Europe
Carrefour pledges to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40% by 2025
22/01/2018 During the One Planet Summit held in Paris in December 2017, Supermarket group Carrefour signed the "French Business Climate Pledge 2018", thus agreeing to a reduction of CO2 emissions. Car...
One year of Sharing Ideas: CAREL celebrates the first annive
Jan. 23, 2018 CAREL is pleased to celebrate the first anniversary of its “Sharing Ideas” blog, with the first post dating back to January 26 2017 entitled “What’s air-conditioning?”. This orig...
Large Heat Pumps in Europe: Energy efficient food processing
Jan. 23, 2018 Nutrex is a food producer specialized on vinegar and part of the Swiss holding COOP. In 2008 COOP took the decision to achieve CO2 neutrality within 15 years. Nutrex managed to achieve t...
'LEW Innovation Award' for Intelligent Energy Solutions
"Heat concept for the future" of Wieland-Werke AG wins award Jan 22, 2018 The LEW (Lech Werke AG - Electricity Company) Innovation Award Intelligent Energy, which is endowed with a total of 45,000 eu...
Funding for innovative coating technology
Jan 22, 2018 For the Wicoatec coating technology, the Wieland Group receives EUR 350,000 from the Federal Environment Ministry (BMUB) for the implementation of an innovative coating concept under the ...
Alfa Laval PureBallast 3.1 top customer choice for large-flo
Jan. 22, 2018 Among owners of tankers and other large vessels, the number who choose UV ballast water treatment over electrochlorination continues to grow. To date, Alfa Laval has won orders for Alfa ...
ReCO2ST demonstrates near zero energy renovation
Jan. 22, 2018 A new Euro 8.4m research project to demonstrate how buildings can be renovated to use ‘near zero energy’ has launched at Brunel University London. Featuring 17 partners from nine ...
Solar panels on car’s roof to power the air conditioning sys
21/01/2018 The German car manufacturer Audi recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US solar cells specialist Alta. They plan to work together to integrate high-efficiency photovo...
IEA Governing Board re-elects Dr Fatih Birol as Executive Di
22 January 2018 Dr Birol speaking at the IEA Ministerial Meeting; Paris, November 2017 (Photograph: Andrew Wheeler, IEA). The Governing Board of the International Energy Agency has re-elected ...
4 CONTRIBUTIONS: 4.1 ITALY
Reported by Centro Studi Galileo, Italy During the first 10 months of 2017, the Italian air conditioner market showed an unexpected trend. Despite a very hot summer, the total volume of air conditione...
