The document discusses how buildings, energy, and transportation systems are becoming increasingly interconnected through technologies like smart grids, the Internet of Things, big data, and ubiquitous connectivity. This convergence of sectors presents vast opportunities for radical improvements in resource efficiency throughout supply chains and operations for companies, campuses, cities, and more. The VERGE conference aims to define and accelerate these opportunities by focusing the sustainability community, standardizing frameworks, and legitimizing new products and services.
The Green Race is On is the title of the WBCSD's Annual Review 2009 ( 28.8 MB) . It is only in the past five years that thoughtful companies have begun to understand the vast opportunities of moving toward a sustainable world, and that science has made clear the global catastrophes inherent in un-sustainable development.
This Annual Review celebrates both the 15 year anniversary of the WBCSD and how member companies are engaging with sustainable development. In it we cover the pertinent issues challenging us, including:
Energy, climate, development and urbanization and the link between them
The re-invention of “green jobs”
Smarter grids, new investments in energy supply and distribution
Sustainable consumption, with consumers beginning to look at individual purchasing patterns and their impacts on the planet
Global and local water challenges
Advanced green energy technologies
Business opportunities associated with the sustainable management and stewardship of ecosystems and the creation of market mechanisms for ecosystem services.
9/9 FRI 2:45 | Planning for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure 3APA Florida
This document provides an overview of electric vehicle readiness planning for Central Florida. It discusses the societal benefits of electric transportation and opportunities and challenges around technologies, policies, and infrastructure. It summarizes Get Ready Central Florida's efforts to promote electric vehicles through stakeholder engagement, permitting streamlining, education, and support for charging infrastructure development. The document concludes by noting that Metro Orlando has been classified as a leader in electric vehicle readiness.
This document discusses implementing solar cell technology at Bank CIMB Niaga branches as a pilot project. It would help reduce electricity costs and blackouts experienced at some branches. Implementing solar cells could create competitive advantages like reducing expenses, boosting the bank's green image, and tapping new customer segments interested in environmental issues. The bank could collaborate with other organizations on joint green programs to further promote its brand and mission. Capturing new corporate and affluent customers interested in eco-friendly financing options is also discussed.
This document provides information on ensuring compliance with IP ratings for electrical installations. It summarizes that [1] all components in a system must have the same level of protection, [2] components like cable glands and boxes must have properly fitting diameters and sealing ranges, and [3] systems must be installed according to specifications like proper torque and sealing to guarantee safety. The company discusses their coordinated product systems that range from IP 54 to IP 67 to ensure safe installations according to standards.
Trends in Capability Management Adam ThilthorpeSFIA User Forum
This document summarizes a presentation given by Adam Thilthorpep on trends in capability management. The presentation discusses how capability management can help organizations balance current and future needs by developing their workforce. It also notes challenges for capability management like skills shortages and changing employee demands. The presentation emphasizes that capability management is important for maximizing innovation and meeting business goals with qualified IT professionals.
The document discusses Cisco's vision for smart and connected communities. It outlines Cisco's approach of connecting various entities through technology to improve areas like education, healthcare, transportation and more. It also discusses Cisco's partnership with Johnson Controls to converge facilities and IT infrastructure and deliver integrated solutions through collaborative teams and new business models. The summary focuses on the key aspects of Cisco's vision, its approach, and its partnership with Johnson Controls.
Green Buildings - Anna Tuominen - Poyry - April 2010Burton Lee
Pöyry is a global consulting and engineering firm with 7,000 experts in 50 countries. It has experience in over 100 countries and works on 17,000 projects annually. Pöyry's vision is to be the global thought leader in balanced sustainability engineering for complex projects. It promotes a holistic approach called "Balanced sustainability" that balances economic, environmental and social factors. Pöyry has expertise across various industries including energy, water, industry, urban planning and management consulting.
Smart Grid 2.0 aims to use intelligent communication between grid components to more efficiently manage energy supply and demand in real-time. This will help integrate more renewable energy sources and electric vehicles. Utilities are developing strategies and initial deployments to realize operational savings and support policies promoting energy efficiency and clean energy. Fully realizing Smart Grid 2.0 will require a significant increase in communication and computational capabilities to coordinate distributed energy resources and flexible demand on a large scale.
The Green Race is On is the title of the WBCSD's Annual Review 2009 ( 28.8 MB) . It is only in the past five years that thoughtful companies have begun to understand the vast opportunities of moving toward a sustainable world, and that science has made clear the global catastrophes inherent in un-sustainable development.
This Annual Review celebrates both the 15 year anniversary of the WBCSD and how member companies are engaging with sustainable development. In it we cover the pertinent issues challenging us, including:
Energy, climate, development and urbanization and the link between them
The re-invention of “green jobs”
Smarter grids, new investments in energy supply and distribution
Sustainable consumption, with consumers beginning to look at individual purchasing patterns and their impacts on the planet
Global and local water challenges
Advanced green energy technologies
Business opportunities associated with the sustainable management and stewardship of ecosystems and the creation of market mechanisms for ecosystem services.
9/9 FRI 2:45 | Planning for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure 3APA Florida
This document provides an overview of electric vehicle readiness planning for Central Florida. It discusses the societal benefits of electric transportation and opportunities and challenges around technologies, policies, and infrastructure. It summarizes Get Ready Central Florida's efforts to promote electric vehicles through stakeholder engagement, permitting streamlining, education, and support for charging infrastructure development. The document concludes by noting that Metro Orlando has been classified as a leader in electric vehicle readiness.
This document discusses implementing solar cell technology at Bank CIMB Niaga branches as a pilot project. It would help reduce electricity costs and blackouts experienced at some branches. Implementing solar cells could create competitive advantages like reducing expenses, boosting the bank's green image, and tapping new customer segments interested in environmental issues. The bank could collaborate with other organizations on joint green programs to further promote its brand and mission. Capturing new corporate and affluent customers interested in eco-friendly financing options is also discussed.
This document provides information on ensuring compliance with IP ratings for electrical installations. It summarizes that [1] all components in a system must have the same level of protection, [2] components like cable glands and boxes must have properly fitting diameters and sealing ranges, and [3] systems must be installed according to specifications like proper torque and sealing to guarantee safety. The company discusses their coordinated product systems that range from IP 54 to IP 67 to ensure safe installations according to standards.
