Global CO2 emissions must be reduced in line with a 2 degree Celsius scenario, with all sectors contributing. While renewable power generation grew in 2012, overall investment in renewable capacity declined. The energy sector carbon intensity index shows global energy supply is as carbon intensive today as in 1990, despite a 46% increase in energy demand since then. Coal generation continues to outpace non-fossil sources, though natural gas is displacing coal in some countries due to regional market dynamics. Major new nuclear construction is needed but has declined since the 1980s.
This webinar covers the most recent findings from IEA’s Energy Efficiency Market Report 2018, featuring the Efficiency World Scenario, the Efficient World Strategy, and a special focus on Brazil and Mexico. It includes a discussion on the current rate of progress on improving energy efficiency, as well as historic and current trends. The webinar was organised in cooperation with the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), Energy Research Office (EPE) and the Mexican Ministry of Energy (SENER), and presented by Joe Ritchie and Edith Bayer.
Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2014 examines progress in the development and deployment of key clean energy technologies. This Energy Technology Perspectives 2014 (ETP 2014) excerpt tracks each technology and sector against interim 2025 targets in the IEA 2014 Energy Technology Perspectives 2°C scenario, which lays out pathways to a sustainable energy system in 2050.
his webinar presented the most recent findings from IEA’s Energy Efficiency Market Report 2018, featuring:
- The Efficient World Scenario: What would happen by 2040 if countries realised all the economically viable energy efficiency potential that is available today?
- The Efficient World Strategy: The policies, technologies and strategies for achieving an Efficient World exist today. Global experiences point the way.
- Special focus on South Africa and other emerging economies: highlights, progress, and potential.
- Findings on the current rate of progress on improving energy efficiency, and historic and current trends.
The webinar was organised by the South African Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency Initiatives Directorate and the International Energy Agency, and is presented by Joe Ritchie, Energy Policy Analyst at the IEA and report coordinator.
Cédric PHILIBERT, analyst in Energy and Climate Change, IEA, provided an overview of the renewable energies development and of the associated challenges and opportunities for the power grids.
This webinar covers the most recent findings from IEA’s Energy Efficiency Market Report 2018, featuring the Efficiency World Scenario, the Efficient World Strategy, and a special focus on Brazil and Mexico. It includes a discussion on the current rate of progress on improving energy efficiency, as well as historic and current trends. The webinar was organised in cooperation with the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), Energy Research Office (EPE) and the Mexican Ministry of Energy (SENER), and presented by Joe Ritchie and Edith Bayer.
Tracking Clean Energy Progress 2014 examines progress in the development and deployment of key clean energy technologies. This Energy Technology Perspectives 2014 (ETP 2014) excerpt tracks each technology and sector against interim 2025 targets in the IEA 2014 Energy Technology Perspectives 2°C scenario, which lays out pathways to a sustainable energy system in 2050.
his webinar presented the most recent findings from IEA’s Energy Efficiency Market Report 2018, featuring:
- The Efficient World Scenario: What would happen by 2040 if countries realised all the economically viable energy efficiency potential that is available today?
- The Efficient World Strategy: The policies, technologies and strategies for achieving an Efficient World exist today. Global experiences point the way.
- Special focus on South Africa and other emerging economies: highlights, progress, and potential.
- Findings on the current rate of progress on improving energy efficiency, and historic and current trends.
The webinar was organised by the South African Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency Initiatives Directorate and the International Energy Agency, and is presented by Joe Ritchie, Energy Policy Analyst at the IEA and report coordinator.
Cédric PHILIBERT, analyst in Energy and Climate Change, IEA, provided an overview of the renewable energies development and of the associated challenges and opportunities for the power grids.
What do changing energy dynamics mean for the world’s largest oil and gas exporters? A new special report, part of the IEA’s flagship World Energy Outlook series, focuses on six key producers, Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates & Venezuela, and examines the pressures that they face in different price and policy scenarios to 2040. The drive for energy efficiency and the long-term response to climate change, in addition to technology innovation and the shale revolution, all point to sustained pressure on economies that rely heavily on revenue from oil and gas.
