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Strength & Conditioning
The Duke University Strength and Conditioning Staff invites you to participate in a clinic designed to teach you the techniques of strength training, speed development and agility training. The clinic is conducted by William Stephens, Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for men's and women's basketball. Sessions will be between 6-8 p.m. weekdays from January 1 - December 31. Weekend sessions are optional.
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Field Hockey
Winter Weekend
The Duke field hockey staff will hold its 2014 Winter Weekend February 22-23, 2014. The Winter Weekend is open to middle school and high school girls. For more information visit the camp website or contact Britt Broady: email@example.com.
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Winter Camp, the DUKE Goalie School Junior Blue Devil Winter Camp
The Duke women's lacrosse winter camps will be held Dec. 27-29 on the campus of Duke University. The lineup of winter camp sessions includes a new Junior Blue Devil Winter Camp open to lacrosse players grades seven and eight with all levels of playing experience. To register, visit the camp website.
Women's Soccer
The Duke women's soccer staff will hold the 2013 Keeper/Striker Clinic (ages 10-14) on March 8, 2013 from 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Women's soccer will also host the 2013 College Prospect Clinic (ages 14-18) on March 9, 2013 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. For more information, contact assistant coach Katie Ely at 919-668-5788 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Field Hockey
Individual/Team Camp
The Duke women's field hockey staff will hold the 2014 Individual and Team Camp July 26-29, 2014. It is open to middle school and high school girls (note: only high school-aged girls are eligible to stay overnight). For more information visit the camp dukefieldhockeycamps.com or contact Britt Broady: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Elite Camp
The Duke women's field hockey staff will hold the 2014 Elite Camp July 30-August 2, 2014. It is open to middle school and high school girls. For more information visit dukefieldhockeycamps.com or contact Britt Broady: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Duke Academy of Golf
The 2014 Duke Academy of Golf is directed by women's golf head coach Dan Brooks and is for boys and girls ages 11 and older. This is the 17th year of the popular Academy, while Coach Brooks has been involved in running a golf camp at Duke for 28 years. Over the years, students have come from 37 states and numerous foreign countries to participate in the Academy and benefit from the outstanding instruction. Dates for the summer of 2014 are set for June 21-26 and June 28-July 3. For more information, call Academy contact Tom Kosempa at (919) 681-2022 and please leave your evening phone number on the machine. You can also e-mail Tom at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Below are the 2013 Duke Football Camp dates. For all of the detailed information on each camp you can click on the below link, call (919) 684-2635 or email Duke Football at firstname.lastname@example.com.
David Cutcliffe QB College: (Rising 9th -12th Graders) June 13-14, 2013 *Overnight Camp
Duke Football 1 Day Camp: (Rising 9th 12th Graders) June 2, 2013
Duke Football 1 Day Camp: (Rising 9th -12th Graders) June 15, 2013
Duke Football 7-on-7 Camp: (Limited to First 16 Teams) June 8, 2013 (no online registration, call for more information)
Duke Football Youth Camp: (Ages 6-14) June 9-12, 2013
Duke Football Big Man Camp: (Rising 9th-12th Graders) June 9-10, 2013 (offensive & defensive linemen) * Overnight Camp
Duke Football Kicking Camp: (Rising 7th-12th Graders) June 12-13, 2013 (includes long snappers) *Overnight Camp
Men's Golf
Blue Devil Golf Schools
The 2013 Blue Devil Golf Schools are directed by men's golf coach Jamie Green, who is in his fifth year at Duke and has spent 19 years as an instructor or director of golf camps. As always, the camp staff will include only College Golf Coaches and PGA Class A Professionals. Due to the re-design and new construction of the green complexes on the 18-hole Duke University Golf Club, the Blue Devil Golf Schools are excited to focus on two-day sessions this summer. In 2014, the Blue Devil Golf Schools will run week-long camps as well as two-day sessions. The newest session is the Parent-Child School which runs June 28-29. The Short Game School, one of our most popular sessions over the past few years, takes place June 30 - July 1, while the Elite School, designed to give middle school and high school golfers an in depth look into the life of a Division I collegiate golfer, runs July 2-3. For more information, check out www.bluedevilgolfschools.com.
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Women's Soccer
The Duke Women's Soccer staff will hold the 2013 Duke Soccer School for Girls Residential Camps June 9-13 (ages 10-18) and June 15-19 (ages 12-18). The 2013 Day Camp for ages 6-14 will be held June 10-14. The Elite Camp will be held July 27-30 (grades 9-12). For more information, contact associate coach Billy Lesesne at (919) 681-3456 or email@example.com.
Duke University Nike Tennis Camp
The Nike Tennis Camp at Duke University is a summer camp for young athletes to take their tennis game to the next level. Our junior tennis camps combine technical instruction and drilling from a top notch coaching staff, supervised match play, and a variety of evening social activities.
Rich in pride and history, Duke University provides the ideal environment to receive tennis instruction from some of the best collegiate coaches and players in the country and play with peers from all over the U.S. Come work hard, make new friends and have a lot of fun. Our goal is to give players the opportunity to hit tons of balls, improve their technique, and be challenged by other players in their peer group. Come individually or come with your teammates. Your days will be filled with tennis and fun!
