A recent Total Environmental Centre (TEC) report has demonstrated the benefits of investment in improving the energy efficiency of commercial buildings. The case study draws on six commercial buildings in Sydney.
The motivation for investing in commercial building upgrades and retrofits were many. Some organisations were looking to increase asset value, others wanted to attract higher rental incomes. In all cases, the works focused on reducing the buildings …
If you’ve ever thought about putting a wind turbine on your suburban house, but then started to research it, you’ll know that wind turbines don’t work too well in cities and the suburbs.
Even if its windy, turbulence means that unless you can get your turbine very high – three times as high as anything within a few hundred meters (including your house), the turbine simply won’t generate much wind.
I recently saw a study of 30 odd urban wind turbine installations in the UK which showed very poor performance.
It looks as though this problem may have been overcome with a radical new design. Humdinger, a US company, have come up with a wind generator that makes electricity from the vibrations of a belt flapping in the wind. Its a great sounding idea. From the looks of their website the product isn’t yet in commercial production – so don’t get too excited yet.
But I like the thinking behind the idea – instead of trying to make something with blades and a rotary motion – make it linear, and in theory it may be more reliable and robust than a rotary device where there is lots of turbulence.
CarbonetiX director Bruce Rowse will be presenting at the Green Energy Asia 2012 conference.
Bruce will be speaking along side other international guests including Datuk Ir. Ahmad Fauzi Bin Hasan – the CEO of thehe Energy Commissions Malaysia.
His speech, titled “Energy Efficiency in Buildings – The Road to 2020″ will be the only presentation directly addressing the pivitol role energy efficiency technologies will play in the coming five years.
We wish Bruce a safe trip and congratulate him on being chosen to represent both Australia and Energy Efficiency at this prestigious world event.
All Queensland businesses who consume 30TJ (terra joules) or more of electricity and gas per year are required to under take an Energy Audit and prepare an Energy Savings Plan.
This roughly equates to yearly gas and electricity costs of above $700,000.
The required plan must contain a minimum of one energy efficiency measure, one energy conservation measure and one energy management measure.
These measures are designed to ensure cost-effective reductions in energy costs are being pursued, which will benefit both the organisation (by saving money) and the environment (by saving carbon).
CarbonetiX have been providing large businesses with energy efficiency solutions since 2001. Our team are fully qualified to undertake the required level 2 energy audit under Australian Standard AS/NZS 3598:2000.
Further, our staff will turn this audit into an appropritate Energy Savings Plan that suites your budget.
Organisations with a well prepared Energy Savings Plan can cost-effectively save 10-30% on gas and electricity.
Any Queensland organisation that needs an Energy Audit or Energy Savings Plan under the Smart Energy Saving Program should speak to an energy efficiency engineer.
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