Leonardo ENERGY

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.

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.

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.

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.