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96% Australians Are Growing Increasingly Concerned about the Rising Energy Costs

As we head into summer, Australians are growing increasingly concerned about rising electricity costs – but our misuse of air conditioners could see us racking…

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Israel Launches Energy Efficiency Plan in Factories And Municipalities

Israel has launched a plan to streamline energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Ministries of Economy, Energy and Environmental Protection …

Coal-Fired Power Plants

South Korea to Close 6 Older Coal-Fired Power Plants by 2021, from Planned 2022

South Korea’s six older coal-fired power plants will be retired by 2021, a year earlier than previously planned, as part of the country’s ongoing efforts to c…

Direct Thermal Charging Cell Converts Waste Heat Into Usable Electricity

Dr. Tony Shien-Ping Feng of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and his team (from left to right: Wang Xun, Huang Yu-t…

TN Plans Largest Hydro Project in Nilgiris by Submerging Several Acres of Forest

Though environmentalists feel this project will have deterimental effects, state government officials say that it does not have any other reliable hydro potenti…

Lehigh Engineers Designed A More Efficient Tidal Turbine with NSF Grant

Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Projec…

Innovate for Efficiency: The Industrial Blueprint for Energy Savings

The Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme launched by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) (Govt. of India, Ministry of Power), which ran its first cycle fro…

Bangladeshi Government Will Renegotiate Solar Tariffs for Projects Which Miss Deadlines

Officials in Dhaka frustrated by the lack of progress on several PV projects have decided to punish tardy developers by setting new power prices which reflect t…

Crude

Russia Sent 17.8% Less Crude Oil to Germany in Jan-Sept

Russia reduced exports of crude oil to Germany in the year to September by 17.8%, still reflecting a halt in the Druzhba pipeline between April and June due to …

China New Research: Bacterial Synergy Boosts Bio-Battery Performance

Using two bacteria species instead of one, a team of scientists in China have found a way to create a living energy production system that efficiently converts …

Convert Sewage Sludge And Restaurant Grease into Methane

North Carolina State University researchers have developed what is, to date, the most efficient means of converting sewage sludge and restaurant grease into met…

Gas turbine engine

Two High Efficient Air-Cooled Gas Turbines Are Underway in Malaysia by GE

General Electric Company (GE) believes gas-powered generation will compliment renewable energy (RE) in line with the government’s aspiration to increase to use…

How to Make Energy-Efficient Buildings Healthier

When it’s built later this year, the Catalyst Building in Spokane’s University District will be one of the most innovative buildings in the country — a plann…

Biofuel Producers Made Significant Gains in Both Energy Efficiency And Water Conservation

The nation’s biofuel producers have made significant gains in both energy efficiency and water conservation in recent years, according to a report released by …

Novel Heat Pumps to Save Up to 80% on Energy in Industry Drying

The EU-funded "DryFiciency" project tackles energy costs in industrial drying in a wide range of energy-intensive industry sectors. Its novel high-temperature i…