Renewable Energy and Bio Fuels
| Fashion meets renewable energy – clothes that charge your smartphone
The guardian Market: Global, Year: 2014 From fibres that convert sunlight into electrical energy, to uploading your kinetic energy to a green energy bank, the worlds of fashion and technology are merging |
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| Expensive, toxic and carcinogenic cadmium used in solar can be replaced with milk / tofu ingredient!
sourceable.net Market: Global, Year: 2014 Scientists from the University of Liverpool have discovered that toxic cadmium chloride can be replaced using an ingredient which is cheap and innocuous enough to be employed in the manufacture of food products such as soy milk and tofu. Magnesium chloride was an ideal fit for the production process. The chemical is extremely safe and a mere three-hundredth the cost of cadmium chloride, retailing for around US$1 per kilo. Read more… |
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| A High-Renewables Tomorrow, Today: El Hierro, Canary Islands
Rocky Mountain Institute Market: Spain, Year:2014 Islands confront some of the most difficult energy challenges. Their size and remoteness means they pay extremely high energy costs for often unreliable and dirty energy. Yet many islands are blessed with large amounts of sun, wind, and water, making renewable energy a promising solution. Find out more…
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| Case Study
2012 and 2013 UK Guardian Sustainable Business Awards The Guardian Sustainable Business in the UK has some great case studies from their annual Sustainable Business Awards. Check out winners in Energy from 2012 and 2013
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| Clean Energy Progress Report
International Energy Agency. Market: France, Year: 2011 The report provides an overview of technology deployment status, key policy developments and public spending on RDD&D of clean energy technologies. It also offers a series of recommendations as input to the discussions that will take place among the ministers attending the second Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) in Abu Dhabi. International_Energy_Agency_Clean_Energy_Progress_Report.pdf |
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| Fuel-Thrifty Clean Efficient
A.T. Kearney. Market: Global, Year: 2009 A.T. Kearney developed, researched and analyzed the 2008-209 Powertrain of the Future study for manufacturers and suppliers in the global automotive industry. The result is an across-the-board look at the powertrain landscape. |
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| Green Electricity – Making a Difference
Market: Global, Year: 2009 An international overview by PwC on renewable electricity labels and markets Our study aims to create a basis for decision-makers who wish to purchase electricity from renewable sources and who demand quality and reliability. |
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| Delivering on Earth’s Solar Potential
Market: Global, Year: 2009 PwC and The Climate Group believe that as part of a multifaceted approach, Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) can play a key role in addressing the climate change challenge. This document outlines how the development of a Smart Transmission Grid across Europe and the development of CSP plants across North Africa could be used not only to address immediate energy security concerns, but also deliver much needed economic and social development across this region. |
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| Fuel-Thrifty Clean Efficient
Market: Global, Year: 2009 A.T. Kearney developed, researched and analyzed the 2008-209 Powertrain of the Future study for manufacturers and suppliers in the global automotive industry. The result is an across-the-board look at the powertrain landscape. |
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| Intelligent transport – How cities can improve mobility
IBM . Market: Global, Year: 2009 This IBM report has conducted research in over 50 developed and developing world citie. Most leaders agree that infrastructure investments are necessary in terms of transport systems. However, the constraints of tight capital budgets are driving an increased focus on the need to better manage transport demand and supply through deploying intelligent transport systems (ITS). This report provides five recommendations to assist cities in using new technologies to achieve optimized, integrated transport services. |
| Investing in Sustainable Transport: Our clean, green transport future
Australian Conservation Foundation . Market: Australia, Year: 2009 The report is released by Australian Conservation Foundation and it suggests that our dependency on cars creates more congestion, results in poor health, kills more people and creates avoidable pollution. Building more roads is not the solution. The expected doubling in demand for private motorised transport in the next decade and forecast global decline of oil supplies will result in increasingly urgent problems. |
| Mobility for Development – Executive Summary
WBCSD . Market: Bangalore, Dar es Salaam, São Paulo and Shanghai, Year: 2009 The WBCSD studied the state of mobility in four rapidly growing cities in the developing world – Bangalore, Dar es Salaam, São Paulo and Shanghai. Its final report concludes that although mobility opportunities are increasing and are an important driver of economic development in all cities, overall mobility systems are not sustainable and for poorer residents the mobility situation is deteriorating. |
