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en español más abajoA group of Europe’s leading players in the energy sector, including manufacturers, utilities and academic bodies, came together in Brussels on September 27 to sign the formal constitution for the creation of the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE). This international non-profit association is focused on acting as a coherent voice to promote the roles of energy

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The US Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has advised the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that it has identified five "foundational" sets of standards for Smart Grid interoperability and cyber security that are ready for consideration by federal and state energy regulators.The standards, produced by the International Electrotechnical Commission

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Mañana 12 de octubre, dia de la Hispanidad, con la presencia del ministro de energía de Chile Sr. Ricardo Raineri Bernain, el embajador de Italia en Chile Sr. Vincenzo Palladino y autoridades de CEPAL, se celebrará la Conferencia Regional "Redes inteligentes en América Latina y el Caribe: Posibilidades y Desafíos" (Smart Grids in Latin America and Caribbean: Feasibility and Challenges, en idioma

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At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, D.C. on July 19th and 20th, ministers launched an International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN) to accelerate the development and deployment of smart electricity grids around the world.Smart grid will help the world accelerate its transition to clean energy and capture the associated energy- and money-saving opportunities. These technologies will

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U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSUBCOMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATIONHEARING CHARTERSmart Grid Architecture and Standards: Assessing Coordination and ProgressThe Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation held a hearing last July 1st on the development of the interoperability standards that will enable the growth of a

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I bring to my blog today an interesting 2009 report by CRIEPI (Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry, Japan) in collaboration with VaasaETT, called "Electricity Market Reforms in the Nordic Countries – Historical Evolution and Differences in Customer Choice Behavior", by Toshio Ariu, Dr Philip E. Lewis and Hisanori Goto.In the debate about deregulating the electric power

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"Utilities are facing the biggest challenges in their history as they deal with the combined impacts of climate change, energy efficiency policies, and the smart grid," noted Dr. Fox-Penner during a panel discussion that introduced his new book at The Brookings Institution on April 9.In a new book, Smart Power: Climate Change, Smart Grid and the Future of Electric Utilities (Island Press, 2010),

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Speaking about smart grids is speaking mainly about technology because the smart grid success will be founded necessarily in the success of emerging technologies. Within this context, regulatory framework can be an important driver or an obstacle to innovation and distribution grid transformation, and it can determine the future approach to distribution networks are more or less decentralized,

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The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced on August 21 that EnerNex Corporation, Knoxville, Tenn., was awarded a contract to help NIST sustain the accelerated development of the hundreds of compatible standards that will be required to build a secure, interoperable smart electric power grid. NIST is obligating a portion of the American Recovery

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ANDALUSIA’S REGIONAL GOVERNMENT AND ENDESA PRESENT SMARTCITY, A PIONEERING ENERGY-SAVING PROJECT TO RECEIVE EURO 31 MILLION IN INVESTMENT# The technology project, to be developed in Malaga, will cut energy consumption by 20% and avoid the emission of 6,000 tonnes of CO2 each year.# The project will involve 11 companies under the leadership of ENDESA and will benefit 300 industrial customers, 900

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Andris Piebalgs, EU energy commissioner defends wind energy in his last blog post (July 3, 2009)In late August 1588, the navy that Spain had gathered for the invasion of England was destroyed by stormy winds blowing towards the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. When King Felipe of Spain heard about the wrecking of the vessels of the Armada he bitterly said: “I sent my ships to fight against men,

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Demand Response economic foundations have been studied extensively and have been established with great detail during many years. There are many studies and a vast literature devoted specifically to analize the market barriers to energy efficiency, and to study the commercial, regulatory, and political mechanisms to overcome them. Nevertheless, the issue which up to now has not received much

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Capgemini released the results from what they're saying is the first smart grid and renewable energy opinion survey of energy regulators across North America at the DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition this February. The Capgemini survey was conducted in conjunction with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) and Canadian Association of Members of Public Utility

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Several European countries have a policy to encourage the development of renewable en-ergy sources. This is identified in e.g. the European green paper Energy strategy for a sustainable, competitive and secure energy supply (March 2006). In the transition towards a European sustainable energy system for the future and to reduce the dependency of imported primary energy sources such as oil and gas

