By Isabelle Heriakian / Published on Fri, 2007-10-12 16:59
Created in 2001, LPQI has grown into a partnership community of 100 authorities in the field of power quality. They range from academic and polytechnic institutions to engineering companies. LPQI aims to provide end-users and business decision makers with facts and best practices to improve power quality in the non-residential sector and to raise awareness among policy makers. LPQI European education programme reaches 100 000 professionals each year.
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By Roman Targosz / Published on Thu, 2006-11-09 23:37
Application notes, reports, webcasts, presentations and minute lectures on high efficiency distribution transformers.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Sun, 2008-11-02 00:06
The Leonardo ENERGY initiative is building a slide library for energy educators. So far, over 5,000 slides have been collected. Through this page, we offer users to browse and download selected presentations from this library. We'll be adding to this page regularly, so bookmark it for future reference.
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By Angelo Baggini / Published on Mon, 2008-03-31 13:48
This publication by IEC summarizes the international standards work carried out by TC 4, TC 82, TC 88 and TC 105 in the areas of water, sun, wind and alternative energy fuel cells.
IEC is active in this area through:
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By Angelo Baggini / Published on Tue, 2008-03-25 13:28
A publication by IEC, summarising the international standards work carried out by IEC technical committees and emphasising future directions in the field of efficiency in energy distribution and transmission, contains a reference to the Leonardo ENERGY community on page 14:
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By Bryony Samuel / Published on Mon, 2008-02-25 18:12
This section of the power Quality and Utilisation Guide deals with energy efficiency.
Energy efficiency is becoming even more important as energy resources become increasingly scarce, difficult to exploit and expensive. Building generation capacity fuelled by renewable resources will help to meet demand, but decreasing consumption by reducing waste is a faster, cheaper, easier and more sensible approach.
Energy efficiency improvements are usually technically simple, relatively low cost and quick and easy to implement.
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By Bryony Samuel / Published on Thu, 2008-01-17 18:47
Distributed generation (DG) and renewable energy sources (RES) are attracting special attention. Both are seen as important in achieving two key goals:
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By Francisco Boshell / Published on Wed, 2007-11-21 18:45
Dear Colleagues,
I’ve heard that introducing massively high efficiency lamps like CFL may produce a quite negative effect on the public grid and power quality due to the reactive power increase, and the dropping of the power factor below 0.8.
I’d like to ask you whether this is correct, and, if so, how to avoid such problems without impacting incentives for the implementation of high efficiency lamps?
Regards,
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Tue, 2007-11-13 23:43
At Leonardo ENERGY, we're starting a reflection about the elements of the super-efficient society. Many of you will have heard of Factor 4, and the derived Factor 10 or even Factor 20 schools of thought. In the milestone book 'Factor 4', many solutions are more like an incremental improvement than a step change.
The building blocks of the super-efficient society can be technological, but behaviour change and organising society to use combined techniques are equally important.
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Thu, 2007-11-08 17:53
Normally, yet another new web community on energy would not be news, but here's one from an unexpected angle. The International Electrotechnical Commission launched wattwatt in the late summer and has very quickly attracted over 300 members from around the globe. According to IEC:
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By Hans De Keulenaer / Published on Sat, 2006-09-23 11:20
The Schneider library includes over 100 Technical Publications, allowing a better understanding of installations, electrical systems and equipment or automation. Developed over 20 years, and covering both theoretical and practical aspects, "Cahiers Techniques" are written by electrical experts on a wide variety of topics such as Electrical Distribution, Secure Power, Safety, Automation & Control. All publications can be freely downloaded in PDF format.
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