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Timur Gül
Chief Energy Technology Officer. Timur Gül, a German national, was appointed Chief Energy Technology Officer of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in October 2023. In this capacity, he oversees IEA analysis of innovative new and emerging clean energy technologies and their supply chains across a range of sectors. Mr. Gül is also Head of the Energy Technology Policy Division, with responsibility for the IEA’s flagship technology publication Energy Technology Perspectives, the IEA Energy Innovation Forum, the IEA’s Technology and Innovation Advisory Board as well as the IEA’s Technology Collaboration network.Having joined the IEA in 2009, Mr. Gül previously was a lead author of the IEA’s World Energy Outlook (WEO). Prior to his time at the IEA, he was a researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland.Timur Gül holds a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH) Zurich in Switzerland. He also holds a Master degree in Environmental Engineering from the Royal Institute...
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Joerg Husar
Latin America Programme Manager and Senior Advisor for Strategic Global Energy Dialogue.
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Policy
Japan
2015
New Fuel Efficiency Standards for Small Freight Vehicles
The new fuel efficiency standards for small freight vehicles (weighing 3.5 tons or less) powered by diesel or gasoline set specific targets for manufacturers and importers to meet.These updated standards aim for a 26.1% improvement in fuel efficiency by fiscal year 2020 compared to fiscal year 2012, increasing from 14.2 km/L to 17.9 km/L.
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Policy
People's Republic of China
2025
GB 30510-2024 on fuel consumption limits for heavy duty vehicles
This standard specifies the fuel consumption limits for heavy-duty vehicles (commercial vehicles burning gasoline and diesel with a gross vehicle weight greater than 3500 kg, including trucks, semitrailer towing vehicles, passenger cars, dump trucks, and city buses). Stage IV National Standard increases the stringency by 12 to 16% compared to phase III. It also switchs test cycle from C-WTVC to CHTC.
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Policy
Canada
2020
Canada's Clean Energy for Rural and Remote Communities
…in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta was a unifying factor that brought three Indigenous communities together for the creation of Three Nations Energy (3NE). 3NE has since become the organisation that leads efforts on community energy planning, using solar in remote cabins, replacing diesel with biomass and sustainable food production. It is also a source of significant community pride and revenue generation. Overall, the CERRC programme has mobilized 115 renewable energy and capacity building projects involving more than 130 diesel-reliant communities. In 2021, the government of Canada announced an additional CAD 300 million over six years, starting in 2022, to continue…