Camp Dates:
June 9-13 (Ages 9-18)
June 16-20 (Ages 9-18)
June 23-27 (Ages 9-18)
June 29-July 3 (Ages 13-18)
Track and Field/Cross Country
Duke Running Camp
The Duke University cross country and track and field team will hold their annual Duke Running Camp from July 31- August 4, 2013. It is open to all boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 18. Registration is now open online and will continue through July 15th, or until all spots are filled. For more information go to www.DukeRunningCamp.com.
- General Infomation (PDF)
- Camp Schedule (PDF)
- Summer Health Form (PDF)
- Enrolled Camper Information (PDF)
Duke Track and Field Camp
The Duke Track & Field Camp will be held July 10-th13, 2013. The camp is divided into events area's and spread over a 4 day session. The event areas consist of sprints, jumps, hurdles, throws and the Famous Duke Pole Vault Camp. For more information and to register go to www.duketrackandfieldcamp.com.
Skills Camp
Duke Volleyball will hold its 2013 Skills Camp from July 13-16. The Skills Camp is open to girls ages 12-18. For more information, please contact Christina Falcone (email: firstname.lastname@example.com - office 919-668-2545) or Jolene Nagel (email: email@example.com - office: 919-684-2778).
Speciality Camp
The 2013 Specialty Camp will be held from July 17-19. The Specialty Camp is open to girls in grades 9-12. For more information, please contact Christina Falcone (email: email@example.com - office: 919-684-2778) or Jolene Nagel (email: firstname.lastname@example.com - office: 919-684-2778).
Team Camp
The 2013 Team Camp will be held July 17-19. For more information, please contact Christina Falcone (email: firstname.lastname@example.com - office: 919-684-2778) or Jolene Nagel (email: firstname.lastname@example.com - office: 919-684-2778).


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Trine University was among a number of northeast Indiana organizations honored as original financial contributors to the Planned Giving Council of Northeast Indiana (PGCNI) Leave a Legacy/Write a Will campaign launched 10 years ago.
Trine Vice President for University Development Bob Remington, right, receives an award honoring Trine as an inaugural funder of the Planned Giving Council of Northeast Indiana (PGCNI) Leave a Legacy/Write a Will Campaign 10 years ago. With Remington celebrating the campaign's anniversary are Tanya Howe Johnson of Partnership for Philanthropic Planning, left, and Zis Milentis, PGCNI president.
PGCNI celebrated the campaign's anniversary and honored inaugural contributors at a luncheon on Jan. 12 in Fort Wayne, Ind. Bob Remington, Trine Vice President for University Development, attended the luncheon to receive the university's honor.
PGCNI president Zis Milentis presented plaques to honored organizations, and Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry complimented honorees for their philanthropic contributions. Tanya Howe Johnson, president of Partnership for Philanthropic Planning, PGCNI's parent organization, also spoke.
PGCNI partners with nonprofit agencies and other volunteers and organizations in northeast Indiana on the week-long campaign, which employs mass media to inspire individuals to make charitable bequests in their wills. Estimated bequests to nonprofit organizations generated by the campaign since its inception exceed 1,000.
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Zuzi Dance Company's "Blood & Gold" inspired by life of Frida Kahlo
Monday, September 24th, 2012Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is an icon in Tucson, Arizona. A recent photo show at the Tucson Museum of Art chronicled her life with famous Mexican muralist/painter husband Diego Rivera, as well as her affair with the photographer of that show, Nicholas Muray. There are many artists in town who create decorative art around images of Frida Kahlo — in paintings, collages, wooden boxes, jewelry, etc.
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A. Agrawal, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Biophysics, Mechanics of Surfaces and Interfaces.
H. Ardebili, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Maryland; Lithium Ion Batteries, Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolytes, Lithium Ion Conduction, Materials for Energy Storage, Electronics Materials.
Richard Bannerot. Professor; Ph.D., Rice; PE: thermal sciences.
Y. C. Chen. Professor; Ph.D., Cornell: solid mechanics, composite materials.
C. Dalton. Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Texas at Austin; PE: fluid mechanics.
Matthew Franchek. Professor and Chair. B.S., University of Texas at Arlington; M.S., Ph.D., Texas A&M University.
Karolas M. Grigoriadis. Professor; Ph.D., Purdue: control systems analysis and design.
Fazle Hussain. Cullen Distinguished Professor; Ph.D., Stanford; PE: fluid mechanics.
Stanley Kleis. Associate Professor; Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan State: fluid mechanics.
Yashashree Kulkarni. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology: computational materials science.
Dong Liu. Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University: microscale thermal and fluid transport, two-phase flows.
P. Masson, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University Henri Poincaire, France; Power applications of superconductivity, electronomechanical systems, numerical modeling, multi-physics simulations.
A. Mavrokefalos, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; micro-nanomaterial and micro-nanotechnology.
R. W. Metcalf. Professor; Ph.D., MIT: computational fluid dynamics, spectral methods.
J. R. Rao. Associate Professor; Ph.D., Michigan: optimization theory, design methodology, systems modeling.
Kamel Salama. Professor Emeritus; Ph.D., Cairo: materials science, metallurgy, super conductivity.
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£150,000 for new ideas to help young people develop their talents and make a living
Designers and youth organisations are being invited to join forces to design, build and launch new digital products and services that help young people secure the opportunities they deserve in a new challenge, launched today by Design Council and Nominet Trust.
At a time when youth unemployment is at an all time high, the Working Well Design Challenge will offer three teams £50,000 each to develop an idea that will offer young people new opportunities to participate in society, both economically and socially. The challenge is being funded by Nominet Trust, and the Design Council will provide professional support and publicity to help each team make their ideas a reality.