Trends in Capability Management Adam ThilthorpeSFIA User Forum
This document summarizes a presentation given by Adam Thilthorpep on trends in capability management. The presentation discusses how capability management can help organizations balance current and future needs by developing their workforce. It also notes challenges for capability management like skills shortages and changing employee demands. The presentation emphasizes that capability management is important for maximizing innovation and meeting business goals with qualified IT professionals.
The document discusses Cisco's vision for smart and connected communities. It outlines Cisco's approach of connecting various entities through technology to improve areas like education, healthcare, transportation and more. It also discusses Cisco's partnership with Johnson Controls to converge facilities and IT infrastructure and deliver integrated solutions through collaborative teams and new business models. The summary focuses on the key aspects of Cisco's vision, its approach, and its partnership with Johnson Controls.
Green Buildings - Anna Tuominen - Poyry - April 2010Burton Lee
Pöyry is a global consulting and engineering firm with 7,000 experts in 50 countries. It has experience in over 100 countries and works on 17,000 projects annually. Pöyry's vision is to be the global thought leader in balanced sustainability engineering for complex projects. It promotes a holistic approach called "Balanced sustainability" that balances economic, environmental and social factors. Pöyry has expertise across various industries including energy, water, industry, urban planning and management consulting.
Smart Grid 2.0 aims to use intelligent communication between grid components to more efficiently manage energy supply and demand in real-time. This will help integrate more renewable energy sources and electric vehicles. Utilities are developing strategies and initial deployments to realize operational savings and support policies promoting energy efficiency and clean energy. Fully realizing Smart Grid 2.0 will require a significant increase in communication and computational capabilities to coordinate distributed energy resources and flexible demand on a large scale.
Business and Bandwidth: Virtual Centres of ExcellenceRick Huijbregts
The document discusses Canada's challenge in remaining economically competitive in a connected world. It proposes establishing Virtual Centres of Excellence that leverage high-bandwidth connectivity to drive innovation, business growth, improved quality of life, and environmental protection. These centres would provide integrated services and platforms to connect various sectors such as healthcare, education, transportation and more through converged infrastructure and applications. This would help businesses monetize new models using cloud, mobile and Internet of Things technologies.
Urban innovation - changing the way we work - reducing carbon footprint - social innovation - mobile knowledge workers meet nomads - elderly meet youth - education meets business - sharing experience and knowledge in a social conducive state-of-the-art environment - news ways of collaboration
CISCO Flexible Work / Telework Presentation for RDASIRichard Everson
This document discusses Cisco's flexible work practices as a competitive advantage. It notes that over 50% of Cisco's employees collaborate with colleagues in different time zones and over 52% work in a different location than their manager. Cisco provides flexible work options and virtual tools to over 70,000 global employees. Flexible work practices help attract and retain top talent, drive productivity, and provide work-life balance. Cisco aims to leverage flexible work practices and mobility technologies to enable employees to focus on their work rather than where they work.
Long-Term Fundamentals Intact Though Headwinds Persist
The “Smart Grid” is often described as the “Internet for Electricity” in which will
modernize our aging electricity distribution grids with the goals of reducing excess
energy and incorporating renewable energy sources. Numerous factors are forcing
the outdated energy distribution grids around the world to become ‘smarter’, from
rising energy costs to environmental concerns. That said, three challenges remain:
1) absence of bold incentives as utilities struggle with their return on investment
case, 2) unclear regulatory guidelines, and 3) a lack of standards and international
harmonization.
Building Energy Rating & Disclosure: A Catalyst for EfficiencyCliff Majersik
85% of buildings in operation in 2030 will be buildings we already have today. That means we need to maximize their efficiency. Building energy rating & disclosure--tracking the energy consumption of buildings and comparing it--is an effective way to catalyze greater efficiency.
This annual report summarizes Architecture for Humanity's work over the past decade. It celebrates their 10th anniversary of providing design services to communities in need around the world. They have grown from a small organization with a few staff members to one with over 10 full time staff, 53 affiliates in 13 countries, and over 1,250 design teams from 53 countries. Over the past decade, they have helped design buildings that now house over a quarter of a million people globally. Looking ahead, they plan to double their budget and impact through a new capacity building campaign to expand their network and online tools to help more communities.
The document lists 49 projects that were shortlisted to receive funding under the 2010 IEE Call for Proposals. The projects focus on various areas including consumer behaviour, energy efficient transport, buildings, renewable electricity, bioenergy, local energy leadership, and renewable energy in buildings. Each project listing includes the project acronym, short description, coordinator, country, contact name and email.
This document discusses how NET(net) can help healthcare organizations optimize their IT investments and find, get, and keep value from technology deals. NET(net) leverages data from over 15,000 client engagements to identify opportunities to improve existing IT agreements and lower costs. They help analyze options, negotiate better deals, and manage key suppliers to deliver improved strategic and economic value for healthcare IT portfolios. Customer testimonials provide examples of how NET(net) has helped optimize enterprise licenses, infrastructure investments, and supplier relationships to generate substantial savings.
12 simple ideas for a greener supply chainPaul Brody
There are many opportunities to make supply chains green. The trick is figuring out how to define a green strategy, integrate ideas, and balance tradeoffs. Here are 12 ideas that are especially relevant to managers of supply chains for elec- tronic and high-technology products.
Fluidtime provides design software services and mobility information systems. It has won several awards for its public transit and traffic information technologies. The document displays screenshots of Fluidtime's mobile apps and platforms for real-time transit tracking, traffic monitoring, event information, and indoor navigation. It concludes with contact information for the company.
South-Western Economic Alliance -- the Need for ChangeRick Huijbregts
An overview of the trends that shape our communities and the call to action for municipalities to join forces and do something about it -- get ahead and get left behind.
The document summarizes a meeting focused on clean energy initiatives in the MAPC region. It includes an agenda with opening remarks, a keynote address on Massachusetts' clean energy journey, and a panel discussion on municipal energy projects. The keynote address discusses how Massachusetts has become a leader in clean energy through initiatives like increasing renewable portfolio standards, expanding energy efficiency programs, and growing the clean energy jobs sector. It also reviews the state's progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The panel discussion features representatives from Boston, Medford and Somerville discussing their cities' energy programs and projects.
