This paper examines the ways different European Union (EU) member states, including the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Denmark and Belgium, have implemented energy supplier obligations and white certificate programs and how different designs have impacted the results.
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Source: American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Date: August 2010
This report examines the findings of the U.S.
Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Department of Energy
Date: July 2008
This paper describes how California (CA)'s investor-owned utilities (IOUs) promoted emerging technologies from 1997 to 2000 to increase energy efficiency in the buildings sector.
Source: United States Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Date: July 2000
This paper attempts to answer the following questions: What is new about the recent raft of white certificate energy efficiency schemes and is there anything that makes them more effective than the older approaches?
Source: Energy Efficiency
Date: September 2008
This resource presents demand response (DR) potential results from top-performing programs in the United States and Canada, as well as a DR potential survey instrument for residential direct load control programs. It also summarizes computer modelling approaches to estimating DR potential.
Source: International Energy Agency
Date: July 2005
This report reviews the emissions and environmental issues associated with geothermal energy. Environmental issues addressed include noise pollution, water quality, land use, geothermal resources and impacts on wildlife and vegetation.
Source: Geothermal Energy Association
Date: April 2007
This presentation from the Fraunhofer ISE discusses various elements of solar air-conditioning and refrigeration technology, including components and systems, deployment achievements, a comparison between solar thermal and solar photovoltaics, challenges to further market penetration, and conclu
Source: Fraunhofer ISE
Date: October 2010
This website presents an overview of total installed wind energy capacity in Spain per year from 2000 to 2010. The page also presents the main market developments from 2010; a policy summary; a discussion of the revision in feed-in tariffs in 2010; and a future market outlook.
Source: Global Wind Energy Council
This report contains an overview of renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE/EE) legislation and policies in China at the national level along with examples of RE/EE activities in the provinces, several major municipalities and some autonomous regions.
Source: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, University of Warwick
Date: January 2010
The handbook compiles information from multiple sources on the major barriers confronting the deployment of renewable energy and distributed generation, cogeneration and combined heat and power (alternative energy) projects into one document.
Source: Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, United States Energy Association
Date: February 2009