The International Energy Agency’s annual benchmark for tracking energy investment, World Energy Investment 2019 provides a full picture of today’s capital flows and what they might mean for tomorrow’s energy sector. It assesses whether the frameworks and strategies put in place by governments, the energy industry, and financial institutions are spurring timely investment, and how spending across sectors and technologies matches with the world’s energy security and sustainability needs.
This is the accompanying presentation to the hour-long World Energy Outlook 2017 webinar on The Sustainable Development Scenario. Watch the webinar here: https://youtu.be/rRP9YUS_ZaA
The keynote presentation given by IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol at the “Energy Efficiency for the Future” DEMEX Side Event, Tuesday 12 September 2017.
The webinar will present the main results of the analysis in the Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2017, and will cover:
- The implications of Southeast Asia’s growing role in global energy consumption for energy security, the environment and economic development
- A roadmap towards universal electricity access across the region, with details on the mix of fuels and technologies that could achieve this at the lowest cost
- A pathway towards mitigating Southeast Asia’s growing energy security and environmental concerns illustrated in The Sustainable Development Scenario, including the implications for energy sector investment to 2040
This is the third webinar in a series that is presenting the key findings and analysis from the World Energy Outlook 2017.
The world is moving towards a crucial climate change meeting in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). The negotiations there will be based on national pledges, formally known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, with the goal of setting the world on a sustainable path. As energy production and use is responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse-gas emissions, the IEA feels an obligation to make a contribution to COP21 – a contribution which reconciles climate and energy needs.
Emergence of Southeast Asia as energy giant carries risks, opportunities: IEA report sees continued shift to coal and increasing dependence on oil and gas imports
The role of CCS in mitigation scenarios - Ellina Levina, IEA Global CCS Institute
This is a presentation delivered by Ellina Levina of the International Energy Agency (IEA) at the Institute’s COP 17 side event, held on November 30. The presentation reviews the IEA’s work on CCS, including its scenarios that project CCS as delivering 19 per cent of required global emission cuts by 2050. The presentation also reviews current challenges to CCS and to global emissions reduction efforts.
Large differences in regional energy prices are set to affect industrial competitiveness, influencing investment decisions and company strategies. The extraordinary rise of light tight oil in the United States will play a major role in meeting global demand growth over the next decade, but the Middle East – the only large source of low-cost oil – will remain at the centre of the longer-term oil outlook. India is set to overtake China in the 2020s as the principal source of growth in global energy demand. These are just some of the key findings from the IEA in the latest edition of its World Energy Outlook.
International Energy Agency Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven addresses energy challenges for Africa, Europe and worldwide at the Africa-EU Energy Partnership conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
This was the first webinar in the series of two. It presented the IEA comprehensive analysis on the opportunities and challenges of scaling and accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies to achieve climate, energy security and economic goals focusing on the power and industry sectors as well as the role of CCS. The following chapters of the report were presented: Transforming electricity systems; Infrastructure for electricity system transformation; Advancing the low carbon transition in industry, Unlocking the potential for CCS. The Global Outlook was presented outlining three IEA ETP decarbonisation scenarios expanding to 2060: Reference Technology Scenario, 20C Scenario and Beyond 20C Scenario. For the first time, ETP2017 shows how the energy sector could become carbon neutral by 2060 if known technology innovations were pushed to the limit.
What do changing energy dynamics mean for the world’s largest oil and gas exporters? A new special report, part of the IEA’s flagship World Energy Outlook series, focuses on six key producers, Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates & Venezuela, and examines the pressures that they face in different price and policy scenarios to 2040. The drive for energy efficiency and the long-term response to climate change, in addition to technology innovation and the shale revolution, all point to sustained pressure on economies that rely heavily on revenue from oil and gas.
The International Energy Agency’s annual benchmark for tracking energy investment, World Energy Investment 2019 provides a full picture of today’s capital flows and what they might mean for tomorrow’s energy sector. It assesses whether the frameworks and strategies put in place by governments, the energy industry, and financial institutions are spurring timely investment, and how spending across sectors and technologies matches with the world’s energy security and sustainability needs.
