Current Issue-Cogeneration & On-Site Power Production
Volume: 9 Issue: 2
March / April 2008
Regulars From the Publishers
From the Publishers As a recent conference on electricity efficiency (part of the World Sustainable Energy Days) sobering figures were presented showing Europe’s escalating electricity consumption, its curve far above the ‘business-as-usual’ projections from 1997.
Comment
Barrels of sunshine and wind While it is tempting to think of the traditional players in the oil industry as dinosaurs that will soon be extinct (perhaps creating oil supplies for generations in millennia to come), it is interesting that they often also seem to be the leaders at the cutting edge of new energy technology.
WADE Pages
Wade in Action The World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE) was established in 1997 as a non-profit research and promotion organization whose mission is to accelerate the worldwide development of high efficiency cogeneration (CHP) and decentralized renewable energy systems that deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits.
Features CHP – the value of greater global investment At the conclusion of the Group of Eight (G8) Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, in July 2007, the leaders developed a communiqué to summarize key messages.
Compressor washing keeps gas turbines running like new This second feature on gas turbines takes a closer look at one aspect of the many methods used to keep overall operating efficiencies as high as possible – compressor washing.
Improved security via decentralized energy Energy security is an issue of increasing political concern around the world, driven by surging demand for energy; sharply rising international prices for fuel, heat and electricity; increasing dependency on energy imports in most regions of the world; and, an emerging sense of vulnerability from the natural and malicious threats tied to climate change and terrorism.
Integrated on-site renewable energy system demonstrates a way forward for Denmark Recently, in order to fully utilize renewable energy generated on site, the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy (NFC) heating system was upgraded to show how wind, solar, wood pellet biomass and locally produced plant oil could be used to produce an integrated system unmatched in Denmark.
