Next week Friday (September 19), Leonardo ENERGY organises a webinar on CPV technology, where Pedro Banda and Paqui Rubio from ISFOC will give an overview of this exciting new technology and respond to any questions you may have. You can register for the webinar using the following link:
www.leonardo-energy.org/drupal/node/3584
Along with wind power, concentration photovoltaics (CPV) offers [...]

Date & Time: June 6, 2008 15h00 - 16h00
Speaker: Fernando Nuno, Leonardo ENERGY
Register: http://snipurl.com/bulksolar
Summary
Thin film, silicon, concentrated solar power (CSP), concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), … These are just some of the terms demonstrating that solar technologies are rapidly entering the electricity system in countries such as the United States, Spain or Australia. Furthermore, the largest improvements, [...]

Date: Friday, May 23, 2008 - 15:00

Duration / timezone: 1 hour / Central European Time (Brussels, Paris, Berlin)

Moderators: Fernando Nuno and Hans De Keulenaer, Leonardo ENERGY

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On the 23rd of January, the European Commission launched a proposal for a Directive on promoting the use of renewable energy. The Directive is designed to address [...]

This webinar discusses energy efficiency labelling and performance standards. Possible discussion topics are:

Is ‘enlargement’ of the labeling scheme beneficial?
How to accommodate the continuous improvement in technology?
How to design schemes to phase-out old appliances?
How to certify and harmonize testing centers?
Financial incentives to stimulate efficient products in the market.
The role of differential taxation.

These topics are aimed [...]

Date: April 11, 2008
Time: 15h00 - 16h00 Europe Daylight Time (Brussels, Paris, Berlin)
Moderators: Roman Targosz, Hans De Keulenaer
Practical information & Registration
Summary
In any country, network losses are the single biggest use of electricity. In the OECD region, network losses amount for 4-10% of electricity generated. This webinar discusses the importance of network losses, their determinants and [...]

Based on a Discussion Webinar, Friday 7 March 2008
Without significant feed-in tariffs or other types of government support, photovoltaic energy is not yet competitive with fossil fuel or nuclear power generation. But the technology is on a learning curve and the so called “grid parity” – competitiveness with conventional electricity generation is approaching.
But [...]

This discussion webinar takes place on Friday, March 21th, from 14h30 to 15h30.
Content
The UK is taking the lead in sustainable building. In 2007, new housing regulations were agreed upon and go into full force in stages over the upcoming years. The regulations stipulate that from 2016 on, all new homes in the UK will [...]

Based on a Discussion Webinar, Friday 29 February 2008
The EU’s Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive came into force in April 2006. The directive prescribes that all Member States should present a series of National Action Plans of which the first one was due for June 2007. These 27 action plans produce for [...]

Based on a Discussion Webinar, Friday 15 February 2008
Two major concerns exist about our electrical power system. The first one is the reliability and quality of the electrical power, summarized under the term ‘Power Quality’ (PQ). Poor PQ affects the profitability and the productivity of our economy. The second concern is the energy [...]

A report from the Discussion Webinar, Friday 22 February 2008

On the 23th of January, the European Commission launched its final proposal for a Directive on the Promotion of the Use of Energy from Renewable Sources.
Leonardo Energy addressed this proposal on a Discussion Webinar on 15 February 2008. Focus was on the Guarantees of Origin (GoO) [...]