Distributed generation allows energy to be generated close to the point of use, giving customers choice in their energy sources. Customers can generate their own power and sell excess back to utilities, representing a new relationship. Hybrid systems combine renewable sources like solar and wind with traditional energy. Within a smart grid, utilities can access distributed generation to meet peak needs and increase reliability through diversified energy resources. For customers, distributed generation supports lower costs, reduced fossil fuel reliance, and more renewable use.
This document discusses monitoring and managing peer-to-peer systems. It aims to coordinate millions of autonomous peers to provide controlled quality of service. Specifically, it addresses how to monitor system-specific and peer-specific metrics to analyze the current system state. It then proposes a self-configuration framework where the root peer derives and distributes new parameter configurations to reach predefined quality goals. The evaluation shows this approach enables quick convergence to quality intervals while imposing low overhead.
The document discusses Jack Welch's leadership and transformation of General Electric in the 1980s. It summarizes Welch's strategies to make GE the number one or number two company in every business it participated in through a focus on quality, excellence, and establishing a strong vision. Welch restructured GE into strategic business units, drove cultural changes around productivity and removing bureaucracy, and established best practices around identifying and eliminating waste.
This document summarizes a workshop on understanding, monitoring, and mitigating potential environmental effects of CO2 leakage from carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in marine and terrestrial environments.
The workshop aimed to identify current research gaps on CO2 leakage effects, issues in current research, and further areas of investigation needed before large-scale CCS deployment. Workshop attendees discussed requirements and barriers for detecting CO2 leaks in marine environments, and knowledge gaps regarding potential onshore and offshore leakage scenarios. Key gaps identified included regional geological knowledge, fault behavior, improved CO2 sensors, and modeling various leakage scenarios. The social aspects of public engagement with CCS were also discussed.
Bio-plastics in Packaging; Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges discusses bio-plastics for packaging. It defines sustainability and differentiates between bio-based and biodegradable materials. Global demand for bio-plastics is predicted to triple by 2015. Challenges include lack of communication leading to "green-washing" and limited disposal infrastructure for biodegradable plastics which often end up in landfills. Overcoming these challenges requires collaboration between industry and government.
This document provides an overview of CO2 transportation for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, with a focus on CO2 pipeline transportation. It discusses past experience with CO2 pipelines, mainly in North America. It also covers safety and risk considerations for CO2 pipelines, including hazards from CO2 releases and impacts of impurities. The document examines factors that affect pipeline integrity such as corrosion, hydrate formation, and hydrogen embrittlement. It also discusses fracture propagation modeling and the need to account for solid CO2 formation during releases due to Joule-Thomson cooling. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the need for quantitative failure consequence assessment to fully evaluate CO2 pipeline hazard profiles.
Business and Bandwidth: Virtual Centres of ExcellenceRick Huijbregts
The document discusses Canada's challenge in remaining economically competitive in a connected world. It proposes establishing Virtual Centres of Excellence that leverage high-bandwidth connectivity to drive innovation, business growth, improved quality of life, and environmental protection. These centres would provide integrated services and platforms to connect various sectors such as healthcare, education, transportation and more through converged infrastructure and applications. This would help businesses monetize new models using cloud, mobile and Internet of Things technologies.
Urban innovation - changing the way we work - reducing carbon footprint - social innovation - mobile knowledge workers meet nomads - elderly meet youth - education meets business - sharing experience and knowledge in a social conducive state-of-the-art environment - news ways of collaboration
CISCO Flexible Work / Telework Presentation for RDASIRichard Everson
This document discusses Cisco's flexible work practices as a competitive advantage. It notes that over 50% of Cisco's employees collaborate with colleagues in different time zones and over 52% work in a different location than their manager. Cisco provides flexible work options and virtual tools to over 70,000 global employees. Flexible work practices help attract and retain top talent, drive productivity, and provide work-life balance. Cisco aims to leverage flexible work practices and mobility technologies to enable employees to focus on their work rather than where they work.
Long-Term Fundamentals Intact Though Headwinds Persist
The “Smart Grid” is often described as the “Internet for Electricity” in which will
modernize our aging electricity distribution grids with the goals of reducing excess
energy and incorporating renewable energy sources. Numerous factors are forcing
the outdated energy distribution grids around the world to become ‘smarter’, from
rising energy costs to environmental concerns. That said, three challenges remain:
1) absence of bold incentives as utilities struggle with their return on investment
case, 2) unclear regulatory guidelines, and 3) a lack of standards and international
harmonization.
Building Energy Rating & Disclosure: A Catalyst for EfficiencyCliff Majersik
85% of buildings in operation in 2030 will be buildings we already have today. That means we need to maximize their efficiency. Building energy rating & disclosure--tracking the energy consumption of buildings and comparing it--is an effective way to catalyze greater efficiency.
This annual report summarizes Architecture for Humanity's work over the past decade. It celebrates their 10th anniversary of providing design services to communities in need around the world. They have grown from a small organization with a few staff members to one with over 10 full time staff, 53 affiliates in 13 countries, and over 1,250 design teams from 53 countries. Over the past decade, they have helped design buildings that now house over a quarter of a million people globally. Looking ahead, they plan to double their budget and impact through a new capacity building campaign to expand their network and online tools to help more communities.
The document lists 49 projects that were shortlisted to receive funding under the 2010 IEE Call for Proposals. The projects focus on various areas including consumer behaviour, energy efficient transport, buildings, renewable electricity, bioenergy, local energy leadership, and renewable energy in buildings. Each project listing includes the project acronym, short description, coordinator, country, contact name and email.
This document discusses how NET(net) can help healthcare organizations optimize their IT investments and find, get, and keep value from technology deals. NET(net) leverages data from over 15,000 client engagements to identify opportunities to improve existing IT agreements and lower costs. They help analyze options, negotiate better deals, and manage key suppliers to deliver improved strategic and economic value for healthcare IT portfolios. Customer testimonials provide examples of how NET(net) has helped optimize enterprise licenses, infrastructure investments, and supplier relationships to generate substantial savings.
