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IRENA:75% of new electricity capacity in 2019 came from renewables

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IRENA data shows that solar, wind and renewables provided for more than one-third of the world’s power, with 55% of the new power coming from solar- most of which is…

BEE schemes reduced national electricity consumption by 7% till date

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5 years ago
Energy-efficiency schemes led by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) led to significant electricity and cost savings, as reported by a Govt. of India parliamentary committee. Over the years since…

Guidelines for prevention of COVID-19 spread through building services

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5 years ago
REHVA, a European HVAC association, has outlined recommendations for preventing indoor spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus through HVAC and plumbing systems. These include window-driven natural ventilation (except in toilets) and…

COVID-19 signaling a change in design practices?

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5 years ago
With the threat of the pandemic, a lot of focus was placed on safe practices to curb the spread of the virus as much as possible. One of the causes…

Behavioral science can help achieve net zero goals

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5 years ago
While there have been huge leaps of progress that has been made in terms of the technologies or practices that help us in achieving net zero goals whether at a…

Poor quality data is the biggest roadblock to net zero transition

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5 years ago
According to the latest report by Energy Data Taskforce, a group of UK government appointed experts, the biggest hindrance in transition to a net zero energy system is poor quality,…

Europe’s greenest freezer to be installed by ice cream maker Mackie’s

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Mackie’s, which produces ten million litres of ice cream a year, is set to install a biomass technology freezer at its family farm in Aberdeenshire, in a move designed to…

New ‘low ecological footprint’ method for vaccine inoculation

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Intensive research is underway for an effective vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. Once it’s discovered, the next challenge will be manufacturing and distributing it across the world. The ecological footprint…

EU not on track to meet its energy efficiency targets for 2020

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5 years ago
While EU is on track to meet its 2020 greenhouse emission and renewable energy targets, energy efficiency will be a big miss. The targets that were set in 2012 failed…

Tech innovations that may help reduce carbon impact

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5 years ago
With the growing awareness about the need for reducing carbon emissions and embodied carbon in construction, there has been an influx of investment on creating software and tools that help…
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