According to Yves Tuyishime, carbon market and CDM investment promotion officer at the Rwanda Environment Management Authority REMA, the mechanism allows developed countries to meet their emissions reduction targets in a cost effective manner.

In Rwanda, projects that have the potential to be included in CDM include reforestation, waste management, biomass waste/biogas usage, energy efficiency and renewable energy.

Researchers from FOM Institute AMOLF, together with Philips Research, have developed a new type of anti-reflective coating that can reduce the reflection of a silicon wafer, the base material for solar cells, from 40% to 1%. This can significantly increase the efficiency of solar cells.  The new anti-reflection coating can also find applications in coatings for lenses, cameras and photo detectors.

Most experts agree that prices for energy storage will fall in coming years, but disagree over how far and how quickly. This is an important debate because a significant drop in battery prices could have wide-ranging effects across industries and society itself. In particular, cheaper batteries could enable the broader adoption of electrified vehicles, potentially disrupting the transportation, power, and petroleum sectors.

The Global Solar Opportunity Tool enables analysis and visualization of the technical and economic potential for solar electric technologies ranging from residential rooftop systems to utility-scale installations for countries around the world. The Clean Energy Solutions Center has established this tool to assist policymakers and analysts in understanding the size and location of market opportunities for cost-effective deployment of solar technologies.

ALDE MEP Fiona Hall (UK, Liberal Democrats), who took part in the negotiations with Member States on the Energy Efficiency Directive on behalf of the Liberals and Democrats, has welcomed the deal brokered last night. Commenting on the deal, she said: "Although the text in Article 6 on the energy efficiency obligation schemes is not as strong as the Parliament wanted, it is an important achievement that for the first time ever Member States will have to have a long term strategy with policy and measures in place for dealing with the energy efficiency of their buildings. "In addition, the Parliament secured an early review of the deal in 2016 including of the exemptions that currently weaken Article 6. "Thanks to the changes insisted upon by the Parliament, the directive will now achieve 17% of the 20% energy efficiency savings needed by 2020 - as compared to less than 15% before last night.

Staff from the university have been working in partnership with a social landlord in the north-west of England to examine how new tenants of five typical, semi-detached three-bedroom properties respond to a range of interventions to make them more energy aware – and use the energy within their homes more wisely – over a period of two years.

In “Money Well Spent: Industrial Energy Efficiency Program Spending in 2010“, the ACEEE details, for apparently the first time ever, the total U.S. industrial energy efficiency deployment and technical assistance at the federal, state and utility levels.