Dr Mike Duke, left, and Tim Anderson with the Solenza productStore this angel in big sizeHamilton, New Zealand - 5 May, 2009 - Solenza has developed a advocate new way to accouter the ability of the sun to accomplish electricity and calefaction baptize by amalgam continued run beam adamant with a solar activity alteration system. Solenza’s patented technology, a about-face abroad from bolt on solar activity panels, uses the apparent across of the roof to catechumen solar activity from the solar beef anon into electricity for commercial, automated and domiciliary use.
Solenza was set up by WaikatoLink, the bartering arm of the University of Waikato, to commercialise the new beam technology.
WaikatoLink’s Chief Executive Mark Stuart says, “We’re actual aflame about the bazaar abeyant of Solenza’s solar beam technology. Solar activity is accepting a lot of absorption as amount cutting, self-sufficiency, and ecology apropos are advocacy the uptake of addition activity solutions globally. Solenza is a abundant archetype of how we can advantage apple chic analysis from the university to aftermath articles that accommodated absolute bazaar needs.”
Solenza works in affiliation with the Solar Engineering Research Group at the University of Waikato led by Dr Mike Duke. The accumulation developed the action of amalgam solar photovoltaic technology into beam adamant to drive down aftereffect time, abate amount and aftermath greater efficiencies. The photovoltaic system, which is fabricated of silicon and added materials, responds to ablaze and causes electrons to become aflame and move through the silicon. This about-face of beaming activity from the sun into absolute accepted electricity is accepted as the photovoltaic effect.
Trials accept apparent Solenza’s arrangement to be acutely efficient; up to 70% of the solar activity is adapted into advantageous energy. The complete in thermal cooling arrangement ensures added solar activity is acclimatized to accomplish electricity. Water is aswell acrimonious as allotment of this process, a cogent account as heating baptize accounts for up to 40 per cent of a household’s electricity bill. Solenza expects to accomplish added ability assets and added activity crop through connected development of the chip photovoltaic devices.
New Zealand is able-bodied positioned to accouter solar activity as it has on boilerplate about 2000 hours of ablaze sunshine anniversary year. In activity terms, New Zealand’s solar activity ability is about 4 kWh/ m2 per day.
Mark Stuart says, “The abeyant of solar activity is abundantly untapped. If every New Zealand home had its roof covered in photovoltaic panels, they would collectively accomplish abundant ability in a year to amuse over a division of New Zealand’s anniversary electricity needs. Millions of tonnes of CO ² emissions would aswell be saved.”
Solenza has already admiring inquiries from companies in the USA and India from parties absorbed in partnering to crop the technology into those countries.
About Solenza
Solenza was accustomed to commercialise the different chip solar activity band-aid developed by Dr Mike Duke and his aggregation at the University of Waikato. Solenza’s patented technology provides a seamless solar activity band-aid chip into a buildings’ beam structure, for commercial, automated and domiciliary use. Solenza’s solar activity solutions can be retrofitted into absolute beam structures, and accommodate added ability and baptize heating efficiencies over acceptable solar activity panels.
www.solenza.co.nz
About WaikatoLink
WaikatoLink Limited is a apple chic technology development and investment company, with a able clue almanac in advice analysis outcomes into bartering technologies. As a wholly-owned accessory of the University of Waikato, it achieves this by identifying, managing and commercialising the University’s bookish property. WaikatoLink works carefully with industry, investors and advisers to analyze and advance bazaar opportunities for new technologies, and plays a key role in University ability alteration for bread-and-butter transformation. Since its enactment in 2002, WaikatoLink has completed abundant licensing deals and accustomed added than 12 start-up companies and collective ventures, which accept collectively created added than 138 full-time agnate jobs and accomplished bazaar capitalisation advancing NZ$200 million. Three of its start-ups accept already been auspiciously exited. WaikatoLink’s absorbing achievement is reflected in its top 3% appraisement if benchmarked adjoin US university technology alteration offices (AUTM analysis data).
www.waikatolink.co.nz
Sandra Lukey
Shine Group
P O Box 130-132, Christchurch
New Zealand
Web: www.shinegroup.co.nz
Phone: +64 3 374 6753
2009年12月16日星期三
The Renewable Energy Centre - The Renewable Energy Centre: No Stamp Duty on Zero Carbon Homes until 2012
Store this angel in big sizeIn what abounding say is his aboriginal ‘green’ account in 10 years, the accommodation to accolade buyers of carbon aloof homes with no brand assignment is just one of abounding that illustrates the government’s accent on the accent of activity ability in the home.
In endure Wednesday’s budget, Gordon Brown appear that from October 1st this year, all aught carbon homes up to the amount of £500,000 would be absolved from brand assignment until September 30th 2012.
A aught carbon abode is authentic as a acreage with "zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from all activity use in the home” and includes activity captivated by any domiciliary accessories as able-bodied as heating and ventilation.
The government aswell afresh declared that from 2016 all new homes would accept to attach to aught carbon regulations and the 2007 account was advised to be the aboriginal date of this plan.
There are currently actual few aught carbon homes in the UK and in adjustment to accommodated the government’s targets, any new builds would not alone accept to be acutely activity able but aswell aftermath abundant activity to abolish out the baby aggregate of emissions it does create.
At present, households are amenable for almost a division of the UK’s absolute carbon emissions and the 2007 account is the latest footfall in attempting to change house-holders’ attitudes as to how they run their home. Currently however, it is about absurd to acclimate any absolute architecture to aught carbon cachet in adjustment to accomplish the brand assignment abandonment so the Government has directed this accurate area of the account appear the new body market.
Richard Simmons, managing administrator of The Renewable Energy Centre stated:
“Public appeal for an activity able home is assertive to acceleration rapidly as buyers blitz to crop advantage of the brand assignment abandonment and as a aftereffect the UK’s abode architecture industry will be affected to amend their access to approaching architecture projects”.
He connected “In adjustment to advice companies and home owners accede a greener access TheRenewableEnergyCentre.co.uk is an invaluable resource. It contains a absolutely absolute civic agenda of specialist contractors and suppliers in this arena. The website will aswell be an invaluable apparatus for both baby and ample architecture companies to antecedent articles and ability in analytic to accommodated the new carbon aloof targets”.
Although the abrupt advance in bazaar appeal for activity able houses may assume like a awful assisting route, abounding companies are not so certain.
Richard Baily, an artisan for over 30 years argues “Without government investment into aught carbon technology, the amount of creating a carbon aloof abode may outweigh the banking allowances of a brand assignment waiver. Environmentally amenable or not, abounding abode builders will be anxiously because whether committing themselves to architecture “green” is a astute strategy”.
Despite accepting the aboriginal account to apply on issues surrounding the environment, abounding feel that it alone amounts to badge gestures with alone abrupt references to the basic amount apropos acid the activity emissions from absolute UK homes. Is this a footfall in the appropriate administration or a artlessly an attack to win votes? It charcoal to be apparent what appulse Brown’s affairs for aught carbon homes will accept on people, businesses and the ambiance aural the UK.
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About the Renewable Energy Centre:
www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
The Renewable Energy Centre: Saving Money, Saving Energy and Saving the Planet
The Renewable Energy Centre is committed to allegorical all online users about activity extenuative and renewable activity in adjustment to:
• access accessible acquaintance through accurate and advisory assets
• actualize business opportunities throughout the UK through its’ bounded and civic directories.
For added information:
Contact: Tim Ovens (sales) or Angela Gallacher (press)
info@therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
1 Alpha House, Farmer Ward Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2ED Tel: 01926 865835
In endure Wednesday’s budget, Gordon Brown appear that from October 1st this year, all aught carbon homes up to the amount of £500,000 would be absolved from brand assignment until September 30th 2012.
A aught carbon abode is authentic as a acreage with "zero net emissions of carbon dioxide from all activity use in the home” and includes activity captivated by any domiciliary accessories as able-bodied as heating and ventilation.
The government aswell afresh declared that from 2016 all new homes would accept to attach to aught carbon regulations and the 2007 account was advised to be the aboriginal date of this plan.
There are currently actual few aught carbon homes in the UK and in adjustment to accommodated the government’s targets, any new builds would not alone accept to be acutely activity able but aswell aftermath abundant activity to abolish out the baby aggregate of emissions it does create.
At present, households are amenable for almost a division of the UK’s absolute carbon emissions and the 2007 account is the latest footfall in attempting to change house-holders’ attitudes as to how they run their home. Currently however, it is about absurd to acclimate any absolute architecture to aught carbon cachet in adjustment to accomplish the brand assignment abandonment so the Government has directed this accurate area of the account appear the new body market.
Richard Simmons, managing administrator of The Renewable Energy Centre stated:
“Public appeal for an activity able home is assertive to acceleration rapidly as buyers blitz to crop advantage of the brand assignment abandonment and as a aftereffect the UK’s abode architecture industry will be affected to amend their access to approaching architecture projects”.
He connected “In adjustment to advice companies and home owners accede a greener access TheRenewableEnergyCentre.co.uk is an invaluable resource. It contains a absolutely absolute civic agenda of specialist contractors and suppliers in this arena. The website will aswell be an invaluable apparatus for both baby and ample architecture companies to antecedent articles and ability in analytic to accommodated the new carbon aloof targets”.
Although the abrupt advance in bazaar appeal for activity able houses may assume like a awful assisting route, abounding companies are not so certain.
Richard Baily, an artisan for over 30 years argues “Without government investment into aught carbon technology, the amount of creating a carbon aloof abode may outweigh the banking allowances of a brand assignment waiver. Environmentally amenable or not, abounding abode builders will be anxiously because whether committing themselves to architecture “green” is a astute strategy”.
Despite accepting the aboriginal account to apply on issues surrounding the environment, abounding feel that it alone amounts to badge gestures with alone abrupt references to the basic amount apropos acid the activity emissions from absolute UK homes. Is this a footfall in the appropriate administration or a artlessly an attack to win votes? It charcoal to be apparent what appulse Brown’s affairs for aught carbon homes will accept on people, businesses and the ambiance aural the UK.
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About the Renewable Energy Centre:
www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
The Renewable Energy Centre: Saving Money, Saving Energy and Saving the Planet
The Renewable Energy Centre is committed to allegorical all online users about activity extenuative and renewable activity in adjustment to:
• access accessible acquaintance through accurate and advisory assets
• actualize business opportunities throughout the UK through its’ bounded and civic directories.
For added information:
Contact: Tim Ovens (sales) or Angela Gallacher (press)
info@therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
1 Alpha House, Farmer Ward Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2ED Tel: 01926 865835
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) - New address calls for decisive, concerted, abiding accomplishments to action altitude change
Store this angel in big sizePolicy Directions to 2050: A business addition to the dialogues on accommodating action, launched today, asserts that the alone way to action altitude change is through decisive, concerted and abiding accomplishments amid governments, businesses and consumers.
The publication, produced by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), identifies action options to sustain bread-and-butter advance while transforming the means we access, aftermath and absorb energy. Presented as an allegorical roadmap from which routes have to be chosen, it explores action account and concepts for the alteration to a low greenhouse gas (GHG) economy. It calls for the development and deployment of leading-edge technologies through partnerships and incentives and an access to abate abiding bazaar accident and bear defended allowances for large-scale, low-carbon, new-technology projects.
"Governments have to alpha architecture the approaching action frameworks, and it is all-important for us in business to activate to acknowledge to those behavior in time to accommodated the approaching discharge abridgement targets. We can not abide the ‘you first’ mentality. We charge administration and action by both governments and business," says WBCSD President Björn Stigson.
Policy Directions to 2050, launched at a key WBCSD members’ affair here, says that "international efforts on altitude change have to admit the ascendancy of civic activity action decisions, but at the aforementioned time accommodate the all-important all-around ambience for those decisions and the accoutrement to optimize GHG emissions management. Systematically decarbonizing the all-around activity mix will crave a ample and able mix of behavior and programs, and there is a charge to apprentice from accepted approaches and instruments that are accepting acclimated and abide to advance at international, bounded and calm levels."
"The apple has accomplished an unsustainable trend in greenhouse gas emissions, so we now charge to crop action to decarbonize as abundant as accessible the world’s activity mix. Resources are to be acclimated added calmly at the aforementioned time as we accommodated growing activity needs," says Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of French activity aggregation Areva and Co-Chair of the WBCSD's Energy and Climate Focus Area. "For that to appear one key aspect is to collectively ascertain a global, abiding and assessable alleyway for anniversary greenhouse gas emissions. This aggregate analysis could again be a point of advertence for the development of civic activity and altitude policies."
The advertisement puts alternating four action priorities:
1. Establishing by 2010 a quantifiable, abiding (50-year), all-around emissions alleyway for the administration of GHG emissions.
2. Closing the gap that will abide afterwards 2012 (when the Kyoto Protocol expires), application the absolute all-embracing framework as a basis, and modifying it to body up from local, national, area or bounded programs.
3. Building able-bodied programs at the civic level, and in abutment of the all-embracing pathway. Such programs would cover auspicious activity efficiency; adorning the ambit of fuels in the carriage sector; and country-wide advocacy of acquaintance and incentives for consumers above all levels of association against low-carbon products, casework and lifestyles.
4. Developing and commercializing a amount of low- and zero-GHG technologies over the advancing decades. These will crave acknowledging behavior and programs to abode abstruse and amount challenges.
Policy Directions to 2050 explores and introduces account for a new all-embracing framework and addresses key action issues aural ability generation, industry and manufacturing, mobility, barrio and chump choices, allurement three base questions: What is needed? Why is it needed? How could it work? Through this approach, the WBCSD hopes to activate the agitation by accidental business insights that can advice animate the appropriate abstruse and behavioral changes.
"Demand for activity will access by 60% by 2030. As appeal increases, so will GHG emissions. All stakeholders, whether they be customers, shareholders, NGOs or the communities in which we work, will apprehend us to accommodated this access in a acceptable way. But business cannot do this alone; it needs government to authorize the all-important action frameworks to get the affray rolling and put the technology into place," says Eivind Reiten, President and CEO of Norsk Hydro and Co-Chair of the WBCSD's Energy and Climate Focus Area.
The advertisement is the third in the Energy & Climate alternation and reflects the WBSCD’s connected assurance with governments in the seek for solutions. Earlier publications included Facts and Trends to 2050 and Pathways to 2050, which approved to actualize a base for chat and action by advice the calibration and aggravation of these challenges into simple, allegorical pathways to 2050. This leash has helped a array of stakeholders anticipate about the means in which activity flows through the all-around abridgement and affects the climate.
About World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led, all-around affiliation of some 190 companies ambidextrous alone with business and acceptable development.
The Council provides a belvedere for companies to analyze acceptable development, allotment knowledge, adventures and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a array of forums, alive with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.
Members are fatigued from added than 35 countries and 20 above automated sectors. The Council aswell allowances from a all-around arrangement of about 60 civic and bounded business councils and bounded partners.
Contact
For columnist information, and interviews amuse contact:
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
4, chemin de Conches
1231 Conches-Geneva
Switzerland
Geneva
Stefanie Held
+41 (0)22 839 3134
+41 (0)79 597 4155
held@wbcsd.org
Adam Kirkman
+41 (0)22 839 3156
+41 (0)79 434 5765
kirkman@wbcsd.org
Washington
Lloyd Timberlake
Communications Director
+41 (0)79 779 3504
timberlake@wbcsd.org
The publication, produced by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), identifies action options to sustain bread-and-butter advance while transforming the means we access, aftermath and absorb energy. Presented as an allegorical roadmap from which routes have to be chosen, it explores action account and concepts for the alteration to a low greenhouse gas (GHG) economy. It calls for the development and deployment of leading-edge technologies through partnerships and incentives and an access to abate abiding bazaar accident and bear defended allowances for large-scale, low-carbon, new-technology projects.
"Governments have to alpha architecture the approaching action frameworks, and it is all-important for us in business to activate to acknowledge to those behavior in time to accommodated the approaching discharge abridgement targets. We can not abide the ‘you first’ mentality. We charge administration and action by both governments and business," says WBCSD President Björn Stigson.
Policy Directions to 2050, launched at a key WBCSD members’ affair here, says that "international efforts on altitude change have to admit the ascendancy of civic activity action decisions, but at the aforementioned time accommodate the all-important all-around ambience for those decisions and the accoutrement to optimize GHG emissions management. Systematically decarbonizing the all-around activity mix will crave a ample and able mix of behavior and programs, and there is a charge to apprentice from accepted approaches and instruments that are accepting acclimated and abide to advance at international, bounded and calm levels."
"The apple has accomplished an unsustainable trend in greenhouse gas emissions, so we now charge to crop action to decarbonize as abundant as accessible the world’s activity mix. Resources are to be acclimated added calmly at the aforementioned time as we accommodated growing activity needs," says Anne Lauvergeon, CEO of French activity aggregation Areva and Co-Chair of the WBCSD's Energy and Climate Focus Area. "For that to appear one key aspect is to collectively ascertain a global, abiding and assessable alleyway for anniversary greenhouse gas emissions. This aggregate analysis could again be a point of advertence for the development of civic activity and altitude policies."
The advertisement puts alternating four action priorities:
1. Establishing by 2010 a quantifiable, abiding (50-year), all-around emissions alleyway for the administration of GHG emissions.
2. Closing the gap that will abide afterwards 2012 (when the Kyoto Protocol expires), application the absolute all-embracing framework as a basis, and modifying it to body up from local, national, area or bounded programs.
3. Building able-bodied programs at the civic level, and in abutment of the all-embracing pathway. Such programs would cover auspicious activity efficiency; adorning the ambit of fuels in the carriage sector; and country-wide advocacy of acquaintance and incentives for consumers above all levels of association against low-carbon products, casework and lifestyles.
4. Developing and commercializing a amount of low- and zero-GHG technologies over the advancing decades. These will crave acknowledging behavior and programs to abode abstruse and amount challenges.
Policy Directions to 2050 explores and introduces account for a new all-embracing framework and addresses key action issues aural ability generation, industry and manufacturing, mobility, barrio and chump choices, allurement three base questions: What is needed? Why is it needed? How could it work? Through this approach, the WBCSD hopes to activate the agitation by accidental business insights that can advice animate the appropriate abstruse and behavioral changes.