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Page loading could last a bit. Please wait until de page be fully loadedResearch Channel. Frontier (NSF)Bridges to the Future, Part I: The Smart GridA Smart Grid for Intelligent Energy UseModern Power GridThe Electric Grid of the Future.By James A. Kelly, Vice President Engineering and Technical Services. Southern California EdisonSteve Pullins of Horizon Energy Group#1#2GridWeek 2008 CloseREEF

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Obama in his inaugural address called for the expanded use of renewable energy to meet the twin challenges of energy security and climate change. Noting that "each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet," Obama looked to the near future, saying that as a nation, the United States will "harness the sun and the winds and the soil

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The final reports from the DOE EAC are now available.Electricity Advisory Committee was created to provide advice to the U.S. Department of Energy in implementing the Energy Policy Act of 2005, executing the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, and modernizing the nation's electricity delivery infrastructure.The goals of the EAC are to:- Advise on electricity policy issues pertaining to

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Demand Response and Advanced Metering programs have made significant progress in serving more consumers across United States, says a new U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) report that charts the expansion of these energy-saving programs in U.S.A. since 2006.The report, 2008 Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering, is FERC’s third annual report on demand response issues.

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In this post we introduce a recent paper presented by Sérgio Faias (1), Patrícia Santos (1), Jorge Sousa (1) and Rui Castro (2) in the "International Conference on Renewable Energies and Power Quality (ICREPQ'08), in Santander (Spain), in March 2008.(1) Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, DEEA/ISEL. (2) Instituto Superior Técnico / Technical University of Lisbon, IST/TULAbstract. Energy

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en español abajoCongressional Research Service Report to Congress. Sep. 24, 2008. Some policymakers have concluded that the energy challenges facing the United States are so critical that a concentrated investment in energy research and development (R&D) should be undertaken. The Manhattan project, which produced the atomic bomb, and the Apollo program, which landed American men on the moon, have

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Despite a growing United States demand for their skills, the number of engineers graduating from American colleges is going down, according to a survey to be released June 20 by the American Society for Engineering Education.Engineering bachelor’s degrees declined in 2007 for the first time since the 1990s, ending seven years of growth. Although the drop was small—1.2 percent from the previous

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The Spain's Cabinet passed on August 24, 2007 an ambitious Royal Decree (*) concerning the renewal of 25 millions of electricity meters in all Spain. Despite this decree generated some controversy around the funding issues, it has represented an additional provision to the twenty priority ones taken in 2006 to approach the Spain's Action Plan 2005-2007 of the Energy Saving and Efficiency Strategy

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en español más abajoThe 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 as

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en español más abajoBy Ferdinand E. Banks; of the Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala University (Sweden), and The Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand)INTRODUCTIONIn 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 are

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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

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en español más abajoBush 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 average

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en español más abajoLast 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

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The Distribution Working Group of the Electricity Networks 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

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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

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en español más abajoGridWise Architecture Council Holds First Grid-Interop ForumMore 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 firms

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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

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en español abajoForgotten 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 of the

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en español más abajoAt I.B.M., a Smarter Way to OutsourceNew York Times. July 5, 2007By Steve LohrJeffrey 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 airport

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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,

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en español más abajoElectrical StormBy William TuckerThe Wall Street Journal - EUROPETuesday, July 24, 2007With 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,

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en español más abajoThe 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

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Technion researchers generate energy from balloonsJudy Siegel-Itzkovich,The Jerusalem Post. Jun. 24, 2007A 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

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en español más abajoThe 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

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en español abajoThe 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 entered

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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

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En español abajoNew 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 created

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En español más abajoThe GridWise Architecture 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 of

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En español más abajoHow not to block a takeover. Spain's meddling government is the big loser in the battle over Endesa.Apr 4th 2007From The Economist print editionHAVING 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 electricity

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Traducción al español pendienteEmeritus 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 MicroGrids was reported in:

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En español más abajoThe Club of Amsterdamis 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 Dundee and

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Resmen en español más abajoThe 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 programs

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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

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En español más abajoMany 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

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The IPCC Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers (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 PolicymakersStreaming Audio-Slide Production Summary for

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En español abajoThe 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 this

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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

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En español más abajoThe Trustworthy 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

