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Retailers can capitalize on energy management and see ROI as high as 30 percent

Renewable Energy World

HVAC has taken on a new significance in the age of COVID-19. With HVAC systems sized correctly for the buildings they serve, air quality monitoring should reveal the building is adequately ventilated. There are of course many other challenges related to HVAC systems in retail shopping environments. About the author.

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Siemens publishes advice for businesses on steps to decarbonise

Envirotec Magazine

Industry leaders have paved the way, with Google having been carbon-neutral since 2007 and Microsoft since 2012. The interventions can be anything from a basic upgrade to LED lighting to a more sophisticated upgrade to electric motors and their drives in a manufacturing facility, or improvements in the efficiency of a building’s HVAC system.

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Generac further expands into grid business with ecobee acquisition

Renewable Energy World

One of the first companies to deliver smart thermostats, ecobee was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Residential HVAC systems represent the largest energy-consuming device in the home today and ecobee’s smart thermostats and sensors offer the most intelligent way to balance comfort with conservation.

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Steps taken by Government of India in Promoting Energy Efficient Buildings

Econaur

As an outcome of this act, a first-generation building code, the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), came into effect in 2007. In 2001, the Indian Government introduced the Energy Conservation Act (Bureau of Energy Efficiency, 2011).

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Steps taken by Government of India in Promoting Energy Efficient Buildings

Econaur

As an outcome of this act, a first-generation building code, the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC), came into effect in 2007. In 2001, the Indian Government introduced the Energy Conservation Act (Bureau of Energy Efficiency, 2011).

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It's high time for the cannabis industry to embrace sustainability

Business Green

He participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. The company's homepage states that it produces "Sustainable Cannabis Powered by Solar," but the story inside reveals that the company "burns natural gas and captures heat to circulate into the HVAC system."

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Canada’s power grid is pretty clean. Here’s why it needs to be cleaner

Clean Energy Canada

It includes the people who make our homes waste less energy: insulators and HVAC operators. Similarly, Ontario reduced its coal-fired power generation from 25 per cent in 2007 to zero seven years later and saw a pollution cut equal to taking seven million cars off the road. million cars off the road.