To help curb the consumption and keep your cottage green, follow these simple energy-efficiency upgrades from Sally Morse, director of creative services for window treatment manufacturer Hunter Douglas.

Rather than rely on an electric utility to burn more coal or natural gas to provide electricity, as well as its own boilers to burn more fuel to provide heat, the facility decided to install a combined heat and power (CHP) unit.

Back in 2008, Illinois raised its energy efficiency standards, rewarding electricity ratepayers who, for example, used energy-efficient light bulbs or better insulated their factories. As result since then, all consumers have saved more than $1 billion.

For the past time, the Ministry of Transport has been interested in and worked out several policies to promote efficient use of energy, development of renewable energy through programs and projects in implementation of National target program on the economical and efficient use of energy.

The British dairy industry has made significant progress in reducing energy consumption in dairy production through energy saving measures.

Supermarket cold cases and wall refrigerators use about half the electricity load of a typical supermarket, making them big energy-saving targets for businesses operating on razor-thin margins.

As part of the administration’s effort to cut energy waste in the nation’s buildings and double energy productivity by 2030, the Energy Department today announced $4 million to develop and demonstrate new energy efficiency solutions for the nation’s homes.

The government on Friday launched its annual Cool Biz energy-saving campaign for late spring and summer.

In a bid to promote green energy, engineering students from a technical high school college in Mexico have designed a motorcycle that runs on self-generated energy.

CET’s Green Business Department helps businesses throughout the state save money and go green through energy conservation, renewable energy, and waste reduction assistance.

In order to savings, BEE launched the AgDSM scheme, whereby it would undertake replacement of inefficient pumps by efficient ones through an Energy Service Company (ESCO), at no additional cost to the farmer.

Cameroon and Korea are currently considering to craft a strategy to develop renewable energy in the country.

Providing cheap and clean power for the areas’ population, the small power plants are stimulating income-generation activities and helping reduce poverty in the country..

By using a company’s new material called Thermosaver, it keeps insulation and reduces the thickness of the pipe by two thirds. Using it for 1km piping, the plant can save up to 100K megawatt for one year.

Transporting one person a distance of one mile by aircraft consumed on average the energy equivalent to 2,465 British thermal units (BTUs), compared with 4,211 BTUs for moving one person one mile by car, in 2012.

Three city colleges are on schedule to save more than $1 million in annual energy costs through an initiative started four years ago, according to a news release from the College of the Holy Cross.

ASEAN member states have committed themselves to work together to switch to efficient lighting standards and policies, a move that will significantly reduce energy consumption in the region.

The UAE can achieve energy system savings of $1.9 billion (Dh6.98 billion) annually by 2030 by producing a 10 per cent share of renewable energy in its total energy supply and almost 25 per cent in the power sector, according to a new report.

As speculated by experts and scientists, energy savings will contribute substantially to promoting a green economy for sustainable development. Therefore, the economical and efficient use of energy is of utmost urgency at the moment.

A £96m project will promote cleaner and more efficient energy in Morocco. The Clean and Efficient Energy Project will be co-financed by a US$125 million (£80m) World Bank loan and a US$23.95 million (£16m) loan.