to get across the energy efficiency and environmental improvement messages. In this project, our challenge was to provide the means to spread the message to the wider workforce. Working ...
By Ricardo plc
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Heat recovery and energy efficiency, improves profitability and reduces CO footprint
Using latest technology in combustion of oil and gas can provide significant savings in overall energy consumption. Modern oxygen control that compensates changes in ambient temperature and fuel qualities can increase energy efficiency up to 3%. By adding the usage of hot combustion air another 2-3% can be saved. Modern burner technology without mechanical linkage, operating with accurate ...
By Oilon Oy
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Some elements of energy conservation policy under the energy policy guidelines of Poland
This paper discusses the energy conservation policy issues in the context of an overall state energy policy, including regulations which came into force under the new Energy Law provisions. As a result of the analysis performed, it was confirmed that in the period of market transformation in Poland, a key factor of energy efficiency improvement would be an appropriate energy pricing policy. At ...
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Renewable energy and energy efficiency in Bulgaria
The interest in renewable energy sources (RESs) utilisation and energy efficiency improvement programmes in Bulgaria reflects the changes in the field of energy policy worldwide and in Europe. Now energy management becomes a great problem of inner policy of Bulgarian government. In the last few years there has been a growing attention to the RESs applications. Bulgaria has one of Southern ...
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The Methodology and Benefits of Total Site Pinch Analysis
The Methodology and Benefits of Total Site Pinch Analysis Introduction As the demands on refiners to increase profitability and reduce emissions continue, many companies are focusing on improving energy efficiency to provide attractive solutions. It is clear how improving energy efficiency can benefit in profitability by considering the cost of energy. Refinery energy costs vary greatly depending ...
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New direction of energy policy in Hungary towards the new millennium
Ten years ago, Hungary started to elaborate a new energy policy parallel with the restructuring the economy. The energy policy focused on the safety of the energy supply, the establishment of market conditions, environmental protection and improvement of energy efficiency. New regulations and institutional background also had to be created. The former state-owned energy companies have been ...
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The Potential of ICT to Contribute to Energy Efficiency and a European Low Carbon Economy
In March 2007, the European Council placed at the top of the political agenda an integrated policy for energy efficiency in the fight against climate change in order to ensure Europe's long-term commitment to a sustainable, highly energy-efficient and low greenhouse gas emitting economy. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, at the end of January, leaders of business, government and civil ...
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Ex-ante assessment of the implementation of an energy management policy in Northern Africa
Energy management policy is an important part of the environmental and climate change policies and permits to reach the goals of improved security of energy supply, economic efficiency and of greenhouse gases emissions reduction. In these years, the use of market mechanisms to meet environmental objectives is really growing, with the most important example to use of emissions trading schemes to ...
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Energy efficiency in U.S. manufacturing: the case of Midwest pulp and paper mills
Rising international energy and labor costs are combining with historically low natural gas prices and improving productivity in the U.S. to create an intermittent resurgence of American manufacturing. In a 2012 survey of company decision makers, the Boston Consulting Group found that 37 percent of manufacturers with sales greater than $1 billion were planning to bring back production to the ...
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Policy scenarios for demand side management programmes in Rajasthan
In the present study, we have evaluated the electricity savings by replacing consumers' existing appliances, typically low energy efficiency appliances, with improved energy efficiency appliances in a phased manner. The paper presents a demand side management (DSM) scenario and estimates annual energy and peak demand savings for the period (2002-2012). Savings have been estimated at end use ...
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Analysis of the impacts of building energy efficiency policies and technical improvements on China's future energy demand
In this paper, the LEAP (Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system) 2000 model and scenario analysis were utilised to study the impact of implementing building energy efficiency policies and promoting related technical improvements on China's future building energy demand up to 2020. In the coming 20 years, China's building energy consumption is expected to increase and will be the main ...
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