12 simple ideas for a greener supply chainPaul Brody
There are many opportunities to make supply chains green. The trick is figuring out how to define a green strategy, integrate ideas, and balance tradeoffs. Here are 12 ideas that are especially relevant to managers of supply chains for elec- tronic and high-technology products.
Fluidtime provides design software services and mobility information systems. It has won several awards for its public transit and traffic information technologies. The document displays screenshots of Fluidtime's mobile apps and platforms for real-time transit tracking, traffic monitoring, event information, and indoor navigation. It concludes with contact information for the company.
South-Western Economic Alliance -- the Need for ChangeRick Huijbregts
An overview of the trends that shape our communities and the call to action for municipalities to join forces and do something about it -- get ahead and get left behind.
The document summarizes a meeting focused on clean energy initiatives in the MAPC region. It includes an agenda with opening remarks, a keynote address on Massachusetts' clean energy journey, and a panel discussion on municipal energy projects. The keynote address discusses how Massachusetts has become a leader in clean energy through initiatives like increasing renewable portfolio standards, expanding energy efficiency programs, and growing the clean energy jobs sector. It also reviews the state's progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The panel discussion features representatives from Boston, Medford and Somerville discussing their cities' energy programs and projects.
Distributed generation allows energy to be generated close to the point of use, giving customers choice in their energy sources. Customers can generate their own power and sell excess back to utilities, representing a new relationship. Hybrid systems combine renewable sources like solar and wind with traditional energy. Within a smart grid, utilities can access distributed generation to meet peak needs and increase reliability through diversified energy resources. For customers, distributed generation supports lower costs, reduced fossil fuel reliance, and more renewable use.
This document discusses monitoring and managing peer-to-peer systems. It aims to coordinate millions of autonomous peers to provide controlled quality of service. Specifically, it addresses how to monitor system-specific and peer-specific metrics to analyze the current system state. It then proposes a self-configuration framework where the root peer derives and distributes new parameter configurations to reach predefined quality goals. The evaluation shows this approach enables quick convergence to quality intervals while imposing low overhead.
The document discusses Jack Welch's leadership and transformation of General Electric in the 1980s. It summarizes Welch's strategies to make GE the number one or number two company in every business it participated in through a focus on quality, excellence, and establishing a strong vision. Welch restructured GE into strategic business units, drove cultural changes around productivity and removing bureaucracy, and established best practices around identifying and eliminating waste.
This document summarizes a workshop on understanding, monitoring, and mitigating potential environmental effects of CO2 leakage from carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in marine and terrestrial environments.
The workshop aimed to identify current research gaps on CO2 leakage effects, issues in current research, and further areas of investigation needed before large-scale CCS deployment. Workshop attendees discussed requirements and barriers for detecting CO2 leaks in marine environments, and knowledge gaps regarding potential onshore and offshore leakage scenarios. Key gaps identified included regional geological knowledge, fault behavior, improved CO2 sensors, and modeling various leakage scenarios. The social aspects of public engagement with CCS were also discussed.
Bio-plastics in Packaging; Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges discusses bio-plastics for packaging. It defines sustainability and differentiates between bio-based and biodegradable materials. Global demand for bio-plastics is predicted to triple by 2015. Challenges include lack of communication leading to "green-washing" and limited disposal infrastructure for biodegradable plastics which often end up in landfills. Overcoming these challenges requires collaboration between industry and government.
This document provides an overview of CO2 transportation for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, with a focus on CO2 pipeline transportation. It discusses past experience with CO2 pipelines, mainly in North America. It also covers safety and risk considerations for CO2 pipelines, including hazards from CO2 releases and impacts of impurities. The document examines factors that affect pipeline integrity such as corrosion, hydrate formation, and hydrogen embrittlement. It also discusses fracture propagation modeling and the need to account for solid CO2 formation during releases due to Joule-Thomson cooling. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the need for quantitative failure consequence assessment to fully evaluate CO2 pipeline hazard profiles.
GreenBiz Forum 2015 Workshop Slides: Slides for Renewable Energy Transactions...GreenBiz Group
This document provides information about Mainstream Renewable Power, a leading global wind and solar developer:
- Mainstream has over 140 employees, 11 offices across 9 countries, and has over 15,500 MW of renewable energy projects in development and 803 MW in construction and operation.
- The document highlights two international case studies where Mainstream worked with IKEA on renewable energy projects - an 8 MW wind farm project in Ireland and a 46 MW wind farm project in Canada, IKEA's largest renewable project outside of Europe at that time.
- Mainstream's founder and CEO, Dr. Eddie O'Connor, has received several prestigious awards in the renewable energy field and previously founded global renewable energy company Airtric
GreenBiz Forum 2015 Workshop Slides: Slides for Renewable Energy Transactions...GreenBiz Group
Kaiser Permanente signed agreements to purchase 223 megawatts of solar and wind energy in California, reducing greenhouse gas emissions from electricity use by 30% between 2008-2017. This includes 110 megawatts of solar and 43 megawatts of wind through offsite power purchase agreements, and 70 megawatts of onsite solar across hospitals by the end of 2016. These deals aim to fulfill half of Kaiser Permanente's electricity needs in California from renewable sources at no upfront cost or savings, supporting its mission to improve health and address the impacts of climate change on health care.
GreenBiz 16 Workshop Slides: "Motivations for Water Stewardship Strategy" GreenBiz Group
Slides for "Motivations for Water Stewardship Strategy". In this session, representatives from companies leading their industries on water stewardship and Heather Rippman from the UN CEO Water Mandate will discuss not only what they are doing to implement successful water strategies, but also what is motivating their efforts. Highlighted during this session will be examples such as Gap’s industry-leading P.A.C.E. program, which provides life and work skills training for female garment workers, to build knowledge and education around water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Also highlighted will be how companies are developing a strategy that supports Sustainable Development Goal #6 - "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all."
GreenBiz Forum 2015 Workshop Slides: Slides for Renewable Energy Transactions...GreenBiz Group
Slides for Renewable Energy Transactions Made Simpler
Renewable electricity from large-scale, off-site projects has become an attractive option for large companies. Leading corporations have taken advantage of this opportunity by signing deals, but to date, only a handful of companies have joined the “off-site renewables club.” This session takes you through what's ahead for corporate renewable purchasing and emerging solutions. It will show through how companies are overcoming obstacles and introduce ideas of how to navigate and simplify the process.
