Leonardo ENERGY

A blog article for Leonardo ENERGY summarizes our article on “Forty years of energy security…” with the following highlights: --Assesses energy security of 22 industrialized countries. --Reviews progress towards achieving secure, reliable and affordable supplies of energy while transitioning to a low-carbon energy system. --Concludes that limited progress has been made. --Explores the energy security performance of four countries in detail: UK, Belgium, France and Sweden.

The next webinar in the Demand-Side Management initiative (DSM IA) series to be held on 10 December will examine the history and importance of energy audits, some of the main features of succesful audit programmes and how to go about putting one together.  It will also consider the main problems with audits and how these can be adressed. Learn more and register here.

Leonardo Energy, a Copper Alliance initiative, is offering a free online course for energy managers with an interest in improving their organisation’s energy performance and implementing an energy management system. The training will take participants through the energy management cycle using ISO 50001 as a basis and offers opportunities to network and interact with peers. The course is structured into nine chapters that work through managerial roles, energy review and planning, implementation of a management system and verification of performance improvement. Around 400 participants from around Europe are currently working through the course. For more details and to register, visit www.leonardo-academy.org/course and select Energy Management Foundation Training.

Environmental concerns remain a driving force for European energy policy, as exemplified by last years’ directive on energy efficiency. The directive sets the legislative framework to achieve energy efficiency targets. Since electricity network losses comprise a significant component of electricity demand, regulatory incentives to facilitate loss reduction in electricity networks should be in place. This paper evaluates the incentives for investments in low-loss equipment in differing regulatory settings and outlines pathways to assure the proper embedding of these incentives.

Within the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive the Primary Energy Factor (PEF) is used when calculating the energy performance. The PEF accounts for the energy losses of electricity generation and transport when comparing electricity use with other types of energy use in the building. But a recent Ecofys study warns that PEFs are not an unambiguous scientific value. Edith Molenbroek, researcher at Ecofys said: “Calculation methods are not transparent, harmonised and consistent and are not always adjusted to higher shares of large-scale renewable electricity.”

The Leonardo ENERGY program has recently put together a How to Manual on Heat Pumps.

A new trend in residential construction that is geared to meet the needs of future smart homes is the installation of structured wiring systems. The term structured wiring is used to describe wiring systems used ...

Leonardo Energy, Earth Justice, Earth First, and Fixing the Planet are all good resources and chocked full of information and like minded people willing to help and educate.

Leonardo Energy, Earth Justice, Earth First, and Fixing the Planet are all good resources and chocked full of information and like minded people willing to help and educate.