The challenge organisers want to hear from people with expertise either in design and technology or working with young people. The challenge will foster collaboration between designer groups with digital product and service development expertise and the organisations working directly with young people.
Commenting on the new challenge, Chief Design Officer at the Design Council, Mat Hunter said:
"With record numbers of 16-24 year olds not in education, employment or training, there is a pressing need to improve how young people secure the opportunities they deserve. Jargon such as 'NEET' not only does many a disservice, but presents the situation as a problem of economic policy rather than an opportunity to do something practical to help. We believe well designed digital technology can build upon the skills and abilities of young people and the exceptional work of those already supporting them."
The submissions will be judged by an advisory board consisting of experts in design, digital technology, business and working with young people.
Annika Small, Chief Executive of Nominet Trust, explained why this challenge is so important:
"It's clear that our current systems are no longer sufficient to create the right opportunities for young people. We urgently need fresh thinking and new solutions. In particular, young people need products and services that help them prepare for, find and sustain employment. Digital technology allows us to explore new ways of helping them do just that in more meaningful and relevant ways".
Mat Hunter, Design Council went on to say:
"This is an exciting opportunity for designers and youth organisations to work collaboratively on a project that will make such a difference to young people's lives. The statistics are shocking, but our previous challenges have shown the impact design plays in addressing difficult social and health issues and I think teams will re-engage young people and provide practical help in giving them a proper start in life."
Working Well follows similar national design challenges run by the Design Council to develop design-led solutions to social and healthcare issues. The Design Council's Living Well With Dementia challenge recently resulted in five innovative products and services that have been critically acclaimed by dementia specialists and the design community. Other recent examples have addressed reducing violence and aggression in A&E, improving patient privacy and dignity, and reducing health care associated infections in wards.
The Working Well challenge opens on 16 May 2012 and applications will close on 20 June 2012, with the final three teams to be announced in July 2012.
Notes to editors
1. The Design Council enables people to use design to transform communities, business and the environment for the better. As an enterprising charity, our work creates value by stimulating innovation in business and public services, improving our built environment and tackling complex social issues. We inspire new design thinking, encourage public debate and inform government policy to improve everyday life and help meet tomorrow's challenges today. www.designcouncil.org.uk
2. Nominet Trust is a UK registered charity, which advocates the imaginative use of digital technologies to improve lives and communities. Since its inception in September 2008, Nominet Trust has invested in hundreds of projects, providing business support as well as financial investment, seeking to make a positive difference to the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people. www.nominettrust.org.uk
3. For further information, please contact:
Tim Crowley, Design Council: 020 7420 5263 / 07748 906897
For further information from Nominet Trust, or to arrange interviews with Annika Small, please contact:
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San Francisco, Calif. - October 1, 2013 - GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it has appointed CIO & EVP Technology Mark Worsey as the company's Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President Technology and Robert Carroll has joined as Chief Revenue Officer overseeing global sales, marketing, and products. With more than 40 years of combined industry experience, the two leaders position GoGrid to expand its market leadership.
San Francisco, Calif. - September 5, 2013 - GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced a new solution for establishing a dedicated network connection from any corporate data center or co-location environment to GoGrid's public cloud located at Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in Amsterdam and Washington, DC.
San Francisco, Calif. - May 16, 2013 - GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced the third in a series of cloud hosting meetups from 5:30–7:30pm on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at the 111 Minna Gallery (Second Street Room) in San Francisco. Guest speaker James Gosling, chief software architect at Liquid Robotics, will share his thoughts on creativity and why it takes more than innovative technology to make a good idea successful.
San Francisco, Calif. - May 1, 2013 - Jaspersoft, the intelligence inside applications and business processes, today announced that PeopleMatter, which is the largest provider of comprehensive HR software designed for hourly workforces, uses Jaspersoft to power the analytics and reporting components for its applications built on the GoGrid cloud platform. PeopleMatter selected Jaspersoft for the ease and speed with which it can be deployed in cloud applications, via its standards-based nature, as well as its competitive price point.
These industry leaders helped propel cloud computing to the forefront of technology innovation.
GoGrid is making noise as a small cloud IaaS-focused provider with a fixed-size, paid-by-the-VM, Xen-virtualized IaaS as a public cloud and private cloud. According to research firm Gartner, GoGrid is among the top five public cloud IaaS providers in the use of VMs.
Cloud infrastructure provider GoGrid announced on Tuesday that it has appointed three new executives to its management team. GoGrid named Heather McKelvey as vice president of engineering, Bryta Schulz as VP of marketing, and Dave Smith as VP of global sales.
Cloud hosting provider GoGrid said on Thursday that it is contributing the development of new big data technologies by contributing cloud computing resources to hack/reduce, a nonprofit research group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
GoGrid is a cloud hosting service, and operates Linux and Windows virtual machines. Their Hybird Hosting allows customers to provision virtual and dedicated servers on the same network. They also offer colocation services.
Gogrid provide a secure user platform intended to outlast the viruses and malwares. Their latest operating system allows data backup and offers a faster and more secure data storage option for the enterprises.
One of the biggest lessons learned by many of Salesforce.com's 2.1 million global subscribers, following the cloud computing giant's recent catastrophic power outage, is that support problems don't disappear when applications or infrastructures move to the cloud.
