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Fernando Nuño is portfolio manager ‘Electricity & Energy’ at the European Copper Institute (ECI), a non-profit organisation working towards the support and expansion of copper and copper alloys’ markets in Europe. His responsibilities at the ECI comprise market research, campaign development and project management. Fernando Nuño is an energy engineer graduated from Burgos and Bilbao Engineering Schools (Spain). He also completed a MoS degree at Institut Français du Pétrole (France). He previously worked as a process engineer of combined heat & power plants and as an analyst at the French Energy Regulatory Commission. His current interests are sustainable energy systems, renewables, and energy markets regulation.
PV Grid Parity is defined as the moment when PV Levelized Cost of Energy becomes competitive with retail electricity
After several years of the PV market’s rapid growth, 2012 has been a year of market consolidation.
When : 15 February 2013 - 15h00 Brussels time
The Clean Energy Solutions Center in partnership with Enerdata organizes this webinar on key regulatory issues associated with the deployment of smart grids. Drawing on case studies from Europe, this training will delve into the regulatory regimes, anticipated costs and benefits of smart grids, best practices that foster grid integration, and regulatory frameworks that support (or hinder) smart grids.
Date and Time: January 22, 2013 at 15:00 GMT
Panelists:
Smart grids are seen by many as an effective solution to address some of the toughest challenges the electricity industry has faced so far; the integration of renewables on a very large scale, the promised rise in number of electric vehicles, the necessity of energy efficiency, the improved security of supply or the arrival of the ‘prosumer'. Equipment manufacturers and IT solution providers are eagerly awaiting the hundreds of billions of euros to be invested over the next decades. In this article, we advocate that smart grid technologies have the potential to transform the electricity markets given they are for the most part readily available, but, the correct regulatory framework first needs to be put in place. Failure to recognise the need for a regulatory overhaul can only hamper and delay the deployment of smart grids and their expected benefits.
In the wake of the financial crisis, global unemployment rates have hit 6% with no improvement projected until after
The findings in the REN21 2012 Global Status Report (GSR) speak to the cumulating effect of steady growth in renewable energy markets, support policies and investment over the past years. In 2011:
A series of webinars will present the report and will provide regional focus. Go in depth and behind the scenes of the REN21 report with Christine Lins, Executive Director of REN21.
Mr Arne Schweinfurth will provide regional focus for Asia Pacific in this session.
Christine Lins was appointed as Executive Secretary of REN21, the Renewable Energy Policy Network of the 21st Century, in July 2011. During the last 10 years, she served as Secretary General of the European Renewable Energy Council, the united voice of Europe’s renewable energy industry. Lins has more than 15 years of working experience in the field of renewable energy sources. Previously, she worked in a regional energy agency in Austria promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. Lins holds a masters degree in international economics and applied languages.
Arne Schweinfurth studied Economics in Cologne (Germany), Madrid (Spain) and Montreal (Canada) with a focus on Energy Economics and Environmental Politics. As a consultant for The World Bank, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH and other organisations he worked on renewable energy, especially photovoltaic, renewable energy financing and energy subsidies. Since 2010 Arne Schweinfurth is advisor for renewable energy at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Indonesia, working in Jakarta, where he manages the Renewable Energy Support Programme for ASEAN (ASEAN-RESP), a regional project that supports the development of the renewable energy sector in the 10 member states of the ASEAN community. The ASEAN-RESP supports the regional transfer of knowledge and experiences, advises on feasibe policy framework conditions for renewable energies and provides training and capacity building.
In addition Mr. Schweinfurth is responsible for the implementation of the Project Development Programme Southeast Asia in Indonesia (PEP SEA) with a focus on private sector cooperation in the bio energy and solar power sector.
The findings in the REN21 2012 Global Status Report (GSR) speak to the cumulating effect of steady growth in renewable energy markets, support policies and investment over the past years. In 2011:
A series of webinars will present the report and will provide regional focus. Go in depth and behind the scenes of the REN21 report with Christine Lins, Executive Director of REN21.
Mr Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes will provide regional focus for Europe in this session.
Christine Lins was appointed as Executive Secretary of REN21, the Renewable Energy Policy Network of the 21st Century, in July 2011. During the last 10 years, she served as Secretary General of the European Renewable Energy Council, the united voice of Europe’s renewable energy industry. Lins has more than 15 years of working experience in the field of renewable energy sources. Previously, she worked in a regional energy agency in Austria promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. Lins holds a masters degree in international economics and applied languages.
