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  • Fact sheets and brochures
    1 March 2009

    A technical overview of how energy use can be reduced through using your office lighting more effectively. It includes suggestions for improvement that either have no or little cost associated with them.

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    1 March 2009

    Good lighting design and control can save up to 75% of industrial buildings lighting costs.

    This technical guide outlines two key ways that industrial lighting operating costs can be reduced. It includes a range of no cost/low cost actions that can be undertaken as well as several actions for reducing energy use associated with industrial lighting which have a longer payback period.

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    1 March 2009

    This technical guide focuses on air compressors. It reviews the general issues involved with optimising a compressed air system and identifies some of the key steps businesses can take to create some easily-won savings.

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    22 May 2009

    Biofuels emit less greenhouse gases than fossil fuels. So your choice of fuel can help the environment, without compromising how your vehicle performs.

    One of the easiest things New Zealand drivers can do to help the environment is to start using sustainable biofuels. Your use of biofuels will help reduce the greenhouse gases from your vehicle.

    Biodiesel is one kind of biofuel. Biodiesel is similar to ordinary diesel, but is made from vegetable oils or animal fats. When mixed with ordinary diesel, this makes a bidoiesel blend.

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    23 May 2009

    Biofuels emit less greenhouse gases. So your choice of fuel can help the environment, without compromising how your car performs. One of the easiest things New Zealand drivers can do to help the environment is to start using sustainable biofuels. Your use of biofuels will help reduce the greenhouse gases from your vehicle.

     Bioethanol-blended petrol is similar to ordinary petrol but contains a biofuel, bioethanol which is made from wastes and plants that contain sugars and starches.

     

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    23 May 2009

    Sustainable biofuels have many benefits over fossil fuels. Most importantly, they are renewable and result in lower carbon dioxide emissions. Biofuels are already available in parts of the country and more will become available to Kiwi motorists. One of the main types of biofuel is bioethanol-blended petrol.

    This guide has been developed especially for the motor trade and transport industries and anyone who sells or services diesel powered vehicles to help answer any questions you and your customers may have about biodiesel blends.

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    30 July 2009

    Information on choosing and installing a solar water heating system.

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    17 September 2009

    Virtually every industrial process generates waste heat - the challenge is to recover this heat and make use of it economically. Waste heat can be seen in shimmering boiler flues or steaming waste water discharges.

    Heat recovery captures waste heat and uses it to eliminate or reduce energy required in other areas of a process or site. This practice reduces a business's overall energy bill and greenhouse gas emissions as well as improving profitability.

     

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    26 August 2009

    There is a lot of potential for small-scale hydro schemes on New Zealand rivers, streams and even irrigation systems. Hydro power is one of the cheapest ways of generating electricity on a small-scale. Small schemes (typically less than 10MW) also have less environmental impact than large ones. This guide to small-scale hydro schemes is aimed at a farming audience, and includes practical examples.

  • Fact sheets and brochures
    1 June 2008

    Biofuels are produced from biological, non-fossil sources. By using biofuels we are reducing New Zealand's reliance on imported crude oil, increasing the use of renewable energy and reducing our overall emissions of carbon dioxide, which contribute to global climate change. Currently in New Zealand the transport sector is responsible for 45% of our greenhouse gas emissions.