Homebuyers across the EU could be offered better borrowing rates on mortgages in return for purchasing more energy efficient homes or committing to implement energy saving work within properties, under a ground-breaking project being pioneered by a unique partnership of banks, property valuers, energy efficiency businesses and utility providers.
Tag Archives: Energy efficiency
One town’s bold strategy for energy independence
The small town of Kisielice in northern Poland has a lot of farmland. Over the past few years, the town has taken steps to make use of this land in order to achieve new energy goals: abandoning its dependence on coal, reducing emissions, and improving air quality.
Efficient Buildings Days
The “Efficient Buildings Days: Open up!”/NZB2021 project funded by the European Union through its Intelligent Energy Europe programme was launched in August 2012.
The future of greenhouses is blue!
KUBO has always been a greenhouse builder with a name that is synonymous with renewal, but today KUBO stretches the limits of possibility even further. Possibilities in energy savings, possibilities in water use reduction, possibilities of increasing yields.
LED lighting – Part II
We could hear many times, that LED is the light source of the future, and that much energy can be saved by using LEDs. Nowadays LEDs are available readily, but are we knowledgeable about how to chose?
LED lighting – Part I
LEDs are used frequently also in Hungary instead of the traditional fluorescent lamps thanks to the consistent development of the technology, but the usage is still lagging behind the countries of Western Europe according to experts.
Energy management – Part I
The consumption of energy in the world has increased by 45 % since the 1980-ies, and a further 70 % increase is expected by 2030. We must be aware of the fact that 21 % of all energy is consumed by the households, which is a huge amount. Energy management is a tool that can help greatly in utilizing the available energy sources efficiently, and in turn, in saving energy. The energy management system therefore are becomingmore and more important nowadays.
The world’s first water house
The world’s first water house was shown to professionals on Saturday in Kecskemet, a city in central Hungary, Hungarian News Agency MTI reported.
Climate Change Solution – Ocean Energy Turbine
Limitless clean renewable energy – Crowd Energy, having completed construction and successful testing of its first generation prototype of the Ocean Energy Turbine, will launch a major crowdfunding campaign to construct a second generation turbine and move the project to (SNMREC) Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida Atlantic University for verification and open water testing.
Audi Hungaria at the top in energy efficiency
The economical use of energy and operation sustainable for the long term are both completely and systematically integrated factors as elements of the Audi Hungaria strategy. In the certification process Audi Hungaria has – for the first time – integrated its new car production into the system of EMAS guidelines.
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