Peer-to-Peer resources for Energy Professionals

Hereby a list of (free of charge) forums that exist for interaction among energy professionals that you may find useful:

• PowerGlobe: a highly active message board (about 3-5 posts in a typical day) of over 2000 professionals. There is some focus on the academic community, with a lot of announcements of calls for papers for conferences and journals and new openings for academic posts. But also questions about new technologies, simulation tools, announcements of new publications, ...
• Engineering Tips: a number of highly active forums. For example the 'Electric Power Engineering' forum has 30,000 members. Information is of a very practical nature.
• IEEE Communities: a number of highly functional forums on power engineering, sustainable energy, safety, engineering management, ... Activity is rather limited, but occasional, one can find a gem of information.
• The IET: The Institution of Engineering and Technology has several message boards on power. Sometimes, discussion is very active, though the subjects are naturally focussed on UK.

All above forums are free of charge, but require registration. They're also free of comment spam, and when discussion takes place, it is usually of good quality.

If we missed something major, thanks for letting me know.

See also: Leonardo ENERGY on the social media

• Diigo - for knowledge sharing
• Xing - for energy professionals on Xing