Rainer Hinrichs-Rahlwes is the President of EREC, the European Renewable Energy Council, the umbrella organization of European renewable energy industry, trade and research associations. And he is the President of EREC’s member Association EREF, the European Renewable Energies Federation, the voice of independent producers of energy from renewable sources. He is a Board Member of the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE). He is BEE’s Spokesperson European and international affairs, and he is the Chairman of BEE’s related working group. From November 1998 to December 2005, he was a Director General in the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), in charge of – among others – renewable energies and climate protection. He was one of the two chairmen of the International Steering Committee preparing the renewables2004-conference in Bonn. After the conference, he served as BMU’s representative and a co-chair and later a member of the Bureau of the Global Policy Network, now known as REN21.
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Policy makers are showing increased interest in making electricity grids ‘smarter.’ This webinar will help policy makers design policies to encourage ‘smart grids’ by defining what makes an electricity grid smart and proposing a methodology to measure the smartness of the electricity grid. Participants will also learn how to track the status of smart grid development with a defined framework of six characteristics which a smart grid should meet. Progress in the development of each characteristic is assessed by several key performance indicators.
Panelist : Leen Vandezande obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the K.U.Leuven, Belgium, with her Ph.D. manuscript on balancing market design and integration. Currently, she is working as a post-doctoral researcher in the Electric Energy Research Group ELECTA at the K.U.Leuven. Being involved in several European projects in the field of smart grids and in smart grid industry associations, Vandezande is acquainted with research, policy and market activities in the area of smart grids. Her research interests include European energy policy and energy market design.
This is the 10th session of the Course on Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries.
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Session 10 will focus on how actual energy efficiency improvements can be achieved in organisations of different sizes. The presentation will start with a discussion of the status of energy efficiency in major developing countries. A variety of tools for working towards higher energy efficiency will be discussed, including benchmarking, energy audits, process analysis, and energy management schemes.
Kornelis Blok (1956) studied experimental physics at Utrecht University and received a Ph.D. degree in 1991 on a thesis ‘On the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Emissions’. In 1984 he was one of the founders of Ecofys, where he is now Director of Science. Dr. Blok has extensive research and consultancy experience in the field of energy efficiency improvement and clean energy production. He played an important role in the development of European energy policies and international climate policies and has worked in many countries around the globe. He is also with Utrecht University, where he holds a professorship in Sustainable Energy. He is supervising the master programme Energy Science. He authored and co-authored 90 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, several books and over 200 research reports, conference contributions and other scientific publications. He was a lead author for the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the institution that was award the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. With his company he won the Erasmus award for the most innovative company of the Netherlands in 2008.
This is the 9th session of the Course on Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries.
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Session 9 is devoted to Energy Services Companies (ESCOs). First, it introduces the Energy Performance Certificates concept and EPC contractual approaches. Then, it presents the need for measurement and verifications (M&V). It presents different ESCOs models:
It concludes with the examples of institutional development schemes in Tunisia and Ivory Coast.
Mr. Langlois boasts 25 years of experience in the energy sector, namely in the development, financing and implementation of energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, both in Canada and on the international scene. He is an internationally recognised expert in the development and implementation of pioneering energy efficiency financial mechanisms, more specifically, in energy service company (ESCO) start-ups and operation in industrialized and developing countries. He has also acquired solid experience in all sectors of energy policy development, demand-side management and project development for international financial institutions.
Over his career, he has acted as member of the board of directors of several ESCOs worldwide and a few international organizations such as the Efficiency Valuation Organization (EVO), for which he is still an international trainer in the measurement and verification of energy efficiency project performance. He has worked in over 40 countries in all parts of the world as part of mandates led or financed by major multilateral development banks, bi lateral organizations, specialized organizations in the field of clean energy, utilities, ministries and national energy agencies.
This is the 8th session of the Course on Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries.
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Session 8 deals with standards and labels for white appliances and air conditionners which have achieved tremendous energy savings in some developing countries.
How to define standards – how to test them - how to implement them - how to enforce them.
This session will rely on cases notably from Ghana, Tunisia and Egypt.
About the speaker
Mr. Baillargeon is a senior expert with over 30 years of experience in many energy efficiency-related sectors, including the planning and implementation of projects under the ESCO approach, the Measurement & Verification (M&V) of energy savings, the development of Demand-Side Management programmes (DSM), building codes and energy efficiency standards for various appliances as well as having been involved in the research and development of energy efficiency-related computer tools.
Over the last decade, Mr. Baillargeon has also gained a vast experience in the Kyoto mechanisms through his participation in several studies, and practical projects related to carbon credits transactions, and through the development of many PINs and PDDs. His international experience has led him to work in more than 40 countries, on projects carried out or financed by international institutions such as the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations (UNDP, PNUE, UNDESA) and with bilateral or multilateral development organizations such as the Canadian International Development Agency, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Institut de l'énergie et de l'environnement de la Francophonie (IEPF). Mr. Baillargeon has also worked for several important electric utilities including CEMIG (Brazil), DÉMÁSZ (Hungary), Electricity of Portugal (EDP), HEP (Croatia), Hydro-Québec and the Société Tunisienne de l'Électricité et du Gaz (STEG).