This is the accompanying presentation to the hour-long World Energy Outlook 2017 webinar on The Sustainable Development Scenario. Watch the webinar here: https://youtu.be/rRP9YUS_ZaA
The keynote presentation given by IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol at the “Energy Efficiency for the Future” DEMEX Side Event, Tuesday 12 September 2017.
The webinar will present the main results of the analysis in the Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2017, and will cover:
- The implications of Southeast Asia’s growing role in global energy consumption for energy security, the environment and economic development
- A roadmap towards universal electricity access across the region, with details on the mix of fuels and technologies that could achieve this at the lowest cost
- A pathway towards mitigating Southeast Asia’s growing energy security and environmental concerns illustrated in The Sustainable Development Scenario, including the implications for energy sector investment to 2040
This is the third webinar in a series that is presenting the key findings and analysis from the World Energy Outlook 2017.
The world is moving towards a crucial climate change meeting in Paris in December 2015 (COP21). The negotiations there will be based on national pledges, formally known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, with the goal of setting the world on a sustainable path. As energy production and use is responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse-gas emissions, the IEA feels an obligation to make a contribution to COP21 – a contribution which reconciles climate and energy needs.
Emergence of Southeast Asia as energy giant carries risks, opportunities: IEA report sees continued shift to coal and increasing dependence on oil and gas imports
The role of CCS in mitigation scenarios - Ellina Levina, IEA Global CCS Institute
This is a presentation delivered by Ellina Levina of the International Energy Agency (IEA) at the Institute’s COP 17 side event, held on November 30. The presentation reviews the IEA’s work on CCS, including its scenarios that project CCS as delivering 19 per cent of required global emission cuts by 2050. The presentation also reviews current challenges to CCS and to global emissions reduction efforts.
Large differences in regional energy prices are set to affect industrial competitiveness, influencing investment decisions and company strategies. The extraordinary rise of light tight oil in the United States will play a major role in meeting global demand growth over the next decade, but the Middle East – the only large source of low-cost oil – will remain at the centre of the longer-term oil outlook. India is set to overtake China in the 2020s as the principal source of growth in global energy demand. These are just some of the key findings from the IEA in the latest edition of its World Energy Outlook.
International Energy Agency Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven addresses energy challenges for Africa, Europe and worldwide at the Africa-EU Energy Partnership conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
This was the first webinar in the series of two. It presented the IEA comprehensive analysis on the opportunities and challenges of scaling and accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies to achieve climate, energy security and economic goals focusing on the power and industry sectors as well as the role of CCS. The following chapters of the report were presented: Transforming electricity systems; Infrastructure for electricity system transformation; Advancing the low carbon transition in industry, Unlocking the potential for CCS. The Global Outlook was presented outlining three IEA ETP decarbonisation scenarios expanding to 2060: Reference Technology Scenario, 20C Scenario and Beyond 20C Scenario. For the first time, ETP2017 shows how the energy sector could become carbon neutral by 2060 if known technology innovations were pushed to the limit.
This webinar focused on where we are today and how we could achieve key energy-related sustainable developments goals on climate change; air quality and universal access to modern energy.
Presentation on IEA Net Zero Pathways/RoadmapIEA-ETSAP
Presentation on IEA Net Zero Pathways/Roadmap
Uwe Remme, IEA
16–17th november 2023, Turin, Italy, etsap meeting, etsap winter workshop, semi-annual meeting, november 2023, Politecnico di Torino Lingotto, Torino
The IEA Energy Efficiency Market report - What it means for DSMLeonardo ENERGY
The Energy Efficiency Market Report is the IEA’s flagship report on energy efficiency trends around the world.
Questions addressed in this year’s report include: Are we improving energy efficiency fast enough to achieve our climate goals? Which countries and policies are having the greatest impact and what is the secret to their success? How much is being invested in energy efficiency globally, in specific regions and in the main energy-consuming sectors? How are low energy prices impacting energy efficiency investments? What are the multiple benefits of energy efficiency for the climate, energy security and public budgets? What are the market trends for energy efficiency services and financing?