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En este año de 2007 se cumple el centenario del nacimiento del Padre Arrupe. Pedro Arrupe nació en Bilbao, España, el 14 de Noviembre de 1907. Para conmemorar la celebración del Año Arrupe he subido al blog el artículo que en 1983 publicó José Mª Torelló, S.J. en Anales de Mecánica y Electricidad, la revista del Colegio Asociación de los Ingenieros del ICAI. En dicho artículo, titulado "Hombres

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Quienes defienden el ‘enfoque Nirvana’ "seek to discover discrepancies between the ideal and the real and if discrepancies are found, they deduce that the real is inefficient"Harold Demsetz, (1969). “Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint”, Journal of Law and Economics 12(1).Introducción1. El "modelo MIT". Crítica.2. Creación y Evolución del Mercado. Regulación vs. Tecnología.3. Schweppe y

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Historiquement, la mise en production du gisement de gaz naturel de Lacq en 1957 est à l'origine du développement de la première “autoroute de gaz naturel” en France qui débuta avec la mise en service de l'artère de Guyenne. Pendant 45 années et jusqu'au début des années 2000, cette infrastructure de transport a accompagnée le développement continu de la consommation de gaz naturel sur le plan

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Resumen en español abajoLast update: Jan 5, 2007 Última actualización: 5 Enero 2007The Castor UGS Project is considered by interested parties, industrial and governmental, to be the preeminent underground gas storage project in Spain, and essential for the Spanish gas system, as reflected in it being assigned the highest category, 'A' Urgent, in the updated Energy Infrastructure Plan (2005-2011)

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By Ferdinand E. Banks (Bio below)EN ESPAÑOL MÁS ABAJOA publication that I occasionally refer to as a compendium of London wine bar gossip recently offered a few choice observations about oil that deserve elaboration and a wider circulation. I place these observations in the category of facts, and use them to present a few comments on associated fictions. First and foremost it was noted that “

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Updated on November 10, 2006International Herald Tribune – Marketplace by BloombergNuclear power stance is costly for SpainBy Kristian Rix and Juan Pablo Spinetto Bloomberg NewsPublished: October 12, 2006MADRID Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain is a self- proclaimed antinuclear warrior.When the aging José Cabrera nuclear reactor, about 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, east of

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Actualizado el 30 de julio de 2007GAZPROM, principal proveedor de gas natural del Norte y Centro de Europa Occidental y de Asia, y SONATRACH, principal proveedor de gas natural del Sur de Europa Occidental realizan negociaciones para repartirse sus respectivas cuotas de mercado. A este posible acuerdo final se le empieza a conocer como “GASOPEP”. Un primer resultado de estas negociaciones fue la

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US DOE released on September 20th the Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP) Strategic Plan, which details measures to accelerate the development and reduce the cost of new and advanced technologies that avoid, reduce, or capture and store greenhouse gas emissions. CCTP is the technology component of a comprehensive U.S. strategy introduced by President Bush in 2002 to combat climate change.

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Por IRENE LOZANOPeriodista, lingüista y Premio Espasa de Ensayo 2005LA TERCERA DE ABCJueves, 24 de agosto de 2006 El borrador del Plan Nacional de Asignación de Derechos de Emisión recoge, y acepta, que España emita cien millones de toneladas de CO2 más de las permitidas por Kioto. ¿De verdad quieren hacernos creer que somos los ciudadanos quienes controlamos el cambio climático?...POR los

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Energy nationalism has been on the rise for some time, with oil- and gas-rich states such as Russia and Venezuela flexing their muscles in foreign markets and harassing private-sector operators at home. In its lead article on August 15th the Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist magazine outlines why a key player in this movement--Bolivia--has seen its plans for energy nationalisation

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In 2000, eleven electric utilities, most of which were WBCSD members, initiated a project to explore the sustainability issues facing their sector. The group published the results of its research in May 2002, in a report called Sustainability in the Electricity Utility Sector(1.0 Mb, pdf). The report was officially launched during a side event at the World Summit on Sustainable Development the

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Monday, 24 July 2006,Press Release: Parliamentary Commissioner For The Environment Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.Te Kaitiaki Taiao a Te Whare PäremataIn the shadow of climate change and rising fossil fuel prices, it is essential that New Zealand’s electricity sector has a clear long term strategy, says Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Morgan Williams. Such a