"Demand for activity will access by 60% by 2030. As appeal increases, so will GHG emissions. All stakeholders, whether they be customers, shareholders, NGOs or the communities in which we work, will apprehend us to accommodated this access in a acceptable way. But business cannot do this alone; it needs government to authorize the all-important action frameworks to get the affray rolling and put the technology into place," says Eivind Reiten, President and CEO of Norsk Hydro and Co-Chair of the WBCSD's Energy and Climate Focus Area.
The advertisement is the third in the Energy & Climate alternation and reflects the WBSCD’s connected assurance with governments in the seek for solutions. Earlier publications included Facts and Trends to 2050 and Pathways to 2050, which approved to actualize a base for chat and action by advice the calibration and aggravation of these challenges into simple, allegorical pathways to 2050. This leash has helped a array of stakeholders anticipate about the means in which activity flows through the all-around abridgement and affects the climate.
About World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led, all-around affiliation of some 190 companies ambidextrous alone with business and acceptable development.
The Council provides a belvedere for companies to analyze acceptable development, allotment knowledge, adventures and best practices, and to advocate business positions on these issues in a array of forums, alive with governments, non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations.
Members are fatigued from added than 35 countries and 20 above automated sectors. The Council aswell allowances from a all-around arrangement of about 60 civic and bounded business councils and bounded partners.
Contact
For columnist information, and interviews amuse contact:
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
4, chemin de Conches
1231 Conches-Geneva
Switzerland
Geneva
Stefanie Held
+41 (0)22 839 3134
+41 (0)79 597 4155
held@wbcsd.org
Adam Kirkman
+41 (0)22 839 3156
+41 (0)79 434 5765
kirkman@wbcsd.org
Washington
Lloyd Timberlake
Communications Director
+41 (0)79 779 3504
timberlake@wbcsd.org
Desintation Lighting - EPA Honors Destination Lighting with Energy Star Award
The Smart Choice for LightingStore this angel in big sizeSEATTLE—March 22, 2007 - Recognizing Destination Lighting’s charge to “promoting ecology aegis through activity able lighting,” the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy are application the aggregation the Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Lighting Retailing. The account was appear bygone at the Energy Star® Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C.
“Protecting the ambiance is a above antecedence for us and we are so appreciative that the EPA is acquainted our efforts,” says Dave McKee, Chief Operating Officer. “With one of the a lot of complete top ability artefact catalogues available, we are fast acceptable the specialty boutique for activity able lighting and advice on the Web.”
Indeed, Destination Lighting is authoritative it both simple and affordable to “go green.” The aggregation offers a host of Energy Star® and activity able bulbs and fixtures—often at the aforementioned amount as traditional, activity expending products. It is aswell introducing the advocate Socket Lockit®, which can assuredly transform a lot of beaming accessories into activity able ablaze sources bound and easily. All of Destination Lighting’s Energy Star® articles and the Socket Lockit® accommodated California’s Title 24 regulations for activity efficiency, and a new band of alfresco bunched beaming lights will accede with Washington State’s accessible CFL authorization (set to go into aftereffect in July).
Destination Lighting realizes that activity able articles accomplish faculty not just environmentally, but practically. Products such as the Energy Star® Motion Sensor Fluorescent Ceiling Fixture about-face on automatically if anyone enters the room, and off if they exit. Ideal for laundry rooms, basements, attics, pantries, closets and children’s rooms, these lights accommodate safety, accessibility and activity accumulation simultaneously. Likewise, alfresco lights with photocells instantly brighten if the sun sets and shut off at sunrise, enabling safe access to and from your abode at night and creating the apparition that anyone is consistently at home. Photocells are complete into abounding of the articles Destination Lighting sells and are aswell awash alone so that, as with the Socket Lockit®, a lot of accessories can be adapted into activity attention lights.
Offering apple chic accessories and architecture expertise, DestinationLighting.com appearance added than 4,000 products—including abounding absolute items not begin anywhere else—and offers chargeless shipment on every adjustment in the abutting United States. Because Destination Lighting stocks added than $10 actor in inventory, over 80 percent of the articles are in banal and accessible to address the next business day.
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Destiantion Lighting is the acute best for affairs lighting online. With added than 4,000 articles and a $10 actor inventory, Destination Lighting appearance the best in Energy Star and artist ablaze accessories and accessories--with absolute items not begin anywhere else. We action chargeless shipment (except AK and HI) and a lot of items address the next business day.
Destination Lighting
26 S. Hanford
Seattle, WA 98134
Diane Mannone
Publicist
206.268.3469
dmannone@destinationlighting.com
“Protecting the ambiance is a above antecedence for us and we are so appreciative that the EPA is acquainted our efforts,” says Dave McKee, Chief Operating Officer. “With one of the a lot of complete top ability artefact catalogues available, we are fast acceptable the specialty boutique for activity able lighting and advice on the Web.”
Indeed, Destination Lighting is authoritative it both simple and affordable to “go green.” The aggregation offers a host of Energy Star® and activity able bulbs and fixtures—often at the aforementioned amount as traditional, activity expending products. It is aswell introducing the advocate Socket Lockit®, which can assuredly transform a lot of beaming accessories into activity able ablaze sources bound and easily. All of Destination Lighting’s Energy Star® articles and the Socket Lockit® accommodated California’s Title 24 regulations for activity efficiency, and a new band of alfresco bunched beaming lights will accede with Washington State’s accessible CFL authorization (set to go into aftereffect in July).
Destination Lighting realizes that activity able articles accomplish faculty not just environmentally, but practically. Products such as the Energy Star® Motion Sensor Fluorescent Ceiling Fixture about-face on automatically if anyone enters the room, and off if they exit. Ideal for laundry rooms, basements, attics, pantries, closets and children’s rooms, these lights accommodate safety, accessibility and activity accumulation simultaneously. Likewise, alfresco lights with photocells instantly brighten if the sun sets and shut off at sunrise, enabling safe access to and from your abode at night and creating the apparition that anyone is consistently at home. Photocells are complete into abounding of the articles Destination Lighting sells and are aswell awash alone so that, as with the Socket Lockit®, a lot of accessories can be adapted into activity attention lights.
Offering apple chic accessories and architecture expertise, DestinationLighting.com appearance added than 4,000 products—including abounding absolute items not begin anywhere else—and offers chargeless shipment on every adjustment in the abutting United States. Because Destination Lighting stocks added than $10 actor in inventory, over 80 percent of the articles are in banal and accessible to address the next business day.
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Destiantion Lighting is the acute best for affairs lighting online. With added than 4,000 articles and a $10 actor inventory, Destination Lighting appearance the best in Energy Star and artist ablaze accessories and accessories--with absolute items not begin anywhere else. We action chargeless shipment (except AK and HI) and a lot of items address the next business day.
Destination Lighting
26 S. Hanford
Seattle, WA 98134
Diane Mannone
Publicist
206.268.3469
dmannone@destinationlighting.com
Silicon Solar Inc - Silicon Solar Enlists Solar Product Specialists to Assist Customers
Silicon Solar Inc believes that its barter are the activity claret of their company, and that appropriately educating as abounding humans as accessible about the advantages of solar activity is the best way to backpack the industry alee and upward. The aggregation understands that aftereffect periods, incentives, anniversary and account savings, and solar technology can be difficult to understand. That is why Silicon Solar has enlisted a aggregation of solar artefact specialists to abetment new and absolute barter in compassionate solar energy, and authoritative an abreast accommodation on what solar technology will be a lot of amiable for their needs and budget.
Solar activity can be a catchy accountable to absolutely understand. The science of the acreage abandoned is abysmal and intensive, let abandoned any of the bread-and-butter impacts that the articles will accept on the abridgement as a whole, but added importantly, on the alone purchaser’s activity specifically.
For this acumen Silicon Solar Inc has opened its doors, buzz curve and website to anyone who has been cerebration about a solar arrangement but is abashed about all the allocution about aftereffect periods, incentives, antecedent costs, account and anniversary savings, grid-tie and off-grid, etc.
Silicon Solar Inc President and Founder, Adam Farrell, a apprentice at Cornell University, says “we apperceive how catchy solar activity and the cost-benefits of the technology can be to chase and understand. Industry specialists can absorb years belief the solar industry just to get a butt on the accessible technology and what it agency for the boilerplate consumer. That is why we accept assassin a aggregation of artefact specialists in the solar industry that are accessible to acknowledgment all of our customer’s questions about solar energy, accessible technology, and the economics of chief to go with a solar system.”
The artefact specialists at Silicon Solar do are as abreast in their bazaar as anyone else, and are consistently accessible to acknowledgment any questions that barter may have. This aggregation has advised that solar activity acreage extensively, acquirements the basal and beat attempt of solar technology, what technology is accessible today, what abetment is accessible today to accomplish solar activity even added affordably, and how best to administer all of these factors to accustomed activity to advice their barter acquisition the solar band-aid that meets their needs and fits aural their budgets.
Matthew Farrell, Vice President of Silicon Solar, is aflame about the aggregation of artefact specialists and what they action the customers, the company, and the industry. He says, “This is a acute accumulation of humans who absolutely apperceive the solar field, and the articles that they specialize in. We accept specialists that awning aggregate from solar beef and panels to garden lights and fountains, and from solar hot baptize heating systems to cabin, RV, and grid-tie solar kits.”
Silicon Solar brought in the aggregation to ensure that their barter accustomed the best accessible advice, ability and abutment from the antecedent stages of chief to go solar, all the way through the architecture and sales action to chase up abutment afterwards the auction to ensure that the chump is accepting the a lot of out of their investment.
If you would like to allege to a Silicon Solar artefact specialist, appointment the aggregation website at www.siliconsolar.com, or accord them a alarm at 800.653.8540. They are cat-and-mouse to advice you today.
At Silicon Solar, we aim to body a acceptable approaching for our all-around community. In todays high-energy arresting world, we action world-class solar activity and renewable products, appetite to accommodated the accretion charge for addition activity sources. Our operational arete and artefact administration in the solar activity industry has enabled us to avant-garde the development and administration of new solar technologies and services. From the architecture allowance to artefact installation, the ambition of our aggregation is to accommodate an educational arrangement and amount chain, with chump account as our amount one priority.
Silicon Solar Inc
Adam Farrell
2917 State HW 7
Bainbridge, NY 13733
Ph: (800) 653-8540
Fax: (866) 746-5508
www.siliconsolar.com
Solar activity can be a catchy accountable to absolutely understand. The science of the acreage abandoned is abysmal and intensive, let abandoned any of the bread-and-butter impacts that the articles will accept on the abridgement as a whole, but added importantly, on the alone purchaser’s activity specifically.
For this acumen Silicon Solar Inc has opened its doors, buzz curve and website to anyone who has been cerebration about a solar arrangement but is abashed about all the allocution about aftereffect periods, incentives, antecedent costs, account and anniversary savings, grid-tie and off-grid, etc.
Silicon Solar Inc President and Founder, Adam Farrell, a apprentice at Cornell University, says “we apperceive how catchy solar activity and the cost-benefits of the technology can be to chase and understand. Industry specialists can absorb years belief the solar industry just to get a butt on the accessible technology and what it agency for the boilerplate consumer. That is why we accept assassin a aggregation of artefact specialists in the solar industry that are accessible to acknowledgment all of our customer’s questions about solar energy, accessible technology, and the economics of chief to go with a solar system.”
The artefact specialists at Silicon Solar do are as abreast in their bazaar as anyone else, and are consistently accessible to acknowledgment any questions that barter may have. This aggregation has advised that solar activity acreage extensively, acquirements the basal and beat attempt of solar technology, what technology is accessible today, what abetment is accessible today to accomplish solar activity even added affordably, and how best to administer all of these factors to accustomed activity to advice their barter acquisition the solar band-aid that meets their needs and fits aural their budgets.
Matthew Farrell, Vice President of Silicon Solar, is aflame about the aggregation of artefact specialists and what they action the customers, the company, and the industry. He says, “This is a acute accumulation of humans who absolutely apperceive the solar field, and the articles that they specialize in. We accept specialists that awning aggregate from solar beef and panels to garden lights and fountains, and from solar hot baptize heating systems to cabin, RV, and grid-tie solar kits.”
Silicon Solar brought in the aggregation to ensure that their barter accustomed the best accessible advice, ability and abutment from the antecedent stages of chief to go solar, all the way through the architecture and sales action to chase up abutment afterwards the auction to ensure that the chump is accepting the a lot of out of their investment.
If you would like to allege to a Silicon Solar artefact specialist, appointment the aggregation website at www.siliconsolar.com, or accord them a alarm at 800.653.8540. They are cat-and-mouse to advice you today.
At Silicon Solar, we aim to body a acceptable approaching for our all-around community. In todays high-energy arresting world, we action world-class solar activity and renewable products, appetite to accommodated the accretion charge for addition activity sources. Our operational arete and artefact administration in the solar activity industry has enabled us to avant-garde the development and administration of new solar technologies and services. From the architecture allowance to artefact installation, the ambition of our aggregation is to accommodate an educational arrangement and amount chain, with chump account as our amount one priority.
Silicon Solar Inc
Adam Farrell
2917 State HW 7
Bainbridge, NY 13733
Ph: (800) 653-8540
Fax: (866) 746-5508
www.siliconsolar.com
The Renewable Energy Centre - The Renewable Energy Centre’s Helps to Combat Fuel Poverty - Practical Tips for Households on Any Budget
Store this angel in big sizeThe Renewable Energy Centre fights the ammunition abjection crisis and proves that home owners charge not advance a lot of money to advance the activity ability of their home and cut account bills.
A contempo address commissioned by the Energy Efficiency Partnership has apparent that about 3 actor households currently absorb over 10% of their assets on electricity and gas bills. This is a allotment 3 times college than the boilerplate domiciliary and is authentic as ‘Fuel Poverty’.
In 2001 the Government about apprenticed that they would annihilate ammunition abjection in accessible households by 2010 and all added UK households by 2016. However, the estimated amount of households generally accepting to cede added essentials just to accumulate balmy has risen by about 1.7 actor in the accomplished 3 years.
Although the Government has been actively alive appear affair their targets by accouterment grants, alms admonition and announcement activity extenuative ideas, it appears to accept fabricated little impact. Many are bond the abrupt access in ammunition poor households to the cogent acceleration in account prices amid 2003 and 2006. Electricity prices accept added by 39 per cent and gas prices by 61 per cent over the accomplished 3 years.
Low incomes and ailing cloistral homes are aswell a above factor. The National Consumer Council says about 80% of the ammunition poor citizenry are active in homes that are below boilerplate in activity efficiency.
Visitng TheRenewableEnergyCentre.co.uk is the aboriginal footfall for any alone adulatory to action ammunition abjection and accomplish activity extenuative improvements to their home. It contains a absolutely absolute civic and bounded agenda of specialist articles and suppliers in this arena. There are pages of admonition and advice on all areas of renewable activity which is decidedly advantageous for acreage owners researching the accessible options accessible and will advice them accomplish an abreast decision.
For those on a budget, The Renewable Energy Centre has appear its top tips for acid electricity and gas bills and decidedly convalescent the activity ability of the home.
No Cost Tips
• Appliances
Appliances larboard on standby are still application up to 70% of their accepted electricity, and could anniversary for up to 6% of all electricity acceptance in the home. It is basic that all accessories are switched off if they are not accepting used!
Fridges and Freezers should be defrosted consistently as if they are abounding with frost they accept to plan harder to break cold.
• Kettles
The boilerplate accepted kettle in the UK is acclimated to abscess baptize seven times per day so anniversary time accomplish abiding you alone abscess as abundant baptize as you need.
Keeping your kettle limescale chargeless will aswell access its ability as the body up of limescale will beggarly the kettle will charge to use added activity to accession the temperature of the water. Limescale can calmly be removed by abrogation a cup abounding of alkali in your kettle overnight.
• Heating
Turn the thermostat down by 1 amount can cut heating bills by 10 per cent and save about £30 per year.
Close your curtains at dark stops calefaction artifice through windows.
• Washing
Washing your laundry at 30 degrees can save you 40% of the electricity acclimated to ablution the amount at a college temperature.
Always try and do a abounding amount of abrasion as this will uses beneath baptize than 2 bisected loads
Try and use your tumble dryer as little as possible. Either dry clothes alfresco in the summer or abode on a clothes abuse in an unheated room. Open the window hardly to acquiesce clammy escape and shut the aperture to stop calefaction accepting fatigued into that room.
• Lighting
Lighting counts for 15% of the boilerplate electricity bill. Always about-face of the ablaze afore you leave a room.
Low Cost Tips
• Light Bulbs
Switch to activity extenuative ablaze bulbs. Although they are hardly added big-ticket than accepted bulbs they endure up to 12 times best and anniversary ball will cut £7 off your anniversary electricity bill.
• Boiler
Fit a British Standard careful anorak for your hot baptize tank. They are about 7.5cm thick, alone amount about £10 and you cut bills by up to £15 a year.
• Heating
Place heat-resistant radiator reflectors amid exoteric walls and the radiators and accomplish abiding curtains or appliance are not in foreground of any of the radiators.
Invest in abstract excluders for windows, doors and to stop balmy air escaping.
Further Investments
• Wall Insulation
Up to 33% of calefaction is absent through exoteric walls. Filling bank cavities is one of the a lot of cost-effective agency to extenuative activity and could cut heating bills by up to £160 per year.
• Loft Insulation
A added 25% of a homes heating can aswell be absent through the loft. Loft insulation could cut your heating bills by up to 20% and is one of the easiest means of abbreviation bills. It can even be installed yourself and there are government grants available.
• Double-Glazing
Nearly a fifth of your homes calefaction will escape through windows if they are singled glazed. Although double-glazing can be big-ticket it has abundant allowances for abbreviation calefaction accident and noise. For those on a bound budget, accessory ceramics application polythene bedding still helps.
• New Boiler
After 15 years a boiler will activate to lose its efficiency. Although one of the added big-ticket activity extenuative options, a avant-garde ‘A’ rated boiler can save you up to £180 a year and bisect your home’s carbon emissions.
Visit www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk today for added suggestions and advice.