A failure of this magnitude highlights the need for end-users to first align their own internal support infrastructures with their cloud provider's before signing any agreement...This effectively raises the stakes when it comes to selecting an appropriate cloud service and dependable service provider.
Of course, even a watertight SLA is not a guarantee of a service provider's reliability, but more of an indication or guide as to how the company will react in a time of trouble.
A good example is cloud provider GoGrid's '10 000% guaranteed SLA'...it is clear GoGrid is offering a 100% uptime guarantee...
Cloud infrastructure provider GoGrid announced on Thursday that GoGrid server images with IBM's BigInsights and Streams are now available.
With the integrated solution, IBM partners that need to analyze large volumes of unstructured data or build big data applications based on Apache Hadoop can use the pre-built GoGrid server images.
"Solving today's big data challenges requires cutting-edge software and infrastructure, and this business partnership brings together the best of both," Bruce Weed, program director of global business development for IBM said in a statement. "GoGrid's automated cloud infrastructure platform and IBM's big data software work together to let businesses build SaaS and PaaS applications to address their need to analyze vast amounts of information."
TMCnet had the chance to catch up with Keagy earlier today to get a sneak peek at the content that will be covered tonight.
"Just about everyone has cloud-washed their offerings," he told TMCnet. "Everyone is doing well by slapping the label cloud on their offerings, but cloud is very young and things are developing quickly and this ability for vendors to achieve success just by slapping a cloud label on what they are doing is not going to be there in a couple of years."
Cloud computing always seems to progress at a rapid pace. Over just the past few years, the cloud as an industry model has matured from a promising yet passable curiosity enjoying fifteen minutes of fame into an indelible and mushrooming contributor to the contemporary technology community...and as a "pure-play IaaS provider," GoGrid is tough to beat for deployment of new applications and streamlining of workloads.
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Energy Efficiency Policies around the World: Review and Evaluation
4.2 Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Policies and Measures
These trends in energy and CO2 indicators are the results of various factors, amongst which are changes in energy prices and the energy efficiency policy measures.
Appropriate pricing is a necessary condition for promoting energy efficiency. The first step of any energy efficiency policy should be to give correct price signals to consumers to give them incentives to change their behaviour or to acquire energy efficient equipment. Low price or inadequate tariffs may lead to very high pay back time and make energy efficiency equipment not cost effective at all.
Clear price signals alone are not enough to lead to a rationalisation of energy use: certain conditions are required to remove the usual barriers to energy efficiency and to develop and structure the market for efficient equipment and devices. Policy measures are therefore necessary to reinforce the role of energy prices.
The results of a comparison of the countries' experiences in the implementation of energy efficiency policies are presented in the report. This evaluation helps to draw conclusions and make recommendations as to the effectiveness of the policy measures implemented. It also shows the link between the various measures and their influence on the policy.
Almost all countries under review have set up specific institutions dealing with energy efficiency, such as energy efficiency agencies, either at the national level, or at regional levels or both, and more recently at local level. Although the legal status of these agencies is different from one country to another (e.g. public, public-private), their establishment almost everywhere, some quite recently, clearly indicates that all countries concerned with energy efficiency perceive such agencies as useful and that there is no contradiction between such agencies and the market.
The establishment of energy efficiency agencies is necessary, first of all, to design, coordinate/implement and evaluate programmes and measures since they have strong technical skills. These agencies can also be very useful to negotiate sectoral agreements with equipment producers (e.g. car manufacturers), national banks to implement financial packages for energy efficiency, or in developing countries with international banks or donors to act as the national counterpart with whom to negotiate loans for energy efficiency funds. A new trend is to enlarge the scope of such agencies and to transform them into environmental or sustainable energy agency.
A proper regulatory framework, with an energy efficiency law and/or national programmes with official quantitative targets of energy efficiency improvement, can provide a long lasting context for energy efficiency policies and avoid the negative effect of "stop and go" actions. Almost half of the surveyed countries have set up quantitative targets , with generally annual monitoring requirement .
Electrical appliances and buildings continue to be the main target of regulations, which are spreading to a larger number of emerging countries. In Europe, regulations represent about 40% of the measures implemented in the residential sector. Regulations are also being extended to new equipment and new areas. These include fuel efficiency of new cars, in China and very soon in the EU, mandatory use of solar water heaters, in Spain, mandatory certification (i.e. labelling) of existing buildings (e.g. EU countries), energy efficiency obligations for utilities, phase-out of use of incandescent lamps (e.g. Australia).
All European countries and most other OECD countries have energy efficiency standards for new dwellings and service sector buildings. Some non-OECD countries outside Europe have recently established standards for service buildings. Altogether, about 60% of the countries surveyed had mandatory or voluntary standards for new non-residential buildings.
Such a broad deployment indicates that policy-makers consider market signals alone are not enough to foster the right decisions by individuals, professionals or developers in regarding the thermal quality of buildings.
Thermal building codes have been changing over time from simple standards on building components to more complex standards, including for the most advanced countries, energy performance standards which cover the whole building system, including equipment (e.g. heating/cooling, hot water, lighting, motors/pumps, elevators).
Revisions in thermal building codes have become increasingly regular in EU countries: over the past 30 years, standards have been continuously tightened, independently of the oil price level (three to four times, including some very recent revisions). The new EU building directive has for the first time included provisions for a mandatory revision every five years to make such an updating more systematic.
The few evaluations studies of the savings achieved with building codes show that the actual savings for new buildings are lower than the theoretical savings resulting from the standards: non-compliance of standards and behaviours explain such a situation.