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ENDESA y seis entidades europeas se han asociado con el fin de desarollar el proyectoSEEDT para impulsar el desarrollo sostenible y el ahorro energético en las redes de distribución europeas. En el proyecto participan, junto con ENDESA, las agencias nacionales de medioambiente y de energías renovables de Francia y Grecia, el centro alemán de investigación Wuppertal Institute, el European Copper

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La presidenta regional, Esperanza Aguirre, presentó oficialmente el pasado dia seis el Proyecto Imdea (Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados), uno de sus compromisos electorales, que se pondrá en marcha al final de la legislatura y que se desarrollará en los próximos cuatro años. El proyecto fija la creación de 10 institutos de ciencia e investigación dedicados a mejorar la calidad de vida de

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Resumen en español abajoAfter one last meeting in San Antonio in April, Sandia National Laboratories researchers Pat Brady and Tom Hinkebein are putting the final touches on the updated Desalination and Water Purification Roadmap — “Roadmap 2” — that should result in more fresh water in parts of the world where potable water is scarce.The updated roadmap is the result of three previous meetings —

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOBy Ferdinand E. Banks (*)These days I make it my business to believe that just about everyone understands the situation with oil. I assume that with the oil price occasionally exceeding seventy dollars a barrel, the more vulgar forms of optimism will be discarded. Amazingly enough however, there are still persons with a passable background in energy matters who are unable to deal

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Actualizado el 30 de enero de 2007TRIBUNA - EL PAIS (Negocios). Domingo 21 de Mayo de 2006.Por Luis Albentosa; consejero de la Comisión Nacional de Energía.Después de disfrutar durante más de una década de un petróleo muy barato, a partir del 1 de mayo de 2003, fecha del final de la guerra de Irak, la cotización del petróleo empieza a subir paulatinamente. En abril de 2006, el precio del barril

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In Memoriam La primera promoción de ingenieros del ICAI en el exilio, acompañada por el Padre Pérez del Pulgar,recién llegado a Lieja en Octubre de 1931. Cuando los Ingenieros del ICAI estudiaban en Bélgica (descargar) Areneros, hace 75 años, la tarde del 11 de Mayo de 1931“...La propaganda rusa, cuyo comienzo es difícil de precisar, debió intensificarse a poco del cambio de régimen, en cuanto se

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En español más abajo On April 27, California Public Utility Commission (CPUC) has adopted regulatory guidelines for electric utilities and companies that wish to develop BPL projects in that state. While the Commission's BPL guidelines include a requirement to maintain the safety and reliability of the electric distribution system, the state agency has no jurisdiction over radio frequency

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOUpdated on November, 2006"The power network demands cooperation from all its members. It expects its beneficiaries to huddle together and hold on to one another’s arm to enhance reliability and security of the public utility service rendered by the network. All those hooked on to the synchronous system have to bear in mind that the efficient operation of electric networks is

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En español abajoRecently, Dennis Ray, [Executive Director of PSERC (Power Systems Engineering Research Center at Wisconsin University), a multi-disciplinary academic center with some 40 researchers and 40 industry sponsors collaborating on research needed to address challenges facing electric power industry, and on educating the next generation of power industry professionals], and Bill Snyder [

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Borrador sin finalizar(Última actualización 14 de mayo)1. Convergencia de Tecnología2. Convergencia de Mercado3. Convergencia Organizacional4. Convergencia entre la Electricidad y el GasDurante los últimos años, el término "convergencia" se ha hecho muy popular en el mundo energético como sinónimo de cualquier cosa que tenga que ver con nuevos modelos de negocio. Se usa mucho, pero no existe una

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Definición de Mercado Relevante a efectos de la Ley de la Competencia de la Comunidad EuropeaMientras que la idea de mercado constituye un concepto intuitivo de uso común, el concepto de "mercado relevante" no resulta tan conocido, principalmente porque es un concepto técnico utilizado solamente en el campo de las leyes de la competencia. Es importante comprender el significado de mercado