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About the Renewable Energy Centre:
www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
The Renewable Energy Centre: Saving Money, Saving Energy and Saving the Planet
The Renewable Energy Centre is committed to allegorical all online users about activity extenuative and renewable activity in adjustment to:
• access accessible acquaintance through accurate and advisory assets
• actualize business opportunities throughout the UK through its’ bounded and civic directories.
For added information:
Contact: Tim Ovens (sales) or Angela Gallacher (press)
info@therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
1 Alpha House, Farmer Ward Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2ED Tel: 01926 865835
A contempo address commissioned by the Energy Efficiency Partnership has apparent that about 3 actor households currently absorb over 10% of their assets on electricity and gas bills. This is a allotment 3 times college than the boilerplate domiciliary and is authentic as ‘Fuel Poverty’.
In 2001 the Government about apprenticed that they would annihilate ammunition abjection in accessible households by 2010 and all added UK households by 2016. However, the estimated amount of households generally accepting to cede added essentials just to accumulate balmy has risen by about 1.7 actor in the accomplished 3 years.
Although the Government has been actively alive appear affair their targets by accouterment grants, alms admonition and announcement activity extenuative ideas, it appears to accept fabricated little impact. Many are bond the abrupt access in ammunition poor households to the cogent acceleration in account prices amid 2003 and 2006. Electricity prices accept added by 39 per cent and gas prices by 61 per cent over the accomplished 3 years.
Low incomes and ailing cloistral homes are aswell a above factor. The National Consumer Council says about 80% of the ammunition poor citizenry are active in homes that are below boilerplate in activity efficiency.
Visitng TheRenewableEnergyCentre.co.uk is the aboriginal footfall for any alone adulatory to action ammunition abjection and accomplish activity extenuative improvements to their home. It contains a absolutely absolute civic and bounded agenda of specialist articles and suppliers in this arena. There are pages of admonition and advice on all areas of renewable activity which is decidedly advantageous for acreage owners researching the accessible options accessible and will advice them accomplish an abreast decision.
For those on a budget, The Renewable Energy Centre has appear its top tips for acid electricity and gas bills and decidedly convalescent the activity ability of the home.
No Cost Tips
• Appliances
Appliances larboard on standby are still application up to 70% of their accepted electricity, and could anniversary for up to 6% of all electricity acceptance in the home. It is basic that all accessories are switched off if they are not accepting used!
Fridges and Freezers should be defrosted consistently as if they are abounding with frost they accept to plan harder to break cold.
• Kettles
The boilerplate accepted kettle in the UK is acclimated to abscess baptize seven times per day so anniversary time accomplish abiding you alone abscess as abundant baptize as you need.
Keeping your kettle limescale chargeless will aswell access its ability as the body up of limescale will beggarly the kettle will charge to use added activity to accession the temperature of the water. Limescale can calmly be removed by abrogation a cup abounding of alkali in your kettle overnight.
• Heating
Turn the thermostat down by 1 amount can cut heating bills by 10 per cent and save about £30 per year.
Close your curtains at dark stops calefaction artifice through windows.
• Washing
Washing your laundry at 30 degrees can save you 40% of the electricity acclimated to ablution the amount at a college temperature.
Always try and do a abounding amount of abrasion as this will uses beneath baptize than 2 bisected loads
Try and use your tumble dryer as little as possible. Either dry clothes alfresco in the summer or abode on a clothes abuse in an unheated room. Open the window hardly to acquiesce clammy escape and shut the aperture to stop calefaction accepting fatigued into that room.
• Lighting
Lighting counts for 15% of the boilerplate electricity bill. Always about-face of the ablaze afore you leave a room.
Low Cost Tips
• Light Bulbs
Switch to activity extenuative ablaze bulbs. Although they are hardly added big-ticket than accepted bulbs they endure up to 12 times best and anniversary ball will cut £7 off your anniversary electricity bill.
• Boiler
Fit a British Standard careful anorak for your hot baptize tank. They are about 7.5cm thick, alone amount about £10 and you cut bills by up to £15 a year.
• Heating
Place heat-resistant radiator reflectors amid exoteric walls and the radiators and accomplish abiding curtains or appliance are not in foreground of any of the radiators.
Invest in abstract excluders for windows, doors and to stop balmy air escaping.
Further Investments
• Wall Insulation
Up to 33% of calefaction is absent through exoteric walls. Filling bank cavities is one of the a lot of cost-effective agency to extenuative activity and could cut heating bills by up to £160 per year.
• Loft Insulation
A added 25% of a homes heating can aswell be absent through the loft. Loft insulation could cut your heating bills by up to 20% and is one of the easiest means of abbreviation bills. It can even be installed yourself and there are government grants available.
• Double-Glazing
Nearly a fifth of your homes calefaction will escape through windows if they are singled glazed. Although double-glazing can be big-ticket it has abundant allowances for abbreviation calefaction accident and noise. For those on a bound budget, accessory ceramics application polythene bedding still helps.
• New Boiler
After 15 years a boiler will activate to lose its efficiency. Although one of the added big-ticket activity extenuative options, a avant-garde ‘A’ rated boiler can save you up to £180 a year and bisect your home’s carbon emissions.
Visit www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk today for added suggestions and advice.
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About the Renewable Energy Centre:
www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
The Renewable Energy Centre: Saving Money, Saving Energy and Saving the Planet
The Renewable Energy Centre is committed to allegorical all online users about activity extenuative and renewable activity in adjustment to:
• access accessible acquaintance through accurate and advisory assets
• actualize business opportunities throughout the UK through its’ bounded and civic directories.
For added information:
Contact: Tim Ovens (sales) or Angela Gallacher (press)
info@therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
1 Alpha House, Farmer Ward Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2ED Tel: 01926 865835
Echelon Corporation - Echelon Announces Green Technology Design Contest
(SAN JOSE, CA– April 2007) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), a arch provider of networking technology that is acclimated to administer and abate activity consumption, today appear an avant-garde architecture challenge focused on application ascendancy and analysis networks to advance blooming systems and articles to advice abate activity burning and carbon emissions. Echelon’s Control Without Limits challenge will accommodate $10,000 in prizes to winners based on blooming abeyant and “coolness.” The challenge is advised to atom and accolade the artistic energies of accessory and arrangement developers who administer acuteness to abbreviation activity waste. Entries charge alone be based on Echelon’s technology to qualify. Winners will be appear at the LonWorld® 2007 International Exhibit and Conference to be captivated in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, alpha November 14th.
“The focus on addition sources as the sole acknowledgment to our activity problems is adverse because attention of absolute activity sources provides actual allowances today,” said Bea Yormark, Echelon’s admiral and COO. “Today’s technologies, decidedly the LONWORKS® and Pyxos™ platforms, accommodate a foundation for developing articles and systems to advance electricity added wisely and amount effectively. In bartering buildings, for instance, our barter commonly address an activity accumulation of amid 10-60% by deploying articles based on the LONWORKS platform. If you attending at the absolute bazaar of bartering barrio and accept a 10% accumulation in electricity use, eliminating that electricity bearing yields a abatement of hundreds of millions of metric bags of carbon dioxide bearing – the agnate of burying billions of trees.”
Control networking technology embeds intelligence into alone cyberbanking accessories – from ablaze switches to air-conditioning units – enabling these accessories to act as allotment of a peer-to-peer arrangement that can acknowledge to ecology changes or contest after animal action and after causing aggravation or ache to users. LONWORKS ascendancy networks, abnormally in concert with Pyxos anchored sensor networks, puts the intelligence to act and acknowledge into the actual accessories that an activity administration appliance needs in adjustment to be effective. How such networks are acclimated is bound alone by the acuteness of the designers.
Like any network, as added accessories are added, the arrangement increases in power. For instance, an appointment campus that uses ablaze agriculture to lower lighting appeal could do so at the alone light, reacting to a aggregate of advice and ecology factors, e.g., added activity costs provided by the utility; user needs provided by an employee; ambient ablaze levels provided by ablaze sensors; and ablaze levels appropriate by regulations.
Echelon’s technology is already acclimated abundantly to save energy. Examples include:
•The City of Oslo saves 50% on electricity for alfresco lighting;
•Japan’s better commercial/residential circuitous saves 20% on electricity;
•One of Germany’s a lot of activity able buildings, the Balanced Office Building’s HVAC and lighting costs are 80% lower than those in a agnate appointment building;
•China’s Shao Steel saves added than 20% on electricity in their animate mines; and
•Over 27 actor homes in Italy use acute electricity meters to bigger administer the country’s activity needs.
Terms and altitude for accommodating in the Control Without Limits architecture challenge can be begin at www.echelon.com/design2007. More advice about LonWorld 2007 can be begin at www.lonworldexpo.com or by contacting the accident organizer, TEMA AG at www.tema.com.
About Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) is networking aggregation that provides articles and systems that can adviser and save energy, lower costs, advance abundance and enhance service, quality, assurance and accessibility by networking calm accustomed accessories in utility, buildings, industrial, busline and home ascendancy systems. Tens of millions of acute accessories based on Echelon’s LonWorks articles and Networked Energy Services (NES) systems are in use about the apple today bringing allowances to consumers and industry. More advice about Echelon can be begin at www.echelon.com.
TEMA Technologie Marketing AG
Katrin Labus
Theaterstr. 74
D-52062 Aachen
+49 241 889 70-45
“The focus on addition sources as the sole acknowledgment to our activity problems is adverse because attention of absolute activity sources provides actual allowances today,” said Bea Yormark, Echelon’s admiral and COO. “Today’s technologies, decidedly the LONWORKS® and Pyxos™ platforms, accommodate a foundation for developing articles and systems to advance electricity added wisely and amount effectively. In bartering buildings, for instance, our barter commonly address an activity accumulation of amid 10-60% by deploying articles based on the LONWORKS platform. If you attending at the absolute bazaar of bartering barrio and accept a 10% accumulation in electricity use, eliminating that electricity bearing yields a abatement of hundreds of millions of metric bags of carbon dioxide bearing – the agnate of burying billions of trees.”
Control networking technology embeds intelligence into alone cyberbanking accessories – from ablaze switches to air-conditioning units – enabling these accessories to act as allotment of a peer-to-peer arrangement that can acknowledge to ecology changes or contest after animal action and after causing aggravation or ache to users. LONWORKS ascendancy networks, abnormally in concert with Pyxos anchored sensor networks, puts the intelligence to act and acknowledge into the actual accessories that an activity administration appliance needs in adjustment to be effective. How such networks are acclimated is bound alone by the acuteness of the designers.
Like any network, as added accessories are added, the arrangement increases in power. For instance, an appointment campus that uses ablaze agriculture to lower lighting appeal could do so at the alone light, reacting to a aggregate of advice and ecology factors, e.g., added activity costs provided by the utility; user needs provided by an employee; ambient ablaze levels provided by ablaze sensors; and ablaze levels appropriate by regulations.
Echelon’s technology is already acclimated abundantly to save energy. Examples include:
•The City of Oslo saves 50% on electricity for alfresco lighting;
•Japan’s better commercial/residential circuitous saves 20% on electricity;
•One of Germany’s a lot of activity able buildings, the Balanced Office Building’s HVAC and lighting costs are 80% lower than those in a agnate appointment building;
•China’s Shao Steel saves added than 20% on electricity in their animate mines; and
•Over 27 actor homes in Italy use acute electricity meters to bigger administer the country’s activity needs.
Terms and altitude for accommodating in the Control Without Limits architecture challenge can be begin at www.echelon.com/design2007. More advice about LonWorld 2007 can be begin at www.lonworldexpo.com or by contacting the accident organizer, TEMA AG at www.tema.com.
About Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) is networking aggregation that provides articles and systems that can adviser and save energy, lower costs, advance abundance and enhance service, quality, assurance and accessibility by networking calm accustomed accessories in utility, buildings, industrial, busline and home ascendancy systems. Tens of millions of acute accessories based on Echelon’s LonWorks articles and Networked Energy Services (NES) systems are in use about the apple today bringing allowances to consumers and industry. More advice about Echelon can be begin at www.echelon.com.
TEMA Technologie Marketing AG
Katrin Labus
Theaterstr. 74
D-52062 Aachen
+49 241 889 70-45
The Renewable Energy Centre - The Renewable Energy Announces its Support for £28million 'Wave Hub' Project
Store this angel in big sizeFollowing the advertisement of the anchored allotment for the World’s better Wave Farm to be complete just off the bank of Cornwall, The Renewable Energy Centre is actively acknowledging the advance of this antecedent of renewable energy, with a area on its website committed to beachcomber and flat power.
The Renewable Energy Centre was captivated with the advertisement that the proposed affairs for the world’s better beachcomber acreage anchored just off the UK coast, has anchored acceptable allotment from the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA).
The £21.5m admission agency the £28m ‘Wave Hub’ activity could anon be bearing abundant activity to ability 7,500 homes in the UK. The South West RDA has now activated to the UK government for planning permission for the activity and a accommodation is accepted next month. If permission is granted, architecture of the Hub may activate as aboriginal as 2008.
The Renewable Energy Centre defines beachcomber ability as the ability accomplished by capturing the activity absolute in the movement of baptize in ocean after-effects which is again acclimated to drive electricity generators. The Wave Hub could be descibed as agnate to an “electrical socket” on the ocean bed and a ambit of 40 altered beachcomber activity accessories will be activated at the proposed website 10 afar off the Cornish coast.
Each of the 40 accessories on or just below the apparent of the baptize would be affiliated to the Hub and adjourned on the aggregate of ability they accomplish and how able-bodied they cope operating at sea. A top voltage cable on the seabed will again affix the hub to the National Grid via an electricity substation on the acreage in Hayle.
The Wave Hub has been hailed by abounding ecology groups as a flagship activity which will advice advance the way in developing renewable activity and abbreviation carbon emissions in the UK. The ability created would accommodated about 3% of Cornwall’s electricity needs, extenuative 24,300 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year if displacing deposit fuels.
Furthermore, the Regional Development Association declared that the activity could accomplish £76m over 25 years for the bounded abridgement and would actualize at atomic 170 jobs.
There are three companies already complex in the project; Ocean Power Technologies Limited, Fred Olsen Limited and WestWave, a bunch of E.On and Ocean Prospect Limited, application the Pelamis technology of Ocean Power Delivery Ltd. For added advice a absolute website hotlink and acquaintance data can be begin on www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
Richard Simmons, architect of The Renewable Energy Centre declared “The RDA’s admission is a cogent footfall for the approaching of the beachcomber ability industry and renewable activity overall. So abounding half-measures accept been attempted in contempo years but the Wave Hub activity is a accurate archetype of a move from analysis and development to a abounding calibration assembly activity that has the abeyant to accomplish a absolute difference.”
There has been some action to the project, decidedly from the surfing association who are anxious that by demography activity from the after-effects the Wave Hub accessories could abate beachcomber heights by up to 10%, putting the surfing industry in Cornwall at risk.
However, Dr Kerry Black, the New Zealand-based concrete oceanographer, has assured that the appulse on beachcomber acme would be beneath than 5 per cent off a metre-high beachcomber and this aswell correlates with the RDA’s research.
The UK is already arising to be the apple baton in beachcomber activity technology. The Wave Hub activity is apparent by abounding as the aboriginal footfall appear to a carbon aught active but some groups accept begin this renewable antecedent of activity as decidedly big-ticket and affirmation that consumers will see their electricity bills acceleration added over the next 10 years.
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Notes for Editors:
www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
The Renewable Energy Centre: Saving Money, Saving Energy and Saving the Planet
The Renewable Energy Centre is committed to allegorical all online users about activity extenuative and renewable activity in adjustment to:
• access accessible acquaintance through accurate and advisory assets
• actualize business opportunities throughout the UK through its’ bounded and civic directories.
For added information:
Contact: Angela Gallacher (Head of Press & Marketing)
Email: info@therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
Address: 1 Alpha House, Farmer Ward Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2ED
Telephone: 01926 865835
The Renewable Energy Centre was captivated with the advertisement that the proposed affairs for the world’s better beachcomber acreage anchored just off the UK coast, has anchored acceptable allotment from the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA).
The £21.5m admission agency the £28m ‘Wave Hub’ activity could anon be bearing abundant activity to ability 7,500 homes in the UK. The South West RDA has now activated to the UK government for planning permission for the activity and a accommodation is accepted next month. If permission is granted, architecture of the Hub may activate as aboriginal as 2008.
The Renewable Energy Centre defines beachcomber ability as the ability accomplished by capturing the activity absolute in the movement of baptize in ocean after-effects which is again acclimated to drive electricity generators. The Wave Hub could be descibed as agnate to an “electrical socket” on the ocean bed and a ambit of 40 altered beachcomber activity accessories will be activated at the proposed website 10 afar off the Cornish coast.
Each of the 40 accessories on or just below the apparent of the baptize would be affiliated to the Hub and adjourned on the aggregate of ability they accomplish and how able-bodied they cope operating at sea. A top voltage cable on the seabed will again affix the hub to the National Grid via an electricity substation on the acreage in Hayle.
The Wave Hub has been hailed by abounding ecology groups as a flagship activity which will advice advance the way in developing renewable activity and abbreviation carbon emissions in the UK. The ability created would accommodated about 3% of Cornwall’s electricity needs, extenuative 24,300 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year if displacing deposit fuels.
Furthermore, the Regional Development Association declared that the activity could accomplish £76m over 25 years for the bounded abridgement and would actualize at atomic 170 jobs.
There are three companies already complex in the project; Ocean Power Technologies Limited, Fred Olsen Limited and WestWave, a bunch of E.On and Ocean Prospect Limited, application the Pelamis technology of Ocean Power Delivery Ltd. For added advice a absolute website hotlink and acquaintance data can be begin on www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
Richard Simmons, architect of The Renewable Energy Centre declared “The RDA’s admission is a cogent footfall for the approaching of the beachcomber ability industry and renewable activity overall. So abounding half-measures accept been attempted in contempo years but the Wave Hub activity is a accurate archetype of a move from analysis and development to a abounding calibration assembly activity that has the abeyant to accomplish a absolute difference.”
There has been some action to the project, decidedly from the surfing association who are anxious that by demography activity from the after-effects the Wave Hub accessories could abate beachcomber heights by up to 10%, putting the surfing industry in Cornwall at risk.
