Category Archives: Green Energy

The electric vehicle acceleration! Part 2: The Manufacturers

Looking at the crisis in demand, the automobile constructors have understood that their success went for a big part with the major technical rupture which represents the progressive giving up of the motor on combustibles. The other part of their … Continue reading

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The forest, a major stake in Copenhagen

How to limit the warming of planet to only 2°C from here 2100? Certainly not by dissociating the fight against the deforestation from the attenuation strategies of the climate change. With approximately 20% of the world gas emissions with greenhouse … Continue reading

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The electric vehicle acceleration! Part 1: Public authorities

Beginning of 2008, electric car was only a vague assumption not yet credible, causing the irony of the skeptics. It from now on entered in a realistic process which will emerge in the next quarters in an industrial phase and … Continue reading

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Internet box and TV decoder: an excessive electric consumption

The electric consumption profile of households is constantly changing. Lately electronic equipments have been increasing in homes: electronic picture frames, communicating rabbits, home automation devices, battery chargers, etc. The computer and audiovisual annual bill of households is getting higher and … Continue reading

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Clean water, the comeback in Europe?

Among the big challenges of the European Parliament elected last June, environment, and in particular water management, predominates. Published in 2000, the water framework directive resumed the various regulations in effect in Europe with the ambitious objective to restore the … Continue reading

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Progressive tariffs for electricity

Already applied in some states of the USA and in Japan, progressive tariffs consist in invoicing a more expensive kWh to customers who would consume more electricity. Although not very intuitive, this innovation has been welcomed in the regions where … Continue reading

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Consultation on smart metering

In July 2009, Sia Conseil has supported the DECC (UK department of Energy and Climate Change) and the OFGEM (UK gas and power regulator) in their quest for strong expertise in the field of smart metering in order to make … Continue reading

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Electric car: a new world to invent

Today, we live in a world of refineries, service stations, tankers, the gasoline smell … Tomorrow how will be our environment with the electric cars? The advent of the electric car does not only mean the emergence of a new … Continue reading

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The Sahara, gigantic solar farm: Utopia?

In the search with the new sustainable and renewable energy sources to satisfy the world demand, more and more ways are explored. Ground, sea, air and space are frameworks of reflexions around energy valorization: recuperation of the energy generated by … Continue reading

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Public lighting, a stake of sustainable development for the cities

Public lighting is essential in city policies. Indeed, it is a guarantee for public safety, it improves lifestyle, and it promotes events, such as Christmas lighting. It is a real challenge for communities, facing an increasing demand for quality and … Continue reading

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