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International Renewable Electricity – an essential system? Venue, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, Friday 21st May 2010 A one day forum to bring together energy orientated academics, scientists, engineers, practitioners, to contribute to policy development and inform the current debate, in consideration of de-carbonising the energy sector. |
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09:30 |
Registration and refreshments |
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10:00 |
Welcome and Overview |
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Mark Barrett, UCL Energy Institute |
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10:10 |
Europe policy context and demand, supply, storage and transmission |
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Mark Barrett, UCL Energy Institute |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes, Chair, Jeremy Harrison, Innovation Team EON |
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Session 1: Demand: Transport |
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10:40 |
Long Term Futures based on Renewable Energy |
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Dr Mark Delucchi, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California Overview of Professor Mark Z. Jacobson and Dr Mark Delucchi’s work indicating that renewable energy can is the cheapest overall and most practicable source of long term power and energy, worldwide. |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes, Chair, Professor Nick Jenkins, Institute of Energy, and member of SuperGen Consortium, School of Engineering, Cardiff University |
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11:10 |
The Offshore Valuation Tim Helweg Larsen, Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC) The Offshore Valuation is a new study, commissioned by 14 organisations drawn from across UK Government and industry, to answer the question: What is the value of the UK’s offshore renewable energy resource? |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes |
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11:40 |
Refreshment Break |
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12:00 |
Plenary |
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Session 2: Large Scale: EU Supergrid |
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12:30 |
The role of the European Supergrid in achieving 100% renewable energy mix |
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Andrew Smith, London Analytics How interlinking grids, exploiting existing hydro can deliver penetrations of renewables energy at reasonable cost |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes, Chair, Jeremy Harrison, Innovation Consultant, EON |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
100% Renewables, a possible Roadmap for Europe and North Africa? Gus Schellekens, Price Waterhouse Coopers How we might reach a high renewables future |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes, Chair, Chris Bale, Carbon Catalysts |
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14:30 |
Renewable Energy’s contribution to transport and scope for assisting renewables integrations |
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Dr Mark Delucchi, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes, Chair, Professor Nick Jenkins, University of Cardiff |
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15:00 |
Plenary |
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Session 3: Implementation |
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15:30 |
Implementation from Europe |
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Speaker, TBC |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes |
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16:00 |
The UK National Grid and Intermittency – the Issues |
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Speaker TBC |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes, Chair, Rob Gross, Imperial College, London |
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16:30 |
Plenary |
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17:00 |
Refreshment |
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17:25 |
Problems with Large Scale Renewable Scenarios |
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Gary Keane, Pöyry Energy Consulting |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes, Chair, Martin Alder, Vice- Chairman AEP and Operations Director Wind Direct |
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17:55 |
Industry |
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Speaker TBC |
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- Q&A, 10 minutes |
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18:25 |
Plenary |
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Chair, Chris Bale, CEO, Ocean Electric Power |
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18:30 |
Closing Remarks and invitation to Drinks Reception |
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Goran Strbac, Imperial College, London (TBC) |
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The Organisers Claverton Energy Group Claverton Energy Group is a network of 600 Energy scientists, engineers and economists who regularly discuss these energy issues. In addition to academic participants, the Claverton Energy Group includes a significant number of practitioners with professional experience of designing, building and operating energy systems. This combination of academic and practitioner experience is highly unusual and of considerable value to both groups. It represents a significant broadening of the conventional academic concept of interdisciplinarity. The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) was set up in 2004 to provide a focus for energy research in the UK while galvanising collaborative international energy research. A key supporting function of UKERC is the Meeting Place, based in Oxford, which aims to bring together members of the UK energy community and overseas experts from different disciplines, to learn, identify problems, develop solutions and further the energy debate. Steering CommitteeDave Andrews, Claverton Energy Group
Mark Barrett, University College London
Robert Gross, Imperial College London
Robert Lowe, University College London
Tadj Oreszczyn, University College London
Emma Todd, University College London
Karyn John, UKERC Meeting Place
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CEG Concessionary offer- Renew
Claverton Energy Group members a can subscribe to the UK’s leading renewable energy policy journal Renew at the reduced price of £14 p.a. (instead of £20 p.a.).
To subscribe go to www.natta-renew.org and sign up via Pay Pall at the £14 concessionary level, or contact Tam_Dougan@natta-renew.org mentioning that you are a CEG member.
Now in its 30th year, Renew covers renewable energy developments and policy in the UK, EU and world wide, and is produced bi-monthly as a PDF file sent to subscribers by email attachment. More details and samples are at www.natta-renew.org
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This site contains posting and discussions from experts (scientists, engineers, consultants, economists, policy makers, academics etc) in the field of energy studies and practical engineering.
Feel free to join one of the groups or post articles, provided they are based on sound experience or other credentials. Read More→
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The Cogeneration or CHP Directive
Posted by: | CommentsThis refers to the ”’Directive on the promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market and amending Directive 92/62/EEC”’, officially 2004/8/EC and popularly better known as the ‘CHP Directive’
It is a European Union directive for promoting the use of cogeneration in order to increase the energy efficiency and improve the security of supplyof energy. This is intended to be achieved by creating a framework for the promotion and development of high efficiency cogeneration.
The directive entered into force in February 2004 and member states have been obliged to begin its implementation since 2006. (however due to delays resulting out of the comitology process, member states had to adopt the first obligations of the directive by 6 August 2007.) Read More→
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Believe it or not there are specialists who know about why engines fail and who are hired by disgruntled purchasers, insurance loss adjusters, and often disgruntled engine suppliers.
Engines can cost up to £40million for a large marine engine, or £1/2 million for a typical 1MWe gas engine chp unit, so when these fail it is worth finding out why.
Engines rarely fail due to inherent defects in the design or manufacture, though this is far from unknown – more often it is due to:
- Mis-installation
- Mal-operation
- Lack of maintenance
- Not being used for the duty intended.
When things go wrong users may need to call in the engine specialist. Here is a typical one: Read More→
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Grid-Connected Intermittent Renewables Are The Last To Be Stored
Posted by: | Comments( Note – this article will shortly be published in the Elsevier International Journal of Renewable Energy which owns all rights.)
Abstract
When hydro-electric power systems became wide-spread, associated developments for energy storage, using pumped water, soon followed. Many other methods of storage have since been considered. Today’s interest in other renewables, notably wind energy has led to assertions that, because it is intermittent, wind can make no contribution to the firm power on a power system (i.e. it has no capacity credit) but that storage can make it viable. Read More→
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