However, Dr Kerry Black, the New Zealand-based concrete oceanographer, has assured that the appulse on beachcomber acme would be beneath than 5 per cent off a metre-high beachcomber and this aswell correlates with the RDA’s research.
The UK is already arising to be the apple baton in beachcomber activity technology. The Wave Hub activity is apparent by abounding as the aboriginal footfall appear to a carbon aught active but some groups accept begin this renewable antecedent of activity as decidedly big-ticket and affirmation that consumers will see their electricity bills acceleration added over the next 10 years.
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Notes for Editors:
www.therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
The Renewable Energy Centre: Saving Money, Saving Energy and Saving the Planet
The Renewable Energy Centre is committed to allegorical all online users about activity extenuative and renewable activity in adjustment to:
• access accessible acquaintance through accurate and advisory assets
• actualize business opportunities throughout the UK through its’ bounded and civic directories.
For added information:
Contact: Angela Gallacher (Head of Press & Marketing)
Email: info@therenewableenergycentre.co.uk
Address: 1 Alpha House, Farmer Ward Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2ED
Telephone: 01926 865835
ENECO, Inc. - ENECO Named In CNBC's Top 50 Low-Carbon Pioneers List
(May 17th 2007) – Salt Lake City – Following the conception of its UK accessory ENECO Europe in September 2006, Salt Lake-based activity technology specialist ENECO Inc. has accustomed its aboriginal above area of absolute acceptance in Europe this month, accepting called amidst the top 50 low-carbon antecedents in a account produced by CNBC European Business.
The account follows on the aback of a above accord active by the ancestor aggregation and PROTERRA ENERGY to accumulation highly-efficient blooming activity and ecology systems for utilities and city-limits commune power, a bazaar estimated to be account not beneath than $2 billion over the next 7 years.
The CNBC account focuses on baronial arising businesses that accept affiliated altitude change to their basal band and are profiting from it, and includes industry antecedents who are creating new low-emission technologies and new-market trading platforms.
ENECO’s Thermal Chip technology absolutely fits this description as it is able of acutely abbreviation activity burning and accordingly carbon emissions in a amount of sectors, such as admixture plants and the automotive industry, abundantly through economically converting decay calefaction into electricity. Not alone can this advice lower activity costs for end-users, it aswell opens up the befalling for condoning companies to accomplish carbon credits.
“Being able to bear cogent amount and emissions accumulation through activity ability is an adeptness that is massively in appeal in today’s apple and we absolutely accept that our Thermal Chips accept that ability,” adds ENECO’s CEO, Dr. Lew Brown.
“One cogent across of absorption is automated plants, which bankrupt huge amounts of calefaction as allotment of their circadian operation. For owners of these plants, such as metal smelters, a abridgement of a few percent in the factory’s electricity bill can accept a above appulse on the business. We are already talking to a amount of companies in this sector.”
About ENECO’s technology
ENECO’s Thermal Chip technology is in some respects agnate to a ammunition cell, but a ammunition corpuscle converts the actinic activity of a ammunition to electricity admitting a Thermal Chip converts calefaction activity to electricity. Its activity body (a admeasurement of ability assembly for a accustomed weight or size) is 5 times bigger than accepted lithium-ion-batteries and two to four times bigger than approaching micro ammunition corpuscle capabilities projected for 2010. The Thermal Chip has the afterward key characteristics:
- Energy body efficiencies far in balance of all added accessible technologies.
- Reduced weight and admeasurement to fit with the new carriageable ability needs of chump electronics.
- Semiconductor technology that allows for able manufacturing, top reliability, continued life, and low maintenance.
- Ability to catechumen decay calefaction economically and anon into electric ability after affective locations to abrasion or accomplish noise.
- Readily scaleable from actual baby to actual ample applications after accident ability or amount effectiveness.
For added information, see www.eneco.com or contact:
Tristan Lewinsohn
Business Development Manager
tlewinsohn@eneco-usa.com
The account follows on the aback of a above accord active by the ancestor aggregation and PROTERRA ENERGY to accumulation highly-efficient blooming activity and ecology systems for utilities and city-limits commune power, a bazaar estimated to be account not beneath than $2 billion over the next 7 years.
The CNBC account focuses on baronial arising businesses that accept affiliated altitude change to their basal band and are profiting from it, and includes industry antecedents who are creating new low-emission technologies and new-market trading platforms.
ENECO’s Thermal Chip technology absolutely fits this description as it is able of acutely abbreviation activity burning and accordingly carbon emissions in a amount of sectors, such as admixture plants and the automotive industry, abundantly through economically converting decay calefaction into electricity. Not alone can this advice lower activity costs for end-users, it aswell opens up the befalling for condoning companies to accomplish carbon credits.
“Being able to bear cogent amount and emissions accumulation through activity ability is an adeptness that is massively in appeal in today’s apple and we absolutely accept that our Thermal Chips accept that ability,” adds ENECO’s CEO, Dr. Lew Brown.
“One cogent across of absorption is automated plants, which bankrupt huge amounts of calefaction as allotment of their circadian operation. For owners of these plants, such as metal smelters, a abridgement of a few percent in the factory’s electricity bill can accept a above appulse on the business. We are already talking to a amount of companies in this sector.”
About ENECO’s technology
ENECO’s Thermal Chip technology is in some respects agnate to a ammunition cell, but a ammunition corpuscle converts the actinic activity of a ammunition to electricity admitting a Thermal Chip converts calefaction activity to electricity. Its activity body (a admeasurement of ability assembly for a accustomed weight or size) is 5 times bigger than accepted lithium-ion-batteries and two to four times bigger than approaching micro ammunition corpuscle capabilities projected for 2010. The Thermal Chip has the afterward key characteristics:
- Energy body efficiencies far in balance of all added accessible technologies.
- Reduced weight and admeasurement to fit with the new carriageable ability needs of chump electronics.
- Semiconductor technology that allows for able manufacturing, top reliability, continued life, and low maintenance.
- Ability to catechumen decay calefaction economically and anon into electric ability after affective locations to abrasion or accomplish noise.
- Readily scaleable from actual baby to actual ample applications after accident ability or amount effectiveness.
For added information, see www.eneco.com or contact:
Tristan Lewinsohn
Business Development Manager
tlewinsohn@eneco-usa.com
American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) - ACORE Announces Newly Elected Board Members
The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) today appear the acclamation of John Geesman and Dan Reicher as Co-Chairs of the Board of Directors alternating with the acclamation of Sue Tierney, Mel Jones, and Howard Learner to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Geesman was appointed to the California Energy Commission in 2002 afterwards a diffuse career as an investment agent specializing in the debt markets. He serves as the authoritative affiliate of the Commission's Renewables Committee and its Facilities Siting Committee, and as the accessory affiliate of its Research and Development Committee.
Mr. Geesman said, "I am enthused and ashamed to footfall into such an important role at ACORE, which has done so abundant these accomplished 5 years to drag the antecedence of renewable activity in the minds of financiers and policymakers. Our claiming now is to coin a accepted eyes a allotment of all elements of the renewables movement and accomplish the game-changing abeyant these technologies offer."
Mr. Reicher is President of New Energy Capital, a New England-based aggregation that invests in, owns, and operates renewable activity and broadcast bearing projects. He is aswell an adviser to the CleanTech Fund of Vantage Point Venture Partners and General Electric’s Ecomagination Advisory Board and is a affiliate of the axle of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Reicher was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Mr. Reicher noted, "I am accustomed to abide to advice ACORE in its amazing advance as the nation’s arch alignment advancing the renewable activity industry. Over the endure 5 years ACORE has done an absorbing job in bond finance, technology and action in abutment of this fast-growing activity antecedent that is so basic to our future."
The approachable Chairman is Robert L. Pratt, Senior Vice President of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation and ahead Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust.
"I am admiring to accept such agitating Co-Chairs as John and Dan crop the advance for ACORE at a time if the alignment is growing so well. My three-year bout as Chairman of the Board of ACORE has been agitative and badly rewarding, and I’m captivated to about-face over the armchair to John and Dan for the next three years," remarked Mr. Pratt.
The Board abounding an accessible position by electing Dr. Susan Tierney as a affiliate of the Board of Directors and Co-chair of ACORE’s chief Advisory Board. Dr. Tierney, a Managing Principal at Analysis Group, is an able on activity policy, adjustment and economics, abnormally in the electric and gas industries. She ahead served as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Secretary for Environmental Affairs, Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, and controlling administrator of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council. She serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Enhancing the Robustness and Resilience of U.S. Electrical Transmission and Distribution to Terrorist Attack. She chairs the boards of the Energy Foundation and of Clean Air – Cool Planet; and is a administrator of Catalytica Energy Systems Inc., Northeast States Center for a Clean Air Future, EPRI, and Climate Policy Center. She is a affiliate of the Massachusetts Renewable Trust Advisory Council, and the Environmental Advisory Council of the New York ISO.
Dr. Tierney remarked that, "ACORE’s mission is in actuality analytical to this nation’s bread-and-butter and ecology aegis – and I’m captivated to accommodate my duke in acknowledging the organization."
ACORE captivated its anniversary Board elections in October, consistent in the acclamation of Mel Jones and Howard Learner to the Board of Directors.
Mel Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Planet, has helped blueprint the advance of the blooming ability business industry. His above-mentioned 20 years of electric account acquaintance accept been active in Sterling Planet's aboriginal success. Mr. Jones has played a key role in creating cardinal partnerships with account companies, ecology organizations, blooming artefact manufacturers and added cardinal partners.
"I am aflame about accepting adopted to the ACORE Board of Directors. The affair I am a lot of appreciative about ACORE is that it represents all renewable activity technologies. Subsets of the industry (i.e. wind and solar) has aboveboard barter associations that advanced their alone issues. ACORE has developed an accomplished acceptability in advancing the absolute renewable activity industry. I am accustomed to be a allotment of ACORE's administration team," declared Mr. Jones.
Mr. Learner is an accomplished advocate who serves as President of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, the Midwest’s arch ecology acknowledged advancement and eco-business addition organization. He is amenable for the all-embracing cardinal administration and affairs administration for ELPC's plan to advance apple-pie activity development solutions to all-around abating problems, advance the Midwest's ecology quality, and bottle the region's accustomed assets and heritage.
Mr. Learner noted, "I attending advanced to alive calm with my adolescent Board associates to accomplish ACORE even stronger and added effective, abnormally traveling into the 2007 Farm Bill process. Increasing America’s apple-pie renewable activity development is key to convalescent our civic activity aegis and allowance to break our all-around abating problems."
The anew adopted Chairmen and Board associates will crop their seats at the Annual Membership Meeting on November 29th, accepting captivated in affiliation with ACORE's Phase II action appointment in Washington, D.C. on November 30th.
The civic action forum, advantaged "Phase II of Renewable Energy in America: Market Forecasts and Policy Requirements," has been awash out, with pre-registrations accepting capped off endure anniversary at 450 people. The appointment is accepting captivated in the Cannon Caucus Room, which holds 350-400 people. "The absorption this year is unprecedented," said Mike Eckhart, ACORE President, "and we intend to create, on Thursday, a new eyes for how abundant renewable activity will accord to our nation’s approaching activity supply. The acknowledgment will abruptness abounding people."
Tom Weirich
American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE)
Ph: +1-202-393-0001 x7582
Email: weirich@acore.org
About ACORE
ACORE, a 501(c)(3) associates nonprofit alignment headquartered in Washington, D.C., is committed to bringing renewable activity into the boilerplate of the US abridgement and affairs through advice and communications programs. ACORE provides a accepted belvedere for the advanced ambit of interests in the renewable activity association including renewable activity industries, associations, utilities, end users, able account firms, banking institutions and government agencies. ACORE serves as a appointment through which these parties plan calm on accepted interests. Membership advice is accessible at: www.acore.org.
Mr. Geesman was appointed to the California Energy Commission in 2002 afterwards a diffuse career as an investment agent specializing in the debt markets. He serves as the authoritative affiliate of the Commission's Renewables Committee and its Facilities Siting Committee, and as the accessory affiliate of its Research and Development Committee.
Mr. Geesman said, "I am enthused and ashamed to footfall into such an important role at ACORE, which has done so abundant these accomplished 5 years to drag the antecedence of renewable activity in the minds of financiers and policymakers. Our claiming now is to coin a accepted eyes a allotment of all elements of the renewables movement and accomplish the game-changing abeyant these technologies offer."
Mr. Reicher is President of New Energy Capital, a New England-based aggregation that invests in, owns, and operates renewable activity and broadcast bearing projects. He is aswell an adviser to the CleanTech Fund of Vantage Point Venture Partners and General Electric’s Ecomagination Advisory Board and is a affiliate of the axle of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Reicher was Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Mr. Reicher noted, "I am accustomed to abide to advice ACORE in its amazing advance as the nation’s arch alignment advancing the renewable activity industry. Over the endure 5 years ACORE has done an absorbing job in bond finance, technology and action in abutment of this fast-growing activity antecedent that is so basic to our future."
The approachable Chairman is Robert L. Pratt, Senior Vice President of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation and ahead Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust.
"I am admiring to accept such agitating Co-Chairs as John and Dan crop the advance for ACORE at a time if the alignment is growing so well. My three-year bout as Chairman of the Board of ACORE has been agitative and badly rewarding, and I’m captivated to about-face over the armchair to John and Dan for the next three years," remarked Mr. Pratt.
The Board abounding an accessible position by electing Dr. Susan Tierney as a affiliate of the Board of Directors and Co-chair of ACORE’s chief Advisory Board. Dr. Tierney, a Managing Principal at Analysis Group, is an able on activity policy, adjustment and economics, abnormally in the electric and gas industries. She ahead served as Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Secretary for Environmental Affairs, Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, and controlling administrator of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council. She serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Enhancing the Robustness and Resilience of U.S. Electrical Transmission and Distribution to Terrorist Attack. She chairs the boards of the Energy Foundation and of Clean Air – Cool Planet; and is a administrator of Catalytica Energy Systems Inc., Northeast States Center for a Clean Air Future, EPRI, and Climate Policy Center. She is a affiliate of the Massachusetts Renewable Trust Advisory Council, and the Environmental Advisory Council of the New York ISO.
Dr. Tierney remarked that, "ACORE’s mission is in actuality analytical to this nation’s bread-and-butter and ecology aegis – and I’m captivated to accommodate my duke in acknowledging the organization."
ACORE captivated its anniversary Board elections in October, consistent in the acclamation of Mel Jones and Howard Learner to the Board of Directors.
Mel Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Planet, has helped blueprint the advance of the blooming ability business industry. His above-mentioned 20 years of electric account acquaintance accept been active in Sterling Planet's aboriginal success. Mr. Jones has played a key role in creating cardinal partnerships with account companies, ecology organizations, blooming artefact manufacturers and added cardinal partners.
"I am aflame about accepting adopted to the ACORE Board of Directors. The affair I am a lot of appreciative about ACORE is that it represents all renewable activity technologies. Subsets of the industry (i.e. wind and solar) has aboveboard barter associations that advanced their alone issues. ACORE has developed an accomplished acceptability in advancing the absolute renewable activity industry. I am accustomed to be a allotment of ACORE's administration team," declared Mr. Jones.
Mr. Learner is an accomplished advocate who serves as President of the Environmental Law and Policy Center, the Midwest’s arch ecology acknowledged advancement and eco-business addition organization. He is amenable for the all-embracing cardinal administration and affairs administration for ELPC's plan to advance apple-pie activity development solutions to all-around abating problems, advance the Midwest's ecology quality, and bottle the region's accustomed assets and heritage.
Mr. Learner noted, "I attending advanced to alive calm with my adolescent Board associates to accomplish ACORE even stronger and added effective, abnormally traveling into the 2007 Farm Bill process. Increasing America’s apple-pie renewable activity development is key to convalescent our civic activity aegis and allowance to break our all-around abating problems."
The anew adopted Chairmen and Board associates will crop their seats at the Annual Membership Meeting on November 29th, accepting captivated in affiliation with ACORE's Phase II action appointment in Washington, D.C. on November 30th.
The civic action forum, advantaged "Phase II of Renewable Energy in America: Market Forecasts and Policy Requirements," has been awash out, with pre-registrations accepting capped off endure anniversary at 450 people. The appointment is accepting captivated in the Cannon Caucus Room, which holds 350-400 people. "The absorption this year is unprecedented," said Mike Eckhart, ACORE President, "and we intend to create, on Thursday, a new eyes for how abundant renewable activity will accord to our nation’s approaching activity supply. The acknowledgment will abruptness abounding people."
Tom Weirich
American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE)
Ph: +1-202-393-0001 x7582
Email: weirich@acore.org
About ACORE
ACORE, a 501(c)(3) associates nonprofit alignment headquartered in Washington, D.C., is committed to bringing renewable activity into the boilerplate of the US abridgement and affairs through advice and communications programs. ACORE provides a accepted belvedere for the advanced ambit of interests in the renewable activity association including renewable activity industries, associations, utilities, end users, able account firms, banking institutions and government agencies. ACORE serves as a appointment through which these parties plan calm on accepted interests. Membership advice is accessible at: www.acore.org.
Freesen & Partner GmbH - America's aboriginal bazaar and appointment on activity from biomass and waste
Now is the time to anticipate about activity accretion from biomass and waste. With activity prices consistently rising, calm assets such as copse waste, activity crops, and agronomical "byproducts" like admixture are acceptable adorable alternatives. And there is added that can be done with decay than just dump it. The State of Pennsylvania has taken the advance with abounding pathbreaking projects and will be hosting America's aboriginal all-embracing exhibition and appointment on "energy from biomass and waste" (EBW Expo). EBW Expo is appointed to be captivated on September 25-27, 2007 at the Pittsburgh Convention Center.
Energy assembly from biomass and decay is both environmentally and economically attractive. By utilizing domestically accessible assets like copse waste, activity crops, manure, sewadge sludges, landfill gas, decay coal, borough and assembly waste, ability can be generated and car fuels can be produced after adverse greenhouse gas emissions. At the aforementioned time, this creates jobs and advance opportunities for bounded business, instead of exporting money and application to added countries. EBW Expo creates a exchange for calm vendors, all-embracing experts and users of the technology. An educational forum, which offers hands-on advice about acceptable activity assembly and safe decay handling, best-practise-reports, and news-from-the-lab, will be allotment of the program.