This is the 7th session of the Course on Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries.
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It is recognized that Energy Efficiency shall be the major component of any energy policy.
Session 7 introduces the institutional framework needed to implement energy efficiency (energy agency, utility Demand Side Management, other) notably by presenting the example of Tunisia.
It deals with the way to fund energy efficiency programmes via tax and social levies or carbon finance. This session gives an overview of white certificates schemes notably with the examples of India and Uruguay, and introduces different support energy efficiency schemes (grants, tax incentives, soft loan,other).
About the speaker
Mr. Baillargeon is a senior expert with over 30 years of experience in many energy efficiency-related sectors, including the planning and implementation of projects under the ESCO approach, the Measurement & Verification (M&V) of energy savings, the development of Demand-Side Management programmes (DSM), building codes and energy efficiency standards for various appliances as well as having been involved in the research and development of energy efficiency-related computer tools.
Over the last decade, Mr. Baillargeon has also gained a vast experience in the Kyoto mechanisms through his participation in several studies, and practical projects related to carbon credits transactions, and through the development of many PINs and PDDs. His international experience has led him to work in more than 40 countries, on projects carried out or financed by international institutions such as the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations (UNDP, PNUE, UNDESA) and with bilateral or multilateral development organizations such as the Canadian International Development Agency, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Institut de l'énergie et de l'environnement de la Francophonie (IEPF). Mr. Baillargeon has also worked for several important electric utilities including CEMIG (Brazil), DÉMÁSZ (Hungary), Electricity of Portugal (EDP), HEP (Croatia), Hydro-Québec and the Société Tunisienne de l'Électricité et du Gaz (STEG).
This is the 6th session of the Course on Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries.
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Session 6 focuses on tender/auctioning. In spite of its "stop and go" nature, tender mechanisms could be more adapted to the support of certain renewable energy technologies than more complex schemes. They might be as well more suitable for some particular developing countries. This session tackles also the issue of fiscal incentives and tax breaks, which can prove to be very effective to support renewable energy technologies. This session provides a number of examples taken from industrial, emerging and developing countries.
Chad Laurent, Esq. is a Senior Consultant and MCG's General Counsel specializing in renewable energy law and policy, sustainable business strategies, and renewable energy project development. He currently manages MCG's work with the U.S. Dept. of Energy providing technical assistance and training for the SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership where he presents at national conferences on the topic of creating solar energy opportunities within local communities. Mr. Laurent has provided legal analysis of Indonesia's Geothermal feed-in tariff policy, contributed to the drafting of a renewable energy law drafter's guide for the United Nations Environment Programme, and to a study on the legal ability of U.S. states to set feed-in tariff rates for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In addition, Mr. Laurent has consulted to the World Bank, DB Climate Change Advisors, the Mass. Dept. of Energy Resources, and the SEMI PV Group among other clients. Prior to attending law school, he was the Manager of Renewable Energy Programs for the Massachusetts Energy Consumers' Alliance. While in law school, Chad worked in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and interned in the
This is the 5th session of the Course on Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries.
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Session 5 deals with a number of policy instruments to support the large scale dissemination of on-grid renewable energy technologies and see how they are used in developing countries.
The two last sessions were dedicated to the design of feed-in tariff; sessions 5 and 6 give an introduction to other major policy instruments.
This session focuses on Renewable Portfolio System / Quota System and the creation of Green Certificates market. What quota of renewable energy can achieve in a country? How to design tradable green certificates and create a market liquid enough for investors? Are green certificates a viable option for countries with small generation capacity? This session analyses several existing green certificates markets (USA, India,...).
Chad Laurent, Esq. is a Senior Consultant and MCG's General Counsel specializing in renewable energy law and policy, sustainable business strategies, and renewable energy project development. He currently manages MCG's work with the U.S. Dept. of Energy providing technical assistance and training for the SunShot Solar Outreach Partnership where he presents at national conferences on the topic of creating solar energy opportunities within local communities. Mr. Laurent has provided legal analysis of Indonesia's Geothermal feed-in tariff policy, contributed to the drafting of a renewable energy law drafter's guide for the United Nations Environment Programme, and to a study on the legal ability of U.S. states to set feed-in tariff rates for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In addition, Mr. Laurent has consulted to the World Bank, DB Climate Change Advisors, the Mass. Dept. of Energy Resources, and the SEMI PV Group among other clients. Prior to attending law school, he was the Manager of Renewable Energy Programs for the Massachusetts Energy Consumers' Alliance. While in law school, Chad worked in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs and interned in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office in the Energy and Telecommunications Division. Chad's professional experience also includes work with the Environmental Defense Fund and the Rocky Mountain Institute. He holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Suffolk University Law School where he was a Rappaport Honors Fellow in Law and Public Policy, and a Bachelors of Science (B.S.) from the University of Michigan in Environmental Policy & Behavior and Natural Resource Ecology & Management. He is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.
