Energy Audit, an Important Starting Point for Efficient Energy Usage.

Energy Audit is an Important Starting Point for Efficient Energy Usage. That’s the topic of the international workshop on energy audit held on August 2nd – 3rd, 2010 at the Faculty of Engineering of Diponegoro University, Semarang – Indonesia.

This workshop was hosted by the Faculty of Engineering of Diponegoro University in collaboration with Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), Holland, The Indonesian Ministry of Energy, Resources, and Minerals (Kementerian ESDM), and the CASINDO.

After completion of the workshop, the participants will:

- Have a deeper understanding of the concept of energy audit;

- Have a better planning and managing how to use the energy for a long term periods;

- Have ability to audit and estimate the need of energy on their office, laboratory, or unit, and;

- Be able to develop the research or collect data corresponding to audit energy based on their major.

Those are the objectives of the workshop.

This workshop, which focused on auditing a small-to-medium size industry or public offices to identify problems areas and finding cost effective solutions, was designed for academia, governments, NGO, and industries. Approximately 60 participants attended this workshop.

Keynote Speaker from TU/e, Holland was Patrick Van Schindler, and the other speakers included Mr. JJ Luthan from Trisakti University, Jakarta – Indonesia. In principle, this workshop run smoothly, and most of participants gave their respects for the organization of this workshop.

Indonesia would preserve its forests “with or without international help”

Indonesia committed to rainforests protection despite financial constraints. Even Indonesia would preserve its forests “with or without international help”.

Yudhoyono said Thursday in a speech during the opening session of the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference at Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica in the surrounding hills of Oslo: "Working with our developed country partners, we will protect Indonesia’s globally significant carbon- and biodiversity-rich tropical rainforests while helping local populations become more prosperous."

The President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's statement affirmed his pledge on Wednesday night that Indonesia "would conduct a moratorium for two years, where we stop the conversion of peat land and of forests", during a historical agreement signing with Norway, which provides a US$1 billion grant for Indonesia in phases to protect the Southeast Asian nation's forests.

Jens Stoltenberg, Norway's Prime Minister, said: "Based on a March's international conference in Paris, about 54 countries agreed to provide $4 billion in commitment to take necessary actions to protect the world's largest rainforests located in Brazil and Indonesia, which function as global "lungs" to transform carbon dioxide into oxygen."

According to Greenpeace, in Indonesia, forest areas of a size equaling 300 soccer fields vanish every hour. Visit this link below for more complete news:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/05/27/ri-committed-rainforests-protection-despite-financial-constraints.html

Dear Blogger, Indonesia gives more attention to the environment during the reign of President Yudhoyono. In the late 2009, Indonesia released environmental law no 32 / 2009 in order to improve its previous legislation. Indonesia government would impose more severe penalty for anyone who violates this law.