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Completing the Internal Energy Market: The Missing Steps CEER (Council of European Energy Regulators) Rome, October 6, 2003.TRADUCCIÓN AL ESPAÑOL:1. En la antigua época de los monopolios nacionales, las empresas de servicios públicos de energía estaban bajo el “mando y control” del gobierno. Los costes y beneficios de este enfoque los soportaban los consumidores y las empresas de servicios

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOThe power system has few options to adjust power, in contrast to the gas system, where options include taking gas out of storage and compression within segments of the pipeline system. The inability to store electricity efficiently requires operators to meet consumption variations by dispatching fewer or more generation units. Broader tolerances for operating a gas system provide

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Resumen en español abajoFor regulated utilities, the economic evaluation method most widely used was the well known called “minimum-revenue-requirements method”. Because the utility is regulated, the rate of return on any investment is determined based on the allowed regulated return on investment. That return varies according to the regulatory scheme under the utility operates, and can be

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Power System Time Frames ESCALA DE TIEMPOS DEL ESQUEMA DE CONTROL DE UN SISTEMA DE POTENCIAProcesoTiempoEfectos electromagnéticos de las ondas (dinámica rápida, sobretensiones originadas por fenómenos atmosféricos)Microsegundos a milisegundosSobretensiones originadas por el cierre y apertura de los elementos de corteMilisegundosProtecciones100 ms o unos ciclosEfectos electromagnéticos de los

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EN ESPAÑOL MÁS ABAJOBefore the liberalisation of the power sector, demand for gas in power generation was mainly a matter of price optimisation of different input fuels on a long term basis. Utilities had a portfolio of power plants which each had its place in the “merit order” for dispatching power. This ranking was a function of operating costs, efficiencies and fuel prices. In the order of

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A computer model called CustomBid and written by William Chapman in Visual C++. can be used to answer broad questions about strategic behaviour by electrical generator owners in wholesale electricity markets like:How much market power is there in this market? Will prices collapse if the largest player divests its assets?What is the best portfolio of plants to have in this market?What level of

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clickable header/cabecera cliqueableEN ESPAÑOL ABAJOAmong the Top25 articles within The Electricity Journal we can find in position sixth the one called "Rethinking Electricity Deregulation" written in 2004 by Carnegie Mellon University professors Jay Apt and Lester Lave, and researcher Seth Blumsack. In this paper they discussed a number of factors that tend to increase costs: "These include

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Actualizado el 15 de Diciembre de 2006El verano pasado, Fernando Trias de Bes, ese profesor de ESADE de Barcelona, acérrimo defensor de la risa y el "humor positivo" como herramientas de mejora de la productividad, de la creatividad, y del clima laboral, me hizo pasar un rato divertidísimo en la playa con la lectura de su último libro: "El Vendedor de Tiempo".El domingo pasado volví a recordar

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Lately it would seem that for some people -specially for the "deregulacionists", the R&D in an industry such as the electrical one begins and finishes with the study of the regulatory theories, which origins certainly are in the development of the railroad in the United States in the middle of the XIXth century. Those who still believe that still " there is life " beyond the " exterior borders of

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¿Qué fue del Control Homeostático?Kirtley, J.L."Homeostatic Control of Power Systems," Fourth Energy Monitoring and Control System Conference, November 1979, Norfolk, VA“Homeostatic Utility Control,” IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems, Vol. PAS-99, No. 3, May/June 1980 (F. C. Schweppe, R. D. Tabors, J. L. Kirtley, H. R. Outhred, F. H. Pickel and A. J. Cox).“Homeostatic Control:

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOEurelectric has released recently the report "Business Trends in the European Power Industry: The Financial Situation of Electricity Distribution in Europe". This report revises and brings up to date for year 2003 the two main trends shown in the last report of Euroelectric (1998-2001) on the financial situation of the distribution companies: (1) the tendency to reduce the

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El Director de la Real Academia de la Historia, profesor Gonzalo Anes, y el Presidente de CEOE, José María Cuevas, presentaron el pasado mes de octubre el libro “El Sector Eléctrico a través de UNESA: 1944-2004”, en un acto que estuvo presidido por el Presidente de Unesa, Iñigo de Oriol, y el Secretario General de la Energía, Antonio Fernández Segura. El libro se ha editado con ocasión de los