This is the 3rd session of the Course on Regulation and Sustainable Energy in Developing Countries.
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This session is devoted to the design of feed-in tariff schemes for the large-scale dissemination of on-grid renewable energy technologies in developing countries. This is the continuation of lesson 3.
The session 4 gives an in-depth view on the concrete implementation of feed-in tariff laws, with the presentation of case studies of successful and less effective feed-in tariff laws and also an overview of on-going implementation of feed-in tariff laws, presenting notably the examples of Germany, Spain, France, the UK, Malaysia, Kenya, Mauritius, Ecuador, Ontario (Canada), Vermont (US), etc.
About the speakers
Dr. des. David Jacobs is Director of Renewable Energy at the consulting firm IFOK GmbH, where he focuses on renewable energy policy in Germany, Europe and the developing world. He was engaged as a consultant for feed-in tariffs and other support instruments in a number of countries, including Vietnam, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK, India, Nigeria, Malaysia, Ghana and Kenya. Dr. Jacobs has given seminars on renewable energy policy design for political decision makers in Malaysia, Azerbaijan and Nigeria. Previously, he consulted to the World Bank, UNEP, the Inter-American Development Bank, the OSCE, the German Bundestag, the German wind energy association BWE and a number of research institutes. Dr. Jacobs has an academic background in International Business and Cultural Studies and is lecturer at the Environmental Policy Research Centre in Berlin (FFU, Freie Universität Berlin). For his PhD project he analyzed the historic development of feed-in tariff schemes in Germany, France and Spain. He is co-author of “The Feed-in Tariff Handbook” (Powering the Green Economy, Earthscan) and a large number of other publications on support instruments for renewable electricity.
Wilson Rickerson is the CEO of Meister Consultants Group (MCG - a subsidiary of IFOK and subcontractor for this project), an international consultancy focusing on renewable energy and climate policy. Mr. Rickerson is an expert on international renewable energy design and has conducted policy analyses in numerous jurisdictions around the world, including Indonesia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Ecuador. He recently worked with Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors to develop the Global Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariff (GET FiT) concept in response to a request from the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change. As part of the project, the MCG team analyzed how international climate finance mechanisms could support existing FITs in developing countries, and conducted outreach to over 100 international stakeholders. Mr. Rickerson also led the development of the global semiconductor industry association’s (SEMI) renewable energy policy position paper, and is currently developing a rate setting methodology with the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory based on surveys of international renewable energy rate setting approaches. In the US, Mr. Rickerson has supported renewable energy policy proceedings in Hawaii, California, and Vermont. He has also worked on renewable energy projects sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Windustry, the World Future Council, and others. Prior to his work in renewable energy, Mr. Rickerson worked in the field of international development, supporting overseas projects in Ghana, Jamaica, and the West Bank. He holds a Masters in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and a B.A. in International Relations from the College of William and Mary.
Co-sponsored by Clean Energy Solutions Center and Leonardo Energy.
The cost of losses is a critical input to the planning, design and operational activities of distribution network businesses. Whilst the cost of losses will rarely provide the complete justification for an augmentation project, it will change the relative ranking of alternatives, particularly when comparing development options of different voltages.
The cost of losses can also influence the preferred timing of a project at times of moderate load growth. Furthermore, lifecycle costs used for the specification of optimal cable and line conductor sizes and transformer designs are critically dependent on this input.
The supply industry is at a turning point where the forecast costs of energy generation are expected to increase beyond “traditional” levels. The potential impact of Government policies influencing the move to renewable energy sources and the likelihood of some form of carbon price add to energy generation costs. Future generating costs are expected to be very significantly higher than the current market prices. Networks, too, have been the subject of recent regulatory determinations which have dramatically increased their costs.
This webinar proposes a Long Run Marginal Cost approach for calculating the cost of losses at various levels within the distribution network. The approach developed has relevance both for the regulatory incentives on networks to manage electrical losses and on the minimum energy performance specifications (MEPS) of distribution equipment.