Speaker for this webinar: Tyler Bryant
The IEA Energy Efficiency Market report - What it means for DSMLeonardo ENERGY
The Energy Efficiency Market Report is the IEA’s flagship report on energy efficiency trends around the world.
Questions addressed in this year’s report include: Are we improving energy efficiency fast enough to achieve our climate goals? Which countries and policies are having the greatest impact and what is the secret to their success? How much is being invested in energy efficiency globally, in specific regions and in the main energy-consuming sectors? How are low energy prices impacting energy efficiency investments? What are the multiple benefits of energy efficiency for the climate, energy security and public budgets? What are the market trends for energy efficiency services and financing?
Speaker for this webinar: Tyler Bryant
Presentation from the OECD Workshop “Climate transition scenarios: integrating models into risk assessment under uncertainty and the cost of delayed action” (6 July 2022) - Session 1, Blandine Barreau, International Energy Agency (IEA)
World Energy Outlook 2014 - Dr. Fatih BIROLCluster TWEED
Nous avons eu le plaisir de vous convier le 14 janvier 2015 à la présentation du Dr. Fatih Birol, Chief Economist de l'IEA (International Energy Agency) et superviseur de la publication annuelle de l'IEA, le World Energy Outlook (WEO).
Global CCS Institute Meeting 20 June 2013. Presentation on Global Outlook of CCS by Juho Lipponen, Head of Carbon Capture & Storage Unit, International Energy Agency (IEA).
Dr Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, spoke at the EU-US Business to Business Energy Forum in Brussels on May 2, 2019, about the global LNG trade.
This webinar covers the most recent findings from IEA’s Energy Efficiency Market Report 2018, featuring the Efficiency World Scenario, the Efficient World Strategy, and a special focus on Brazil and Mexico. It includes a discussion on the current rate of progress on improving energy efficiency, as well as historic and current trends. The webinar was organised in cooperation with the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), Energy Research Office (EPE) and the Mexican Ministry of Energy (SENER), and presented by Joe Ritchie and Edith Bayer.
This webinar covers the most recent findings from IEA’s Energy Efficiency Market Report 2018, featuring the Efficiency World Scenario, the Efficient World Strategy, and a special focus on Brazil and Mexico. It includes a discussion on the current rate of progress on improving energy efficiency, as well as historic and current trends. The webinar was organised in cooperation with the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), Energy Research Office (EPE) and the Mexican Ministry of Energy (SENER), and presented by Joe Ritchie and Edith Bayer.
Dr. Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, gave a talk at Imperial College London on 20 March 2018 to discus how new technologies - including electrification & digitalisation – create opportunities, but also risks & uncertainty.
From the rise of connected devices at home, to automated industrial production processes and smart mobility, digital technologies are increasingly changing how, where and when energy is consumed. The IEA’s latest report, Digitalization & Energy, is the first-ever comprehensive effort to depict how digital technologies could transform the world’s energy systems. The report examines the impact of digital technologies on energy demand sectors, looks at how energy suppliers can use digital tools to improve operations, and explores the transformational potential of digitalization to help create a highly interconnected energy system. The report also explores the wider policy implications of increasing connectivity and automation, including for energy security, energy access, employment, data ownership, and privacy. For more info, contact: digital@iea.org.
