Alliance to Save Energy

St. Louis — regarded as the Gateway to the West — is also becoming the gateway to sustainability for the state of Missouri. Central to increasing energy efficiency in St. Louis has been the Energy Department’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program. St. Louis identified its City Hall — considered the “crown jewel” of the city’s buildings portfolio — as a building that could benefit from retrofit. Before making upgrades, the city conducted an energy audit of the building and determined that it was only occupied 40 percent of the year. The city saw an opportunity to reduce energy use for the other 60 percent of the year when the systems require minimal operation. EECBG funds were leveraged to help meet these energy efficiency goals — including HVAC retrofits, internal lighting upgrades, direct digital control upgrades and whole building lighting upgrades — and resulted in energy savings up to 50 percent.

ireland energy efficiency fund Despite – or perhaps because of - the acute economic recession in Ireland, the Irish government has earmarked USD 45 million in seed capital for a new energy efficiency fund to help reduce the cash-strapped nation's ...

China will step up efforts to cut its emissions and improve energy efficiency this year after record air pollution in Beijing, where the national legislature opens its annual meeting today. The government plans to reduce the nation's carbon emissions ...

Now, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's (NYSERDA) EmPower New York program has enlisted the Community Environmental Center (CEC), a Queens nonprofit that brings energy efficiency to New York City residents, ...