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Harry Colebourn retired as EnergyAustralia’s Executive Manager – Regulation and Pricing in July 2008. He has since been consulting within the power industry, on a broad range of engineering and regulatory assignments. Harry was involved in the development of Australian electricity markets from their inception in the early 1990’s, through to the establishment of the National Electricity Market in 1998. He was contributor to the development of the transmission and distribution pricing arrangements that remain in place. Harry’s longstanding interest in the economics of infrastructure businesses led to the introduction of a number of innovative changes to improve the cost reflectivity of EnergyAustralia’s network pricing. He is the author of several papers on pricing and related matters. Harry has degree qualifications in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration and is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Electric Energy Society of Australia.
For several reasons, the world will need an adapted energy system to accommodate its growing population. Climate change, depletion of natural resources and a growing dependence on only a few energy suppliers are a threat to our current system.
Renewable sources such as solar energy, wind, hydro and bio-energy are necessary for a sustainable balance. The Energy Report, published by Ecofys and WWF in February 2011, demonstrates that a fully sustainable and renewable global energy system is possible by 2050. At the heart of The Energy Report lies the Ecofys Energy Scenario which charts technical, social and economic developments in all energy carriers, all regions and all sectors of the global energy system.
First, the scenario forecasts a future level of energy-consuming activities (e.g. tonnes of steel used), based on a growing population and a tripling of the world’s economy. These services would be delivered with a minimum of energy and material use. Second, the scenario ranks the sources to provide the energy for these activities based on sustainability. Energy from the sun, wind, water and heat from the earth’s crust are prioritised and will contribute to a further electrification of our society. Only once these options are exhausted is bio-energy deployed.
An important condition in the scenario is the development towards a sustainable standard of living around the world, based on increasing equity between different regions. Upfront financing will be required, but in the long term, benefits will outweigh costs.
The Energy Report has become the basis for engagement with business and policy leaders worldwide in WWF’s initiative to achieve a fully renewable energy system by 2050.
Kees van der Leun (1960), graduated from Utrecht University with an MSc in Physics in 1986. He was involved in the management of Ecofys since he joined the company in 1986. He has 25 years of experience in the sustainable energy business, leading the companies' solar energy activities and initiating project and product development. Leading in energy and climate strategy and in technology development and implementation, Ecofys is strongly involved in the development of greenhouse gas emission reduction on global, national, regional and corporate scales. Technological areas of expertise include: wind energy, biofuels, biomass, solar PV, solar thermal, energy efficiency and grid issues. Kees is married, has two children (13 and 15 years old), and lives in the village of Bunnik. He is a relentless infovore, an avid cycler, and a latent bird-watcher.
This talk discusses a plan to power 100% of the world’s energy for all purposes with wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) within the next 20-40 years. The talk starts by reviewing and ranking major proposed energy-related solutions to global warming, air pollution mortality, and energy security while considering other impacts of the proposed solutions, such as on water supply, land use, resource availability, reliability, wildlife, and catastrophic risk. It then evaluates a scenario for powering the world on the energy options determined to be the best while also considering materials, transmission infrastructure, costs, and politics. The study concludes that powering the world with wind, water, and solar technologies, which are found to be the best when all factors are considered, is technically feasible but politically challenging.
Relevant papers can be found here.
Mark Z. Jacobson Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University. Jacobson is Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is also a Courtesy Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment, and Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute.
He currently sits on the United States Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Federal Advisory Committee (ERAC) to the U.S. Secretary of Energy. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering with distinction, an A.B. in Economics with distinction, and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, in 1988. He also received an M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences in 1991 and a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences in 1994 from UCLA and has been on the faculty at Stanford since 1994.
His work relates to the development and application of numerical models to understand better the effects of energy systems and vehicles on climate and air pollution and the analysis of renewable energy resources. He has published two textbooks and 110 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. His 2000 finding that black carbon, the main component of soot particles, may be the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide provided the original scientific basis for five recent U.S. proposed laws on black carbon. He received the 2005 American Meteorological Society Henry G. Houghton Award for "significant contributions to modeling aerosol chemistry and to understanding the role of soot and other carbon particles on climate.” In 2005, his group developed the first wind map of the world from data alone at the height of modern turbines. He recently co-authored a cover article in Scientific American with Dr. Mark DeLucchi of U.C. Davis and two more detailed analyses in Energy Policy on how to power the world with renewable energy.
This course is designed to equip the electrical consultant, system designer or any other professional responsible for designing or modernizing commercial and industrial electrical power distribution systems with the fundamentals of the Arc Flash Energy phenomenon.
The current Safety and Arc Flash concerns can trace their history back to NFPA and IEEE activity dating back to the 70’s. Many industrial users have been incorporating concepts developed from these activities for decades. Awareness of the risks associated with electrical arc flash energy has increased since the incorporation of labeling requirements in the 2002 National Electrical Code (NFPA 70-2002) and the publication of IEEE 1584-2002.