Watch World Energy Outlook authors Tim Gould, Tae-Yoon Kim, Christophe McGlade, and Johannes Trüby discuss the outlook for fossil fuels following the release of World Energy Outlook 2017: http://bit.ly/2zcoDSM
Watch World Energy Outlook 2017 authors discuss the outlook for power, renewables, and energy efficiency following the release of World Energy Outlook 2017: http://bit.ly/2zcIAsL
This is the accompanying presentation to the hour-long World Energy Outlook 2017 webinar on The New Policies Scenario. Watch the webinar here: https://youtu.be/M6yuRJYeSuM
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Ladies and gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to welcome you to today’s web conference on the International Energy Agency’s 2013 Tracking Clean Energy Progress report. I’m Dr MarkusWrake, and I am a unit head in the Energy Technology Policy Division of the Agency’s Directorate of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology. We launched the Tracking Clean Energy Progress report at the 4th Clean Energy Ministerial in New Delhi, India on 17 April. In a few short years, the Ministerial has become a key forum to advance clean energy goals at some of the highest levels of government. But our analysis is a stark reminder the world is not on track to realise the benefits of a low-carbon energy system – i.e. to limit long term temperature rises to 2 degrees centigrade. The report provides a snapshot of current progress, and we give specific policy recommendations, technology by technology. It does not paint a rosy picture. Progress remains alarmingly slow for a majority of technologies that could save energy and reduce CO2 emissions. And yet, positive examples exist and we can learn from them.To introduce today’s web conference, I will speak briefly to the aims and methodology behind the report. I will then hand over to my colleagues Davide D’Ambrosio and Justine Garrett, the lead authors of the report alongside me; they will take us through its key, technology-specific findings.
Why Tracking Clean Energy Progress? The key aim of the report is to give a snapshot of progress in clean energy deployment, to inform energy ministers about latest developments, and where they should focus attention and prioritise efforts. As we can see here, all key sectors of the economy must contribute to reduce emissions in line with a 2 degree scenario: power generation, industry, transport and buildings. The report tracks progress across these sectors using available quantitative and qualitative data, against three key measures:Technology penetration: looking at current rates of technology deployment;Market creation: looking at mechanisms in place to enable and encourage technology deployment, including government policies and regulations;Technology developments: looking at whether technology reliability, efficiency and cost is evolving at required rates.These are assessed against interim 2020 benchmarks, based on the IEA’s 2DS, or 2 degree stabilisation scenario.Critically, the report highlights actionable policy and technology measures that energy ministers and governments can take in each technology/ sector to scale up deployment. Global recommendations pull together the outcomes of the report across sectors.
Let us start with the good news: renewable power technologies continue to beat expectations, and are broadly on track to reach our “2 Degree Scenario” or 2DS targets. They are not enough to do the job. But their success shows that with sustained and strong policy frameworks, new energy technologies can be developed and penetrate the market.Growth in renewable power technologies continued in 2012. For example, from 2011 to 2012, electricity generation from solar PV grew by an estimated 42%, and wind by 19%. This builds on strong performance in 2011, with total renewable power generation up 6% on 2010 levels.These figures are particularly impressive considering they follow a decade of similar growth, and given ongoing economic and industry turbulence in 2012. The renewable energy industry entered a deeper phase of consolidation in 2012, especially for smaller and high-cost manufacturers. Markets are also expanding globally, as emerging economies step up clean energy efforts. Brazil, China and Indonesia are among governments to have increased incentives for renewables over the past year. China, for example, introduced measures to facilitate grid connection of distributed solar PV systems in 2012, and a target of 10GW of new solar PV for 2013. And yet globally, investment in non-hydro renewables decreased by 11% in 2012. Policy uncertainty and “stop-and-go” decision making played an important role in this. At USD 240 billion investment in new renewable power plants in 2012 (excluding large hydro), investment is still in line with 2DS targets. But 2012 developments show the direct link between effective policy design and private sector investment. Uncertainty in the US regarding potential expiration of a wind generation tax credit slowed wind capacity investment, for example.Transparent and predictable renewable energy policies that take into account changing market conditions and technology cost development are essential to keeping renewables on track.
So on the whole, and despite the investment slowdown, renewables are progressing well. And yet the global energy supply is not getting any cleaner. Together with the tracking report, we launched the IEA Energy Sector Carbon Intensity Index, or “ESCII”, at CEM 4. The ESCII shows how much CO2 each unit of energy that we produce emits. The benefit of the ESCII is that it shows the aggregate impact of all changes in total energy supply – is overall energy supply getting cleaner, or are positive developments in low-carbon technologies being offset by increased coal use? As you see, the net impact of changes in supply technologies has been minimal since 1990. In short, the drive to clean up the world’s energy system has stalled. Despite much talk by world leaders and a boom in renewable energy over the last decade, the average unit of energy produced today is basically as dirty as it was 23 years ago. At the same time, global energy demand and related emissions are increasing at a rapid rate, as we see here.The key reason the ESCII has remained static is that coal continues to dominate growth in power generation.
