Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Energy Efficiency" produced 23 items.
| 1. Split emerges in the Commission over energy-efficiency measures | June 16, 2011 |
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Climate-action department warns that energy-efficiency plans could deflate carbon prices. A senior Commission official has warned that impending energy-efficiency measures... |
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| 2. EU must put more faith in efficiency | March 9, 2011 |
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Everyone wants energy efficiency, but how to get it is another matter. Sometimes the difficulty for the European Union's policymakers is to identify what their objective... | |
| 3. Commission's energy-efficiency plan attacked for ‘softening' EU policies | March 3, 2011 |
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Industry and green groups fear that the Commission risks weakening Europe's flagship plan on energy savings. Industry groups and green campaigners have warned the European... |
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| 4. Time to wake a sleeping giant | March 3, 2011 |
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If Europe is to hit its targets for energy efficiency, a great deal of work lies ahead. There are plenty of examples of impressive new buildings that showcase the very... |
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| 5. The unsexy way to cut energy use | September 23, 2010 |
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Implementation of energy efficiency laws is slow but action plan to contain more targeted policies. Coal is dirty, nuclear is dangerous, gas supply is uncertain and wind... |
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| 6. The next big thing in energy efficiency | March 18, 2010 |
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Researchers are developing ways to measure the environmental impact of cities. Nowadays there is little difficulty in assessing the energy efficiency of a household... | |
| 7. A combined approach to powering a city | March 18, 2010 |
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How Berlin has developed its energy systems, and what it plans to do next. The combined generation of heat and power has a long history in Berlin, now a city of nearly 3.5... |
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| 8. Green buildings' bottom line | December 6, 2009 |
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The head of the Asia Business Council stresses the need for greener buildings in Asia. Killer typhoons in Taiwan and China. A failed monsoon in India. The United Nations... | |
| 9. Plan to make millions of buildings more efficient | October 22, 2009 |
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Commission suggest green renovation of 15 million buildings to meet 2020 energy-efficiency target. The European Commission wants 15 million buildings to undergo green... | |
| 10. News in brief | April 2, 2009 |
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| 11. Building a green policy | March 29, 2007 |
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Being green begins at home. That is what environmentalists and, increasingly businesses, are arguing must be the case if the risk of dangerous climate change is to be... | |
| 12. Piebalgs delays publication of energy efficiency plan | September 28, 2006 |
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The European Commission has delayed announcing a raft of measures to improve the EU's energy efficiency in order to spend more time beefing up the proposal. Energy... | |
| 13. Crops and climate change | February 2, 2006 |
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I feel a short clarification as regards my statement on the environmental standards for energy crops is required ('Commission wants switch to biofuels', 26 January-1... | |
| 14. Eastern blocs need facelift | October 20, 2005 |
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If EU founding countries are starting to get cold feet as the buildings directive deadline looms, the ten new member states might find it even harder to bring their building... | |
| 15. Cogeneration row fuels fire of energy debate | February 27, 2003 |
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MEPS look set to clash over controversial amendments to a directive that seeks to promote cogeneration as a sustainable form of energy. Cogeneration, also known as combined... | |
| 16. Cogeneration plans 'step in right direction', says industry | September 5, 2002 |
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INITIAL proposals in a draft directive to promote cogeneration, published by the European Commission in late July, provide scant comfort for industry. The aim of the... | |
| 17. ENERGY - Costly technology could stand in way of boost for biomass | September 5, 2002 |
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EU POLICY to triple the use of biomass in energy over the next decade could have a dramatic impact on timber markets should the policy succeed. But expensive, experimental,... | |
| 18. Greens warn of threat posed by liberalisation | May 4, 2000 |
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ARGUING against greater market opening in EU circles is a bit like questioning the existence of God in front of the Pope. But although few doubt that the liberalisation of... | |
| 19. ABB in hot water over alleged pipes cartel | October 1, 1998 |
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SWISS-Swedish multinational Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) is facing punitive fines as European Commission competition officials wind up a long-running investigation into an alleged... | |
| 20. Ministers to set seal on gas liberalisation | May 7, 1998 |
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ENERGY ministers are poised to clear the way for the staged opening of European gas markets to competition, starting in2000. Ministers are expected to rubber-stamp the... | |
