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Summer demand taxes Saudi power sector, but kingdom is worki
The hot sun that drives the seasonal surge also provides a renewable remedy 6 August 2014 Saudi Arabia abounds, of course, in energy resources, but a new source of demand is cutting into its oil output: domestic consumption, already high, is growing fast and threatens to crimp exports. Electricity use is increasing at about 7.5% annually, helping raise overall energy demand nationwide such ...
Danfoss Turbocor technology evaluated as part of GSA study o
07 August 2014 Study concludes variable speed, oil-free centrifugal chiller with magnetic bearings shows promise for energy savings in GSA office buildings The U.S. General Services Administrat...
Nigeria starts HC refrigerant production and export to West
07 August 2014 In an interview with News Agency Nigeria (NAN) on 4 August, Mr Abdul-Kazeem Bayero, Acting Director, Pollution and Environmental Health Department at the Ministry of Environment announc...
Sander Mechanical Service Named Siemens Solution Partner
07 August 2014 BRANCHBURG, N.J. -- Sander Mechanical Service announced that it has been selected by Siemens Building Technologies as an authorized Siemens Solution Partner. The agreement enables the New Jersey-based mechanical contractor to offer the TalonR building control system and other Siemens technologies to its customer base. The Siemens Talon platform is an open-protocol building ma...
Detroit’s Guardian Building Energy Efficiency Project Nears
07 August 2014 DETROIT -- Wayne County, Michigan, announced that a pilot program aimed at improving energy use and reducing utility costs at Detroit’s historic Guardian Building took another step forward with the successful installation of its Energy Operation Center. The more than $1 million project, funded by the Korea Micro-Energy Grid (K-MEG) consortium, uses an advanced energy management syst...
LBNL’s New Lab to Help Increase Building Efficiency
07 August 2014 BERKELEY, Calif. -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced what is being called the world’s most advanced energy efficiency test bed for buildings, the FLEXLAB at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). FLEXLAB is already signing up companies looking to reduce their energy use by testing and deploying the most energy efficient technologies as integrated systems unde...
Italian Courts Approve Whirlpool's Purchase of Indesit Share
07 August 2014 The Italian Court of Ancona has authorized the sale of some Indesit Company S.p.A. shares to Whirlpool Corp. In July 10, 2014, Whirlpool Corp., Fineldo S.p.A., and members of the Merloni family entered into binding agreements for Whirlpool’s acquisition of Indesit shares, subject to court and antitrust approval. The acquisition, along with the July 17 acquisition of Ms. Claudia Me...
Airedale recruits area sales engineer
07 August 2014 Airedale International has appointed Rob Rhodes as area sales engineer for the North West alongside Paul Golding who has covered the area for 14 years. The two will provide custo...
CEC Report Details Barriers to Geothermal in California
7 August 2014 A new report by the California Energy Commission (CEC) describes the main impediments to the development of geothermal heat pump (GHP) technology in California. "Geothermal Heat Pump and Ground Loop Technologies" provides a brief overview of the technology, and details the barriers faced by the geothermal heat pump industry. It also provides proposed solutions suggested by ind...
Renewables contributed 15% to UK electricity in 2013
6 August 2014 The latest figures from DECC show electricity generation from renewable sources increased by 30 per cent between 2012 and 2013, to account for 14.9% of total UK electricity generation, 3.6 percentage points higher than in 2012. Offshore wind generation was 52 per cent higher than in 2012, with capacity up 23 per cent. Onshore wind generation was 40 per cent higher, with...
