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An air conditioning system using cold ocean water in Mauriti
23/02/2014 The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius has obtained a grant to install an air conditioning system for the inhabitants of its capital, Port Louis, which will use cold ocean water. The island ...
Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. of Canada Offers Home Sy
Jan 30, 2014 Toronto -- The Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. of Canada, part of Munich Re, has announced a new homeowners insurance program ? Home Systems Protection, offering equipment breakdown coverage for heating, cooling, water and power, security, and other home systems and appliances. Coverages include damage caused by sudden and accidental mechanical or electrical breakdown; loss...
EcoFactor Debuts Residential HVAC Performance Monitoring Ser
Jan 28, 2014 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- EcoFactor, a provider of cloud-based home energy services, has announced the launch of its HVAC Performance Monitoring (HPM) service after completion of a successful HVAC trial evaluating thousands of homes. Using patented cloud-based analytics algorithms and pattern recognition, the service remotely detects, analyzes, and notifies consumers of HVAC performance...
New Year’s Resolutions from Global Association Leaders --HRA
Looking ahead at 2014, HRAI continues to address a number of key issues that are affecting the HVAC&R market in Canada. These ongoing issues of concern center around minimum energy efficiency leve...
Air Conditioning Situation in Chile in 2013
Chile is a relatively small but quite long country, over 4,000 km long, stretching from the driest desert in the north to the Antarctica in the south. With a population of around 17 million inh...
Panasonic Solutions in New Zealand
In 2013, Panasonic announced that by cooperating with various partners with respect to its B2B business and through its digital consumer business, it would propose "A Better Life, A Better World." Thi...
Pilot Program Offers Energy Management Apps to Ontario Consu
Dec 5, 2013 Toronto -- People in Ontario will get access to new apps to help manage their energy consumption, thanks to a pilot program led by MaRS Discovery District, in partnership with Hydro One and London Hydro and supported by the Ministry of Energy. Apps from Energent, BuiltSpace, Eyedro, and Zerofootprint will be made available to consumers in London Hydro and Hydro One service terri...
3.4 Latin America
Latin America has enjoyed a fairly good economic growth in the recent years, due mainly to absence of the worries affecting Europe and other areas. At the same time, it is enjoying a good price level for its export commodities like minerals and food products, which are rather plentyful in this part of the world. With few major natural catastrophes like earthquakes, these countries were able to rec...
2.10.4 Mexico
The Mexican economy grew 3.9% in 2012, with both capital investment and construction demand showing recovery. Many automakers have started local production in Mexico, and automobiles and auto parts account for 23.8% of total exports by value. This represents Mexico’s largest export sector, and more automakers and parts manufacturers are moving operations into the country. After the N...
2.10.3 Argentina
Argentina’s real GDP had marked two consecutive years of high growth around 9%, but real GDP growth fell to 1.9% in 2012. Construction investment by value declined a sharp 35.5%. Argentina’s chiller market scale came to US$ 11.1 million in 2012, a decline of 18.8% over the previous year. Centrifugal chiller market scale marked a year-on-year increase of 18.7% to US$ 3.8 million, but the mar...