Growth in coal-fired generation has far outpaced growth in generation from non-fossil energy sources for more than a decade – +45% between 2000 and 2010, compared to +25% for non fossil energy sources. Global coal-fired generation increased by an estimated 6% just in the last two years, and is projected to increase to 17% above 2DS levels by 2017. Dependence on coal for economic growth is particularly strong in emerging economies. China and, to a lesser extent India, continue to play a key role in driving demand growth. China’s coal consumption represented 46% of global coal demand in 2011; India’s share was 11%. In 2012, demand for coal also rose in OECD Europe, as excess coal on the market saw prices fall. These trends represent a fundamental threat to a low-carbon future. In addition, around half of coal-fired power plants built in 2011 useinefficient technologies. This tendency is offsetting measures to close older, inefficient plants. For example China closed 85 GW in 2011; the United States closed 9 GW in 2012.Strong government policy action is required to counter growth in emissions from coal-fired generation, including stronger CO2 emissions reduction policies, pollution control measures and policies to reduce generation from less efficient units. The strong upwards trend in coal deployment shows that despite some progress, current policies are largely insufficient.
What about the revolution in unconventional gas?Indeed, switching from coal to gas is a key measure to reduce emissions in the short term. But it is not a panacea – gas becomes high-carbon in a low-carbon scenario from around 2025. And we have to look at the global picture. Regional market dynamics – in particular fuel prices – play a big role. These vary considerably, as we can see here, and are currently driving divergent trends.So far coal-to-gas switching is largely a US phenomenon, as the boom in unconventional gas extraction has kept gas prices low. From 2011 to 2012, gas-fired generation increased 24%, while coal-fired generation decreased by 14%.But in Europe over the same period - partly as a result of cheap US coal exports, but also thanks to relatively dear European gas - we saw the opposite trend. From January to June 2012, gas-fired power generation dropped by 15% in Germany, 12% in Spain and 33% in the UK, while coal-generation grew by 8%, 65% and 35%. Carbon policy can influence competition between coal and gas. In regions where gas prices are high, high carbon prices are needed to stimulate coal-to-gas switching. Current prices are not high enough to drive the switch: for example, an estimated CO2 price of 50 EUR would be required to drive a short-term coal to gas generation switch in Europe, compared to a carbon price of EUR 4 in early February 2013.
Nuclear also plays a substantial role in decarbonisation of the electricity sector in the 2DS, reaching around 16% of global generation by 2025. The nuclear policy landscape is stabilising after the Fukushina accident in Japan; construction began on seven nuclear power plants in 2012, an increase on the 4 construction starts in 2011. This compares to the 16 new projects that commenced construction in 2010. Safety evaluations conducted after the Fukushima accident found that existing reactors can continue to operate if safety upgrades are implemented. Public opinion seems to be improving in many regions.And most countries deployment targets for nuclear remain unchanged - although debate on nuclear energy policy continues in some key countries, including France and Japan. Several countries have active or planned nuclear expansion programmes. Major additional construction is needed to meet 2DS targets, however. An average 2.4 GW global capacity has been added each year since the middle of the last decade; this compares to 16GW annual capacity additions required out to 2020 in the 2DS. Increasing deployment will require greater public acceptance of nuclear energy, and more favourable electricity market mechanisms and investment conditions.
In a world that continues to rely heavily on fossil fuels, CCS deployment is ever more critical. In total, 9 projects are now under construction. But in 2012, 8 projects were cancelled. Projected capture rates remain well below 2DS goals, with maximum projected capacity at around 25% of the required capture rate in 2020 for a 2 degree stabilisation scenario.This is despite CCS technologies being mature in many applications, and signs of commercial interest. For example, construction began on 2 integrated CCS demonstration projects in Canada in 2012. These projects raised spending on CCS demonstration by one-third on 2011 levels, or USD 2.6 billion. This brings cumulative spending on CCS demonstration projects over the past 5 years to almost USD 10.2 billion, including government grants of around 2.4 billion. This represents a significant increase on 2009 levels. Around an additional 12.1 billion of public funds has been awarded to other demonstration projects and R&D that are not in construction or operation. But governments must make a real long term commitment to CCS, including in energy intensive industries such as cement and steel. This means support for demonstration, including increased financial and policy support for deployment, including strong emissions reduction policies. Government policy action is particularly crucial for CCS, given that it is motivated solely by climate change.
