News you might have missed: 29 April 2009
Looking for your daily dose of news summaries and headlines from the cleantech sector? Here’s Greenbang’s roundup of news you might have missed:
- Lord Drayson, Minister for Science and Innovation, has announced three new centres that will develop digital technology to transform the lives of the elderly, disabled, and people in rural communities;
- Energy Efficiency News reports that Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond says his country has the potential and natural resources to lead the way in carbon capture and storage;
- Sweden’s Electrolux has decided that by year-end 2012 its factories, offices and warehouses will use 15 per cent less energy than in 2008;
- A Ford Fusion Hybrid has averaged 81.5 miles per gallon and set a world record by getting 1,445 miles on a single tank of petrol;
- Average temperatures in Germany are rising faster than expected, and the country is expecting to see its warmest April on record this year;
- Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high in 2007, climbing by 4 per cent to 747 million tonnes, according to the Globe and Mail;
- The US wind energy industry installed over 2,800 megawatts of new generating capacity in the first quarter of 2009, with new projects completed in 15 states and powering the equivalent of 816,000 homes.
