http://www.carboncommentary.com/2009/11/15/853 Spain’s variable wind and stable electricity networks Sunday 15 November 2009 in uncategorized by Chris Goodall One of the frequent criticisms of wind energy is that national distribution systems (‘the grid’) cannot cope with large number of turbines because of the variability and unpredictability of their output. Grids need to match supply and demand […]
IP&EE Conference and Exhibition, NEC Birmingham, 18 – 19 April, 2012 in association with Claverton
Independent Power Energy & Electricity Conference and Exhibition – 18th and 19th April 2012 National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham Following the huge success of the previous Independent Power Energy & Electricity Conference and Exhibitionheld at the NEC, in 2010 with speakers provided exclusively by Claverton Energy Group, the organisers have decided to repeat the event but […]
Are water companies operating restrictive practices?
When consumers attempt to obtain and maintain consumer interface to fiscal water meters for aM&T are Water companies operating restrictive practices? For those who know what aM&T is and are involved in its implementation for Commercial & Industrial customers/consumers you will understand that the first, primary strategy requirement is to get a comprehensive understanding of […]
Micro CHP
http://www.microchap.info/ Micro CHP (micro Combined Heat & Power) is provided as a highly recommended information source for the general public and students. You can access papers, product information and news about forthcoming and past micro CHP events as well as links to related sources of information.
Offshore Wind Technology conference, 12 – 13 December, Birmingham, UK
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The IET is one of the world’s leading professional institutions with over 150,000 engineers and technologists as members worldwide. We are organising an Offshore Wind Technology conference, 12 – 13 December, Birmingham, UK and we would appreciate your support in promoting this event to your members. http://conferences.theiet.org/offshore-wind/programme/index.cfm via […]
Request for urgent meeting to halt the imminent destruction of the UK solar PV industry
I think this open letter from Jeremy Leggett of Solar Century to Cameron puts the current situation into clear context: 4 November 2011 The Right Honourable David Cameron MP Dear Prime Minister You will recall that five years ago you chose to host your first Shadow Environment team ‘meet the media’ event at Solarcentury. I […]
CONNECTING LOW CARBON GENERATION Sponsors – Carbon Catalysts Group & IET8 December – Bath University
CONNECTING LOW CARBON GENERATION Sponsors – Carbon Catalysts Group & IET8 December – Bath University* 6.30 David Tolley – Chairman 6.40 Clive Goodman – Western Power Distribution 7.10 Panel: Gareth Furlong & Keith Munday from MPC The government’s policies for low carbon sources of electricity generation envisage a significant growth in new generation that is […]
Energy Conversations: Should we be storing carbon, energy or nuclear waste underground?
Energy Conversations: Should we be storing carbon, energy or nuclear waste underground? Wednesday 9 November, 6.30pm As we move towards a low carbon energy infrastructure we will be faced by numerous technology choices. Should we follow Germany and Japan to decommission our nuclear power plants and, if so, should we use carbon […]
Effect of a step change in wind output or load on in grid frequency and control mechanisms
Fred, The frequency is system-wide. That is, all parts of an A/C system will have the same frequency. Any change in frequency is a reflection of a change in the balance between supply and demand. So a drop in frequency is a reflection either of a loss of generation, or an increase in demand. Actual […]
Water metering
Companies like meteringtech.com have “self learning” software (ours is called TRACKER analysis module of DYNAMAT) that will self learn a profile of consumption from high frequency interval data (AMR) and continuously compares current consumption with the self learned target, alarming if excessive consumption is detected. We can home in on the “night line” hours as […]