Few countries have estimated the additional costs resulting from new building codes: from the evaluations available, the additional costs linked to the building standards are usually limited to a few percentages.
Measures for buildings focused so far on new buildings. As new buildings represent a small share of the existing stock , buildings standards can only have a slow impact on the short term, which is however significant on the long-term. A more recent trend is to extend regulations to existing buildings and impose energy efficiency certificates for existing buildings, each time there is a change of tenant or a sale . These certificates enable the buyer to obtain information about the energy consumption of the home that they are going to buy or rent. Furthermore these certificates could be an effective tool to implement incentives measures such as tax credit or low interest rate loans for owners who increase the performance of their building through refurbishment.
Standards for new buildings may also have an indirect impact on the technologies, material and practices used in retrofitting old buildings.
Labelling programmes and efficiency standards are an effective method of transforming the market and slowing the electricity demand growth. However, none of the programmes introduced has been able to reverse or stop the increase in electricity consumption in the domestic appliance sector. This is essentially because of increased ownership levels, especially in emerging countries, and the spread of new equipment (air conditioning, ICT's) and functions (e.g. standby), that often have not yet been targeted by the measures.
Energy labels and standards are complementary tools. Labelling acts as an incentive for manufacturers to differentiate themselves from their competitors and stimulates the introduction of new, more efficient models. Standards remove from the market the less efficient appliances.
To be effective, labelling programmes and performance standards must be regularly updated. Indeed, there is no incentive for manufacturers to go beyond what is required if no stricter standards have been planned for the future or when most of the models on the market are in the best efficiency classes. It is therefore essential to review and reinforce standards at regular intervals as a way to stimulate technical progress and to ensure a steady improvement in energy efficiency. In this respect, the "Top Runner" programme in Japan has the particular advantage of making easier the definition of new targets, as the most efficient appliances on the market at a given time are used to set the future standards.
In certain conditions , voluntary agreements can be an effective alternative to mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards, as they have the support of manufacturers and can be implemented more rapidly than regulations. Nevertheless, their effectiveness is still conditioned by the possibility of imposing performance requirements corresponding to genuine additional efforts from industry.
The diffusion of more efficient appliances did not result in a price increase for these appliances, as manufacturers were able to adapt and benefited of an increased market ("learning effect").
Direct subsidies to energy efficiency investments remain popular. As they have often been considered as costly and questionable , they are now better targeted to limit the number of consumers that can benefit from them (e.g. low income households, tenants). In addition, they are also restricted to certain types of investment (from a selected list of equipment), with a long payback time but high efficiency gains (e.g. renewables, co-generation) or to innovative technologies (demonstration or pilot investments).
Subsidies are usually viewed as a temporary measure to mobilise consumers, to prepare for new regulations, or to promote energy efficient technologies by creating a larger market than would exist otherwise, with the objective of a cost reduction for the subsidised energy efficient technologies.
Subsidies can be used to promote quality of energy efficiency equipment and services: in that case, subsidies are only given to products and services that have been certified or accredited by a public authority, generally the energy efficiency agency.
Subsidies can also be given to producers to improve the quality and reduce the cost of production. In some cases the producer approach may lead to better results.
Very often, direct subsidy schemes are supported by energy efficiency funds. Because of the pressures on public finance, new innovative financial schemes have been recently designed to attract private funds into energy efficiency programmes. These innovative funds use tools traditionally used by the private sector (e.g. loans, equity participation, venture capital) and seek a partnership between public institutions and private investors, such as banks or private companies (ESCOs) . These funds will attract private investors, only if there are opportunities of profit and will therefore be restricted to countries, with high-energy efficiency potential and incentive prices. They will also prioritise operations with high investment costs. These innovative funds should help developing a market for energy efficiency that would be "self-sustaining", without public intervention. Guarantee funds and revolving funds are examples of innovative approaches that have been developed in different parts of the world. New funds targeted at sustainable development can channel untaxed domestic savings.
Innovative ways of motivating the consumers to use such funds can be found in schemes where a loan is reimbursed through the electricity bill, as in the fund used to finance solar water heaters in Tunisia.
Fiscal incentives, such as tax credits, tax reductions and accelerated depreciation, are usually considered as less costly than direct subsidies for the public budget, especially for households, as they have lower transaction costs. They can work well if the tax collection rate is sufficiently high. Such measures usually have a poor performance in an economy in recession or in transition. They are more adapted to well-developed countries: in fact, mainly OECD countries have implemented such fiscal measures.
Tax reductions for energy efficient equipment or investments have been introduced in many countries and almost equally in all regions: they are in place in about 30% of the countries surveyed. The compact fluorescent lamp is the most common equipment to which this measure applies outside the OECD. In some European countries, lower VAT levels exist for labour costs to reduce the investment costs of building renovation (e.g. France, Sweden, and Switzerland). Another innovative way to promote investment in energy efficiency and CO2 reduction is to offer tax concessions to companies that make concrete commitments for energy efficiency gains/CO2 reduction, and meet their target (e.g. Denmark or the UK).
Economic incentives, either subsidies or fiscal measures, are often part of packages of measures: they are for instance combined with audit schemes or voluntary/negotiated agreements with energy consumers.
One of the main barriers to energy efficiency is the lack of information supplied to consumers about what they can do. To address this issue, a large range of tools has been designed: e.g. general information campaigns, labelling of appliances and even dwellings rating their energy performance, audits, local information centres, comparative information.