This one-hour lecture is based upon NFPA-70E ‘Electrical Safety Requirements for Employee Workplaces,’ IEEE Standard 1584-2002 ‘Guide for Performing Arc-Flash Hazard Calculations,’ NFPA70-2011, ‘National Electrical Code,’ and the regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in the United States.
Peter E. Sutherland (S’77–M’79–SM’97) received the A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maine, Orono, the M.Sc.E. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, and the Ph.D. degree in Electric Power Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. In 1987, he joined General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, and held a variety of positions, becoming a Senior Engineer in the GE Power Systems Energy Consulting Department. In 2001, he joined SuperPower, Inc., Schenectady, N.Y., where he worked on applications of superconductivity to electric power systems. In 2003, Dr. Sutherland joined EPRI’s Schenectady, NY office as a Consulting Engineer. In 2005, he rejoined GE as a Lead Power Systems Engineer. Author of numerous technical papers, he is active in the IEEE Industry Applications Society, and in the IEEE Schenectady Section. Dr. Sutherland is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maine and New York, and a Certified Energy Engineer.
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Review of concepts, programs and technologies aimed at enlisting demand response that evolved since the early 80's. While the technology has reached a point where many of the early experimental programs and concepts have become feasible and cost effective, the economic paradigm for demand response has not changed much. While electricity is traded as a commodity at the wholesale level, at the retail level demand response programs can be framed as "quality of service differentiation". Given this premise, it will be explained some economic paradigms for characterizing and pricing demand response programs that can underlie business models for intermediaries aggregating retail level load control into tradable wholesale market commodities.
Shmuel Oren is the Earl J. Isaac Professor in the Science and Analysis of Decision Making in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley and former Chairman of that department. He serves as the Berkeley site director of PSERC and is also Co-Chair of the Management of Technology Program of the College of Engineering and Haas School of Business at Berkeley. Dr. Oren’s research focus has been in Operations Research, particularly optimization, and in mathematical modeling and analysis of economic systems.
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Fourth session of the 2nd Concentrated Solar Power Training dedicated to solar resource
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Following the training course on electricity markets regulation, a set of support papers is being delivered to comple
Following the training course on electricity markets regulation, a set of support papers is being delivered to comple
Following the training course on electricity markets regulation, a set of support papers is being delivered to comple
Some fundamental questions for any country willing to introduce renewables and distributed generation are:
KEMA Consulting will be presenting its analysis on these questions, based on the report System Integration of Distributed Generation - Renewable Energy Systems in Different European Countries.
About the speaker: Jitske Burgers studied Business Economics and specialised in Environmental Economics at the Free University of Amsterdam. She is a consultant with a broad-ranging experience in the fields of renewable energy and European project management. Her key areas of expertise are:
Her experience has been gained as a European Project Coordinator both in the Netherlands and Ireland, SETREC (implementation of Guarantees of Origin), European Energy Award. She also worked for SWS, CEA and WRR. At KEMA she works on, among other things, the elaboration of a scenario study for the Romanian Green Certificates market and on a research into the Dutch feed-in support scheme.
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This course is free and universally-accessible via the web.
Over-sizing the cross section of a cable beyond the result of voltage and current theoretical calculations is, in mos
The inherent variability of generation from renewable sources, such as wind and solar power, may
1) increase the operating costs associated with additional ramping requirements, and
2) increase the amount of installed conventional generating capacity needed to maintain the operating reliability of a network.
The additional system costs for both of these factors can be mitigated by providing additional services from, for example, controllable loads and storage capacity. This presentation uses a case study to demonstrate that these services are not adequately compensated by typical regulatory practices.
The proposed solution to this problem is to develop a hierarchical structure for operating and managing networks that will make it easier to control the increased uses of distributed energy resources that are likely to provide many of the new services needed to maintain system reliability in the future.
Tim Mount joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1969. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Applied Economics and Management and Cornell’s Site Director for PSERC. His research and teaching interests include econometric modeling and policy analysis relating to the use of fuels and electricity and their environmental consequences (acid rain, smog, and climate change). His current research is focused on the restructuring of markets for electricity and the implications for (1) price behavior in auctions for electricity, (2) the rates charged to customers, (3) investment decisions for maintaining system reliability, and (4) the system effects of relying on renewable sources of energy in a low-carbon economy.
This talk presented new methods to model and control the aggregated power demand from a population of thermostatically controlled loads. The control objective is to produce relatively short time scale responses (hourly to sub-hourly) for ancillary services such as load following and regulation. The control signal is applied by manipulation of temperature set points. The methods leverage the existence of system diversity and use physically-based load models to inform the development of a new theoretical model that accurately predicts - even when the system is not in equilibrium - changes in load resulting from changes in thermostat temperature set points. Insight into the transient dynamics that result from set point changes is developed by deriving a new exact solution to a well-known hybrid state aggregated load model. A straightforward minimum variance control law is developed and it is shown that the high frequency components of the output of a wind plant can be followed with very small changes in the nominal thermostat temperature set points.
