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.
For many it seems like carbon neutral – offsetting all carbon emissions so that the net output is zero – is the holy grail. But what about going carbon negative? Achieving “neutral” status is a worthy enough goal, let alone surpassing this to actually remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than you produce, but one small country in Asia is already there: Bhutan.
