Toward an ISO Energy Management Standard
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Last week in Rio de Janeiro and yesterday in São Paulo, Eletrobrás and the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) co-hosted workshops to try to get Brazilian business more actively involved in the process now underway in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to develop an international standard for energy management, ISO 50001. One of […]
LAC Meeting on Norm for Energy Management
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Synopsis in English: Last February (while The Temas Blog was on hiatus) the International Standards Organization (ISO) decided to create a new project committee (PC 242 – Energy Management) to develop a new ISO management standard — already designated ISO 50001 — on energy management. The standard will aim at a certifiable approach to increasing […]
Latest Round of REEEP Projects for LAC
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) recently announced that in its sixth funding round it will fund 35 new clean energy projects, including several in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) (see chart of LAC-related projects below). REEEP is “an active, global public-private partnership that structures policy and regulatory initiatives for clean energy, […]