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FERC approves new reliability standards for cyber security
2008-02-01 11:35:00 en español más abajo The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today approved eight new mandatory critical infrastructure protection (CIP) reliability standards to protect the US’s bulk power system against potential disruptions from cyber security breaches. These reliability standards were developed by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which FERC has designated More About: Security , Standards , Cyber
Some Aspects Of The Future Suply Of Oil
2008-01-18 12:09:00 en español más abajo By Ferdinand E. Banks; of the Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala University (Sweden), and The Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand) INTRODUCTION In a recent edition of his ‘blog’, one of the authors of Freakonomics (2005) – Stephen Levitt – made a few comments about his short stay in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state of Dubai. As most viewers of CNN More About: Future , The Future , Aspects
UK Nuclear Revival
2008-01-14 16:20:00 en español más abajoThe British government on Thursday 10 January 2008 approved plans to set up new nuclear power plants "well before 2020", setting no limits and giving a further push to the worldwide renaissance of nuclear energy. The British government argued that Britain needs new nuclear plants to help meet its climate change goals and avoid over-dependence on imported energy amid dwindling More About: Nuclear , Revival
Bush Signs US Energy Bill.
2007-12-20 09:44:00 en español más abajo Bush signed into law Wednesday (Dec. 19, 2007) legislation that will bring more fuel-efficient vehicles and require wider use of ethanol, calling it "a major step" toward US energy independence and easing global warming. This US legislation signed by Bush at a ceremony at the Energy Department requires automakers to increase fuel efficiency by 40 percent to an industry More About: Signs , Bill
Does Renewable Mean Really Green?
2007-12-18 11:09:00 en español más abajo Last June, Jesse H. Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment at the Rockefeller University, published a scholarly article in the International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology entitled “Renewable and Nuclear Heresies.”. According to this article renewables are not green. To reach the scale at which they would contribute importantly to More About: Green
Automation to Optimise Network Configuration in Real Time - to Optimise DG
2007-12-11 12:39:00 The Distribution Working Group of the Electricity Network s Strategy Group (ENSG), – the United Kingdom Electricity Supply Industry focus group for electricicity network issues, commissioned a study to undertake an investigation and report on "Automation to Optimise Network Configuration in Real Time – to Optimise DG Contribution and Reduce Losses". The contract was awarded by Department for More About: Real Time
Decoupling to Promote Energy Efficiency.
2007-11-29 12:35:00 Global warming and cost-cutting are moving regulatory authorities to give utilities more incentive to promote energy efficiency by "decoupling" utility’s recovery of fixed costs from the volume of amount of electricity sold. The theory behind decoupling is that traditional rate structures discourage utilities from promoting energy efficiency because their profits suffer when customers cut back on More About: Promote , Energy , Energy Efficiency , Efficiency , Mote
Smart Grid Standards Are Being Set
2007-11-15 11:12:00 en español más abajo Grid Wise Architecture Council Holds First Grid-Interop Forum More than 90 speakers and 160 attendees from across the energy sector met in Albuquerque (New Méjico) last week to discuss a "smart" electric grid. The Grid InterOp Forum hold on Nov. 7-9 and convened by the U.S. Department of Energy's GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC), marked the first venue for technology More About: Standards , Smart
El Deficit de la Distribución. El mecanismo de las tarifas reguladas en Es
2007-10-19 19:14:00 1. En España los consumidores finales pueden comprar electricidad por dos canales principales: el mercado liberalizado y el mercado regulado. 2. En el mercado liberalizado, los consumidores compran electricidad a los proveedores, que pueden ser operadores tradicionales o nuevos competidores. El componente de energía del precio es el resultado de una negociación libre entre el cliente y el More About: Deficit
Electric Power, Profits, Democracy and Profession
2007-10-01 13:37:00 en español abajo Forgotten Roots - Electric Power , Profits , Democracy & A Profession . A new book by Jack Casazza raises questions of vital importance to today’s energy problems. Can good technical policies be established in a democracy where “profits now” is the driving force? Want to understand the problem? A review of what happened in the electric power industry that provides the lifeblood
Global Talent to Develop the Smart Grid
