A holistic perspective of energy management
02 January, 2010
How can lighting designers use intelligent controls to improve building energy management? Philips Dynalite Energy Management Segment Manager, Brett Annesley, explains how an environmentally sustainable development (ESD) strategy can deliver energy efficiency outcomes, while addressing indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and changing occupancy requirements.
Student’s vision of clean energy may come true
02 January, 2010 by Richard Maino
A young engineering student may have found a brilliant way to fulfil every scientist’s ‘unattainable’ dream of renewable energy.
Hitting the compressor ‘sweet-spot’
01 January, 2010 | Supplied by: Hitachi Global Air Power
Properly matching an air compressor to the application is the first step towards improving energy efficiency. Rather like a tennis racquet, each compressor variant has a 'sweet-spot' - defining the duty zone at which the compressor operates with the highest efficiency. Represented graphically, the sweet-spot is a distinct zone within a given range of operating hours per year, and percentage loads.
Water concerns still strong in cities
21 December, 2009
A Newspoll conducted for the Smart Approved Water Mark has found more than 90% of respondents in the five capital cities surveyed still think the water situation is at least "somewhat serious".
Industry award for South East Water’s Flinders sewerage project
18 December, 2009
South East Water has been awarded Infrastructure Project Innovation and Water Professional of the Year at the recent Australian Water Association (AWA) Victorian Excellence Awards 2009.
ACCC issues draft advice on water trading rules
18 December, 2009
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued its draft advice to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority on the development of water trading rules. The ACCC is inviting submissions from interested stakeholders.
Global search is on for future sustainability leaders
17 December, 2009
The Centre for Sustainability Leadership is looking for people with the drive and potential to become sustainability leaders.
Busway wins prestigious best project of the year award
16 December, 2009
The Queensland government’s Inner Northern Busway - Queen Street to Upper Roma Street (INB) has won the prestigious overall Project of the Year Award at the Australian Consulting Engineers Association (ACEA) Awards for Excellence dinner, held in Brisbane.
Streamline sustainable business program for Western Sydney industrial hub
16 December, 2009
Clean Up Australia Chairman and founder Ian Kiernan AO has joined Auburn and Parramatta City Councils for the launch of Streamline, a new sustainable business program designed to reduce water and energy use and minimise waste production in one of Sydney’s most significant industrial hubs.
$2.8m to help manufacturers go green
09 December, 2009
A brickworks, a dairy and a polyethylene plant are among 13 manufacturers Australia wide to benefit from the Rudd government’s Re-tooling for Climate Change program, to reduce water use or greenhouse gas emissions in their production processes.
Global CCS Institute welcomes CCS Flagship Program short list
09 December, 2009
The Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Institute has welcomed the Australian government’s announcement to progress the development of four large-scale commercial CCS plants across the country.
AGL wins sustainability award
09 December, 2009
AGL Energy has won the Australasian Investor Relations Association award for Best Environmental, Social & Governance Disclosure by an Australasian Company.
Australian government moves clean coal development forward
09 December, 2009
The Wandoan Power Consortium's proposal for one of the world’s first integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been shortlisted for the next stage of the federal government’s CCS Flagship Program. The Wandoan Power Consortium is working to develop a state-of-the-art cleaner coal plant in Queensland.
AWA Victoria awards recognise excellence
08 December, 2009
South East Water received two awards at the Australian Water Association (AWA) Victorian Excellence Awards 2009 last Friday.
CPRS defeated again
07 December, 2009
It came as no surprise last week that the Labor government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was defeated for the second time in the Senate. Under the new coalition rule of Tony Abbott, only two liberal senators crossed the floor and voted with their opposition for the ETS legislation - they were Senators Sue Boyce and Judith Troeth. At 33 votes for to 41 against, their votes were not enough to pass the bill.
