Posts Tagged ‘Energy Efficiency’

China says it wants green growth within five years

China, the world's biggest polluter, plans to "go green" in the next five years, emphasising energy efficiency and the battle on its choking pollution in its plans to revamp the economy, experts say.


Green builders find that location matters

Going beyond measuring a building's energy-efficiency, green builders are attempting to determine how much energy commuters use to reach that building. But quantifying how location affects carbon footprints has been a challenge. If you plop a green building in the middle of nowhere, is it still green?


Green deal will be ‘game changer’

Climate change minister Greg Barker has said the government's "new green deal" will transform the drive to energy efficiency.

Green Grid follows power usage metric with water and carbon efficiency stats

CUE and WUE to measure data centre resource usage The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers, is developing two more metrics to address carbon emissions and water usage, it said Thursday.


Green businesses welcome Tories’ low-carbon pledges

James Murray, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 5 October 2010 at 16:05:00 Letwin's green policy assurances receive cautious welcome and Barker confirms he will legislate to improve energy efficiency for rented properties Green business leaders have today offered a cautious welcome to comments from Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin that appeared to confirm that the coalition's green agenda will avoid ...


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