One relatively new approach to reach more directly the multitude of consumers with well-targeted information, beyond the reach of traditional information campaigns in the media, is to set up local energy information centres to be always as close as possible to the consumer. These local centres are focal points that offer impartial and personalised information on energy conservation and, usually, renewable energy, to the general public and specific target groups, including advice on useful contacts.
Comparative information enables consumers to understand in bills or by means of special support, the consumption levels in comparison to similar consumers (domestic) or companies (industry and services). One of the most famous programmes of this kind is the best practice programme introduced long time ago in UK and still widely used worldwide. More recently, comparison has extended to the best practice in the world for industrial production, e.g. in The Netherlands with the "Benchmarking Covenant". Energy performance certificates for buildings play the same role in many European Countries.
Audit schemes are useful ways to inform consumers about the possible actions to improve energy efficiency. They have been mainly developed in industry and in non-residential buildings and are increasingly made mandatory. Energy audits are usually partially funded by public agencies or by utilities in European countries and are more often free for consumers in the other regions to encourage participation. Evaluation of audit schemes shows that the degree of implementation of the suggested measures varies considerably, depending on the country .
Mandatory audits - like voluntary audits - need a certain quality of auditor as well as staff responsible for energy management in the companies (energy managers). This can be assured by the certification of auditors and by the training of energy managers. A capacity-building process of all participating organisations is a prerequisite for successful mandatory audits.
The main argument in favour of mandatory audits compared to voluntary schemes is that they allow to reach right from the beginning a substantial fraction of consumers. Equally important is the cultural change that mandatory audits also try to initiate in companies by making energy efficiency a regular target at all levels. Experiences in Australia show that an "external view" on energy use in a company from an energy auditor often also brings additional value.
Mandatory energy audits for buildings, especially in the residential sector, are wide spread and exist in many countries and regions. Mandatory energy audits in the industrial sector appear to be quite frequently used in Asian countries, in Australia, in North African and Eastern European countries.
Mandatory energy audits in the transport sector are less common and aim at fleet owners.
In the case of mandatory audits, non-compliance with regulations may be sanctioned, although there was no evidence that sanctions were applied. In general, a co-operative approach was preferred.
The implementation of measures proposed during the audits is another critical point, unless there was a legal requirement to carry out the measures or unless they were convincing enough for energy users. Quite frequently, supporting measures such as subsidies for the audits or for all or certain types of investments therefore accompany the mandatory audits. Frequently the funds allocated may not be enough to carry out detailed audits, particularly in industrial companies where the processes are heterogeneous and complex. On average, energy audits and the introduction of recommended measures led to savings of 5-10% for participating companies.
ESCOs (Energy Service Companies) and EPC (Energy Performance Contracting) are very attractive mechanisms to capture cost-effective energy-efficiency potential worldwide, mainly because they do not involve either public expenditure or market intervention. EPC can probably be considered among the most effective mechanisms for promoting energy efficiency in the public sector and, especially in developing countries, in the industrial sector. EPC has been demonstrated to lead to energy savings between 20 and 40% in individual projects.
Although the EPC concept is very attractive to tap the significant potential of cost-effective energy efficiency options in all countries, numerous barriers hinder the development of the ESCO industry. Lack of incentive due for example to low energy prices, inadequate energy service levels and lack of access to finance are major barriers in all areas. In the public sector, the lack of clarity in administrative and budgetary procedures concerning EPC, as well as unsupportive public procurement rules, are often additional barriers. In the residential sector, the lack of awareness and information, high transaction costs compared to the expected profits, and split incentives, limit the business opportunities for ESCOs.
Access to financing for ESCOs is often compromised by other problems including the lack of creditworthiness, and insufficient links between the lenders and ESCOs. The financial industry itself can act as a promoter of EPC, but banks and financial institutions usually first need to be educated and convinced about the advantages of EPC through positive experiences.
Policies and incentives can be introduced to kick-start and catalyse the ESCO industry. The examples of the most successful ESCO host countries e.g. China, the United States and Germany have shown that direct and indirect governmental support to EPC as well as the exemplary role of the public sector in initiating energy-efficiency change through ESCOs are crucial to kick-start a sustainable ESCO industry. Accommodating public procurement legislation, in addition to government initiatives, is also a must for the EPC concept to take a strong foothold. EPC in the public sector is especially important as it does not only help reduce energy costs in this sector, but also triggers the development of the ESCO-market and demonstrates the advantages of EPC to the economy in general.
ESCOs and EPC cannot be the panacea, even in the most fertile market and supportive policy environments, as they can only capture energy-efficiency potentials that are cost-effective under market conditions, and because ESCOs add their own costs through their operation and profits.
The introduction of market based instruments, such as CO2 or energy efficiency certificates, create good opportunities for the development of ESCOs activities worldwide.
Policy instruments for cars include measures to improve the energy efficiency of vehicles as well as measures that influence the use of cars. These include fiscal measures (taxes or subsidies) on car purchases, car ownership and motor fuels, road pricing, CO2-labelling of cars, incentives for car scrapping and subsidies for the use of bio-fuels.
As regards car purchase taxes, countries with high taxes (Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, Ireland and Portugal) have lower rates of car ownership than the European average. However, high levels of taxes are not enough to influence the consumer towards more efficient cars. Several countries are now introducing a green tax, in which the amount of tax is a function of the CO2 emission or energy efficiency of the cars.