Pennsylvania was called as the area by Germany-based EBW Expo organizer Freesen & Partner GmbH because it provides the ideal ambience for the launch. On October 5, Governor Edward G. Rendell appear that the Keystone State is advance US$ 6.4 actor in 16 apple-pie activity projects that will actualize 316 abiding and up to 280 architecture jobs in the commonwealth, as able-bodied as to advantage added than US$ 38 actor in clandestine funds. Energy achievement from the projects, which were accustomed by the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority, will accomplish an estimated 15,710-megawatt hours of electricity, abundant to ability about 1,600 Pennsylvania homes, and aftermath the agnate of abundant accustomed gas to accumulation about 2,500 homes for a year. The projects aswell accept the abeyant to aftermath 115-million gallons of biofuel.
"Using aboriginal assets to ability our abridgement puts Pennsylvanians to work," Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty said. "Because of Governor Rendell’s leadership, our commonwealth has acquired a aggressive bend in the accomplishment of state-of-the-art, clean-energy technologies, and we abide at the beginning of architecture and deploying these addition activity solutions. That agency added jobs, added development, and, in today's rapidly accretion activity market, even added opportunities."
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is a capital sponsor of the event. "We are actual aflame about this new venture", said Ines Freesen, Managing Director of Freesen & Partner. "Pennsylvania is accustomed as a baton in acceptable activity assembly and decay administration in Germany and throughout Europe. Therefore, we apprehend EBW Expo to allure a able all-embracing participation, which will accompany new investment to the State."
EBW Expo is appointed to crop abode on September 25-27, 2007 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. The organizer expects 100 exhibitors to advertise their articles and services, and added than 1,000 assembly to appointment EBW. To assets display space, amuse alarm +1-207-236-6196 for the U.S. and Canada, or +49-2802-948484-0 for all-embracing inquiries, or forward an email to: info@ebw-expo.com
Ines Freesen
Freesen & Partner GmbH
Schwalbennest 7a
46519 Alpen, Germany
Tel.: +49-2802-948484-0
Fax: +49-2802-948484-3
info@ebw-expo.com
www.ebw-expo.com
About Freesen & Partner GmbH:
Freesen & Partner GmbH, with offices in Alpen, Germany, and Rockport, Maine, is a consulting and accident administration close specialized in the fields of activity and the environment. With its all-embracing bazaar ability and accomplished contacts to the all-embracing activity and decay industries, the aggregation auspiciously launched several barter shows and conferences over the years, all of which accept become arch forums in their markets. Current activities cover Hydrogen Expo US, North America's amount one advertise for hydrogen and ammunition corpuscle technologies, the Elmia Waste & Recycling and World Bioenergy exhibitions and conferences in Jonkoping, Sweden, and the "waste to energy" exhibition and appointment on activity from decay and biomass in Bremen, Germany. www.freesen.de
Energy assembly from biomass and decay is both environmentally and economically attractive. By utilizing domestically accessible assets like copse waste, activity crops, manure, sewadge sludges, landfill gas, decay coal, borough and assembly waste, ability can be generated and car fuels can be produced after adverse greenhouse gas emissions. At the aforementioned time, this creates jobs and advance opportunities for bounded business, instead of exporting money and application to added countries. EBW Expo creates a exchange for calm vendors, all-embracing experts and users of the technology. An educational forum, which offers hands-on advice about acceptable activity assembly and safe decay handling, best-practise-reports, and news-from-the-lab, will be allotment of the program.
Pennsylvania was called as the area by Germany-based EBW Expo organizer Freesen & Partner GmbH because it provides the ideal ambience for the launch. On October 5, Governor Edward G. Rendell appear that the Keystone State is advance US$ 6.4 actor in 16 apple-pie activity projects that will actualize 316 abiding and up to 280 architecture jobs in the commonwealth, as able-bodied as to advantage added than US$ 38 actor in clandestine funds. Energy achievement from the projects, which were accustomed by the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority, will accomplish an estimated 15,710-megawatt hours of electricity, abundant to ability about 1,600 Pennsylvania homes, and aftermath the agnate of abundant accustomed gas to accumulation about 2,500 homes for a year. The projects aswell accept the abeyant to aftermath 115-million gallons of biofuel.
"Using aboriginal assets to ability our abridgement puts Pennsylvanians to work," Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty said. "Because of Governor Rendell’s leadership, our commonwealth has acquired a aggressive bend in the accomplishment of state-of-the-art, clean-energy technologies, and we abide at the beginning of architecture and deploying these addition activity solutions. That agency added jobs, added development, and, in today's rapidly accretion activity market, even added opportunities."
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is a capital sponsor of the event. "We are actual aflame about this new venture", said Ines Freesen, Managing Director of Freesen & Partner. "Pennsylvania is accustomed as a baton in acceptable activity assembly and decay administration in Germany and throughout Europe. Therefore, we apprehend EBW Expo to allure a able all-embracing participation, which will accompany new investment to the State."
EBW Expo is appointed to crop abode on September 25-27, 2007 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. The organizer expects 100 exhibitors to advertise their articles and services, and added than 1,000 assembly to appointment EBW. To assets display space, amuse alarm +1-207-236-6196 for the U.S. and Canada, or +49-2802-948484-0 for all-embracing inquiries, or forward an email to: info@ebw-expo.com
Ines Freesen
Freesen & Partner GmbH
Schwalbennest 7a
46519 Alpen, Germany
Tel.: +49-2802-948484-0
Fax: +49-2802-948484-3
info@ebw-expo.com
www.ebw-expo.com
About Freesen & Partner GmbH:
Freesen & Partner GmbH, with offices in Alpen, Germany, and Rockport, Maine, is a consulting and accident administration close specialized in the fields of activity and the environment. With its all-embracing bazaar ability and accomplished contacts to the all-embracing activity and decay industries, the aggregation auspiciously launched several barter shows and conferences over the years, all of which accept become arch forums in their markets. Current activities cover Hydrogen Expo US, North America's amount one advertise for hydrogen and ammunition corpuscle technologies, the Elmia Waste & Recycling and World Bioenergy exhibitions and conferences in Jonkoping, Sweden, and the "waste to energy" exhibition and appointment on activity from decay and biomass in Bremen, Germany. www.freesen.de
EnerQuality Corporation - Record amount of activity able homes complete in Ontario during 2006
EnerQuality Awards of Excellence presented to activity ability leaders
(Markham, Ontario, January 12, 2007) With their anniversary Awards of Excellence, the EnerQuality Corporation accustomed Ontario's outstanding architecture professionals, industry ally and homebuilders today for advancing activity ability in new home construction. There were 9 accolade categories alignment from ENERGY STAR® for New Homes Builder of the Year to Best Marketing Program (chart attached). The awards celebration was captivated in affiliation with the Ontario Building & Renovation Forum in Markham.
"The EnerQuality Awards of Excellence winners, through their dedication, accomplishment and leadership, accept adapted the new apartment market. They accept accomplished consumers, motivated change in the industry and bigger architecture techniques," said Michael Lio, President of EnerQuality Corporation. "This has resulted in an exponential advance in the amount of activity able homes in Ontario."
EnerQuality manages three accepted activity ability initiatives in Ontario targeting new housing: ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses. The three initiatives accept a absolute of 354 accommodating homebuilders, including the better builders in the country, and accept the abutment of government and clandestine area partners, including Natural Resources Canada, Ontario's Conservation Bureau, Enbridge Gas Distribution, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, DuPont Tyvek, Icynene, Owens Corning, and OZZ Corporation.
ENERGY STAR is internationally accustomed as the accomplished activity ability accepted on the market, authoritative it best-in-class. The ENERGY STAR characterization is becoming alone by homes that accept met austere requirements, acceptance homebuyers to await on the achievement tested, third affair verified, government backed ENERGY STAR characterization to apperceive they are affairs the a lot of able abode on the market. New homes that accept this characterization are about 30 percent added activity able than those complete to the minimum Ontario Building Code standards.
R-2000 certified homes action both activity ability and blooming architecture features. Only accountant R-2000 builders who accept been accomplished and certified can body R-2000 homes.
EnerGuide for New Houses is a appraisement arrangement that informs consumers and supports best by barometer the activity use and ability of a new house. In this initiative, blueprints are analyzed to appraise a house's activity ability and accomplish a appraisement out of 100. For every point acceleration on the scale, added money is adored on account bills.
In 2006, there were 1,616 new, activity able homes completed and labeled; 802 homes ENERGY STAR qualified, 78 homes R-2000 certified, and 736 homes EnerGuide rated. Compared to 2005, there was a 255% advance in new, activity able homes, due to the massive amount of ENERGY STAR homes completed in 2006.
Energy able homes are bound acceptable the barometer in Ontario. In 2006 alone, builders either started or committed to architecture 5,011 homes a allotment of the three initiatives
"The changes to the Ontario architecture cipher in 2006 will crave all new homes started in December 2011 to be complete to EnerGuide 80. Builders already amalgam homes at this akin accept accustomed a head-start and will calmly adapt," said Corey McBurney, Managing Director of EnerQuality. "None of the advance that has been fabricated would accept been accessible after the harder plan of so many. We are actual blessed to present these Awards of Excellence to the companies and humans who are arch Ontario into an environmentally acceptable future."
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For alone media releases, accomplishments on the alone accolade winners, top above photos of projects and recipients, and advice about ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses, acquaintance Brent Kulba at 416-972-7401 or kulbab(at)huffstrategy.com.
The ENERGY STAR mark is administered and answer in Canada by Natural Resources Canada and acclimated with permission. R-2000 and EnerGuide are official marks of Natural Resources Canada and acclimated with permission.
EnerQuality Awards of Excellence Winners
January 12, 2007
Best Marketing Program
Sponsored by Owens Corning
Recognizes a architect that has delivered an outstanding business affairs which integrates ENERGY STAR for New Homes, EnerGuide for New Houses or R-2000.
Presented by Andy Goyda, Owens Corning
Mattamy Homes North Halton Division
Mattamy North Halton maintained a connected bartering affairs focused on ENERGY STAR® for New Homes and fabricated an outstanding addition to activity ability through their Green Initiative affairs and two affirmation homes.
Mattamy North Halton is Canada's better ENERGY STAR builder, accepting awash 1,300 ENERGY STAR able homes in beneath than a year in its Coates Crossing II and Coates Common neighbourhoods at Hawthorne Village, and Hawthorne Village on the Escarpment association in Milton.
Technical Excellence
Sponsored by DuPont Tyvek
Recognizes abstruse arete in architecture practices which advance activity ability in new homes.
Presented by Dana Miller, Chris Taylor and Bruce Kelly, DuPont Tyvek
Reid's Heritage Homes
Reid's Heritage Homes best congenital avant-garde architecture practices and articles which bigger their all-embracing home achievement and efficiency. They formed carefully with Natural Resources Canada and certified Energy Evaluators to analyze and antidote any botheration areas; formed with suppliers and manufacturers to affordably access home ability by standardizing top ability architecture techniques and articles such as calefaction accretion ventilators and low-e argon windows in baddest homes, as able-bodied as apparatus a array of technologies including solar and geothermal heating, cooling and baptize heating systems. In addition, Reid's Heritage Homes set up alive partnerships with municipalities and educational institutions to advance avant-garde strategies, such as rainwater agriculture systems for homes and communities.
Reid's Heritage Homes has communities in London, Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph, Collingwood, Kincardine, Port Elgin, Owen Sound, Stokes Bay and Huntsville.
Evaluator of the Year
Sponsored by DOW Chemical
Recognizes a certified Energy Evaluator who provides outstanding account to homebuilders in the ENERGY STAR for New Homes, EnerGuide for New Houses, and R-2000 initiatives.
Presented by Martha Swinn, DOW Chemical
Ross Elliott, Homestead Building Solutions
Ross Elliott evaluated and labeled about 300 homes in the Ottawa arena in 2006. With 20 years acquaintance as an activity auditor, he is awful admired by his aeon and customers. He has accurate and complete continued continuing relationships with homebuilders such as Urbandale Homes, Valecraft Homes and Metric Homes, mentored abounding new evaluators, played a axial role in transforming the activity able apartment market, and is currently chairing EnerQuality's Evaluator Council.
Industry Partner of the Year
Sponsored by the EnerQuality Builder Council
Recognizes a architect or supplier which has gone aloft and above to abutment activity ability in new home construction.
Presented by Bernie Torchia, Eden Oak Homes, EnerQuality Builder Council
Enbridge Gas Distribution
Enbridge Gas Distribution has been an aboriginal and breath adherent of ENERGY STAR for New Homes and EnerGuide for New Houses. Enbridge provides all-encompassing business abutment to builders and has a aggregation of eight New Housing Market Consultants in the acreage announcement new home activity efficiency.
Enbridge has aswell accomplished builder/trades training, is complex in chump research, and continues to accolade builders with a banking allurement for architecture activity able homes.
Leader of the Year
Sponsored by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Recognizes administration in announcement activity ability in new home architecture by accretion acquaintance and affective change.
Presented by Peter Friedman, CMHC
Andrew Bowerbank, Canada Green Building Council, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Andrew Bowerbank was active in facilitating Ontario's better ENERGY STAR community, the City of Vaughan's Block 39 Sustainable Community Initiative. This association will comprise 1,600 ENERGY STAR able homes, in accession to activity able schools, association centres and retail spaces.
Mr. Bowerbank is aswell managing the development of The Living City Campus in Vaughan area 300 hectares of acreage at the Kortright Centre for Conservation will be adapted into a Campus for acceptable development. It will accommodate the better absorption of blooming barrio in North America and Canada's better renewable activity training centre, showcasing to industry leaders the latest concepts and technologies for developing advantageous communities.
Leader of the Year
Sponsored by Enbridge Gas Distribution
Recognizes administration in announcement activity ability in new home architecture by accretion acquaintance and affective change.
Presented by Kathleen Hunt, Enbridge
Sean Mason, Mason Homes
Sean Mason has committed himself and Mason Homes to architecture and announcement activity ability in new home architecture and, in the process, has afflicted his homebuilder aeon and consumers alike. He frequently makes presentations to municipalities, associations and absorbed groups on activity able architecture and is currently architecture one of Canada's aboriginal LEED H Case Study projects in North Toronto.
Mason Homes was the aboriginal ENERGY STAR for New Homes architect in Canada, and in October 2005, they were the aboriginal to accomplish ENERGY STAR accomplishment a accepted in all of their homes. Mason Homes has communities in Barrie, Uxbridge, Lindsay and Peterborough.
ENERGY STAR for New Homes Builder of the Year
Sponsored by the Conservation Bureau
Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the a lot of ENERGY STAR able new homes.
Presented by Peter Love, Chief Energy Conservation Officer, Conservation Bureau, OPA
The Daniels Corporation
The Daniels Corporation had 175 homes able as ENERGY STAR in 2006 with addition 275 homes appointed for ENERGY STAR accomplishment in 2007.
During the summer, the aggregation accomplished architecture on its Daniels FirstHome™ Erin Mills association in Mississauga, which is comprised of ENERGY STAR-qualified, ample abode townhomes geared against first-time homebuyers. This was the better ENERGY STAR association in Canada complete with first-time buyers in mind. In the fall, architecture was completed at the next FirstHome™ association in Markham.
Daniels is one of Canada's a lot of arresting residential builder/developers, alms communities throughout the GTA, Markham and Oakville.
EnerGuide for New Houses Builder of the Year
Sponsored by OZZ Corporation
Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the a lot of EnerGuide for New Houses able homes.
Presented by Glen Leis, OZZ Corporation
Empire Communities
Empire Communities labeled 141 homes with an EnerGuide for New Houses rating, added than any added Canadian architect in 2006. They accommodate EnerGuide labeled homes company-wide and accept communities in Brantford, Binbrook and Cambridge, anniversary with the advantage of advance to ENERGY STAR qualification.
Their new association in Uxbridge, the Estates of Wyndance, has 125 homes that will appear with ENERGY STAR accomplishment as a accepted feature
R-2000 Builder of The Year
Sponsored by Icynene
Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the most
R-2000 certified homes.
Presented by Terry Coggins, Icynene
Starward Homes (Meadowland) Limited
Starward Homes fabricated a cogent addition to activity ability by certifying 13 homes as R-2000 in 2006, added than any added architect in the aforementioned year.
Their Landscapes of Ancaster project, which comprises 37 executive-style, bungalow abode boondocks homes, is one of the few abode boondocks home projects to add the account of R-2000 to its account of specifications.
Starward Homes aswell has communities in Hamilton.
Hall of Fame
Sponsored by Natural Resources Canada
Recognizes an alone who has fabricated a significant, abiding addition to activity ability in new home construction
Presented by Sylvain Quilliam, Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada
Doug Marshall (Award acclimatized by wife Kim and babe Kristen Marshall)
Doug Marshall of Belleville fabricated an outstanding lifetime addition to advancing activity ability in Canada's new apartment industry. He anesthetized abroad in April 2006, abrogation a bequest of bazaar transformation.
Doug's 20-year charge to activity ability in homebuilding had a cogent appulse on the development and accumulation of the R-2000, ENERGY STAR for New Homes and EnerGuide for New Houses initiatives. In 2006, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Natural Resources Canada acquainted his contribution.
From the aboriginal 1980s, Doug was breath in the R-2000 initiative. His company, Marshall Consulting, complete several R-2000 houses and provided able casework to abundant added R-2000 builders. More recently, he was one of the a lot of breath Energy Evaluators, alive with forward-thinking home builders above Ontario, from Toronto to Ottawa, advising them and testing their houses to accommodated the acrimonious ENERGY STAR for New Homes standard. He has advocated for and accomplished abounding humans in the science and accomplishment of activity ability home building.
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ENERGY STAR® for New Homes is a characterization becoming alone by homes that accept met austere requirements, acceptance homebuyers to await on the achievement tested, third affair verified, government backed ENERGY STAR characterization to apperceive they are affairs the a lot of able abode on the market. New homes that accept this characterization are about 30 percent added activity able than those complete to the minimum Ontario Building Code standards. The ENERGY STAR mark is administered and answer in Canada by Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.
R-2000 certified homes action both activity ability and blooming architecture features. Only accountant R-2000 builders who accept been accomplished and certified can body R-2000 homes. R-2000 is an official mark of Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.