The webinar took place December 18 between 1pm and 2pm US Eastern Time.
This webinar will provide a general view of drivers and barriers for CSP development, with a particular focus on the structure of the CSP Value Chain. From a technical point of view, the main key performances will be reviewed for the different technologies.
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Rosa Blázquez Sánchez is an industrial engineer, and holds a Master in Energy Resources and Technology, concentrating on Renewable Energy. She has been working for more than three years in this field, leading international projects for Photovoltaics and participating in several projects in the CSP Sector. She has wide knowledge of the different CSP technologies and the current situation of the market worldwide. She also works for the Spanish Industry Ministry for the promotion and attraction of foreign Investment in Renewable Energy in Spain.
Juan Manuel Martín Torres is Aeronautical Engineer and has been working in Solar Energy for six years. His role inside Altran Technologies is Technical Director in the Solar Area, a branch of the firm devoted to the development of Solar Energy Projects. During this time, Juan Manuel has taken part in more than 30 projects related to the research and development of different CSP plants equipments, like a solar trough or a Stirling Dish frame and driving system.
David Pérez is an industrial engineer with 12 years of experience in the automotive industry, aerospace and renewable energy. He has held the position of Solar Energy Manager at ALTRAN Technologies for four years now. The main activities in this area are: Consultancy, R&D, Technology, Product Development, Innovation, support to project developers of Solar Plants.
Our partner SERN, the Sustainable Energy Regulation Network, has in
This webinar will briefly introduce the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), which is a Vienna-based international organisation that funds small-scale projects designed to accelerate the growth of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE). The seminar will then look in depth at the reegle.info web search engine, a public resource developed by REEEP and REN21, as an authoritative source for high quality information on both RE and EE. This will include a live demonstration of reegle's map search function, its extensive actors catalogue and the websearch function. The participants will get an overview about how to use the system and how to become part of reegle by submitting source- and actor-suggestions to the reegle experts team.
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Florian Bauer is the Operations and IT Manager of REEEP and has been responsible for the product management of reegle.info since 2007. Prior to joining REEEP, Florian worked as a Project Manager and Consultant for Siemens Austria ,where he gained experience in managing intercultural projects. Before working for Siemens, he founded a webdesign company in Austria. Florian Bauer obtained a Masters Degree in IT-Management and a Bachelors Degree in Software Engineering from the Vienna University of Technology.
The renewable energy industry is one of the fastest growing sectors in Europe thanks to two factors: the supportive political and legal frameworks and the region’s prominent investment in renewable energy research and development.
With the new emphasis on rapid implementation of renewable energy technologies to achieve the 2020 targets, the EUREC Agency decided to revisit the research priorities in terms of how research can and should contribute to the achievement of those targets. Whilst the research itself provides the means to achieve the European ambitions of sustainable growth and competitiveness, it should also be recognised that it provides an important educational tool for the training of the highly skilled workforce who will design and implement the new energy systems of the future.
This webinar will present a general overview of the policy and research activities which in EUREC’s view are needed to underpin the growth of the renewable energy industry by 2020, with a special focus on the critical role which European postgraduate higher education is set to play. Founded in 1991, EUREC Agency’s mission is to improve the quality and scope of European research and development in renewable energy technologies (RET). Its 43 members are Europe’s leading organisations in renewable energy scientific research, covering all its aspects.
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Simone Landolina is Project Manager at EUREC Agency since March 2008. He is responsible for the daily management and implementation of EUREC’s portfolio of strategic projects. Before joining EUREC, Simone has been working as research funding advisor at ENEA, the Italian National Agency for new Technologies, Energy and Environment, and for one of the largest European banking groups as policy analyst at the International Affairs Office. Simone graduated in Business Administration at the LUISS University in Rome, and specialised in economics of research and development, technology transfer and innovation policies.
Greg Arrowsmith is Policy Officer at EUREC Agency. He is in charge of providing advice to EUREC members with respect to policy dossiers of interest for the renewable energy community, as well as making sure that our policy messages effectively reach the European institutions. Greg has been coordinating the definition EUREC’s position and strategy with respect to the Strategic Energy Technology Plan, and its follow-up initiatives. He is also a member of the Smart Grids Forum, an advisory body to the European Technology Platform on Smart Grids, Greg holds a Cambridge degree in natural sciences.