Research Coordination Network on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Funded by National Science Foundation in USA - A.-H. Alissa Park, Columbia University - UKCCSRC Strathclyde Biannual 8-9 September 2015
Seminar: Cradle to Cradle® in Design and Business http://www.utwente.nl/ide/general_information/track_information/cradle_to_cradle/Announcment_March_9th_V_6%5B2%5D.docx/
GreenBiz 16 Workshop Slides: "Closing the Loop to Advance a New Economy"GreenBiz Group
Slides for "Closing the Loop to Advance a New Economy". With the take-make-waste linear model no longer viable, companies are actively pursuing alternative models such as the circular economy, which has captured the imagination of the private sector as a viable approach for decoupling economic growth from resource constraints. The circular economy, an industrial model that is restorative or regenerative by design and intent, aims to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility at all times, and represents an opportunity worth in excess of $1 trillion for the global economy. In this session, we will explore how companies can leverage circular economy principles and best practices to help eliminate waste throughout the value chain and improve the bottom line.
CCUS Roadmap for Mexico - presentation by M. Vita Peralta Martínez (IIE - Electric Research Institute, Mexico) for the UKCCSRC, Edinburgh, 13 November 2015
Niklas von der Assen (Aachen University) talking about Current, Best and Future Practice of LCA for CO2 Utilization at the LCA Workshop in Sheffield on the 4th March 2015
GreenBiz Forum 2015 Tutorial Slides: "The Science of Science-Based Goals" - N...GreenBiz Group
Slides for "The Science of Science-Based Goals" tutorial. As scientific research on climate change builds and becomes increasingly quantifiable, companies have new opportunities to use measurable data to set sustainability and climate goals. By understanding the impact your company can have in this universal context, you can set defensible goals driving towards real global impact. Dozens of large companies have set science-based greenhouse gas, carbon-neutral and renewable energy goals. This tutorial shows how leading companies are tackling this challenge, including the tools and knowledge to set goals in your company.
The document summarizes a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tutorial presentation. The presentation covers LCA concepts, a case study of Interface carpets, and guidance on conducting LCAs. It introduces LCA as a framework to assess environmental and human health impacts across a product's life cycle. The presentation reviews the ISO standards for LCA and walks through the key steps of goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, impact assessment, and interpretation. It also discusses how Interface used LCA to identify opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of its carpets, such as lowering nylon content. The presentation provides an overview of LCA best practices and considerations.
This document provides unit-wise assignment questions for the subject Mechanics of Materials compiled by Hareesha N G, an assistant professor at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering. It includes questions covering topics in three units: simple stress and strain, stress in composite sections, and compound stresses. The questions are intended to help students learn and practice key concepts in mechanics of materials through problem solving. There are a total of 10 questions listed for each unit, addressing topics such as stress-strain behavior, thermal stresses, principal stresses, and Mohr's circle analysis. The document aims to equip students with practice questions to solidify their understanding of mechanics of materials.
1) The document discusses assessing uncertainty in time-lapse seismic response due to geomechanical deformation.
2) It presents a multi-physics solution that couples fluid flow and geomechanics modeling to better understand stress changes over time.
3) An example application to the Valhall oil field models pore pressure changes and resulting geomechanical effects, partitioning the domain for parallel modeling of the overburden, reservoir, and underburden.
This document gives the class notes of Unit-8: Torsion of circular shafts and elastic stability of columns. Subject: Mechanics of materials.
Syllabus contest is as per VTU, Belagavi, India.
Notes Compiled By: Hareesha N Gowda, Assistant Professor, DSCE, Bengaluru-78.
This document gives the class notes of Unit 3 Compound stresses. Subject: Mechanics of materials.
Syllabus contest is as per VTU, Belagavi, India.
Notes Compiled By: Hareesha N Gowda, Assistant Professor, DSCE, Bengaluru-78.
The document outlines the vision, mission, objectives and business model for the proposed Malaysia Sustainable Energy Association. The vision is the promotion of renewable energy and energy efficiency adoption by industry players to meet national energy demand. The mission includes establishing a renewable energy ecosystem and assisting Malaysia's renewable energy and energy efficiency enterprises. The objectives support policies to enhance energy efficiency and renewable energy. The business model describes key activities, partnerships, resources, costs and revenue streams for the association.
Keynote by Mario Derba at Optimized Data Center event, MilanoMario Derba
The document discusses how the IT landscape is changing rapidly due to factors like increasing data usage and diversity, new user requirements driven by mobile devices and apps, and new pressures on IT from businesses and users. It argues that IT needs to transform its aging, siloed infrastructure and be seen as a strategic leader through integrated, optimized solutions that drive choice and value for customers. Oracle's strategy is presented as delivering a complete technology stack and choice in deployment models through engineering systems to work together.
Keynote by Mario Derba at Oracle Optimized Data Center event in Paris Mario Derba
The document discusses challenges facing IT organizations and the need for data center optimization. It notes that data and user requirements are growing rapidly but IT budgets are flat. This is putting pressure on aging infrastructure and increasing costs. The document advocates adopting a strategic approach to data center optimization through server virtualization, consolidation, and transitioning to a flexible "grid computing" model to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
The Midlands Energy Graduate School (MEGS) is a collaboration between three UK universities to conduct energy-related research and teaching. The project aims to provide a learning framework and online community of practice for energy professionals. Researchers conducted interviews and a literature review on roles in the energy sector. They developed a database of industry contacts and administered a questionnaire. Workshops allowed input on building an e-learning platform and networking tools. Feedback was obtained on the final website. The results showed participation from various professions in continued professional development training and a need to address gaps in competency requirements for renewable energy roles.
The document discusses how companies are modernizing vehicles, buildings, and electric grids by taking a more aggregated approach to energy management and efficiency. It explains that transportation and buildings account for the majority of energy consumption in the US. Several companies are analyzing energy use across facilities and transportation to identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve productivity, and minimize environmental impacts through technologies and active management.