2007-08-31 11:38:00 en español más abajo At I.B.M., a Smart er Way to Outsource New York Times. July 5, 2007 By Steve Lohr Jeffrey Taft is a road warrior in the global high-technology services economy, and his work shows why there are limits to the number of skilled jobs that can be shipped abroad in the Internet age. Each Monday, Mr. Taft awakes before dawn at his home in Canonsburg, Pa., heads for the Pittsburgh More About: Global , Grid , Talent , Develop
US Legislation on Smart Grids
2007-08-29 14:27:00 Two smart-grid bills in the House and Senate are moving along with few minor changes. In the Senate, HR-6 passed by a vote of 65 to 27 on June 21, 2007 and Sections 255-257 of the bill provide for a "Smart -grid System Report", "Smart-grid Technology, Research, Development and Demonstration", and a "Smart-grid Interoperability Framework". In the House, the Energy and Commerce Committee on June 27, More About: Legislation
Two Books About The Electricity Industry
2007-08-17 20:04:00 en español más abajo Electrical Storm By William Tucker The Wall Street Journal - EUROPE Tuesday, July 24, 2007 With surnmer heat blazing over much of the U.S. and millions of air conditioners set on high, the country is having its annual flirtation with a massive brownout or blackout. Even without a dramatic accident, however, electricity is at the center of every discussion about a carbon tax, More About: Books , Industry , Electricity
U.S. Mandatory Reliability Standards for the Bulk-Power System - FERC Docke
2007-08-07 12:32:00 The U.S. electricity industry will operate under mandatory, enforceable reliability standards for the first time as of June 18, 2007. Utilities and other bulk power industry participants that violate any of 83 standards will face enforcement actions including possible fines of up to $1 million a day. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is responsible for developing and More About: Standards , Power , System , Stand , Tory
Coated Hellium Balloons Can Act As Solar Receivers
2007-08-03 10:54:00 Technion researchers generate energy from balloons Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post. Jun. 24, 2007 A new way to produce electricity using helium balloons coated with solar cells has been devised by researchers at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Scientists from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Architecture and City Construction have already installed two More About: Solar , Balloons , Receivers , Allo
The ENSG Annual Report for 2006 Released
2007-07-09 23:37:00 en español más abajo The ENSG Annual Report for 2006 has recently been released. The Electricity Networks Strategy Group (ENSG) provides advice to DTI, Ofgem, Defra, the Scottish Executive and the Wales Assembly, on issues associated with the development of the distribution and transmission electricity networks. The ENSG has a number of sub groups, the Distributed Working Group (DWG) and the More About: Released , Ease
Spanish firm to sell 'green' electricity to California
2007-07-03 12:07:00 en español abajo The Spaniard Company Union Fenosa, headquartered in Madrid, and the Mexican Company Zemer Energía are planning to install two wind energy parks in Mexico, with an investment for around €600 million (US$806 million) in the construction of a wind energy park in the state of Baja California , which will produce 500 MW, that could reach 1,100 MW in 2010, depending on agreements More About: Electricity , Green , Spanish , Sell
The Electric Power Industry and Climate Change: Power Systems Research Poss
2007-06-26 17:03:00 A new Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) white paper is available to download. The Electric Power Industry and Climate Change : Power Systems Research Possibilities is a project report from the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC). PSERC is an U.S. multi-university center conducting research on challenges facing a restructuring electric power industry and educating the
New Technologies In Spain
2007-05-30 21:58:00 En español abajo New Technologies In Spain is an eight-part series highlighting Spanish innovation and is produced by Technology Review’s custom-publishing division in partnership with the Trade Commission of Spain. Spain is now the world’s eighth-largest economy and the fastest growing in the European Union. It represents more than 2.5% of the world’s total GDP and a third of all new jobs More About: Logies , Logi
GridWise Architecture Council Offers Interoperability Checklist
2007-05-14 23:51:00 En español más abajo The GridWise Archi tecture Council (GWAC) a group of respected leaders committed to the technological advancement of the electric power system, gathered 45 technical experts at an Interoperability Workshop April 11-12 in Dallas, Texas to discuss and modify a draft GWAC "Context-Setting Framework" on interoperability. The framework will guide issues related to the interaction More About: Offers , Bili
