By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 11:54
This document is an overall report of the seminar “Electricity in the next decade”, the first in an annual series of events regarding “Low carbon electricity systems”. KEMA, ECI and Leonardo ENERGY are jointly organising these events.
Next to the topics presented during the first event, a few additional topics have been added in order to create a white paper and a more complete picture on the theme “Electricity in the next decade”.
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By Sarah Hatch / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 11:43
This is the fourth in a series of articles for members of the new International Testing Centres Network and others who are interested in sharing experience of energy efficiency testing of industrial three-phase electric motors.
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By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 08:29
Shortly after George Bush declared that the U.S. would not adopt the Kyoto Protocols, the City Council of Boulder, Colorado declared that the City would. Since then, a number of activities have taken place to achieve the aims of the Kyoto Protocols. A committee called the Boulder Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (BREEE) Working Group was formed of energy professionals, City officials, and concerned citizens.
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By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 08:28
The aim of the Rõuge rural municipality in southern Estonia is to develop a zero-CO2 community, excluding transportation, in within five years.
100% renewable heating in public buildings has already been reached as biomass for heating is the most important renewable energy source in the district. The municipality institutions exclusively use green label electricity.
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By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 08:26
The intelligent metering of energy and water consumption in local and regional public buildings and the half hourly analysis of consumption data can enable savings opportunities to be identified, including the detection of faults. From Leicester City Council’s experience with intelligent metering it has been found that in some buildings savings of up to 20-30 % can be obtained with little or no investment.
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By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 08:25
“klima:aktiv” is the climate change program of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management. The aim of “klima:aktiv” is to reduce CO2 emissions as well as reinforce renewable energy in Austria. To achieve these goals more than 20 programs for renewable energies and energy efficiency were created – “energy efficient companies” being one of them.
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By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 08:20
While improved energy services have many quality of life benefits like lighting or television, the productive use of electricity can also help to reduce poverty, leading to increased profitability and productivity for micro, small and medium enterprises, and small industries. The remoteness of rural locations usually makes it difficult to expand electricity supply through a centralised grid system. Therefore people living in off-grid regions often rely on expensive fossil fuels like diesel and kerosene.
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By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 06:42
“Energy efficiency improvements don’t cost – they pay.”
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By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 06:41
Over the last few years a lot of test and full scale intelligent street lighting installations have been installed both in Oslo as well as other municipalities. The experience gained and the developed skill within the field has opened the way to a rapid increase of the market. The technical challenges are not all solved, but the systems can demonstrate high quality performance although there have been some challenges to overcome.
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By HDK / Published on Wed, 2009-09-09 06:36
Defendants of energy efficiency have argued that policy-makers focus excessively on the “trendier” energy supply and not enough on end-use energy efficiency. Focusing on supply side energy policies, as is the case of supporting large renewable electricity generation plants, without looking at the same time for the opportunities in the demand-side, may generate avoidable costs.
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