Bull is a European technology company that provides high-performance computing and cybersecurity solutions. It helps customers innovate with new technologies, optimize their infrastructure through outsourcing and cloud services, integrate critical business applications, and guarantee trust through cybersecurity products and services. Bull has a presence in over 50 countries and expertise in key verticals such as public sector, telecom, finance, energy, defense, and transportation.
Chris Hickman
President, Innovari Energy
Business Model Innovation: Utility-Friendly, Consumer Valued, Regulator Accepted Solutions for the Future of Energy
This document discusses plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and the implications for vehicle charging infrastructure. It notes that major automakers are ramping up PEV production over the next few years. Utilities are forming partnerships to prepare for PEV pilots and the increased electricity demand. Significant policy issues that need to be addressed include tax revenue replacement, demand management, carbon caps, standards, and incentives. The document outlines three scenarios for charging infrastructure development and four key impact areas for electric utilities: energy supply and portfolio strategy, wholesale business, retail business, and transmission and distribution business.
The document discusses plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and the implications for vehicle charging infrastructure. It notes that automakers are ramping up PEV production forecasts for 2010 and beyond. Utilities are forming partnerships to prepare for PEV pilots. There are significant policy issues to address regarding tax collection, demand management, carbon caps, interoperability standards, and incentives. The document outlines three scenarios for charging infrastructure development and four key impact areas for the electricity industry regarding PEVs.
This document summarizes a MassTLC Mobile Summit session on managing workforce mobilization. The session will be facilitated by Abhi Ingle from AT&T and Andrew Yu from ModoLabs. Ground rules for the session include it being a knowledge exchange where the facilitators will keep the discussion moving and ensure all participants have an opportunity to contribute. Key topics to be covered include BYOD, developing and distributing internal apps, wireless networking, security through mobile device management, supporting a variety of mobile devices, and addressing issues like platform fragmentation. The session aims to help organizations align their mobile technology, business needs, and employee usage.
This document summarizes the key challenges and considerations for rolling out smart meters in the UK. It discusses the drivers for smart grids including cost savings and enabling renewable energy. Challenges include determining who pays for installation, establishing universal communication standards, and addressing customer concerns over privacy and security. Effective rollout will require overcoming technical issues through system design that considers full lifecycle security risks and achieving targets through continued stakeholder commitment.
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EDGE Energy provides complete and customized integrated energy solutions including renewable solar energy technologies, energy management services, and financing options for commercial and utility-scale projects. They offer comprehensive renewable energy development and construction services, energy management auditing and implementation services using an automated energy management software dashboard, state-of-the-art geothermal heat pumps, and wholesale sales of solar panels, LED lighting, and other products. EDGE works with a team of strategic partners and has extensive experience developing and installing renewable energy and energy management systems.
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This talk introduced an idea to marry social media, micro-finance, portable renewable energy and information communications technology to create a global workforce of clean economic developers for the 1.5 billion poeple with no access to electricity. The idea is that this new workforce would be young women entrepreneurs, seeded with financial resources from women with greater access. Warren Buffet made billions by investing in “under-valued” assets and then waiting for the rest of us to catch up. Young women in the developing world are the biggest under-valued asset the world has seen in some time.
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3. Needed: Radical efficiencies in building & transportation energy
Buildings &
transportation
75% of electricity is used by buildings consume the
majority of
the world’s
energy.
70% of petroleum is used by vehicles
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4. Energy systems are becoming increasingly complex
Buildings,
energy &
transportation
are becoming
inextricably
Centralized Distribution linked.
Diversified Distribution
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5. IT and ubiquitous connectivity change the game
rs Smart Grid
Senso /RFID
Internet of Things
Big Data “VERGE is right
at the center of
where
sustainability
location/Mobi cial Internet
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Computational
Power
Tim O’Reilly
Founder & CEO
O’Reilly Media
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6. New products, services and business models for consumers
The lines are blurring between hardware, software, products, and services
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7. Vast opportunities for radical resource efficiency
• Lower operating costs and new efficiencies • Vast new operational efficiencies for
throughout the supply chain companies, campuses and cities
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8. GreenBiz created VERGE to
define and accelerate
these opportunities
FOCUS STANDARDIZE LEGITIMIZE ENERGIZE
the community around a a framework for evaluating products and services for market development alongside
common definition and set of new developments in the vendors as well as specifiers and tech innovation.
issues. space. decision-makers
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13. These Challenges are most obvious in Cities
In 2007, for the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population
lived in cities – 3.3 billion. By 2050, city dwellers are expected to make up
70 percent of the Earth’s total population – 6.4 billion.
Brasil: 81% already live in cities – source: ibge 2010
Jose Carlos Duarte Chief Technology Officer, IBM
14. A Smarter City is one that increases prosperity by…
Using information to make insightful decisions
Predicting problems to resolve them proactively
Coordinating its resources to operate effectively
Jose Carlos Duarte Chief Technology Officer, IBM
15. Smarter cities leverage their collective intelligence
How is this done…
Gather data about city systems.
Apply analytics & optimization. Delivering insight in “near real
time”.
Integrating insight to reduce costs, cut emissions, reduce waste,
improve public safety.
Provide continuously updated views of possible “future states” to
support decision making
Jose Carlos Duarte Chief Technology Officer, IBM
16. IBM and the City of Rio collaborated to deliver a
successful Operations Center in record time
Jose Carlos Duarte Chief Technology Officer, IBM
17. Research focus on fine-Grained Weather and Flood Modeling and
Rio de Janeiro Incident Management:
Prediction, IBM Research Brazil
high resolution area
topography
90x90km at 1km resolution
Rio de Janeiro City Total precipitation forecast 48 hours ahead Flooding prediction
Flooding points
7
Jose Carlos Duarte Chief Technology Officer, IBM
18. Rio De Janeiro
Intelligent Opera1ons Center
"This Center positioned Rio among the WW Smarter Cities, and that was my dream
when I became Mayor; now it is a reality."
- Eduardo Paes, Mayor, City of Rio de Janeiro as quoted by O Globo
"We (from IOC) are very impressed about the Center. We can see Rio de Janeiro is very
well advanced in terms of preparation for the Olympic Games. This Center is the most
modern that we have seen."
