European Copper Institute's contribution to the Green Paper Consultation for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy

The European Copper Institute, promoter of the Leonardo ENERGY initiative, is a strong supporter of a new European Energy Policy proposed in the Green Paper and welcomes the initiative of the Commission to launch this wide debate.

Solar Power Satellites

Can they compete with terrestrial solar power plants?

One of the more unusual concepts for harvesting renewable energy is the positioning of solar power stations in space that emit their collected energy to earth-based receiving antennas. It is far less science fiction than it may at first seem. Europe has been investigating Solar Power Satellites (SPS) since 1979. Significant technical and conceptual advances have been made since the initial efforts.

Pictures of wind turbines

This part of the WindPower site is a data base of multimedia materials related to wind energy. You will find here thousands of sorted pictures, many movies and a lot of cartographical data (national maps and other).

Introduction to cogeneration

Date: July 6, 2006
Time: 13h00 - 14h00 European Standard Time
Speaker: Rob Smit (KEMA Consulting)

Investing in tomorrow's transmission grid

Modified circumstances change cost-effectiveness of technology

7 powerful words

Turn down. Switch off. Recycle. Walk. Change. With 7 simple words, the European Commission makes climate change sound so easy, while at the same time saying it all. The campaign, using the Commission's headquarters - the landmark Berlaymont building as a prime advertising location, aims to educate on climate change and how to mitigate it, and offers practical advice for action today.

The EU Emission Trading Scheme - a play in 4 acts

Setting the scene

The European Union, wishing to demonstrate international leadership in the fight against climate change, but worried about the impact of climate policy on its industry competitiveness, has set up an Emission Trading Scheme. This scheme allocates allowances - the right to emit a tonne of CO₂, to the 12,000 largest emitters in Europe, i.e. power generators and large industry (the covered sector). Allowances are allocated per period.

SmartGrids - Europe’s Power System of the Future

Last month, the SmartGrids Technology Platform published its report Vision and Strategy for Europe’s Electricity Networks of the Future (smart grids vision).

At the launching event April 6-7, we noted a few statements from keynote speakers such as the Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potocnik and others:

Efficiency in public transport

The two reports may not be recent, but together, they present a very detailed case study on efficiency in DC railway systems, offering a wealth of technical information. Both studies have been performed by KEMA (the second study has never been published before):