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draft directive guaranteeing 20% renewables

ensure that 10% of EU transport is powered by renewable fuel by 2020 into practice. It should be noted that this 10% can be covered by biofuels, or electricity from renewable sources.

There is an energy future for all of us. This future will most likely be organised around different patterns of production, consumption and behaviour. Like with climate change, action is needed now.  

Our lack of knowledge about our own energy usage is a huge problem, but also a huge opportunity for us all to save money and fight global warming by reducing our power usage. Studies show that access to your household's personal energy information is likely to save you between 5–15% on your monthly bill, and the potential impact of large numbers of people achieving similar efficiencies is even more exciting. For every six households that save 10% on electricity, for instance, we reduce carbon emissions as much as taking one conventional car off the road (see sources and calculation).

As the world's fifth-largest exporter of oil and Western Europe's biggest exporter of natural gas, Norway has found itself under increasing pressure to improve its environment profile. The new plan includes offsetting Norwegian emissions by stopping deforestation in developing countries and planting trees. On the domestic front, money is to be earmarked for investment in renewable energy and new taxes on fuel introduced as part of a 'carrot and stick' strategy promoting more environmentally friendly behaviour and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

become a leader in the global technology race in the new experimental and costly technology known as carbon capture and storage (CCS)

“It’s not surprising there’s been little improvement in demand responsiveness given that a series of special rebates, the availability of fixed-term contracts, and the rules governing the behaviour of the Independent Market Operator combined to shield market participants from electricity price increases,”

People make environmental choices the same way they manage money, preferring smaller gains right away to bigger gains later, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

In this work, some fundamental aspects concerning the efficiency of induction machines are treated. The standards and the therein prescribed methods for the determination of the energy efficiency of induction machines are discussed. A detailed comparison of the four most relevant and recent methods identifies the differences. By means of measurement results of different machines, the differences between and the shortcomings of certain methods is confirmed. In that context, special attention is paid to the new, so-called ‘Eh-Y’ method. A concise overview of the most important points of attention for an increased efficiency of motor drives en the role of the induction motor (efficiency) in this context is completed with some examples. The difference between motor and generator mode is discussed and explained based on measurement results of machines of different size and efficiency class. Special attention is paid to the behaviour and performance of induction machines supplied by unbalanced voltages. More specifically it is investigated if and how the susceptibility to voltage asymmetry is influenced by material choice, in which the main focus lies on copper rotor technology. Therefore, the different standards for the description and quantification of voltage unbalance are studied first. The theoretical discussion is backed-up with experimental results of several machines.