- Jacques Rogget, President, International Olympics Committee as quoted by O
Globo
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Jose Carlos Duarte Chief Technology Officer, IBM
21. GE today
GE Energy 30% / $43.7 B Healthcare 12% / $18.1 B GE Capital 30% / $45.7 B
Oil & Gas
Aviation 12% / $18.9 B Home & Business Solutions 6% / $8.5 B
Energy Management
Transportation 3% / $4.9 B
Power & Water
~$147B Revenue in 2011 … $5B R&D 300,000 employees
+100 countries
2
GE Title or job number
10/14/12
Adriana Machado CEO, GE
22. GE in Brazil
Power Conversion GE Healthcare GE HC XPRO GE Industrial GE Transportation
Betim, MG Contagem, MG Belo Horizonte, MG Contagem, MG Contagem, MG
Switchgears & Control gears X-ray & Mammography X-ray Electrical Components Locomotives & OHVs Services
6,500 m2 area 14,000 m2 area
Brazil Technology Center GE Celma Wellstream
92 years in the country
Rio de Janeiro, RJ Petropolis, RJ Niterói, RJ… Offshore, risers & flowlines,
14 Industrial Facilities & (in construction) Aviation well svcs
Service Shops Aero shop GE Oil & Gas Dresser Wayne
1Technology Center
+7.1k employees
Petrópolis, RJ Macaé, RJ Bonsucesso, RJ
P&W E&P services O&G
GE Oil&Gas GE Water GEVISA Dresser Masoneilan
Sorocaba, SP Campinas, SP
Jandira, SP Reverse Osmosis & Chemicals Motor & Generators São José dos Campos, SP
Subsea equipment 1,620 m2 area 56,000 m2 area O&G
23. Ecomagination is about innovative solutions that optimize resources, deliver
great economics and make the world work better.
Innovation Solutions Collaboration
Portfolio of 140+ Products & Services
Optimize Drive operating
resources performance
Adriana Machado CEO, GE
24. ecomagination Progress 2011 : for 2015
Our Progress in 2011 Goals
• Double R&D to $10B from 2010-2015
• Expand our focus beyond clean energy
• Grow 2x GE’s growth
• Reduce GE’s energy intensity by 50%
• Reduce water consumption by 25%
• Inspire a competitive energy future
Adriana Machado CEO, GE
26. Clean Energy
Power Generation from Biogas with Jenbacher gas engines
Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Power generation with landfill gas Asja Brazil
Reduction of CO2 emission 4Mton in 10 years and generating 450,000 CERs per year.
Technology: Jenbacher engines of 1.4MW
Electricity generation of 5.5 MW (+5000 residences)
Design and operation of the Consortium Horizonte Asja
Commissioning in 2011
Adriana Machado CEO, GE
29. Innovative Financing for
Clean Technologies
Linda Murasawa
Sustainability Superintendent, Santander
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30. CORE Linda Murasawa
BUSINESS Sustainability Superintendent, Santander
Our Approach:
SANTANDER IN Sustainability 3+1
BRAZIL
19.3 million
CURRENT ACCOUNTS
Results for Business and For All
Social and Financial Inclusion
3,775
BRANCHES and Education
MINI-BRANCHES
Social and Environmental
54,602
Business Management.
EMPLOYEES
31. CORE Linda Murasawa
BUSINESS Sustainability Superintendent, Santander
SANTADER BANCARIZATION
MICROCREDIT
We started
The Largest Private the first branch in one of the largest
Microcredit Bank in Brazil poor communities in Rio de Janeiro
More than 800,000 people COMPLEXO DO ALEMÃO
attended since 2002 Branch and Microcredit :
Operating in more than 600 offering the whole financing
communities product portfolio
BRL 1,2 billion total granted*
Employees were recruited from
* December 2011
inside the community.
32. CORE Linda Murasawa
BUSINESS Sustainability Superintendent, Santander
Clean Development
Mechanism
Portfolio of 2 million tones of CO2
equivalent through Certificates of Emission
Reduction (CER) and Emission Reduction Units
(ERU)*
19 new projects: landfill waste, energy
recovery from methane captured from coal
mines and wind power in China, Thailand and
Brazil.
33. CORE Linda Murasawa
BUSINESS Sustainability Superintendent, Santander
FINANCING
FOR SUSTAINABILITY
IFC: for renewable energy, energy
efficiency and cleaner production
projects.
Specific products for accessibility,
2011: disbursement of a further energy efficiency and waste
BRL 1,3 billion*
management.
on projects of sustainability Carbon Trading
for Global Clients
* Corresponds to the total financing of sustainability in Wholesale in 2011
34. CORE Linda Murasawa
BUSINESS Sustainability Superintendent, Santander
Mantiq
Asset & Capital Investments
Structuring
Investment focused on Over US$ 1.2 billion assets
renewable energy, energy under management *
efficiency and carbon credit
Independent private equity investment fund
manager
Line for purchase and monetization of carbon
credits: € 50 MM
Investment in 10 wind farms Investment portfolio counts with ten
assets in the renewable energy, sewage and
Monetization of ERPAs (contracts to purchase
environmental services sectors.
carbon credits).
* June 2012
35. CORE Linda Murasawa
BUSINESS Sustainability Superintendent, Santander
Investments oriented by social and environmental criteria
Ethical Fund ESG criteria in private bonds
Influence over the resource allocation in primary
Stock market fund composed by companies debentures emissions
with high standard social and environmental
indicators and corporate governance. – Goal is to award most responsible companies
– Premise is there is a risk reduction for observing
534,46% ESG issues
Ethical 347,80%
Fund* Methodology adopted is the same used for equity
IBVSP * analysis
– Fixed income ESG analysis is applied to all funds
cially
The First So that can buy debentures, and is not exclusive for
Responsible
Investment
Fund SRI mandates.
erica
* From november 2001 to december 2011 in Latin Am
36. CORE
BUSINESS
Santander
Private Equity for Entrepreneur Program
Sustainability
Lack of “capital” and “expertise” in managing
IPO of Renova Energia S/A, BRL 58.6 Businesses are among the main citted causes for
the closures Businesses
million.
Offer to the entrepreneur financial products and
Acquisition of part of Greenvana, the services, associated technical guidance and
largest internet company for management by specialized institutions.
consumption of sustainable products
in Brazil. Phase1 Phase2
Focused on companies of renewable
Communication Consulting Credit Capacitation
energy (wind, co-generation and
solar, for example).
