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BY ROBERT STOKES

Greater availability of improved packaged units and small-scale, customised cogen solutions have seen CHP use in commercial and institutional premises rise steadily in recent years, said Daniella Muallem at IDC Energy Insights.

Energy costs are a significant operating cost for many commercial and institutional premises, so rising energy prices suggest CHP is increasingly likely to be seen as an effective approach to reduce these costs as well as the carbon footprint, she noted.…

NEW Zealand used to be known as an exporter of raw materials and food – butter, wool, lamb – but in recent years, its government has been trying hard to boost local entrepreneurs by streamlining business regulation. Ken Warren, the country’s chief accounting advisor to New Zealand’s government, has been front-and-centre in these reforms, providing officials and politicians with the necessary data to make bold decisions.…

BY MARK ROWE

THERE is consumer demand in Europe for making confectionery packaging more sustainable, but in the European Union (EU) manufacturers are motivated more in going green by EU legislation.

They are developing ways of reducing, reusing and recycling packaging, and changing its composition to help.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

Finally, the potential of small and packaged (as well as micro) CHP schemes to contribute to demand-supply balancing or to ‘virtual power plant’ networks of smaller units interconnected by electronic communications opens up the prospect of exciting new markets for seasoned technologies with added features that fit them for this emerging world.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

COGENERATION, or rather trigeneration, units that cooled, heated and powered the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games won plaudits if no gold medals for the manufacturer – America’s GE – but neatly symbolised the spread of CHP into mainstream and niche applications.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, IN RIGA; ALICE TRUDELLE, IN WARSAW; CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS; EUGENE VOROTNIKOV, IN ST PETERSBURG; ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA; GERARD O’DWYER, IN HELSINKI; LEE ADENDOORF, IN LUCCA; ALAN OSBORN; MJ DESCHAMPS; AND KEITH NUTHALL

Such small plants have clear commercial applications and it could be – going forward – that market-based innovation, rather than government support, that will succour the sector in much of Europe during the ongoing financial and economic crisis.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, IN RIGA; ALICE TRUDELLE, IN WARSAW; CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS; EUGENE VOROTNIKOV, IN ST PETERSBURG; ROBERT STOKES, IN MALAGA; GERARD O’DWYER, IN HELSINKI; LEE ADENDOORF, IN LUCCA; ALAN OSBORN; MJ DESCHAMPS; AND KEITH NUTHALL

Outside the EU, Finland’s neighbour Russia is also expected to witness a growth in its co-gen market, due to ever growing electricity demand and an increase in state support for CHP projects.…

BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI

THE DEMAND for natural ingredients-based skin care products has been growing so fast in China that both multinational and domestic cosmetics companies are pouring new products onto the market to attract consumers, both men and women, with different levels of income.…

BY CARMEN PAUN, IN RIO DE JANEIRO

TWENTY years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro asked businesses to recognise environmental management among the highest corporate priorities and 10 years after the second Earth Summit in Johannesburg committed governments to enhance corporate environmental and social responsibility and accountability, it is clear that voluntary commitments to sustainability reporting have not really delivered the goods.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, IN LONDON; AND JONATHAN DYSON, IN LIMA

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) executive the European Commission is hoping that the negotiation of new free trade agreements (FTAs) between the EU and Colombia and Peru will be the springboard for penetration by European auto-manufacturers into markets that have been pretty well off limits to them in the past.…