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Con el objetivo de proporcionar un conocimiento avanzado sobre las últimas tecnologías en materia de energía, CEDIC (Centro de Información del Cobre), impartirá una serie de cursos que podrán seguirse a través de www.leonardo-energy.org. El primero de los ciclos versará sobre tecnología solar termoeléctrica y consta de cinco conferencias dirigidas a profesionales de la energía. Las ponencias, que comenzarán a impartirse el 3 de marzo podrán seguirse en directo a través de http://www.leonardo-energy.org/csp-training-course-5-lessons, y permitirán a los participantes la identificación de oportunidades, de estrategias o el establecimiento de contactos fructíferos para su actividad. Las presentaciones y los videos de las conferencias quedarán colgados en dicha web una vez finalice cada ponencia. Así, se analizarán en primer término los principios generales de las tecnologías solares termoeléctricas para luego centrarse en cada una de las dos vertientes que pueden adoptar. Asimismo, se abordarán las herramientas que facilitan la gestión de dichas tecnologías y que están relacionadas con el almacenamiento y la hibridación. La última sesión estará dedicada al asesoramiento del recurso solar. El curso será impartido por Manuel Silva, Doctor en Ingeniería Industrial con 24 años de experiencia en la materia. Silva es profesor asociado de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de la Universidad de Sevilla. FUENTE: INSTITUTO EUROPEO DEL COBRE

Leonardo ENERGY Academy continues its e-learning initiative with a comprehensive programme on power quality. The second course covers the subject of harmonics and interharmonics. The knowledge acquired during the course should be sufficient for: identification of the distortion nature distortion source identification disturbance assessment by means of measuring evaluation of technical effects of disturbance proposing remedial measures The course should take between 12 to 20 hours for participants with an electrical engineering background. Participants are expected to finish the course by 19 of March (19-03-2010).

This document is an overall report of the seminar “Electricity in the next decade”, the first in an annual series of events regarding “Low carbon electricity systems”. KEMA, ECI and Leonardo ENERGY are jointly organising these events. Next to the topics presented during the first event, a few additional topics have been added in order to create a white paper and a more complete picture on the theme “Electricity in the next decade”.

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.

A widespread use of high efficiency transformers could save the world 100 TWh/year. Under normal conditions, purchasing high efficiency transformers is both economically and environmentally sound. In the liberalized European energy market however, the regulatory and financial framework obstructs utility companies from making long term investments like purchasing high efficient transformers. National regulators put pressure on utility companies to do cost cutting and do not compensate with sufficient incentives for energy efficiency. According to this paper, there is a heterogeneous treatment between generation on renewable energy and transformer efficiency. Yet the greenest kWh is still the one that is saved, even when it is compared to a kWh derived from a renewable source.

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.

In this guide, circuit protection is detailed as a way to ensure an installation is safe and functional. This document is concerned primarily with protection against the effects of over-currents and fault currents for property protection, but the improvements presented may also lead to secure people as an indirect benefit. There is a focus on circuit breakers as well as on issues that are likely to arise in circuit maintenance and it takes a systemic approach.

The lower bound of generation is NOT zero, as implied by the graph, but is actually negative when the windmill is not generating. The core is excited from the HV side, just like in a distribution system. When there is no generation, the transformer actually pulls power from the grid. For renewables, you should be using transformers with amorphous metal cores which cut no load losses by 70 percent.