38. Projects & Partnerships
for Energy Innovation
Milton Flávio Marques Lautenschlager
Subsecretary of Renewable Energy, State of São Paulo
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49. Sergio Pacca Associate Professor, University of São Paulo
Energy flows based on 1 metric ton of sugarcane"
Source: Pacca & Moreira 2011"
50. Sergio Pacca Associate Professor, University of São Paulo
Alternative! Diesel! Gasoline "
Fuel! Engine! Engine!
Source: Adapted from Toyota 2004"
51. Sergio Pacca Associate Professor, University of São Paulo
Cars powered based on 1 ha of sugarcane – US annual mileage
"
For 2008"
- 56 Mha to power all globe cars today"
- 36 Mha to power all globe trucks and buses"
- 92 Mha to power all globe road vehicles"
For 2030, assuming 2 times bigger fleet but 33% more efficient"
- 123 Mha to power all globe road vehicles in use by 2030"
Comparatively:"
- Present wheat planted area of 250 Mha"
- Land availability of 600 Mha by 2050 (IIASA-FAO, 2002)"
Source: Pacca & Moreira 2011"
52. Sergio Pacca Associate Professor, University of São Paulo
Biomass with carbon capture and storage
"
Koornneef 2011, IEAGHG, 2011"
54. Sergio Pacca Associate Professor, University of São Paulo
Hydro and wind, complimentary sources
"
2007" 2008" 2009" 2010" 2011"
400!
Windpower average MW!
300!
200!
100!
0!
Jan " Feb Mar Apr "May " Jun " Jul Aug Sep " Oct" Nov Dec ""
Source: Simas 2012"
57. Where Brazil stands in terms of
global clean technology innovation?
25°
Carlos Rittl Climate Change & Energy Program Coordinator, WWF
58. Brazil cleantech innovation
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths Weaknesses
. Strong entrepreneurial culture . Falls behind on emerging cleantech
innovation
. Respectable for commercialized
cleantech innovation (primarily due . Low VC investment and few new
biofuels industry) environmental patents
. Average innovation drivers and . Lacks general innovation inputs, public
commercialized cleantech innovation R&D spending, and cleantech-focused
scores investors
Carlos Rittl Climate Change & Energy Program Coordinator, WWF
59. Carlos Rittl Climate Change & Energy Program Coordinator, WWF
Drivers of innovation in energy sector
Source: Adapted from IEA, Energy Technology Perspectives, 2008
60. Brazilian energy matrix
Energy and electricity Renewables
by source Energy
• Brazil – 45.4%
• World – 12.9%
Electricity
• Brazil – 87.2%
• World – 18.7%
Sources: Brazilian Energy Research Company - EPE [BEN 2011] and IEA - Key World Energy Statistics – 2010 Carlos Rittl Climate Change & Energy Program Coordinator, WWF
61. Brazil - investments in energy – 2011-2020
Total investment: US$ 500 billion
• Oil and gas: US$ 337 billion (67%)
• Biofuels: US$ 48 billion (10%)
• Electricity: US$ 116 billion (23%)
• Power generation: US$ 93 billion
• Hydro: US$ 47 billion
• Small hydro, biomass, wind: US$ 34 billion
• Fossils: US$ 12 billion
• Power transmission: US$ 23 billion (19%)
Carlos Rittl Climate Change & Energy Program Coordinator, WWF
62. Some overarching challenges
• Energy sector – highly controlled by Federal
government
• Planning, regulation, investments (generation,
transmission, distribution), finance (subsidies, incentives),
pricing
• Lack of sinergy/coordination among different
policies
• Development plans, economic crisis recovery measures,
climate policies, science, technology and innovation
policies
• Sustainability, low carbon, cleantech – not
mainstreamed in decision making processes
Carlos Rittl Climate Change & Energy Program Coordinator, WWF
63. How to change the scenario
• Move from renewable energy speech to
sustainable energy debate
• Dialogue among academia, research
institutions, business associations, finance
institutions, NGOs, social movements – and
Governments
• Alternative scenarios – a real long term
sustainable energy security road map
• Strong recommendations for public policies
and decision making processes –
mainstreaming sustainable energy + cleantech
from energy expansion planning to
implementation Carlos Rittl Climate Change & Energy Program Coordinator, WWF
66. AES
Gustavo Pimenta VP, AES
One of the largest global power companies
Present in 27 countries in the five continents
14 power utilities
104 generation plants (41 thousand MW)
IN THE WORLD
28 thousand employees
67. AES
Gustavo Pimenta VP, AES
7.5 million customers
IN BRAZIL (22 million clients)
Market Share in Brazil: 14,3%
(distribution)
Installed capacity: 3.298 MW
Market Share in Brazil: 2,3%
(generation)
7.700 employees
Ebitda: R$ 4,9 billion
Net income: R$ 3,0 billion
Generation
Distribution Investments: R$ 9,4 billion
Services (1998-2011)
68. Smart Grid goes well
beyond Smart Meters
• Grid applications – quality of services
• Home area network
• Renewable/ distributed generation
• Electric vehicles, public lighting
• Smart meter
Gustavo Pimenta VP, AES
69. Smart Grid
Extensive benefits to a sustainable society
Economic Environmental Social
▪ Reduce technical losses ▪ Reduced need for additional generation ▪ Access to cheaper energy
▪ Savings from energy efficiency and reserve ▪ Improved reliability
▪ Resources optimization at Discos ▪ Reduced need for additional ▪ Improved quality of service
▪ Residential consumer energy selling through transmission ▪ Possibility to have its own
distributed generation ▪ Direct reduction of CO2 footprint – residential generation plant
load (~10%) and losses (5-10%) ▪ Knowledge and control of its
▪ Indirect reduction of CO2 footprint – consumption
through distributed generation
Gustavo Pimenta VP, AES
70. Some definitions are still
needed to guarantee
successful implementation
Current framework Needs
Regulatory framework still open Align proposals from utilities to
define regulation
Technology standards to be Partnership among different
defined sectors (e.g. Utilities,
Technology provider,
Gustavo Pimenta VP, AES
Government, Banks…)