ID: 64281
Title: Flexible, smart, responsive
Author: Frank -Thomas Wenzel
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2018
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.1, 28-29 (2018)
Subject: Flexible, smart, responsive
Keywords: Flexible, smart, responsive
Abstract: The strain electromobility will place on power grids is often overestimated. 'In the short term, the impact on the electricity sector is minor," claims a study by the Oeko-Institut. The study's authors calculated that even with six million electric vehicles on Germany's roads-the Federal Government's target for 2030-th additional demand would be less than 20 terawatt hours (TWh), or around 4 percent of Germany's total electricity consumption in 2014. Longer-term scenarios in which EVs make up more than 75 percent of all passenger cars suggest that the amount of energy needed could rise to up to suggest that the amount of energy needed could rise to up to 100 TWh per year.
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ID: 64280
Title: The right connections
Author: Frank-Thomas Wenzel
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2018
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.1, 26-27 (2018)
Subject: The right connections
Keywords: right connections
Abstract: Early charging solutions for EV batteries, developed back in the day by the pioneers of electromobility, were both pragmatic and creative: they simply used the connectors already available in each country. To begin with, this meant bog-standard domestic power plugs. Then manufacturers gradually started using blue CEE camping plugs (up to 11 kW) and red three-phase plugs (22kW), initially designed for industrial equipment. Standard two-pin earthed plug will also continue to play a key role in electromobility from some time to come: experts generally agree that EV users will prefer to charge their vehicles at home-limiting charging capacity to 3.7 kW if the cable is adequately protected. However, this method requires up to 10 hours for a full charge.
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ID: 64279
Title: Fresh air for city dwellers
Author: Frank -Thomas Wenzel
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2018
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.1, 24-25 (2018)
Subject: Fresh air for city dwellers
Keywords: Fresh air, city dwellers
Abstract: The year 2010 marked the entry into force of the EU's air quality directive. While mayors in Germany studiously ignored this milestone, officials in Amsterdam rolled up their sleeves and got down to business. The city enacted at highly ambitious 15-year plan to introduce as much zero-emission transport as possible by 2025.Th reasons given on the city council's website are simple: for a city to be worth living in, clean air is essential, and being in the open air is something to be enjoyed.
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ID: 64278
Title: A fullcharge and a pizza-as quick as you can, please!
Author: Frank-Thomas Wenzel
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2018
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.1, 18-23 (2018)
Subject: A fullcharge and a pizza-as quick as you can, please!
Keywords: EV charging network, Germany, Electric vehicles
Abstract: Electromobility is one course to transform over everyday habits. In the future, an after-work trip to the supermarket or lunch at the pizza joint may well serve an additional purpose: topping up your electric car's battery. And a pit stops on the motorway need last no longer than the obligatory cappucino break, as full charge will take just ten to fifteen minutes -only a little longer than the time needed to fill a tank with petrol or diesel.
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ID: 64277
Title: More parks, less parking
Author: Thomas Wenzel
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.5, 36-39 (2017)
Subject: More parks, less parking
Keywords: Parks, Transport, Parking
Abstract: The vehicle looks like something out of a science fiction film: compact, with rounded corners and covered, wheels, devoid of steering wheel or cockpit. A first look at the concept car suggests that for its future passengers, a trip in "Sedric" (from "self-driving car") might be a little like travelling in a cross between a litter and a cable car-although a key difference would be the several multimedia screens set up in the interior to enable communications with the vehicle-or rather, its digital user assistant. Designed as an autonomous robotic taxi for use in big cities, it has two facing rows of seats.
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ID: 64276
Title: Japan's home-grown island
Author: Sonali Prasad
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.5, 24-26 (2017)
Subject: Japan's home-grown island
Keywords: Japan, home-grown island
Abstract: The Japanese named the two boulders Okinotorishima, or 'distant bird island. 'Formed by an isolated submerged reef a thousand miles off the coast of Tokyo, it is the country's southernmost point, providing an exclusive 160,000-square mile claim to these highly lucrative and strategic waters. Koinotorishima provides more ocean dominion than the entire archipelago of Japan, but international recognition of the claim remains elusive. Countries such as China and Korea argue that as only two rocks are visible at high tide, Okinotorishima is not a habitable island that can command its nation's claim to the seas.
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ID: 64275
Title: European citizens at risk from rising sea levels
Author: Annika Joeres
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.5, 22-23 (2017)
Subject: European citizens at risk from rising sea levels
Keywords: European citizens, rising sea levels
Abstract: Inland seas in particular are "regions that are least prepared for a fluctuating sea level," says Hans-Martin Fussel, head of climate projects at the European Environment Agency (EEA). His institute is a based-on Copenhagen. In the Baltic Sea, there have been hardly any floods. "Recently, we had dinner with colleagues at the port of Copenhagen, and the Danes said: Where are we going to build a dyke here?, "Fussel recounts. The sea level of the coast of the capital city is now around 10 cm higher than it was 30 years ago. Mediterranean cities like Nice in France of Levkas in Greece have already recorded levels that are around 20 to 30 cm higher. With climate change, the sea will rise even faster in the future. By 2100 it could have risen by as much as 60 to 80 cm, according to data from the IPCC.