Spain's meddling government is the big loser in the battle over Endesa
2007-04-06 15:44:00 En español más abajo How not to block a takeover. Spain's meddling government is the big loser in the battle over Endesa . Apr 4th 2007 From The Economist print edition HAVING fought for more than a year against fierce resistance from Spain's Socialist government, Wulf Bernotat, the boss of E.ON, Germany's biggest energy firm, conceded this week that his plan to buy Endesa, Spain's biggest More About: Government , Loser , Battle
MicroGrid Control System Implemented in CHP Product
2007-03-30 10:44:00 Traducción al español pendiente Emeritus Professor Bob Lasseter at the UW-Madison led the development of the advanced control system that has now been implemented in Tecogen's CHP product announced in the news release below. This research was principally funded by CERTS, of which PSERC is one of the founding organizations. Related PSERC work on control systems for Micro Grids was reported in: More About: System , Product , Control , Prod
Q&A with Nathalie Horbach about the future of Nuclear Energy
2007-03-27 17:45:00 En español más abajo The Club of Amsterdam is an independent, international, future-oriented think tank involved in channelling preferred futures. Nathalie Horbach, teaches at the CEPMLP (Centre for Energy , Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee). Club of Amsterdam: Nathalie - you teach at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy at the University of More About: Nuclear , Nuclear Energy , Future , The Future
Mwinda, The Future City
2007-03-26 11:49:00 Resmen en español más abajo The Future City Competition is designed to encourage the future generation of engineers. Seventh and eighth grade students create their own vision of a city of tomorrow, working first on computer and then constructing three-dimensional scale models. More than 1,100 schools and 30,000 students competed this past year across the United States. International pilot More About: The Future
Distribution and Microgrids
2007-03-05 11:47:00 Resumen en español más abajo "A microgrid is an integrated power delivery system consisting of interconnected loads and DER which, as an integrated system, can operate in parallel with the grid or in an intentional island mode. The integrated DER are capable of providing sufficient and continuous energy to a significant portion of the internal demand, and the microgrid possesses independent More About: Distribution , Grid , Micro , Tribu
Robotics Applications in Power Line Maintenance
2007-02-26 13:51:00 En español más abajo Many common maintenance operations on overhead transmission lines are performed by human operators on live lines. Examples of these tasks include replacing ceramic insulators that support conductor wire and opening and reclosing the circuit between poles. These tasks are very dangerous for the human workers, due to risks from falling from high places and the risk of electric More About: Power , Robotics , Applications , Robot , Cat
IPCC Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers
2007-02-05 10:08:00 The IPCC Work ing Group I Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policy makers (SPM) is now available for downloading in PDF format. The full Working Group I report will be available online from May 2007. It will also be published by Cambridge University Press and is expected to be available in book form by late June 2007. Written Summary for Policymakers Streaming Audio-Slide Production Summary More About: Men , Port
Profiling and Mapping Intelligent Grid R&D Programs
2007-02-02 10:37:00 En español abajo The National Electricity Delivery Forum will take place next February 21,22. This preeminent U.S. forum examines the America's electric power delivery system infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) co-sponsor the Forum annually. The purpose of More About: Intel , Programs , Intelligent , Grid , Prog
UCTE Releases Detailed Final Report on the Blackout of 4 November 2006
2007-01-31 16:05:00 The events in the evening of 4 November 2006 are the most severe disturbance in the history of UCTE. However, the decentralized responsibilities of UCTE member TSOs demonstrated their efficiency. An Investigation Committee was set-up immediately after the incident; less than 3 months later UCTE issues a complete report with a detailed description of the sequence of events, an analysis of main More About: Report , Port , Black , Final
The Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid
More articles from this author:2007-01-08 17:45:00 En español más abajo The Trust worthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid Initiative (TCIP) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) was created in August 2005 to address the challenge of how to protect the nation's power grid. The NSF awarded $7.5 million over five years to the project (see NSF Award Abstract), which is led by the University of Illinois ITI team and also involves researchers 1, 2 |
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