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DC Power Standards Only Appear to be Setting Themselves
10 Mar 2011
by Paul Savage, CEO Nextek Power Systems - Category: Contributed News
True, the field of interested observers from industry has been growing. But, with the notable exception of Japan, governments have been unengaged. So how is it that global standards are emerging for how we use direct current (DC) electrical power? Economics are the key driver behind this, and that’s what’s causing the technical barriers to [...]
Today a new very useful application was launched to put European energy targets into a context and visualise data from (mainly) Eurostat. Eurostat provides free to re-use, open data – which is really useful and even more useful if you put these datasets in a context. The team of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) did [...]
In renewable energy circles there’s been a lot of talk about Masdar City – the world’s first net zero energy and carbon neutral city. And with the global financial crisis, a lot of people were wondering if it was all going to be just a mirage. Well, I’m here in Abu Dhabi for the 2011 [...]
Travelling exhibitions in Peru and Chile promote a new type of energy market
11 Jan 2011
by GVEP International - Category: Contributed News
The organisations Green Energy (Peru) and Eurosolar (Chile) are promoting articulated local markets for renewable energies through a series of road shows. The idea is to convert specific areas, in both Peru and Chile, into local articulated markets, which will facilitate constructive partnerships between service providers, clients, stakeholders, local governments, regional government and the finance [...]
As a result of the December plenary on the medium term energy strategy session the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) tells the EU that it must thrive to implement more ambitious CO2 reduction targets while at the same time be cautious regarding energy competitiveness in the immediate future. New models of energy use and [...]
Dr. Marianne Osterkorn, REEEP‘s Director General attended the Cancun conference and was recently quizzed on her thoughts about the outcome. Looking at the Cancun Agreements, would you rate COP16 as a success or failure? I’d say Cancun was a qualified success in that there was an agreement at all – albeit a fairly weak one. [...]
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