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ID: 64274
Title: Rising salinity batters Bay of Bengal farmers
Author: Eduardo Garcia
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.5, 20-21 (2017)
Subject: Rising salinity batters Bay of Bengal farmers
Keywords: Salinity batters, Bay of Bengal, farmers
Abstract: Roughly eight million people are living on artificial islands built by the Bangladeshi government in the 1960s to feed its growing population. Known by the Dutch term "polder, these 139 islands surrounded by dykes are now under assault by rising seas, sinking land, a strained supply of river water and a radical shift in farming practices: from land-based agriculture to shrimp cultivation. Island farmers like Shondha Rnai are struggling in this changed landscape. Though rustic and primitive, her small plot of land on Polder 22 is lush with mango and guava trees. She lives in a house pieced together from mud walls, dried reeds and thatched roofing, and makes a decent living growing turmeric, lettuce, rice and even watermelon-a cash crop in the Ganges Delta.
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ID: 64273
Title: The tide is rising
Author: Tim Altegor
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.5, 13-13 (2017)
Subject: The tide is rising
Keywords: Tide, Global warming
Abstract: Harvey, Irma, Jose, Maria-in recent months, the American continent has been fustigated by one violent hurricane after the other. On television screens around the world, vast cyclones revolving around centres shaded red inexorably made their way across maps while correspondents braved the wind and rain to report from deserted US towns, some under several feet of water. Meanwhile, heavy monsoon in South-east Asia claimed over 2,000 lives, mostly in India. If any further reminder was needed of Nature's immense power and our powerlessness in the face of it, the late summer of 2017 provided just that.
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ID: 64272
Title: A new lease of life
Author: Michael Hahn
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.4, 44-44 (2017)
Subject: A new lease of life
Keywords: New lease of life, Wind Turbine, first generation
Abstract: Fixed compensation under the German Renewable Energy Sources Act {EEG} will soon expire for the first generation of wind turbines covered by the scheme. Some operators are resorting to retrofitting to keep their turbines profitable for another few years.
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ID: 64271
Title: Climate change threatens the ozone layer
Author: - [News]
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.4, 43-43 (2017)
Subject: Climate change threatens the ozone layer
Keywords: Climate change, Ozone layer
Abstract: Researchers at Harvard University in the US have found that climate change poses a growing hazard to the ozone layer, particularly over the midwestern and southern regions of the US. According to the researchers, the threat is caused by increasingly frequent heavy storms which carry aerosols, chlorine-based chemicals and hydrogen into the stratosphere, where they contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer.
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ID: 64270
Title: The carbon clean-up toolkit-Key approaches to purging excess CO2 from the atmosphere.
Author: Astrid Dahn
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.4, 28-33 (2017)
Subject: The carbon clean-up toolkit-Key approaches to purging excess CO2 from the atmosphere.
Keywords: The carbon clean-up toolkit, CO2, atmosphere
Abstract: Nature itself is a giant carbon filter. Around half of all carbon emissions caused by human activity are sucked back out of the atmosphere by the Earth's plants, soil and oceans. Accordingly, a logical and relatively simple approach to lowering the concentration of CO2 in the air is to support and enhance these natural carbon sinks.
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ID: 64269
Title: On borrowed time
Author: Astrid Dahn
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.4, 24-27 (2017)
Subject: On borrowed time
Keywords: Borrowed time
Abstract: The international community has its work cut out for it: In December 2015, climate diplomats from all over the world assembled in Paris agreed to keep global warming well below 2C-ideally 1.5C. What this means in terms of our carbon budget-the most common metric for climate change -is that all future greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity must not exceed 800 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent. If we are to meet the 1.5 target, the ceiling is just 200 gigatons. At this rate, the planet's carbon budget will be entirely used up in 20 years at the latest.
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ID: 64268
Title: A matter of price
Author: Tim Attegor
Editor: Jorg-Rainer Zimmermann
Year: 2017
Publisher: BWE (German Wind Energy Association)
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: New Energy, Issue No.4, 16-21 (2017)
Subject: A matter of price
Keywords: A matter of price ,Global climate targets, CO2
Abstract: March 2017, Euref Campus, Berlin. The site in the German capital's Schoneberg district is one big playground for the energy transition, with research institutes and start-ups jostiling side by side. Outside, electric mopeds are being serviced while a self-driving minibus does its rounds. Inside, global environmental policy is the order of the day: The Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) is hosting a panel discussion on "Climate Policy in the Age of Trump".The face of Harvard professor Robert Stavins looks down on the room from a video screen. But wherever MCC DIRECTOR Ottmar Edenhofer is involved, the conversation always seems to come back to one subject in particular: carbon pricing.
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ID: 64267
Title: Enabling distributor financing for a demand-driven market for clean cookstoves
Author: Camilla Fulland
Editor: Grant Ballard-Tremeer, Raffaella Bellanca, Karabi Dutta, Ben Garside, Luc Severi
Year: 2017
Publisher: HEDON
Source: ENVIS, CES & EWRG, CES
Reference: BOILING POINT Issue. 69 26-29 (2017)
Subject: Enabling distributor financing for a demand-driven market for clean cookstoves
Keywords: Distribution chain, enablers, financing, Indonesia, Prime cookstoves
Abstract: Prime Cookstoves have been marketed since 2013 taking a hands-on approach from research and development to distribution and financing. Reliant on local companies and organizations as distributors of cookstoves, this article focuses on the valuable experiences and lessons that have emerged especially to make the product available at a minimum cost and with reasonable risk. The key message is to strengthen the local distribution chain through the provision of financing or regulatory provisions and incentives enabling a level playing field for various manufacturers of clean cookstoves.
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