Since their introduction over eight years ago, Display Energy Certificates (DECs) have helped to provide countless businesses with valuable information about their buildings energy consumption. In a recent article on the CIBSE Blog, CIBSE Research Associate in Energy Benchmarking Sung-Min Hong of University College London gives his thoughts on the value of DECs and their future.
Last year, Denmark generated over 42 percent of its electricity using wind turbines alone, beating their own world record for wind power generation, set during the previous year, by 3 percent. This is the highest proportion of wind power generation for any country and puts Denmark well on the path to reaching its target of providing at least 50 percent of its energy from wind power generation by 2020.
After a recent breakthrough from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), incandescent light bulbs, banned for general-purpose by the Government in 2012, could be making a strong comeback.
ISO 50001 is an internationally recognised standard for Energy Management. It is recognised as the standard practice framework for managing your energy performance and addressing your energy costs, while helping you to reduce your environmental impact and meet emissions reductions targets.
The deadline for businesses to register with the Environment Agency (EA) their compliance with the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) has now passed.