Our partner ESTELA co-signs this report together with IEA SolarPACES and Gr
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This webinar presents a general overview of the legal aspects of clean energy projects and introduce the RETScreen Clean Energy Legal Toolkit. The high cost of developing appropriate legal and financial documentation can be a critical barrier to the implementation of energy efficiency, renewable energy and cogeneration projects. To help overcome this barrier, Natural Resources Canada's CanmetENERGY, in association with the Energy + Environment Foundation (EEF) and with funding from the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), has created the RETScreen Clean Energy Legal Toolkit. This toolkit, available free of charge, includes sample legal documents that can be used as templates, examples, or customized for use in clean energy projects; newly developed finance agreements for use in clean energy projects; an e-Textbook Chapter & training material on the Legal Aspects of Clean Energy Projects; and an online Legal Documentation Forum hosted by the Energy + Environment Foundation.
Dinesh S. Parakh is Legal and Program Advisor to RETScreen International. A lawyer in Ontario, Dinesh has 10 years of experience in international development and has worked extensively throughout Africa. He was formerly with the United Nations Development Program and World Food Program in South Africa, and the Canadian International Development Agency in Ottawa, Canada. Dinesh holds a B.A. with high honours from Yale University, and an M.A. and J.D. from the University of Toronto.
On the January 23, 2008 the European Commission agreed on a far-reaching package of proposals that will deliver the E
This webinar will review the various mechanisms agreed in the Kyoto Protocol with a particular focus on Clean Development Mechanism. The value at each stage of the CDM project will be explained, and market prices for carbon credits will be analysed.
In order to illustrate this type of project, real case studies carried out by Deuman will be discussed. Voluntary carbon credits will also be analysed.
EU27 energy losses in distribution transformers reach 33.4 TWh/year.
Starting now, until 2025, EU has the opportunity to save 12 TWh/year and avoid 4 MTonnes CO2 if renovation of old transformers is carried out using efficient ones (instead of conventional ones).
The engagement on energy efficiency is also a matter of electricity networks regulators. The current models don't allow for fully efficient investments. A long term signal is required.
This webinar, issued from a comprehensive report by KEMA, brings some light and presents economic analysis on the right regulatory signals to be implemented for efficient investments and energy loss reduction in electricity networks. The webinar will cover:
Ce webinaire qui a eu lieu le 12 septembre était une présentation de RETScreen.
Concentration photovoltaics (CPV) offers one of the most promising utility-scale, renewable energy technology options
Along with wind power, concentration photovoltaics (CPV) offers one of the most promising utility-scale, renewable en
On the 23rd of January, the European Commission launched a proposal for a Directive on promoting the use of renewable energy. The Directive is designed to address all sectors of the renewable energy sector with the goal of reaching a target of 20% of Europe's energy being produced from renewable sources by 2020.
The webinar will present the national targets and action plans as well as indicative trajectories. Accounting rules will also be detailed. The Directive describes how Guarantees of Origin will work as a control and trading instrument through issuing, cancelling and transferring. The text includes strong guidelines and recommendations for administrative procedures, regulations and codes. Finally, attention will be given on issues related to electricity grid access.
The webinar briefing will be followed by a discussion. There are open questions on supporting the development of a distributed generation, managing the predictability and dispatchability of renewables and guiding the technology mix through feed-in tariffs. Further questions can be raised by attendees.
Thin film, silicon, concentrated solar power (CSP), concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), ... These are just some of the terms demonstrating that solar technologies are rapidly entering the electricity system in countries such as the United States, Spain or Australia. Furthermore, the largest improvements, which will bring generation cost closer to competitive prices are just around the corner.
This webinar is dedicated to utility scale and baseload solar technologies: CSP and CPV.
What is the status of these technologies, their improvement potential and perspectives for the future? What are the running projects and expectations in terms of market development? How is the levelized energy price expected to evolve in the near future to reach grid parity? Additionally, more practical aspects will be presented, as the conditions required by a CSP project to be viable or the keys to successfully finance the project.
After this briefing presentation, a discussion with participants will be launched on questions such as storage capabilities and system operation. Other questions from attendees are welcome to guide the discussion.
Due to economic social cohesion, the European Union is promoting to improve the production of electrical energy
In the context of Directive on energy end-use efficiency and energy services, cogeneration and advanced technol
Up to 40.8% of the overall electricity demand is supplied by wind power at some moments of the day i
Test your knowledge of Wind Energy Systems in just a few minutes.
The simplest way to think about this is to imagine that a wind turbine works in exactly the opposite way to a fan.
This manual explains how a small wind energy system works, what is the most suitable solution in your case and, if it
A report from the discussion webinar held on Friday 22nd February 2008.
"I have heard about feed-in tariffs for photovoltaics: would it make sense to install panels in my roof?"
Test your knowledge of Photovoltaic Systems in just a few minutes.