EnerGuide for New Houses is a appraisement arrangement that informs consumers and supports best by barometer the activity use and ability of a new house. EnerGuide is an official mark of Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.
For alone media releases, accomplishments on the alone accolade winners, top above photos of projects and recipients, and advice about ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses, acquaintance Brent Kulba at 416-972-7401 or kulbab(at)huffstrategy.com.
(Markham, Ontario, January 12, 2007) With their anniversary Awards of Excellence, the EnerQuality Corporation accustomed Ontario's outstanding architecture professionals, industry ally and homebuilders today for advancing activity ability in new home construction. There were 9 accolade categories alignment from ENERGY STAR® for New Homes Builder of the Year to Best Marketing Program (chart attached). The awards celebration was captivated in affiliation with the Ontario Building & Renovation Forum in Markham.
"The EnerQuality Awards of Excellence winners, through their dedication, accomplishment and leadership, accept adapted the new apartment market. They accept accomplished consumers, motivated change in the industry and bigger architecture techniques," said Michael Lio, President of EnerQuality Corporation. "This has resulted in an exponential advance in the amount of activity able homes in Ontario."
EnerQuality manages three accepted activity ability initiatives in Ontario targeting new housing: ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses. The three initiatives accept a absolute of 354 accommodating homebuilders, including the better builders in the country, and accept the abutment of government and clandestine area partners, including Natural Resources Canada, Ontario's Conservation Bureau, Enbridge Gas Distribution, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, DuPont Tyvek, Icynene, Owens Corning, and OZZ Corporation.
ENERGY STAR is internationally accustomed as the accomplished activity ability accepted on the market, authoritative it best-in-class. The ENERGY STAR characterization is becoming alone by homes that accept met austere requirements, acceptance homebuyers to await on the achievement tested, third affair verified, government backed ENERGY STAR characterization to apperceive they are affairs the a lot of able abode on the market. New homes that accept this characterization are about 30 percent added activity able than those complete to the minimum Ontario Building Code standards.
R-2000 certified homes action both activity ability and blooming architecture features. Only accountant R-2000 builders who accept been accomplished and certified can body R-2000 homes.
EnerGuide for New Houses is a appraisement arrangement that informs consumers and supports best by barometer the activity use and ability of a new house. In this initiative, blueprints are analyzed to appraise a house's activity ability and accomplish a appraisement out of 100. For every point acceleration on the scale, added money is adored on account bills.
In 2006, there were 1,616 new, activity able homes completed and labeled; 802 homes ENERGY STAR qualified, 78 homes R-2000 certified, and 736 homes EnerGuide rated. Compared to 2005, there was a 255% advance in new, activity able homes, due to the massive amount of ENERGY STAR homes completed in 2006.
Energy able homes are bound acceptable the barometer in Ontario. In 2006 alone, builders either started or committed to architecture 5,011 homes a allotment of the three initiatives
"The changes to the Ontario architecture cipher in 2006 will crave all new homes started in December 2011 to be complete to EnerGuide 80. Builders already amalgam homes at this akin accept accustomed a head-start and will calmly adapt," said Corey McBurney, Managing Director of EnerQuality. "None of the advance that has been fabricated would accept been accessible after the harder plan of so many. We are actual blessed to present these Awards of Excellence to the companies and humans who are arch Ontario into an environmentally acceptable future."
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For alone media releases, accomplishments on the alone accolade winners, top above photos of projects and recipients, and advice about ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses, acquaintance Brent Kulba at 416-972-7401 or kulbab(at)huffstrategy.com.
The ENERGY STAR mark is administered and answer in Canada by Natural Resources Canada and acclimated with permission. R-2000 and EnerGuide are official marks of Natural Resources Canada and acclimated with permission.
EnerQuality Awards of Excellence Winners
January 12, 2007
Best Marketing Program
Sponsored by Owens Corning
Recognizes a architect that has delivered an outstanding business affairs which integrates ENERGY STAR for New Homes, EnerGuide for New Houses or R-2000.
Presented by Andy Goyda, Owens Corning
Mattamy Homes North Halton Division
Mattamy North Halton maintained a connected bartering affairs focused on ENERGY STAR® for New Homes and fabricated an outstanding addition to activity ability through their Green Initiative affairs and two affirmation homes.
Mattamy North Halton is Canada's better ENERGY STAR builder, accepting awash 1,300 ENERGY STAR able homes in beneath than a year in its Coates Crossing II and Coates Common neighbourhoods at Hawthorne Village, and Hawthorne Village on the Escarpment association in Milton.
Technical Excellence
Sponsored by DuPont Tyvek
Recognizes abstruse arete in architecture practices which advance activity ability in new homes.
Presented by Dana Miller, Chris Taylor and Bruce Kelly, DuPont Tyvek
Reid's Heritage Homes
Reid's Heritage Homes best congenital avant-garde architecture practices and articles which bigger their all-embracing home achievement and efficiency. They formed carefully with Natural Resources Canada and certified Energy Evaluators to analyze and antidote any botheration areas; formed with suppliers and manufacturers to affordably access home ability by standardizing top ability architecture techniques and articles such as calefaction accretion ventilators and low-e argon windows in baddest homes, as able-bodied as apparatus a array of technologies including solar and geothermal heating, cooling and baptize heating systems. In addition, Reid's Heritage Homes set up alive partnerships with municipalities and educational institutions to advance avant-garde strategies, such as rainwater agriculture systems for homes and communities.
Reid's Heritage Homes has communities in London, Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph, Collingwood, Kincardine, Port Elgin, Owen Sound, Stokes Bay and Huntsville.
Evaluator of the Year
Sponsored by DOW Chemical
Recognizes a certified Energy Evaluator who provides outstanding account to homebuilders in the ENERGY STAR for New Homes, EnerGuide for New Houses, and R-2000 initiatives.
Presented by Martha Swinn, DOW Chemical
Ross Elliott, Homestead Building Solutions
Ross Elliott evaluated and labeled about 300 homes in the Ottawa arena in 2006. With 20 years acquaintance as an activity auditor, he is awful admired by his aeon and customers. He has accurate and complete continued continuing relationships with homebuilders such as Urbandale Homes, Valecraft Homes and Metric Homes, mentored abounding new evaluators, played a axial role in transforming the activity able apartment market, and is currently chairing EnerQuality's Evaluator Council.
Industry Partner of the Year
Sponsored by the EnerQuality Builder Council
Recognizes a architect or supplier which has gone aloft and above to abutment activity ability in new home construction.
Presented by Bernie Torchia, Eden Oak Homes, EnerQuality Builder Council
Enbridge Gas Distribution
Enbridge Gas Distribution has been an aboriginal and breath adherent of ENERGY STAR for New Homes and EnerGuide for New Houses. Enbridge provides all-encompassing business abutment to builders and has a aggregation of eight New Housing Market Consultants in the acreage announcement new home activity efficiency.
Enbridge has aswell accomplished builder/trades training, is complex in chump research, and continues to accolade builders with a banking allurement for architecture activity able homes.
Leader of the Year
Sponsored by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Recognizes administration in announcement activity ability in new home architecture by accretion acquaintance and affective change.
Presented by Peter Friedman, CMHC
Andrew Bowerbank, Canada Green Building Council, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Andrew Bowerbank was active in facilitating Ontario's better ENERGY STAR community, the City of Vaughan's Block 39 Sustainable Community Initiative. This association will comprise 1,600 ENERGY STAR able homes, in accession to activity able schools, association centres and retail spaces.
Mr. Bowerbank is aswell managing the development of The Living City Campus in Vaughan area 300 hectares of acreage at the Kortright Centre for Conservation will be adapted into a Campus for acceptable development. It will accommodate the better absorption of blooming barrio in North America and Canada's better renewable activity training centre, showcasing to industry leaders the latest concepts and technologies for developing advantageous communities.
Leader of the Year
Sponsored by Enbridge Gas Distribution
Recognizes administration in announcement activity ability in new home architecture by accretion acquaintance and affective change.
Presented by Kathleen Hunt, Enbridge
Sean Mason, Mason Homes
Sean Mason has committed himself and Mason Homes to architecture and announcement activity ability in new home architecture and, in the process, has afflicted his homebuilder aeon and consumers alike. He frequently makes presentations to municipalities, associations and absorbed groups on activity able architecture and is currently architecture one of Canada's aboriginal LEED H Case Study projects in North Toronto.
Mason Homes was the aboriginal ENERGY STAR for New Homes architect in Canada, and in October 2005, they were the aboriginal to accomplish ENERGY STAR accomplishment a accepted in all of their homes. Mason Homes has communities in Barrie, Uxbridge, Lindsay and Peterborough.
ENERGY STAR for New Homes Builder of the Year
Sponsored by the Conservation Bureau
Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the a lot of ENERGY STAR able new homes.
Presented by Peter Love, Chief Energy Conservation Officer, Conservation Bureau, OPA
The Daniels Corporation
The Daniels Corporation had 175 homes able as ENERGY STAR in 2006 with addition 275 homes appointed for ENERGY STAR accomplishment in 2007.
During the summer, the aggregation accomplished architecture on its Daniels FirstHome™ Erin Mills association in Mississauga, which is comprised of ENERGY STAR-qualified, ample abode townhomes geared against first-time homebuyers. This was the better ENERGY STAR association in Canada complete with first-time buyers in mind. In the fall, architecture was completed at the next FirstHome™ association in Markham.
Daniels is one of Canada's a lot of arresting residential builder/developers, alms communities throughout the GTA, Markham and Oakville.
EnerGuide for New Houses Builder of the Year
Sponsored by OZZ Corporation
Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the a lot of EnerGuide for New Houses able homes.
Presented by Glen Leis, OZZ Corporation
Empire Communities
Empire Communities labeled 141 homes with an EnerGuide for New Houses rating, added than any added Canadian architect in 2006. They accommodate EnerGuide labeled homes company-wide and accept communities in Brantford, Binbrook and Cambridge, anniversary with the advantage of advance to ENERGY STAR qualification.
Their new association in Uxbridge, the Estates of Wyndance, has 125 homes that will appear with ENERGY STAR accomplishment as a accepted feature
R-2000 Builder of The Year
Sponsored by Icynene
Recognizes a architect that exemplifies charge to activity ability in new home architecture and labels the most
R-2000 certified homes.
Presented by Terry Coggins, Icynene
Starward Homes (Meadowland) Limited
Starward Homes fabricated a cogent addition to activity ability by certifying 13 homes as R-2000 in 2006, added than any added architect in the aforementioned year.
Their Landscapes of Ancaster project, which comprises 37 executive-style, bungalow abode boondocks homes, is one of the few abode boondocks home projects to add the account of R-2000 to its account of specifications.
Starward Homes aswell has communities in Hamilton.
Hall of Fame
Sponsored by Natural Resources Canada
Recognizes an alone who has fabricated a significant, abiding addition to activity ability in new home construction
Presented by Sylvain Quilliam, Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada
Doug Marshall (Award acclimatized by wife Kim and babe Kristen Marshall)
Doug Marshall of Belleville fabricated an outstanding lifetime addition to advancing activity ability in Canada's new apartment industry. He anesthetized abroad in April 2006, abrogation a bequest of bazaar transformation.
Doug's 20-year charge to activity ability in homebuilding had a cogent appulse on the development and accumulation of the R-2000, ENERGY STAR for New Homes and EnerGuide for New Houses initiatives. In 2006, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Natural Resources Canada acquainted his contribution.
From the aboriginal 1980s, Doug was breath in the R-2000 initiative. His company, Marshall Consulting, complete several R-2000 houses and provided able casework to abundant added R-2000 builders. More recently, he was one of the a lot of breath Energy Evaluators, alive with forward-thinking home builders above Ontario, from Toronto to Ottawa, advising them and testing their houses to accommodated the acrimonious ENERGY STAR for New Homes standard. He has advocated for and accomplished abounding humans in the science and accomplishment of activity ability home building.
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ENERGY STAR® for New Homes is a characterization becoming alone by homes that accept met austere requirements, acceptance homebuyers to await on the achievement tested, third affair verified, government backed ENERGY STAR characterization to apperceive they are affairs the a lot of able abode on the market. New homes that accept this characterization are about 30 percent added activity able than those complete to the minimum Ontario Building Code standards. The ENERGY STAR mark is administered and answer in Canada by Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.
R-2000 certified homes action both activity ability and blooming architecture features. Only accountant R-2000 builders who accept been accomplished and certified can body R-2000 homes. R-2000 is an official mark of Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.
EnerGuide for New Houses is a appraisement arrangement that informs consumers and supports best by barometer the activity use and ability of a new house. EnerGuide is an official mark of Natural Resources Canada and is acclimated with permission.
For alone media releases, accomplishments on the alone accolade winners, top above photos of projects and recipients, and advice about ENERGY STAR for New Homes, R-2000 and EnerGuide for New Houses, acquaintance Brent Kulba at 416-972-7401 or kulbab(at)huffstrategy.com.
NanoTX'07 - CONGRESSIONAL ENERGY INITIATIVES TO BE FOCUS AT NANOTX’07
Dallas, Texas - Consistent with the allegation and alarm to action fabricated by the acclaimed Energy Summit console at NanoTX’06, one of the world’s better nanotechnology conferences, Congress reportedly is now acting to armamentarium and advanced the commercialization of addition activity sources.
The Washington Post letters that the new Democratic Congress has bedeviled the action with adventurous affairs to be apparent January 18. The address says the amalgamation is absolute and would “plow money into new tax break for renewable activity sources” by rolling aback “billions of dollars account of oil conduct incentives” and “boosting federal royalties paid by oil and gas companies.”
Nanotechnology will play a basic role in analytic the world’s activity problems, as envisioned by nanotechnology pioneer, the backward Dr. Richard Smalley. The Energy Summit at nanoTX’06, hosted by Nobel Laureate Dr. Alan MacDiarmid of the University of Texas, Dallas, fabricated an burning alarm for new, advancing accord amid government, industry and science (see columnist absolution Nov. 2, 2006).
As the third accomplished baronial Democrat on the House Science Committee and as a Member of the House Science Energy Subcommittee, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas took a agog absorption in the accident and her board fatigued its access to the new administration in Washington. The committee, beneath her leadership, intends to focus on this affair in the new Congress. Rep. Johnson told reporters “Texas is in a abundant position to advantage oil royalties into forward-thinking ammunition technology research. I will abide to appetite access of an activity technology bill to abate our assurance on deposit fuels.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi corroborated the Washington Post adventure on NPR January 9, adage the amalgamation would crop “about $15 billion” to armamentarium addition sources. Renewable-energy lobbyists told reporters “that would set off a agriculture aberration a allotment of boosters of hydro-power, nuclear, biofuels, geothermal and solar advocates,” absolutely the fields accepting developed added at the Energy Summit during the accessible nanoTX’07 (www.nanotx.biz). As before, those allegation will be aggregate with congress.
“The Democratic activity amalgamation will appearance appulse in two primary areas,” said Peter Balbus, Managing Director of Pragmaxis LLC and Chairman of the NanoTX’07 Energy Summit. “First, it corrects the blank in managing adopted assembly royalties of billions of dollars owed by the oil industry. Second, it directs a allocation of these behind royalties into renewable activity research. This allotment will go a continued way against reasserting US administration in next bearing activity technologies. Oil as a primary ammunition antecedent may not be traveling abroad anytime soon, but it is basic to our abiding aegis and bread-and-butter interests that we see a articular all-embracing activity action appear from Washington. This activity amalgamation will be a cornerstone of that policy.”
Dr. MacDiarmid told reporters afterwards the endure Energy Summit that “clean activity acquired from renewable sources, abnormally agricultural, holds the affiance of badly convalescent the active altitude of billions of humans everywhere.” Panel affiliate Sam Hatcher, CEO of Liberty Holdings, appropriate “the next abundant across of able activity analysis will be biofuels acquired from copse cavity feedstocks.” Balbus agreed with Hatcher, but added that “the aggregation of commonly different science and engineering disciplines—including nanoscience, agriculture, agronomy, botany, actinic engineering, energy,—are creating an aberrant akin of absorption and focus in analytic the world’s activity challenges.”
Presented by the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative (TNI), nanoTX’07 continues the theme: The Promise of Tomorrow—The International Business of Nanotechnology.
According to TNI President Kelly Kordzik, an Austin apparent advocate with Fish & Richardson P.C., nanoTX’07 will draw the top minds in four basic and commutual nanotech areas of commerce: Semiconductor/MEMS/NEMS, Defense/Homeland Security/Aerospace, Biomed/Health Sciences, and Energy/Chemical/Environment, additional accouterment an acute abstraction of Trends/Finance/Investing by arch experts of industry. “There are a lot of humans alive actual harder to accomplish nanoTX'07 the nanotechnology accident of the accomplished quality,” says Kordzik. nanoTX’07 is captivated during International Nanotechnology Week.
The Texas Nanotechnology Initiative is a 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation, a bunch of industry, universities, government and adventure capitalists whose mission is to authorize Texas as a apple baton in the discoveries, development and commercialization of nanotechnology.
Kelly Kordzik
kordzik@fr.com
437 Southfork
Suite 400
D/FW, Texas 75057
(512) 226-8148
The Washington Post letters that the new Democratic Congress has bedeviled the action with adventurous affairs to be apparent January 18. The address says the amalgamation is absolute and would “plow money into new tax break for renewable activity sources” by rolling aback “billions of dollars account of oil conduct incentives” and “boosting federal royalties paid by oil and gas companies.”
Nanotechnology will play a basic role in analytic the world’s activity problems, as envisioned by nanotechnology pioneer, the backward Dr. Richard Smalley. The Energy Summit at nanoTX’06, hosted by Nobel Laureate Dr. Alan MacDiarmid of the University of Texas, Dallas, fabricated an burning alarm for new, advancing accord amid government, industry and science (see columnist absolution Nov. 2, 2006).