Turning now to the transport sector, we see a window of opportunity opening up in this sector. Fuel economy improvement holds the greatest potential to reduce fuel consumption and emissions in the road transport sector to 2020This map shows where the potential is to bring fuel-saving technologies to the market. Average fuel economy improved by 1.8% per year between 2008 and 2011 – still below the 2DS goal of 2.7% annual improvement.And the pattern is uneven, with fuel economy of new cars varying by up to 55% across countries. This demonstrates the enormous scope for improving efficiency through policy.Fuel saving technologies are generally already commercially available – the challenge is to bring these technologies onto the market through policy. And this is not only about cars. There are still only few countries with fuel economy standards for heavy duty vehicles.
Fuel economy will also rely on more fundamental engine advancements. Therefore it is encouraging to see signs of a breakthrough in the markets for hybrid vehicles, which can form a bridge to electric vehicles. Sales of hybrid-electric vehicles virtually exploded in 2012, growing by over 40% to more than one millionunits. Hybrids are now among the top five selling models globally. Sales of electric vehicles grew even more quickly, more than doubling from 2011 to 2012, albeit fromverylow levels. These trends are broadly on track to deliver the 2DS targets by 2020, and government targets are in line with our 2DS scenario. This is good news. However, our auto industry partners’ production forecasts for 2020 are only 20% of government targets. Targets are simply not translatinginto real action.We project that advanced vehicles will need subsidies for the next decade, as costs continue to fall for elements like batteries – which have already been cut in half since 2009 thanks to publicly funded research. Somewhere around 2020 these cars will be competitive without targeted incentives.But until then, whether for electric or natural gas vehicles, we must incentivize the optimum rate of infrastructure deployment to both prepare for and support the growth of those new engine technologies.
Global biofuels production was less encouraging in 2012. In the 2DS, biofuels meet over 6% of global transport fuel demand in 2020, with electricity and hydrogen.Growth in production stalled in 2012 due to high feedstock prices, reflecting extreme weather conditions in key producing countries (e.g., the 2012 drought that compromised the US corn harvest). This highlights the vulnerability of conventional biofuels production to feedstock price volatility. Feedstock accounts for 50-80% of total production costs.It is thus encouraging that the advanced biofuels sector added about 30% capacity in 2012.But biofuels production must more than double by 2020 to reach 2DS targets. This will require governments to implement dedicated policy support for advanced biofuels, and additional R&D and production funding to enable large-scale deployment. While a number of countries have implemented biofuel blending mandates and targets, few countries have put in place targeted policy support for advanced biofuels.
Moving now to industry.As in the transport sector, energy efficiency remains a largely untapped resource in industry – we call it the hidden fuel. Just using existing technologies would give impressive savings – in the order of around 20% of industrial energy consumption, and even more in sectors such as cement and chemicals. Several regions scaled up policy support for industrial energy efficiency in 2012, including Europe, South Africa and Australia, but more effort is needed. The IEA is a strong proponent of market solutions, but we also see many non-economic barriers to energy efficiency. This builds a strong case for regulation to tap into the potential we know is there. In industry, governments must implement policies to ensure that new capacity is developed with best available technology and promote refurbishment projects.
in the buildings sector building codes can have a strong positive impact if designed correctly. Improvements in the thermal envelope of buildings and other building envelope enhancements account for 17% of reduction in energy consumption compared with the 6DS in 2020.Today only Denmark, France and Tunisiahave best-practice building codes in place. To achieve deep CO2 emissions reductions in the buildings sector, governments must enforce stringent, performance-based codes, promote renovation of existing buildings, and set minimum energy performance standards based on BAT. There was some movement in this regard in 2012 – for example, the EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive and the UK’s Green Deal. But globally far more action is required to reach required energy and emissions savings.