The annual tax on car ownership may play an additional role. Provided it is significant, this may orientate demand towards less powerful cars. Here also, some countries relate the tax level to the CO2 emission or energy efficiency of the cars .
Fuel taxation plays a key role to orientate demand towards more efficient vehicles, to behaviours (e.g. driving style, driving less), even if tax increases are not always only motivated by energy efficiency. In some countries, however, specific CO2/environmental taxes have been set up for motor fuels (e.g. Norway, Sweden, Finland and Germany). Such, green taxes are better accepted by the population, especially if part of the revenue is recycled to support energy /CO2 efficiency measures. The taxation of fuel should follow an escalator approach with periodical growth rates planned in advance to give strong signals to the consumer as to the future price trends (e.g. Germany and UK).
Road pricing in its different forms shows an efficient way - comparable in its effects to fuel taxation - to enhance the energy efficiency in transport. The congestion charge in Inner London shows a reduction in fuel consumption (and CO2 emission) of about 10% and modal shifts towards more efficient transport modes (e.g. public transport or bicycle).
CO2/energy efficiency labelling is a practical method to inform consumers about the fuel economy of new cars. But as the buying decisions are strongly influenced by other factors (e.g. costs, size, power, brand and safety), the impact on the consumer populace is quite low. For this reason relative comparison methods on the labels are more favourable. Combined with tax incentives, they may help shifting consumer decisions to more environmentally friendly and efficient cars.
Scrapping programs do not seem to be a suitable instrument for energy savings and reducing CO2 emissions as there is a clear trend to heavier and more powerful new cars that are less energy efficient than the old cars scrapped. Inspection and maintenance is a much more generally applicable instrument to reduce the emissions from the existing car fleet. In developing countries, a scrapping scheme might show more positive effects as very old cars (20 years or more) still comprise a considerable share of the stock of vehicles in use.
Support policies for biofuels, such as lower taxation or support to production, will need to be co-ordinated and to address the various side effects (e.g. energy input in production, risk that large scale biofuels production might replace food production and environmental impacts linked to intensive production).
In a long-term period, the accessibility through a reorganisation of spatial structures and through the introduction of new services in public transport might be a secondary effect of pricing the transport system (road pricing, fuel taxation, car taxation). Pricing policies need to be linked to a public transport policy as well as towards spatial planning.
Supporting measures of higher taxation are a precondition to reach the goal of higher energy efficiency. Efficient, high quality and reliable public transport is a condition to lead to significant modal shifts. If this is true for industrialised countries, where supporting measures have been undertaken parallel to the introduction of higher taxes, such as in London or Singapore, with high quality public transport, this is even at higher extent true for developing and emerging countries, where the motorization rate is substantially lower than in the industrialised countries.
Energy efficiency obligations have been a success in EU Member States and are expanding in those countries that have implemented them. They are also being adopted in new countries .
Energy efficiency obligations in Europe have been shown to work in both monopoly and fully liberalised environments and for supply and distribution companies. The "rules of the game" need to be clear and transparent to all stakeholders and should not be changed to ensure regulatory certainty for the energy companies. Until now, energy efficiency obligations have largely operated without significant trading of energy savings certificates ("White Certificates"); nevertheless most countries remain convinced that in the long term this is the way forward, even if it requires more practical experience.
Energy efficiency obligations are attractive to governments, as they do not have to support the cost of obligations and are typically at around 1-2% of energy bills. In addition, by using assumed or extant savings, the administration, monitoring and verification costs can be kept low (e.g. <1% of total energy supplier expenditure in the UK).
Energy efficiency obligations could be an important policy option for developing countries to save electricity, as they offer a way for governments to tackle energy efficiency at a fairly modest increase in electricity customers' bills. Two types of obligations could be explored: saving electricity if inefficient technology is already in use and encouraging energy efficient equipment (e.g. lighting, TV) for new electricity customers (e.g. for newly electrified households or in new buildings).
In most developing countries, electricity companies usually have the skilled personnel required to implement such energy saving initiatives. There may be a need of some assistance in establishing expected levels of savings although many electrical appliances are global (e.g. CFLs), and that the experience of the other countries can be used. Trading of white certificates may be more difficult to implement, as it requires financial infrastructure and skilled market players; however, as shown by the experience in Flanders and UK, trading is not necessary in a first deployment stage.
Energy efficiency obligations change the business model of utilities from energy sellers to sellers of energy services. The adoption of a new directive in the EU, the energy service directive, aims in particular at fostering such a change .
Direct subsidies and tax credits are an effective way of stimulating the growth of the solar water-heating sector. These subsidies may however have negative impacts on emerging markets if they are applied without continuity e.g. "stop and go" effects, depression of market if subsidies are withdrawn suddenly, impact on selling prices, etc.
In certain markets (e.g. Northern Europe), environmental considerations seem to be sufficiently motivating to minimise the need for subsidies for solar water heating. Conversely, subsidies may be required in countries with significant price distortions (low fossil energy prices) on the residential energy market.
Additional measures are still necessary to complement subsidies when solar water heating is approaching competitive levels. These include suitable financing mechanisms to help overcome the investment barriers, (e.g. low interest loans, especially for low-income households), training of installers, quality labels or technical standards to ensure high performance levels of installations, or even regulatory measures.