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| Mobility for Development
Market: Developing Region, Year: 2009 Today’s mobility systems in rapidly developing cities are not sustainable and the situation is deteriorating, although opportunities are increasing and are an important driver of economic development, concludes the WBCSD’s Mobility for Development final report. MobilityForDevelopment-FullReport.pdf
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| Investing in Sustainable Transport: Our clean, green transport future
Market: Australia, Year: 2009 The report is released by Australian Conservation Foundation and it suggests that our dependency on cars creates more congestion, results in poor health, kills more people and creates avoidable pollution. Building more roads is not the solution. The expected doubling in demand for private motorised transport in the next decade and forecast global decline of oil supplies will result in increasingly urgent problems. Investing_in_Sustainable_Transport.pdf
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| Intelligent transport – How cities can improve mobility
Market: Global, Year: 2009 This IBM report has conducted research in over 50 developed and developing world citie. Most leaders agree that infrastructure investments are necessary in terms of transport systems. However, the constraints of tight capital budgets are driving an increased focus on the need to better manage transport demand and supply through deploying intelligent transport systems (ITS). This report provides five recommendations to assist cities in using new technologies to achieve optimized, integrated transport services.
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| Mobility for Development – Executive Summary
Market: Bangalore, Dar es Salaam, São Paulo and Shanghai, Year: 2009 The WBCSD studied the state of mobility in four rapidly growing cities in the developing world – Bangalore, Dar es Salaam, São Paulo and Shanghai. Its final report concludes that although mobility opportunities are increasing and are an important driver of economic development in all cities, overall mobility systems are not sustainable and for poorer residents the mobility situation is deteriorating. WBCSD_BrochureMforDSummary.pdf
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| Mobility as a Driver of Economic Development: São Paulo, Brazil
Market: São Paulo, Brazil, Year: 2009 This case study, part of the WBCSD’s Mobility for Development project, investigates the mobility situation in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It highlights the dramatic shift in patterns of mobility over the last 40 years and looks at ways to better integrate different transport modes and thereby reduce heavy congestion on the city’s roads. |
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| Decisions – Fleet Management
Market: UK, Year: 2008 Are you a driver? If you are, you should browse this collection of brochures that help you control your fleet costs. |
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| Modelling of the future of transport fuels in Australia
Market: Australia, Year:2008 This report provides the technical detail behind the projections presented in the report Fuel for thought (CSIRO and Future Fuels Forum, 2008). It describes the modelling framework that was applied, the scenario and model assumptions that were used to underpin the modelling and the detailed model results associated with each scenario examined. The report contains results for a number of sensitivity cases not discussed in detail in Fuel for thought. While the core drivers of the main scenarios are greenhouse gas emissions trading and changes in international oil supply, the sensitivity cases address uncertainty around social preferences for travel, additional policies that might be considered by governments and technological uncertainty in regard to biofuels, hydrogen, nuclear power and CO2 capture and storage. CSIRO_Modelling_of_the_future_of_transport_fuels_in_Aust.pdf
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| Fuel for thought – The future of transport fuels: challenges and opportunities
Market: Australia, Year: 2008 The Future Fuels Forum was formed in November 2007 in recognition that the transport sector is facing serious challenges from pressures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increasingly constrained international oil supplies. The Forum’s purpose in light of these challenges was to explore scenarios, conduct quantitative modeling and share ideas as a group so as to inform policy and investment decision making within their own organisations and within the broader Australian community through the publication of this report.
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| Biofuels issues brief
Market: Global, Year: 2007 This issue brief focuses on the use of biofuels in the transport sector. Although biofuels are being pursued as a possible alternative to fossil fuels, currently most of the biofuels available for motor fuels are more expensive to produce per unit of energy delivered compared to oil derived from fossil fuels. If fuel costs are to come down, considerable development and government investment will be required to improve manufacturing and distribution technology… |
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