Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/21
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan
Taipei, Nov. 21 (CNA) A visiting German energy expert on Tuesday stressed the
Manfred Fischedick highlights the importance of energy efficiency in transformation of global energy system in a speech in Taipei on Tuesday.
importance of energy efficiency in the transformation of energy systems, adding that about two-thirds of primary energy is wasted globally.
Energy efficiency plays a very important role in energy transition strategy, Manfred Fischedick, vice president and director of Future Energy and Mobility Structures at German’s Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy told a forum hosed by the Chinese-language Economic Daily News.
The potential of energy efficiency is largely ignored as the global primary energy system works “a little bit like a bathtub with a leak,” Fischedick said.
“We put a lot of energy into the bathtub and at the end there are a lot of losses. We can use one third of the energy but two-thirds is lost,” he added. [FULL STORY]