Improvement of perceived quality by customers is absolutely necessary for a large dissemination of solar water heating systems. Quality labels and technical standards are effective tools for maintaining or improving quality, provided they are successfully enforced. The existence of independent certification centres is a key element to ensure that imported products are in compliance with national standards. The performance of the system is not only related to the installation of collectors but also to the quality of installation and the proper maintenance of the system. In this respect, the existence of skilled installers and appropriate networks for after sales services is essential for stimulating further deployment of solar water heating.
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Packages of measures that combine several instruments are more effective e.g. direct subsidies plus financing methods; economic incentives plus quality labels; regulations plus subsidies or financing mechanisms and quality labels, and so on.
Regulations for household appliances and buildings have proved to bring significant energy savings, even if their implementation can still be improved. Voluntary/negotiated agreements have also led to energy efficiency improvements, especially in energy intensive industrial branches, with cars and with some electrical appliances (e.g. washing machines in Europe), even if the results could have been more ambitious (e.g. cars in Europe). Tax credits have also shown good results to stimulate the market for renewables and efficient appliances that would not have been purchased by consumers without financial incentives.
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Will the objectification of males still be allowed? New military you know. Click Here if you Like this Comment
It´s art. Museums are full of half or full naked women. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Generations of military men have had pin-ups. They are nothing new that would cause sexual assaults to ´´soar.´´ Political correctness always blame the wrong causes, for the wrong reasons! I´m all for women doing jobs traditionally done by men, as long as the standards are not lowered and no special accommodations, beyond restrooms and such, are made. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Next,we´ll need to go pile all those Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli paintings in pyre and burn them all.I was at the National Gallery of Art in DC last month and saw all kinds of half-naked and fully nude women. I didn´t feel compelled to sexually assault the docent.We´re starting to look more land more like the Taliban every day.Read the history of graham crackers for a related laugh. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I´m surprised the Air Force isn´t already on board with the program. The Navy lowered the boom on this sort of stuff years ago. But guess what? It isn´t the pictures, posters, or magazines causing the assaults, it´s merely the presence of more women. As the Kid from Brooklyn would say: "Think about it!" Click Here if you Like this Comment
I´m innocent. Can´t you see that pin-up I saw made me assualt that woman. Click Here if you Like this Comment
In 1959 I was in the Air Force. I was told that my picture of Connie Francis, inside my footlocker, in a tight fitting gown was to ´racy´.I don´t remember any sexual assaults. Click Here if you Like this Comment
I´m glad they did a thorough study of the correlation between pin-ups and the soaring number of sexual assaults. Oh, wait... Click Here if you Like this Comment
With all our military services are faced with today, we can see where Welsh´s priorities are Click Here if you Like this Comment
This is supposed "to "stamp out sexual assault in the armed forces"? Riiiggghhhhhhtttt.The work of controlling do-gooder busybodies who don´t know what they´re talking about. Click Here if you Like this Comment
The US would not have won WW II without pics of Betty Grable and Jane Russel. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Where DO they get these generals? In case Gen. Welsh doesn´t know it, men have been drooling over nude women since the day Eve first appeared --- (Adam: "Hey, not bad...")And listen, General Boobie, its not the pictures which lead to assaults. If it were, assaults would have begun skyrocketing in 1953 when Playboy was first published. But I can think of a couple of (politically incorrect)reasons why why they´re rising now.How about insisting there´s no difference between men and women, paying no attention to the hormones raging at that age, then declaring that "separate but equal facilities" violates some tenet of equality. Everybody lives together, sleeps together, eats together, and cohabits together.Just what did they think would happen? Click Here if you Like this Comment
As a woman, I find this decision ridiculous and even offensive. So what they are saying is abuse if predicated by what a woman looks like, wears, how she appears, etc. ?? Looking at a good looking woman makes you want to beat her up or rape her?? Huh?? I thought we have been told time and time again, rape and abuse has nothing to do with sex or what a woman wears or doesn´t? Which is it?Real men like to look at the female body in all states of dress and undress. This is not new but it is fantastic!! And as for the crap about looking at pin-ups (some of which, especially some of the ones form the WWII era, are as lovely as many works of "art" in museums) cause violence, that makes no sense at all.A man appreciating the form of a woman who has obviously taken care of herself, shows off her God given beauties to her best advantage, and looks like prime baby making material, that´s called biology. Biology keeps the world turning and it´s pretty damn fun too. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Have the number of muslims in the air force gone up? That would explain the increase int the assaults. Click Here if you Like this Comment
#13, my kind of woman. Glad I was a fighter pilot when I was. Fortunately the new Chief can rely on drones to be sexless. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Bravo #13!! Beautifully said. Click Here if you Like this Comment
Idiot policies like this have been going on in the AF for many years. They were mostly done locally by commanders who wanted to be able to say they were doing something about sexual harassment.One knucklehead PACAF general even made it a punishable offense to use language that might offend anyone, any time. Even in private. He put out a list of taboo words and then sent all his first sergeants around to all the barracks listening at doors. This was in 1992.All we could do was laugh it off. That or cry for what was once a great service. Click Here if you Like this Comment
The politicizing of the military proceeds apace. You´re not getting that star if you don´t cooperate. A picture of a naked woman is not pornography. It has been proven that erotic images do not provoke sexual assault. That being said, I don´t think a military facility should have any personal items on display. Keep your girlfriend´s picture in your wallet or in your locker. It´s not a dorm room, it´s a barracks. Click Here if you Like this Comment