Energy Efficiency

By focusing its attention on energy efficiency, the newly elected Danish politicians can show they are listening to the public’s call for climate action and put Denmark back on the map as a frontrunner in the energy transition, argues Mads Nipper, Group President and CEO of Grundfos, a Danish water and heat pump manufacturer28/June/2019

New Danish government should put energy efficiency first
6 min.
Danfoss has a shortlist of energy efficiency measures that all sites can implement22/May/2019

Payback on reusing waste heat took less than three years
5 min.
20/May/2019

Catching up in the artificial intelligence race
12 min.
Building design is key to reducing demand for energy guzzling air conditioning07/May/2019

Cooling in a warming world
6 min.
Applying large heat pumps in industry is in its early days, but interest is increasing07/May/2019

Industrial heat demand: Hot cows and heat pumps
07/May/2019

The big picture
7 min.
29/April/2019

Crushed hot rocks to store wind energy
6 min.
Research by Siemens shows the way forward to make district heating in Denmark run on clean energy sources26/April/2019

The path to emissions-free district heating in Denmark
9 min.
Solar photovoltaic has clear potential to help decarbonise cooling and, in some climates, contribute significantly to the energy transition in heating22/April/2019

Solar PV for heating too
5 min.
A combination of low-carbon heating technologies and energy efficiency improvements is the obvious answer to decarbonise heating, says Jan Rosenow, Director of European programmes with the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)15/April/2019

Don’t throw money for heat decarbonisation out of the window
5 min.
12/April/2019

Parisian radiators with brains
11 min.
Not one of the hyper-scale data centres, where thousands of servers are hosted in the same place, in the US use waste heat in a significant way10/April/2019

Tepid support for reusing waste heat from data centres
3 min.
Implementing solutions to speed up the energy transition will help businesses contribute to stopping climate change, but also help them recruit the bright young things necessary for their future growth20/March/2019

We can all accelerate the energy transition
4 min.
Burning imported waste for energy will be incompatible with climate targets in the longer term, say researchers in Denmark15/March/2019

Limited future for energy from incinerated waste imports
9 min.
In an interview with FORESIGHT, Dominique Ristori, Director General for Energy in the European Commission, explains why Europe’s heating system is too old and dirty04/March/2019

Europe turns up the heat on old boilers
7 min.
Smart grid has become a trendy term, but some proper thinking is needed about its meaning and the purpose of information technology advances if the result is to advance the energy transition28/February/2019

Smart grids require much more smart thinking
4 min.
Learnings from business and science will help NATO engage better in the energy transition and create a resilient and energy-efficient military, explain the security organisation’s Anto-nio Missiroli and Michael Rühle25/February/2019

Squaring military, energy and environmental security: NATO’s approach
5 min.
Spanish utility Iberdrola is testing the use of blockchain to show customers exactly where their wind energy is produced. Francisco Hernanz, Head of Renewable Energy Management at the company, highlights the importance of innovation11/February/2019

Blockchain in energy
12 min.
Set up at the end of the Cold War, the Energy Charter Treaty, without significant reform, is now largely irrelevant and doing more harm than good to the energy transition, argues Sarah Keay-Bright, independent consultant and previously expert at the Energy Charter Secretariat04/February/2019

Energy Charter Treaty and the energy transition: reform, then exit?
5 min.
Businesses should take full advantage of the EU’s place as an energy transition leader, write Sami Andoura and Philipp Offenberg from the European Political Strategy Centre, the European Commission’s think-tank24/January/2019

Accelerating the transformation to a climate neutral economy
6-7 min.
There is no absolutely excuse to delay investing increasing amounts of carbon revenues in energy efficiency, say Richard Cowart and Catharina Wiese from the Regulatory Assistance Project19/December/2018

A perfect match: Using carbon revenues to finance energy efficiency
6-7 min.
Belgium’s complicated political structures keep the country’s climate action ambition low. Mars, a US corporation, is showing the way forward with 100% renewable energy and greener transport12/December/2018

Sustainable in a generation
4-5 min.
We have the technologies needed for the energy transition, but more funding is needed to find innovative ways to scale them up and win social acceptability, argues Peter Sweatman, Chief Executive of Climate Strategy & Partners19/November/2018

Innovating, not inventing, our net-zero emissions future
4-5 min.
Investors are playing an important role in encouraging companies to integrate the transition to a clean energy economy into business strategies and capital expenditure planning, says Ingrid Holmes, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Hermes Investment Management05/November/2018

Investors pushing the energy transition
8-9 min.
Banks lead green mortgage charge19/October/2018

Banks lead green mortgage charge
9-10 min.
The IPCC report makes it clear global warming needs to be kept below 1.5C and that renewables and energy efficiency must replace fossil fuels. Europe continues, however, to invest in gas infrastructure, potentially jeopardising decarbonisation and the clean energy transition17/October/2018

New gas infrastructure risks fossil fuel lock in
8-9 min.
12/October/2018

Investment in energy efficiency could be key to carbon tax success
5-6 min.
08/October/2018

Governments should step in to make homes energy efficient
5-6 min.
05/October/2018

Changed political dynamics could threaten energy efficiency
13-14 min.
Voluntary agreements, instead of, or in conjunction with, regulation, are becoming the norm in many parts of the world to reduce wasted energy in various consumer sectors02/July/2018

Sticks and carrots
4-5 min.
18/June/2018

Gender equality for a quicker energy transition
3-4 min.
06/June/2018

Making energy savings more sustainable
6-7 min.
Interview with Lars Christian Lilleholt, Danish energy minister23/May/2018

Business sense
4-5 min.
14/May/2018

Giving local initiatives global impact
City of light and people28/March/2018

City of people and light
4-5 min.
07/July/2017

A waste incinerator with a rooftop ski run
7-8 min.
07/July/2017

Spending pennies to save pounds
2-3 min.
07/July/2017

Circular funding of energy savings
6-7 min.
07/July/2017

Scandinavia shows the way for clean transport
6-7 min.
07/July/2017

In the hands of engineers
4-5 min.
07/July/2017

A path to growth and welfare
2-3 min.
07/July/2017

Make the real cost of energy visible
3-4 min.
06/July/2016

Self sufficient sewage