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Conscientes del papel fundamental del sector eléctrico dentro del conjunto energético, como utilizador de diferentes tipos de energía primaria, así como de su importancia estratégica en la economía nacional en cuanto suministrador de energías finales a los sectores doméstico e industrial, los Presidentes de las Empresas Iberduero, Endesa, Hidroeléctrica Española, Fecsa, Sevillana de Electricidad

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As defined by Richard Buckminster Fuller in section 100.00 of his book "Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking"100.00 Definition: Synergy101.00 Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts taken separately.102.00 Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of

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Última actualización: 10 de marzo de 2007CNE, CRE and ERSE wish to favour the development of gas interconnections between the Iberian Peninsula and France. InterligaçÕes de Gás Península Ibérica/França Joint Declaration. ERSE. Lisboa, 7 de Julho de 2003.El gasoducto Euskadour ha sido inaugurado oficialmente el 19 de Junio de 2006. Los comentarios que siguen se publicaron en este blog por primera

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOIn January the price of brent crude was $29. Along the year supply bottlenecks and security fears kept up the pressure on oil prices, pushing the cost of brent crude to hit historical redords. This days, crude oil prices have hit fresh highs as fears grow over the extent of damage done by Hurricane Katrina to oil output in the Gulf of Mexico. Eight refineries were shut down due to

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El pasado 15 de Agosto, exactamente dos años depués del gran apagón del Noreste de Norteamérica, la National Science Foundation de los Estados Unidos anunció la concesión de una dotación de 7,5 millones de dólares a la University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) para la creación de un centro nacional dedicado a mejorar la seguridad de las redes eléctricas de potencia de ese país.Este proyecto

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Última actualización 2 de julio de 2006. (Penúltima 20 de abril de 2006)La eliminación de las concesiones y el acceso de terceros a las redes ha hecho que los mercados liberalizados de gas maduros estén constituidos en realidad por dos mercados competitivos: el del gas como mercancía y el del transporte del gas. La experiencia en Norteamérica y en el Reino Unido indica que el acceso de terceros a

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(Cabecera cliqueable)1. Los hubs, también llamados cabeceras, son lugares físicos formados por varios gasoductos conectados a una instalación que permite trasvasar el gas de un gasoducto a otro. El hub puede tener también interconectadas instalaciones separadas de almacenamiento y tratamiento de gas, pero el operador del hub normalmente no maneja la relación del cliente con estas instalaciones.

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Cabecera cliqueableClickable headerActualizado el 7 de Junio de 2006Updated on June 7, 2006An 18-month deadlocked contest between Japan and Europe over where a 10 billion experimental fusion reactor will be built has been decided – with France as the winner.On Tuesday 28 June, Japan bowed out at a meeting of the six international partners in Moscow. Cadarache, near Marseille in southern France,

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOWith deregulation upon us, we are all hearing from politicians, government officers, journalists, economists, lawyers, consumer groups, ecologists, analysts and stakeholders about what is changing in the power industry, what it does mean, what it costs, how prices are set and profits are retained, about all the new options and pitfalls that end users face, etc. All these things

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOLast Sunday, May 7th, 2005; Madrid newspaper El País published (page 15) the Spanish version of an article of the British novelist Ian McEwan called Let's talk about climate change". We can read the following paragraph in that article: …"The environmental movement has been let down by dire predictions, 'scientifically' based, which over the past two or three decades have proved

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En español más abajoAs Lynn White, Jr. said in essay ninth of his book Machina Ex Deo (MIT Press, 1969), modern humanism could gain some educational muscle from historical studies of science and technology. His recommendation was made clear:"One mark of a mature profession is consciousness of its own history. A second and equally important sign, however, is conscious dedication to an explicit

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOThe premises of the enthusiasts who have promoted the reform of the Power Industry were that the introduction of market forces would beget efficiency improvements without causing problems, that for doing better business in the present technology era, a legal and economical superstructure such as the Market would easily supersede a supposed to be an engineering and technology

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EN ESPAÑOL ABAJOIt is truly a pleasure and a great honour for me to welcome the distinguished professor Ferdinand Banks to Power Encounter, and to share this blog with this invited post of him. Dr. Banks has published eleven books and more than two hundred articles in his long professional life, and he is a man of vast world-wide experience in energy sector, especially in electricity and gas

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