he European Commission today launched infringement
procedures against Belgium, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Latvia,
Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden for failure to notify
their national Energy Efficiency Action Plan by 30 June 2007, as required by the
2006 Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services
Directive[1]. The
Action Plans should present national strategies on how to achieve a 9% energy
savings target by the end of 2016 as well as how Member States comply with a
number of other provisions of the Directive.
Colin Bennett on 05 Feb 09PG&E may be installing millions of smart meters in Northern California, but the nation of Malta (pop. 400,000) is about to become the world's first smart grid island. IBM is building the island's national smart grid network, which will consist of 250,000 smart meters placed in homes around the country.
