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Department of Energy - Smart Grid

“Smart grid” generally refers to a class of technology people are using to bring utility electricity delivery systems into the 21st century, using computer-based remote control and automation. These systems are made possible by two-way communication technology and computer processing that has been used for decades in other industries. They are beginning to be used on electricity networks, from the power plants and wind farms all the way to the consumers of electricity in homes and businesses. They offer many benefits to utilities and consumers -- mostly seen in big improvements in energy efficiency on the electricity grid and in the energy users’ homes and offices. For a century, utility companies have had to send workers out to gather much of the data needed to provide electricity. The “grid” amounts to the networks that carry electricity from the plants where it is generated to consumers. The key activities that comprise OE’s smart grid strategy are summarized below.

SmartGrids: European Technology Platform Department of Energy & Climate Change Skip to main content GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Find out more about cookies Is this page useful? Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful Is there anything wrong with this page? Thank you for your feedback Close Help us improve GOV.UK Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details. To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Don’t have an email address? pochekailov - Программы для работы с литературой Среди прочего, все ученые работают с литературой. Они ее читают (sic!), а когда пишут статьи, обзоры или книги - то ссылаются на источники. В науке не принято пользоваться агенством ОБС, здесь все четко: если что-то утверждаешь, будь добр, приведи основания, почему ты это пишешь. Либо дай ссылку на того, кто обнаружил факт до тебя, либо опиши, что ты сделал, чтобы убедится в верности твоего утверждения. На этом построена вся наука: факты не берутся с потолка, а подтверждаются многократно повторенным опытом. В типичной статье бывает как правило от 10 до 50 ссылок, в обзоре какой-либо темы - до 200-300. Я для этого пользуюсь старой проеренной системой, на которой основан BibTeX (это пакет для библиографии в LaTeX). Конечно, делать это вручную было бы сущим адом. Во-первых, тот же BibTeX. Конечно, базу данных вручную тоже делать сложновато. Вот как этот JabRef выглядит с открытой в нем базой данных: Другая популярная система - Zotero.

Les quatre éléments Les solutions de gestion de l'énergie et d'éclairage devraient conduire l'industrie, alors que les systèmes de chauffage, ventilation et climatisation continueront de jouer un rôle important Le marché européen des systèmes immotiques récupère de la crise à laquelle il a fait face en 2009 à cause de la récession. Bien que ce rétablissement soit dynamique, le marché doit encore se stabiliser et développer des opportunités de croissance dans les régions émergentes et les segments utilisateurs. En attendant, les exigences en matière d'efficacité énergétique et le soutien législatif des directives de l'UE seront de grands conducteurs du marché. Selon une nouvelle étude de Frost & Sullivan intitulée « Marché européen des systèmes immotiques » (buildingtechnologies.frost.com), ce marché a généré 1 769,5 millions de dollars en 2010 et devrait atteindre 2 123,6 millions de dollars en 2017.

Global Climate Change: Research Explorer The earth’s climate has warmed and cooled for millions of years, since long before we appeared on the scene. There’s no doubt that the climate is growing warmer currently; indications of that change are all around us. Though climate change isn’t new, the study of how human activity affects the earth’s climate is. The exploration of climate change encompasses many fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, geology, meteorology, oceanography, and even sociology. At this Web site, you can explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, the oceans, the areas covered by ice and snow, and the living organisms in all these domains.

PowerMeter - Save Energy. Save Money. Make a Difference. We launched Google PowerMeter as a free energy monitoring tool to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. PowerMeter included key features like visualizations of your energy usage, the ability share information with others, and personalized recommendations to save energy. We partnered with device manufacturers and utilities around the world. Many of our partners now have new options available for accessing energy information. We are pleased that PowerMeter helped demonstrate the importance of access to energy information, and created a model for others. We retired the service on September 16, 2011. We continue to see encouraging results about the importance of access to energy data. Momentum is building toward making energy information more readily accessible, and it’s exciting to see others drive innovation and pursue opportunities in this important new market.

Energy, Environment and Resources The Energy, Environment and Resources department, led by Bernice Lee , conducts high-level research on critical issues of energy security, environment and resource governance. Latest: US Energy: the New Reality There is undoubtedly a US energy revolution under way – but where that revolution will lead is not yet clear. Combating Illegal Logging Duncan Brack considers the compatibility of efforts by consumer countries to reduce illegal logging with World Trade Organization rules. The Trouble with Biofuels Agricultural biofuel use increases the level and volatility of food prices, with detrimental impacts on the food security of low-income food-importing countries, says this new paper. Resource Insecurity The outlook is one of supply disruptions, volatile prices, accelerated environmental degradation and rising political tensions over resource access, warns this new report. Research Areas Energy Security Climate Security and Low Carbon Growth Resources, Politics and Global Trends Food Security

Test of building smart sensors yields big energy savings (PhysOrg.com) -- To reduce energy consumption in commercial buildings, computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have come up with a way to use real-time occupancy sensors and computer algorithms to create smart heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. Based on early test results, the software- and sensor-based solution produced electrical energy savings of between 9.54 and 15.73 percent on their test deployment on one floor of a 5-floor campus building. “It’s clear that sensors and computing are key to reducing the demand for electricity in office buildings,” said Yuvraj Agarwal, a research scientist in UC San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department. “Based on the test deployment, we estimate 40-50 percent in energy savings if we deployed our system across the entire CSE building. This is done because there is currently no easy and cost-effective way of knowing when individual occupants arrive in or leave their offices.

The Large Hadron Collider The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way. Inside the accelerator, two high-energy particle beams travel at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. Thousands of magnets of different varieties and sizes are used to direct the beams around the accelerator. All the controls for the accelerator, its services and technical infrastructure are housed under one roof at the CERN Control Centre. How many kilometres of cables are there on the LHC? Download the LHC guide [PDF] CERN takes safety very seriously. Read about the safety of the LHC

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