As the third accomplished baronial Democrat on the House Science Committee and as a Member of the House Science Energy Subcommittee, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas took a agog absorption in the accident and her board fatigued its access to the new administration in Washington. The committee, beneath her leadership, intends to focus on this affair in the new Congress. Rep. Johnson told reporters “Texas is in a abundant position to advantage oil royalties into forward-thinking ammunition technology research. I will abide to appetite access of an activity technology bill to abate our assurance on deposit fuels.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi corroborated the Washington Post adventure on NPR January 9, adage the amalgamation would crop “about $15 billion” to armamentarium addition sources. Renewable-energy lobbyists told reporters “that would set off a agriculture aberration a allotment of boosters of hydro-power, nuclear, biofuels, geothermal and solar advocates,” absolutely the fields accepting developed added at the Energy Summit during the accessible nanoTX’07 (www.nanotx.biz). As before, those allegation will be aggregate with congress.
“The Democratic activity amalgamation will appearance appulse in two primary areas,” said Peter Balbus, Managing Director of Pragmaxis LLC and Chairman of the NanoTX’07 Energy Summit. “First, it corrects the blank in managing adopted assembly royalties of billions of dollars owed by the oil industry. Second, it directs a allocation of these behind royalties into renewable activity research. This allotment will go a continued way against reasserting US administration in next bearing activity technologies. Oil as a primary ammunition antecedent may not be traveling abroad anytime soon, but it is basic to our abiding aegis and bread-and-butter interests that we see a articular all-embracing activity action appear from Washington. This activity amalgamation will be a cornerstone of that policy.”
Dr. MacDiarmid told reporters afterwards the endure Energy Summit that “clean activity acquired from renewable sources, abnormally agricultural, holds the affiance of badly convalescent the active altitude of billions of humans everywhere.” Panel affiliate Sam Hatcher, CEO of Liberty Holdings, appropriate “the next abundant across of able activity analysis will be biofuels acquired from copse cavity feedstocks.” Balbus agreed with Hatcher, but added that “the aggregation of commonly different science and engineering disciplines—including nanoscience, agriculture, agronomy, botany, actinic engineering, energy,—are creating an aberrant akin of absorption and focus in analytic the world’s activity challenges.”
Presented by the Texas Nanotechnology Initiative (TNI), nanoTX’07 continues the theme: The Promise of Tomorrow—The International Business of Nanotechnology.
According to TNI President Kelly Kordzik, an Austin apparent advocate with Fish & Richardson P.C., nanoTX’07 will draw the top minds in four basic and commutual nanotech areas of commerce: Semiconductor/MEMS/NEMS, Defense/Homeland Security/Aerospace, Biomed/Health Sciences, and Energy/Chemical/Environment, additional accouterment an acute abstraction of Trends/Finance/Investing by arch experts of industry. “There are a lot of humans alive actual harder to accomplish nanoTX'07 the nanotechnology accident of the accomplished quality,” says Kordzik. nanoTX’07 is captivated during International Nanotechnology Week.
The Texas Nanotechnology Initiative is a 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation, a bunch of industry, universities, government and adventure capitalists whose mission is to authorize Texas as a apple baton in the discoveries, development and commercialization of nanotechnology.
Kelly Kordzik
kordzik@fr.com
437 Southfork
Suite 400
D/FW, Texas 75057
(512) 226-8148
ENERGIZE NOW - Changing the World, One Light at a Time with ENERGY STAR®
Store this angel in big size(Lakeville, MA, 1-22-2007) Energize Now today appear that they accept abutting the ENERGY STAR® Change a Light, Change the World campaign, a growing association of corporations, utilities, manufacturers, individuals, and amaranthine others who accept fabricated a close charge to change the world, one ablaze – one energy-saving footfall – at a time.
As allotment of this civic movement, Energize Now has volunteered to animate 5,000 individuals to agreement to alter at atomic one beaming ball or accoutrement at home with one that has becoming the government’s ENERGY STAR characterization – as a aboriginal footfall to bottle our activity assets and environment. The Energize Now Consortium hopes to accomplish their ambition on or afore January 1st, 2008. 5,000 pledges could save 1,410,000 kWh and anticipate 2,230,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.
“Like abounding organizations, we ambition to do our allotment to actualize a bigger environment,” said Glenn Maltais, architect of Energize Now. “Participating in this civic attack is both simple and effective. We are appreciative to advance the chat about the simple accomplish individuals in our association can crop to accomplish a difference.”
Energize Now will crop an breath role in auspicious individuals to accomplish a simple, yet allusive charge by demography the online ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge. With lighting accounting for about 20 percent of the archetypal home’s electricity use, switching to energy-efficient options is a cogent way to abate greenhouse gases, save activity and assure the ambiance for approaching generations. To be allotment of Energize Now’s efforts, crop the agreement online at: www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=cal.showpledge&cp....
“Committing to change the apple takes beneath time and activity than you ability think. In fact, it can alpha with artlessly alteration a light,” said Wendy Reed of the Environmental Protection Agency. “Organizations like ENERGIZE NOW are an important allotment of the ENERGY STAR Change a Light association who accept committed their time to advice us advance the chat about the ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge and we are appreciative to plan with them, and with the bags of Americans who’ve already taken the agreement to accomplish a aberration for this bearing and those to come.”
The ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge is already accepting a affecting impact. Individuals who apprenticed to change a ablaze in 2005 abandoned accept the abeyant to save added than $2 actor in activity costs and anticipate added than 33 actor pounds of greenhouse gas emissions!
The ENERGY STAR Change a Light, Change the World attack is a civic claiming sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, to animate Americans to accede the activity they use and to about-face to ablaze bulbs and accessories that accept becoming the government’s ENERGY STAR for activity efficiency.
About ENERGY STAR®
ENERGY STAR was alien by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based affiliation to abate air abuse through added activity efficiency. Today, with abetment from the U.S. Department of Energy, the ENERGY STAR affairs offers businesses and consumers energy-efficient solutions to save activity and money, and advice assure our ambiance for approaching generations. More than 8,000 organizations accept become ENERGY STAR ally and are committed to convalescent the activity ability of products, homes and businesses. For added advice about ENERGY STAR, appointment www.energystar.gov or alarm toll-free 1-888-STAR-YES (1-888-782-7937).
For added advice about ENC’s activity ability and CO2 greenhouse gas discharge account programs visit: www.energizenow.us
About Energize Now
Energize Now is a amusing albatross action sponsored by Advise Net Inc. in affiliation with a growing amount of agreeing clandestine and accumulated citizens. Energize Now Consortium (ENC) represents the accumulated efforts of individuals and businesses in creating a adamant nation-wide movement to; bulldoze able legislation and accession acquaintance apropos environmental, civic security, and bread-and-butter allowances of maximizing activity efficiencies and clean, calm renewable sources.
ENERGIZE NOW CONSORTIUM a Social Responsibility Initiative of ADVISE-NET, INC.
P.O. Box 101, E. Freetown, MA 02717
Tel: 508-345-6611 / Fax: 508-861-0367
Email: info@energizenow.us
As allotment of this civic movement, Energize Now has volunteered to animate 5,000 individuals to agreement to alter at atomic one beaming ball or accoutrement at home with one that has becoming the government’s ENERGY STAR characterization – as a aboriginal footfall to bottle our activity assets and environment. The Energize Now Consortium hopes to accomplish their ambition on or afore January 1st, 2008. 5,000 pledges could save 1,410,000 kWh and anticipate 2,230,000 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.
“Like abounding organizations, we ambition to do our allotment to actualize a bigger environment,” said Glenn Maltais, architect of Energize Now. “Participating in this civic attack is both simple and effective. We are appreciative to advance the chat about the simple accomplish individuals in our association can crop to accomplish a difference.”
Energize Now will crop an breath role in auspicious individuals to accomplish a simple, yet allusive charge by demography the online ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge. With lighting accounting for about 20 percent of the archetypal home’s electricity use, switching to energy-efficient options is a cogent way to abate greenhouse gases, save activity and assure the ambiance for approaching generations. To be allotment of Energize Now’s efforts, crop the agreement online at: www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=cal.showpledge&cp....
“Committing to change the apple takes beneath time and activity than you ability think. In fact, it can alpha with artlessly alteration a light,” said Wendy Reed of the Environmental Protection Agency. “Organizations like ENERGIZE NOW are an important allotment of the ENERGY STAR Change a Light association who accept committed their time to advice us advance the chat about the ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge and we are appreciative to plan with them, and with the bags of Americans who’ve already taken the agreement to accomplish a aberration for this bearing and those to come.”
The ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge is already accepting a affecting impact. Individuals who apprenticed to change a ablaze in 2005 abandoned accept the abeyant to save added than $2 actor in activity costs and anticipate added than 33 actor pounds of greenhouse gas emissions!
The ENERGY STAR Change a Light, Change the World attack is a civic claiming sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, to animate Americans to accede the activity they use and to about-face to ablaze bulbs and accessories that accept becoming the government’s ENERGY STAR for activity efficiency.
About ENERGY STAR®
ENERGY STAR was alien by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based affiliation to abate air abuse through added activity efficiency. Today, with abetment from the U.S. Department of Energy, the ENERGY STAR affairs offers businesses and consumers energy-efficient solutions to save activity and money, and advice assure our ambiance for approaching generations. More than 8,000 organizations accept become ENERGY STAR ally and are committed to convalescent the activity ability of products, homes and businesses. For added advice about ENERGY STAR, appointment www.energystar.gov or alarm toll-free 1-888-STAR-YES (1-888-782-7937).
For added advice about ENC’s activity ability and CO2 greenhouse gas discharge account programs visit: www.energizenow.us
About Energize Now
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dynamic technologies Gmbh, Köln, Germany - Global Markets Direct address "Current and Future Outlook of Global Oil and Gas Pipeline Industry to 2012" on reports-research.com
Store this angel in big sizeThe apple activity industry is at an agitative phase. The accretion of awkward oil and accustomed gas prices is both a benefaction and a affliction for the activity industry. It has created adverse challenges and issues to the activity operators, constructors and regulators. The industry is primarily been apprenticed by the appeal for accustomed gas, awkward oil, and petroleum articles in regions that abridgement oil and gas assets and assets.
"Current and Future Outlook of Global Oil and Gas Pipeline Industry to 2012", a new address from Global Markets Direct gives an all-embracing appraisal on assorted prospects, apropos and alive trends in the all-around pipelines industry.
Growing Energy Demand will Require New Pipelines and Increase in Pipeline Transmission Capacities
Economic advance in the Asia-Pacific has led to a billow in appeal for accustomed gas, awkward oil, and petroleum products. The appeal for bolt is a huge catalyst for activity industry. Countries in South Asia and South-East Asia are abased on oil and gas imports from Central Asia and the Middle East. Several oil and gas pipelines including Iran-Pakistan-India Pipeline, Central Asia Gas Pipeline and Kazakhstan-China Pipeline are planned for the next four years, 2008-2012. Countries in Western Europe, addled beneath a arrears of key activity commodities, are analytic at cross-country pipelines to bear accustomed gas from Central Asia and Former Soviet Union (FSU) countires. Some of the key planned activity projects are the Nabucco Gas Pipeline, South Steam, Pan- European Pipeline and Nord Stream.
Lower Cost of Transportation will Remain the Key Competitive Advantage of the Pipelines Industry
The activity industry is apprenticed by its lower amount per assemblage of article transported and the achievability to carriage college capacities. As the activity burning of this industry is low, its ecology appulse is aswell low. The industry is aswell characterized by low operational costs. With assembly of oil and gas affective to limited areas, abroad from burning centers, there has been a billow in appeal for greater activity accommodation to accompany the accumulation to market.
Rise in Prices of Crude Oil and Natural Gas may Hamper Long Term Prospects of Pipeline Operators
Although the activity industry is about allowed to animation in prices, top oil and gas prices will access amplification affairs of activity architecture companies and activity operators. Higher accustomed gas and petroleum artefact prices will arrest appeal growth, which in about-face will construe into beneath charge for new activity accommodation and lower investments. Lower demand, beneath investments and acquirement abatement may beggarly problems for activity operators who will be faced with creditworthiness.
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"Current and Future Outlook of Global Oil and Gas Pipeline Industry to 2012", a new address from Global Markets Direct gives an all-embracing appraisal on assorted prospects, apropos and alive trends in the all-around pipelines industry.
Growing Energy Demand will Require New Pipelines and Increase in Pipeline Transmission Capacities
Economic advance in the Asia-Pacific has led to a billow in appeal for accustomed gas, awkward oil, and petroleum products. The appeal for bolt is a huge catalyst for activity industry. Countries in South Asia and South-East Asia are abased on oil and gas imports from Central Asia and the Middle East. Several oil and gas pipelines including Iran-Pakistan-India Pipeline, Central Asia Gas Pipeline and Kazakhstan-China Pipeline are planned for the next four years, 2008-2012. Countries in Western Europe, addled beneath a arrears of key activity commodities, are analytic at cross-country pipelines to bear accustomed gas from Central Asia and Former Soviet Union (FSU) countires. Some of the key planned activity projects are the Nabucco Gas Pipeline, South Steam, Pan- European Pipeline and Nord Stream.
Lower Cost of Transportation will Remain the Key Competitive Advantage of the Pipelines Industry
The activity industry is apprenticed by its lower amount per assemblage of article transported and the achievability to carriage college capacities. As the activity burning of this industry is low, its ecology appulse is aswell low. The industry is aswell characterized by low operational costs. With assembly of oil and gas affective to limited areas, abroad from burning centers, there has been a billow in appeal for greater activity accommodation to accompany the accumulation to market.
Rise in Prices of Crude Oil and Natural Gas may Hamper Long Term Prospects of Pipeline Operators
Although the activity industry is about allowed to animation in prices, top oil and gas prices will access amplification affairs of activity architecture companies and activity operators. Higher accustomed gas and petroleum artefact prices will arrest appeal growth, which in about-face will construe into beneath charge for new activity accommodation and lower investments. Lower demand, beneath investments and acquirement abatement may beggarly problems for activity operators who will be faced with creditworthiness.
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) - Global Assurance Group To Advance Mandate Of The Energy Efficiency In Buildings (EEB) Project
The EEB project, an action of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), appear today the accumulation of the EEB Assurance Group chaired by Klaus Töpfer, above United Nations Undersecretary General and above Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The accumulation is composed of acclaimed ecology experts who accept had acquaintance alive in business, government and the apple of academia. Their mission is to validate the analysis and abstracts of the all-embracing EEB project.
The EEB activity was appear in March 2006 and envisions a apple area barrio absorb aught net activity - breeding as abundant activity as they consume. This three-year activity will advance a roadmap for transforming bazaar structures and practices throughout the architecture industry, from accounts and architecture to operation, in adjustment to accomplish this vision. The EEB includes both residential and bartering barrio and focuses on Brazil, China, Europe, Japan, India, and the U.S.
“Climate change is one of the a lot of important issues adverse us today and business, government and NGOs have to accompany armament to accomplish solutions for this actual austere problem,” said Klaus Töpfer. “I accept acclimatized the chairmanship of the EEB Assurance Group because I abutment the project’s eyes to accomplish activity able and acceptable barrio common and acerb accept that I can advice this accumulation of companies accomplish this happen,” he continued.
The Assurance Group ensures the project’s angary and objectivity and will serve as its cardinal advisor, reviewing its initiatives and reports. Furthermore, the accumulation is answerable with acceptance that the EEB activity maintains a top akin of integrity, ability and accountability.
“Buildings already use about a third of the world’s activity and if projected trends continue, by 2050, barrio will absorb about as abundant activity as industry and carriage combined,” declared Project Director Christian Kornevall, underlining the charge for burning action. “Klaus Töpfer is broadly accustomed as accepting spearheaded ecology action as Minister of the Environment in Germany and alien ground-breaking ecology regulations. It is an account to accept him armchair the Assurance Group, which is composed of abounding apple acclaimed minds in the ecology and sustainability field,” he continued.
In accession to Mr. Töpfer, the Assurance Group is composed of:
- Hon. Eileen Claussen (USA), President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment. Ms. Claussen is the above Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and served for three years as a Special Assistant to the President and Director for Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council.
- Vivian Ellen Loftness (USA), Professor and Head of the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, and Senior Researcher at the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics. Ms. Loftness has served on 5 National Academy of Science panels, and her plan has afflicted both civic action and architecture projects, including the Adaptable Workplace Lab at the US General Services Administration and the Laboratory for Cognition at Electricité de France.
- Thomas Johansson (Sweden), Professor of Energy Systems Analysis and Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIEE) at the University of Lund, Sweden and Senior Advisor on Energy and Climate Change to the United Nations Development Programme (UNEP).
- Shin-ichi Tanabe (Japan), Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Waseda University. His accepted activity aural the Department of Architecture includes a abstraction on thermal abundance requirements and on calm air above of buildings. Dr. Tanabe has been a visiting academic above the world, including the Technical University of Denmark’s International Center for Indoor Environment and Energy and the University of California, Berkley’s Center for Environmental Design Research.
- Jiang Yi (China), Vice Dean of the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is the aboriginal researcher in China to administer computer simulation technology into architecture and HVAC systems and has been arena a axiological role in abounding Chinese civic activity extenuative analysis projects for buildings.
The EEB activity is co-chaired by Lafarge and United Technologies Corporation. It aswell includes arch companies in the building, accessories and activity industries, such as Cemex, DuPont, EDF Group, Gaz de France, Kansai Electric Power Company, Philips, Sonae Sierra and Tokyo Electric Power Company.
Notes to the Editor
About the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The WBCSD brings calm 180 all-embracing companies in a aggregate charge to acceptable development through bread-and-butter growth, ecological antithesis and amusing progress. Its mission is to accommodate business administration as a agitator for change against acceptable development, and to abutment the business authorization to operate, innovate and abound in a apple added shaped by acceptable development issues. The associates are fatigued from added than 30 countries and 20 above automated sectors. It aswell allowances from a all-around arrangement of 50+ civic and bounded business councils and accomplice organizations.
About Lafarge
Lafarge (NYSE:LR, Euronext:LG), headquartered in Paris, France, is the apple baton in architecture abstracts including cement, aggregates, adhesive and roofing. The aggregation employs 80,000 humans in 76 countries and acquaint sales of € 16 billion in 2005. It is the alone architecture abstracts aggregation to be listed on the 2006 “100 Global Most Sustainable Corporations in the World."
About United Technologies Corp.
