Electric bicycles are the world’s best-selling electric vehicles with sales expected to reach over 30 million units in 2012. E-bicycle sales volumes are being driven by macroeconomic trends such as the growth of urbanization and the increasing need for low-cost transportation in developing markets.
The “Concept of the APEC Low Carbon Town (LCT)” aims to provide a basic idea of what is a low-carbon town and an effective approach on how to develop it. The LCT Concept aims to promote the development of low-carbon towns in the APEC region by providing a basic principle that can assist the central and local government officials of the member economies in planning effective low-carbon policies and in formulating an appropriate combination of low-carbon measures while taking socio-economic conditions and city specific characteristics.
This report is the fifth in a series of annual status reports that summarize the progress resulting from fuel cell transit bus demonstrations in the United States and provide a discussion of the achievements and challenges of fuel cell propulsion in transit.
This monograph describes a federal freight policy designed to address growing challenges faced by the U.S. freight network in an environment dominated by declining revenues and public resistance to increasing taxes.
A document outlining Bangkok’s intention to meet the objectives described in the Bangkok Declaration:
The purpose of the project described in this report is to identify and characterize commercially available products and emerging (near-commercial) technologies that benefited from the support of the Building Technologies Program (BTP) within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The investigation specifically focused on technology-oriented research and development (R&D) projects sponsored by BTP’s Emerging Technologies subprogram from 2005-2009.
Entering the 21st century, a broad consensus has been reached to develop low-carbon economy, promote ecological civilization, and realize sustainable development. As a result, the global energy development pattern is experiencing substantial changes, and a new round of energy revolution has unveiled.
Infrastructure Australia is a statutory body which advises governments, investors and infrastructure owners on a wide range of issues. These include Australia’s future infrastructure needs; mechanisms for financing infrastructure investments; policy, pricing and regulation. Infrastructure Australia also advises on frameworks for the efficient operation and delivery of infrastructure.
A comprehensive view of the strategies, priorities, and challenges for Smart Grid adoption in Australia – based on interviews with senior executives in Australia’s energy distributors.
Overview of clean energy efforts in Chinese Taipei.