This year, we also included a section looking at progress in systems integration, including smart grids, co-generation and district heating and cooling. This reflects the importance of improved systems integration and flexibility in the clean energy transition.Demonstration and deployment of smart grid technologies is intensifying, driven by forces such as accelerating integration of large-scale variablerenewable energy sources. This is starting to generate experience that can be replicated and built on for future projects, through initiatives such as the Global Smart Grid Federation. Tracking progress in smart grid deployment remains a challenge, however. There are many individual smart grid technologies, as shown here, so determining quantitative indicators and metrics to assess progress and identify gaps remains a key priority. Improved data collection is essential.Reaching 2DS targets will require accelerated investment, and new regulatory and business models that enable sharing of smart grid costs and benefits. This reflects that cost reductions enabled by smart grids do not necessarily accrue in the same sector in which investments are made.
In this year’s tracking report we had a special feature on research and innovation – in line with the focus of the 2013 CEM.Total public RDD investment has increased by 75% since 1990, bringing it back almost to the levels in the early 1980s. However, energy’s share of total public RDD has fallen from 11% to 4% since 1980. But what does go to energy is going more to renewables, and less to fossil fuels. Last year almost 20% of energy RDD was in renewables, up from just over 5% in 1990.
If governments are serious about transforming the energy system, it is clear that energy research must get a higher priority than it does today. OECD countries’ spending on energy RD&D has been generally decreasing as a share of total research budgets over the past 30 years, as governments have preferred other areas of research, such as health, space programmes and general university research. Our analysis shows that public investment in energy needs to at least triple – and in advanced vehicles and CCS much more.Public R&D is necessary and it works: I mentioned batteries, but the same goes for solar in the US and wind in the Nordic countries.
Taking developments across the energy system together, it is difficult to paint a positive picture. You see it summed up here.At the same time, the positive progress in renewable energy demonstrates the very real power governments have to create markets and policies that accelerate development and uptake of clean energy technologies. The potential of clean energy technologies remains largely untapped, but governments can unlock that potential through effective government policy, and by pricing energy appropriately. Several of the most promising trends in clean energy are also coming from emerging economies – precisely where demand growth has been buoying carbon emissions. That is great news. Our report makes a number of broad, global recommendations, that pull together the key outcomes of the report. First: that is it only by working together - among countries but also with stakeholders in the private sector and non-profit worlds - that we can make progress at the scale and pace required. This means deepening international collaboration on clean energy deployment – through joint, actionable and monitored commitments – and setting clear and ambitious clean energy technology goals.Second: for too long have we supported, directly or indirectly, wasteful use of energy. Largely this is because prices do not reflect the true cost of energy. Altering this means creating a meaningful carbon price and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies. It also means implementing long-term, predictable policies that encourage investors to switch from traditional energy sources to low-carbon technologies. While that may not happen overnight, let’s not fool ourselves: if we do not get prices and policies right, the transition to a clean energy system simply will not happen. That is my second key message.Third message:we need to take a systems-perspective and a long-term view. Governments must think beyond individual technologies and electoral cycles and consider the larger picture. Smart infrastructure investments that enable system-wide gains make sense, and clean energy solutions such as electric vehicles and solar PV depend on them. But infrastructure takes time to build, so action is needed now.Fourth, let’s seize on energy’s easy win, energy efficiency. We have seen that much energy efficiency potential remains untapped, due to barriers such as high upfront capital costs, customer indifference, and lack of awareness or capacity. Stronger economic incentives and more ambitious regulation – including building energy codes, fuel economy standards, energy management in industry and other energy efficiency measures - are required to tap into that potential.Our final recommendation relates to the report’s special feature: energy technology RD&D and innovation. Early deployment is vital for learning and cost reduction for more mature technologies, but strategic RD&D is also critical to bring promising clean energy technologies to the market. The private sector will not act on its own. Governments must accelerate RD&D support for clean energy, and double its share in public budgets, to enable cost and performance gains that make clean energy competitive.[Open discussion].
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