United Technologies (NYSE:UTX), based in Hartford, Conn., USA, is a adapted aggregation that provides top technology articles and casework to the aerospace and bartering architecture industries worldwide. The aggregation is a Dow Jones Industrial aggregation that appear $ 43 billion in 2005 revenues. UTC employs about 220,000 humans worldwide.
More advice is accessible at www.wbcsd.org/web/eeb and the EEB blog at www.eeb-blog.org
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a affiliation of some 175 all-embracing companies affiliated by a aggregate charge to acceptable development, i.e. ecology protection, amusing disinterestedness and bread-and-butter growth.
Lloyd Timberlake
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Communications Director
Tel: +41 (22) 839 3100
E-mail: timberlake@wbcsd.org
The EEB activity was appear in March 2006 and envisions a apple area barrio absorb aught net activity - breeding as abundant activity as they consume. This three-year activity will advance a roadmap for transforming bazaar structures and practices throughout the architecture industry, from accounts and architecture to operation, in adjustment to accomplish this vision. The EEB includes both residential and bartering barrio and focuses on Brazil, China, Europe, Japan, India, and the U.S.
“Climate change is one of the a lot of important issues adverse us today and business, government and NGOs have to accompany armament to accomplish solutions for this actual austere problem,” said Klaus Töpfer. “I accept acclimatized the chairmanship of the EEB Assurance Group because I abutment the project’s eyes to accomplish activity able and acceptable barrio common and acerb accept that I can advice this accumulation of companies accomplish this happen,” he continued.
The Assurance Group ensures the project’s angary and objectivity and will serve as its cardinal advisor, reviewing its initiatives and reports. Furthermore, the accumulation is answerable with acceptance that the EEB activity maintains a top akin of integrity, ability and accountability.
“Buildings already use about a third of the world’s activity and if projected trends continue, by 2050, barrio will absorb about as abundant activity as industry and carriage combined,” declared Project Director Christian Kornevall, underlining the charge for burning action. “Klaus Töpfer is broadly accustomed as accepting spearheaded ecology action as Minister of the Environment in Germany and alien ground-breaking ecology regulations. It is an account to accept him armchair the Assurance Group, which is composed of abounding apple acclaimed minds in the ecology and sustainability field,” he continued.
In accession to Mr. Töpfer, the Assurance Group is composed of:
- Hon. Eileen Claussen (USA), President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment. Ms. Claussen is the above Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs and served for three years as a Special Assistant to the President and Director for Global Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council.
- Vivian Ellen Loftness (USA), Professor and Head of the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, and Senior Researcher at the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics. Ms. Loftness has served on 5 National Academy of Science panels, and her plan has afflicted both civic action and architecture projects, including the Adaptable Workplace Lab at the US General Services Administration and the Laboratory for Cognition at Electricité de France.
- Thomas Johansson (Sweden), Professor of Energy Systems Analysis and Director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIEE) at the University of Lund, Sweden and Senior Advisor on Energy and Climate Change to the United Nations Development Programme (UNEP).
- Shin-ichi Tanabe (Japan), Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Waseda University. His accepted activity aural the Department of Architecture includes a abstraction on thermal abundance requirements and on calm air above of buildings. Dr. Tanabe has been a visiting academic above the world, including the Technical University of Denmark’s International Center for Indoor Environment and Energy and the University of California, Berkley’s Center for Environmental Design Research.
- Jiang Yi (China), Vice Dean of the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is the aboriginal researcher in China to administer computer simulation technology into architecture and HVAC systems and has been arena a axiological role in abounding Chinese civic activity extenuative analysis projects for buildings.
The EEB activity is co-chaired by Lafarge and United Technologies Corporation. It aswell includes arch companies in the building, accessories and activity industries, such as Cemex, DuPont, EDF Group, Gaz de France, Kansai Electric Power Company, Philips, Sonae Sierra and Tokyo Electric Power Company.
Notes to the Editor
About the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The WBCSD brings calm 180 all-embracing companies in a aggregate charge to acceptable development through bread-and-butter growth, ecological antithesis and amusing progress. Its mission is to accommodate business administration as a agitator for change against acceptable development, and to abutment the business authorization to operate, innovate and abound in a apple added shaped by acceptable development issues. The associates are fatigued from added than 30 countries and 20 above automated sectors. It aswell allowances from a all-around arrangement of 50+ civic and bounded business councils and accomplice organizations.
About Lafarge
Lafarge (NYSE:LR, Euronext:LG), headquartered in Paris, France, is the apple baton in architecture abstracts including cement, aggregates, adhesive and roofing. The aggregation employs 80,000 humans in 76 countries and acquaint sales of € 16 billion in 2005. It is the alone architecture abstracts aggregation to be listed on the 2006 “100 Global Most Sustainable Corporations in the World."
About United Technologies Corp.
United Technologies (NYSE:UTX), based in Hartford, Conn., USA, is a adapted aggregation that provides top technology articles and casework to the aerospace and bartering architecture industries worldwide. The aggregation is a Dow Jones Industrial aggregation that appear $ 43 billion in 2005 revenues. UTC employs about 220,000 humans worldwide.
More advice is accessible at www.wbcsd.org/web/eeb and the EEB blog at www.eeb-blog.org
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a affiliation of some 175 all-embracing companies affiliated by a aggregate charge to acceptable development, i.e. ecology protection, amusing disinterestedness and bread-and-butter growth.
Lloyd Timberlake
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Communications Director
Tel: +41 (22) 839 3100
E-mail: timberlake@wbcsd.org
Onepoint Software GmbH - Onepoint Project 8.1 Group and Professional Now Available
Multilingualism makes the web-based activity administration software the aboriginal best for all-embracing teams
Graz, Nov 27, 2008 – Onepoint Software, arch European bell-ringer for bartering accessible antecedent activity and portfolio administration solutions (PPM), has just clearly launched its new software release, Onepoint Project 8.1. The “Professional Edition” and the “Group Edition” of the software are now accessible in the webstore of Onepoint Software GmbH (www.onepoint-project.com). The new absolution of the activity administration software has been added optimized in abutting cooperation with activity teams and integrates all functionalities from planning and ecology through to controlling. The Enterprise Edition, the apparatus for company-wide use, can be continued via alternative modules. The new adaptation is already accessible in German and English. By mid-December it will aswell affection the French, Spanish, Italian and Russian languages. From again on, Onepoint Project will be accessible in six languages altogether, which makes it the ideal software for all-embracing teams.
The optimizations in Onepoint Project 8.1 accept been developed based on chump requests; they resulted in continued activity and ability planning functionalities as able-bodied as in “what if” scenarios for activity managers. Also, activity planning features, like “reverse” or “start-finish” annex types and plan break accept been integrated. In addition, the software now boasts bigger acceptation and consign functionalities from and to the broadly acclimated activity planning apparatus Microsoft Project.
Additional features: Subprojects and Availability Scheduling
Two alternative modules are accessible with the new adaptation 8.1 of the Enterprise Edition, Onepoint´s artefact for enterprise-wide usage: The Program Management Option offers the achievability to breach ample programs and projects into abate sub-projects. At the aforementioned time, activity teams can appearance the accepted activity cachet through appearance such as the anniversary trend appraisal (MTA) and get an compassionate of the big picture. The Availability Scheduling Option visualizes canicule off and ailing leaves as able-bodied as the availability of machines and tools.
Multilingualism for Users and Database
As a 18-carat Web 2.0 tool, the new adaptation Onepoint Project 8.1 aswell offers the achievability of adjusting the user interface to accent requirements. Users will be able to accept amid German and English, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian. The database supports Unicode, a accepted which provides a comprehensive, accepted appearance set for all languages in the world. Apart from Latin characters it aswell recognizes all added characters such as, e.g., Cyrillic. With Unicode bounded teams can abet in their own languages and at the aforementioned time aswell be allotment of superordinate, all-embracing teams application a altered accent – all aural the aforementioned tool.
“We accept our roots in the all-embracing activity business and apperceive the challenges humans accept to accord with on a circadian basis. We accept consistently begin it important to break acquainted to this business. We accept aswell optimized Onepoint Project in abutting cooperation with activity teams,” said Gerald Mesaric, CEO of Onepoint Software. “Our examination at the Systems has already led to agog acknowledgment from abounding visitors. At this point our close acceptance pays off: Only software that has undergone the analysis of applied use offers absolute added value.”
Onepoint Project is accessible as both accessible antecedent and bartering software. Free 30-day balloon versions of the Professional Edition and the Group Edition of Onepoint Project can be downloaded from the Onepoint website at www.onepoint-project.com.
Contact:
Onepoint Software GmbH
Gerald Mesaric
Albrechtgasse 9/I
8010 Graz, Austria
www.onepoint-project.com
Telefon:+43 699 17 17 17 22
Fax:+43 316 82 09 18 99
E-Mail:info@onepoint-project.com
About Onepoint:
Onepoint Software is the aboriginal activity and portfolio administration bell-ringer alms both an on appeal and an installed Web 2.0-based band-aid for the continued enterprise. Unlike acceptable PPM software, Onepoint Project is accepted to be integrated, real-time, open, easy-to-use and fast to deploy. Onepoint enables project-oriented companies and departments to access activity and portfolio transparency, abbreviate activity lead-times, automate best practices and abate activity risks. The ROI aeon of Onepoint Project is usually able-bodied below 12 months.
The aggregation and artefact names mentioned are trademarks of their corresponding owners as continued as they are registered.
Graz, Nov 27, 2008 – Onepoint Software, arch European bell-ringer for bartering accessible antecedent activity and portfolio administration solutions (PPM), has just clearly launched its new software release, Onepoint Project 8.1. The “Professional Edition” and the “Group Edition” of the software are now accessible in the webstore of Onepoint Software GmbH (www.onepoint-project.com). The new absolution of the activity administration software has been added optimized in abutting cooperation with activity teams and integrates all functionalities from planning and ecology through to controlling. The Enterprise Edition, the apparatus for company-wide use, can be continued via alternative modules. The new adaptation is already accessible in German and English. By mid-December it will aswell affection the French, Spanish, Italian and Russian languages. From again on, Onepoint Project will be accessible in six languages altogether, which makes it the ideal software for all-embracing teams.
The optimizations in Onepoint Project 8.1 accept been developed based on chump requests; they resulted in continued activity and ability planning functionalities as able-bodied as in “what if” scenarios for activity managers. Also, activity planning features, like “reverse” or “start-finish” annex types and plan break accept been integrated. In addition, the software now boasts bigger acceptation and consign functionalities from and to the broadly acclimated activity planning apparatus Microsoft Project.
Additional features: Subprojects and Availability Scheduling
Two alternative modules are accessible with the new adaptation 8.1 of the Enterprise Edition, Onepoint´s artefact for enterprise-wide usage: The Program Management Option offers the achievability to breach ample programs and projects into abate sub-projects. At the aforementioned time, activity teams can appearance the accepted activity cachet through appearance such as the anniversary trend appraisal (MTA) and get an compassionate of the big picture. The Availability Scheduling Option visualizes canicule off and ailing leaves as able-bodied as the availability of machines and tools.
Multilingualism for Users and Database
As a 18-carat Web 2.0 tool, the new adaptation Onepoint Project 8.1 aswell offers the achievability of adjusting the user interface to accent requirements. Users will be able to accept amid German and English, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian. The database supports Unicode, a accepted which provides a comprehensive, accepted appearance set for all languages in the world. Apart from Latin characters it aswell recognizes all added characters such as, e.g., Cyrillic. With Unicode bounded teams can abet in their own languages and at the aforementioned time aswell be allotment of superordinate, all-embracing teams application a altered accent – all aural the aforementioned tool.
“We accept our roots in the all-embracing activity business and apperceive the challenges humans accept to accord with on a circadian basis. We accept consistently begin it important to break acquainted to this business. We accept aswell optimized Onepoint Project in abutting cooperation with activity teams,” said Gerald Mesaric, CEO of Onepoint Software. “Our examination at the Systems has already led to agog acknowledgment from abounding visitors. At this point our close acceptance pays off: Only software that has undergone the analysis of applied use offers absolute added value.”
Onepoint Project is accessible as both accessible antecedent and bartering software. Free 30-day balloon versions of the Professional Edition and the Group Edition of Onepoint Project can be downloaded from the Onepoint website at www.onepoint-project.com.
Contact:
Onepoint Software GmbH
Gerald Mesaric
Albrechtgasse 9/I
8010 Graz, Austria
www.onepoint-project.com
Telefon:+43 699 17 17 17 22
Fax:+43 316 82 09 18 99
E-Mail:info@onepoint-project.com
About Onepoint:
Onepoint Software is the aboriginal activity and portfolio administration bell-ringer alms both an on appeal and an installed Web 2.0-based band-aid for the continued enterprise. Unlike acceptable PPM software, Onepoint Project is accepted to be integrated, real-time, open, easy-to-use and fast to deploy. Onepoint enables project-oriented companies and departments to access activity and portfolio transparency, abbreviate activity lead-times, automate best practices and abate activity risks. The ROI aeon of Onepoint Project is usually able-bodied below 12 months.
The aggregation and artefact names mentioned are trademarks of their corresponding owners as continued as they are registered.
PMForum, Inc. - PMForum broke to accommodate activity administration advising casework for above US government program
Dallas, Texas, USA — PMForum, Inc. has appear that the aggregation has been awarded a arrangement to accommodate activity administration advising casework for the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI). The GTRI, aural the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), is a above affairs financed by the US government to abate and assure accessible nuclear and radiological abstracts amid at noncombatant sites worldwide. The affairs anon addresses important recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.
According to David Pells, PMForum President and Managing Editor of PM World Today, “This is the affectionate of all-around action that we ambition to support. The ambit of the affairs is actual large, all-around in nature, and advised to advance all-around assurance and security. PMForum is accouterment a aggregation fatigued from a allotment of the a lot of accomplished and able activity administration experts in the apple to abutment this initiative, and we are captivated that we were arrive to participate.”
PMForum admiral are accommodating on a abstruse analysis team, alternating with assembly from several U.S. National Laboratories, to analysis the chip activity administration arrangement accepting developed for this important affairs and added activity administration accompanying issues as requested by the affairs administration team. Terms of the arrangement were not disclosed.
In accession to Mr. Pells, the able admiral on the PMForum aggregation cover Wayne Abba, broadly accustomed as one of the world’s arch authorities on becoming amount administration (EVM) in both industry and government; Russ Archibald, PMI Fellow, APM (UK) Honorary Fellow, and a Global Advisor for PMForum, with about 50 years of acquaintance in a advanced ambit of projects and industries and one of the world’s arch authorities on avant-garde activity management; and Miles Shepherd, accomplished admiral and armchair of both the Association of Project Management (APM) in the UK and the International Project Management Association (IPMA), APM Fellow [Honorary], and aswell a arch and broadly accustomed amount in the all-around PM community. Mr. Shepherd is aswell an adviser and contributor for PMForum in the UK.
About the Global Threat Reduction Initiative
The GTRI mission is to abate the blackmail of a agitator accepting the actual for a awkward nuclear weapon or a “dirty bomb”, by acceptable adopted governments in convalescent cradle-to-grave security, ascendancy and disposition of non-military nuclear and radioactive materials. The ambition of the GTRI affairs is to convert, secure, or abolish a advanced array of at-risk appropriate nuclear actual or alarming radiological abstracts that are broadly acclimated for medical, scientific, and automated purposes. GTRI operates in the USA and added than 100 allied countries common to abode at-risk nuclear and radiological abstracts that pose, or could pose, a blackmail adjoin the aegis of the USA and its allies and interests about the world. Additional advice can be begin at www.nnsa.doe.gov.
Editor@pmforum.org
Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s aboriginal website adherent to able activity administration and continues to be one of the world’s a lot of accepted sources of activity administration account and information. PMForum is a aggregation formed to accomplish and administrate the pmforum.org website. PMForum aswell produces the account online PM World Today eJournal area articles, case studies, affidavit and viewpoints by arch PM authorities from about the apple can be found; Free subscriptions are accessible at www.pmworldtoday.net. PMForum has a all-around arrangement of admiral and correspondents that includes some of the arch abstracts in the apple of activity management. The aggregation is able to action absolute advising and blank casework for called advantageous programs and projects.
According to David Pells, PMForum President and Managing Editor of PM World Today, “This is the affectionate of all-around action that we ambition to support. The ambit of the affairs is actual large, all-around in nature, and advised to advance all-around assurance and security. PMForum is accouterment a aggregation fatigued from a allotment of the a lot of accomplished and able activity administration experts in the apple to abutment this initiative, and we are captivated that we were arrive to participate.”
PMForum admiral are accommodating on a abstruse analysis team, alternating with assembly from several U.S. National Laboratories, to analysis the chip activity administration arrangement accepting developed for this important affairs and added activity administration accompanying issues as requested by the affairs administration team. Terms of the arrangement were not disclosed.
In accession to Mr. Pells, the able admiral on the PMForum aggregation cover Wayne Abba, broadly accustomed as one of the world’s arch authorities on becoming amount administration (EVM) in both industry and government; Russ Archibald, PMI Fellow, APM (UK) Honorary Fellow, and a Global Advisor for PMForum, with about 50 years of acquaintance in a advanced ambit of projects and industries and one of the world’s arch authorities on avant-garde activity management; and Miles Shepherd, accomplished admiral and armchair of both the Association of Project Management (APM) in the UK and the International Project Management Association (IPMA), APM Fellow [Honorary], and aswell a arch and broadly accustomed amount in the all-around PM community. Mr. Shepherd is aswell an adviser and contributor for PMForum in the UK.
About the Global Threat Reduction Initiative
The GTRI mission is to abate the blackmail of a agitator accepting the actual for a awkward nuclear weapon or a “dirty bomb”, by acceptable adopted governments in convalescent cradle-to-grave security, ascendancy and disposition of non-military nuclear and radioactive materials. The ambition of the GTRI affairs is to convert, secure, or abolish a advanced array of at-risk appropriate nuclear actual or alarming radiological abstracts that are broadly acclimated for medical, scientific, and automated purposes. GTRI operates in the USA and added than 100 allied countries common to abode at-risk nuclear and radiological abstracts that pose, or could pose, a blackmail adjoin the aegis of the USA and its allies and interests about the world. Additional advice can be begin at www.nnsa.doe.gov.
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