Electric Vehicles

The Electric Vehicles market has gone from barely noticed to one of the biggest stories in 2008/09.

This microsite aims at gathering information on the solutions available for electric vehicles, their batteries and the necessary charging infrastructure. The challenges, opportunites and the role Electric Vehicles can play on decarbonizing the economy will be analysed here.

How to Avoid an Electric Shock

By Sergio Ferreira / Published on Thu, 2009-12-10 12:47

Transport & Environment, a Brussels-based organisation whose mission is to promote transport policy that is based on the principles of sustainable development, has recently published a report analysing what role electric cars could play in the decarbonisation of transport.

Visitors to the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show may have been left with only one impression: the future is electric. Virtually every manufacturer exhibited a car powered by batteries. Electric cars are the talk of the town.

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IEEE Smart Grid World Forum

By HDK / Published on Mon, 2010-09-06 19:50

We are pleased to invite you to the first IEEE Smart Grid World Forum. The IEEE Smart Grid World Forum is a unique series of events that form a global platform for collaboration of stakeholders worldwide to support and promote the evolution of Smart Grid. IEEE Smart Grid World Forum provides the framework for the exchange of ideas and sharing of best practices within the context of multiple approaches to Smart Grid. The forum also provides an opportunity for a realistic and impartial assessment of the current state-of-the-art developments in Smart Grids around the world.

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Report from IEEE-PES 2010 General Meeting and Conference

By Roman Targosz / Published on Wed, 2010-08-11 11:43

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and PES - Power and Energy Society

IEEE is the largest non-profit technical association with nearly 400,000 members in almost 200 countries.

IEEE has about 30% share in world’s technical literature on electrical engineering.

PES, Power and Energy Society is the third largest society in IEEE (39 of them all together) with the largest number of developed and under-development standards of about 400.

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Intelligent E-Transportation Management

By HDK / Published on Fri, 2010-01-15 16:35

This paper describes the performance of the network of a typical future residential concept area, as has been studied in the Intelligent E-Transportation Management project. Several scenarios have been elaborated by load flow simulations. The study investigated what level of introduction of electric vehicles, heat pumps, photovoltaic systems and micro combined heat and power plants is feasible in this network. Possible overload situations are examined and the opportunities of demand side management for the power grid are investigated.

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Mini-Course on Future Electricity Grids - Session 2/2

By Fernando Nuno / Published on Tue, 2010-01-12 15:46

The European power system has changed considerably in the last 15 years. The liberalisation and unbundling of the electricity market has led to increased international power flows and reduced influence of the system operators. Meanwhile, renewable and other small-scale uncontrolled and variable energy sources are being installed in the system.

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Mini-Course on Future Electricity Grids - Session 1/2

By Fernando Nuno / Published on Tue, 2010-01-12 15:01

The European power system has changed considerably in the last 15 years. The liberalisation and unbundling of the electricity market has led to increased international power flows and reduced influence of the system operators. Meanwhile, renewable and other small-scale uncontrolled and variable energy sources are being installed in the system.

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