electricity generation plant operator | power station operative worker | electric power station worker | power plant control room operator

energy utilisation factor | energy utilization factor | load factor

utilization of electrical energy

Sub-Group on Electrical Power Generation, Control, Distribution and Utilization

International Panel of Experts to Consider the Impact of the Production and Use of Energy on the Environment

Working Party on the use of renewable sources of energy in the ACP countries

annual cycle energy system | ACES

define user roles for ICT system | define database user permissions | use access control software

energy auditing | energy audit

perform integrated electronic control centre operations | undertake integrated electronic control centre operations | operate integrated electronic control centres for trains | operate train integrated electronic control centre

The objective is an energy efficiency or energy use objective controlling the use of energy used by buildings; it falls under a new umbrella objective that is essentially about not having a negative impact on the environment.

Welcomes the Commission communication of February 2016 on an EU strategy on heating and cooling, but highlights the lack of progress and low targets set for renewable use in heating and cooling, in particular in buildings; stresses the great potential for continued progress in renewable use in heating and cooling; notes that the heating and cooling sector accounts for half the EU’s final energy consumption and therefore plays a key role in achieving the EU objectives on climate and renewable energy resources; recognises the benefits of increasing renewable energy in the heating and cooling sector; stresses the increased flexibility of thermal infrastructure and storage in facilitating ...[+++] the integration of variable renewable sources by storing energy in the form of heat, offering excellent returns on investment and providing opportunities for enhancing quality local employment; calls on the Commission to bridge the regulatory gaps in the post-2020 renewables legislative package; reiterates that efforts in the heating and cooling sector hold great potential for increased energy security (given that 61 % of gas imported into the European Union is used in buildings, mainly for heating purposes), for example through the development of district heating/cooling networks, which are an efficient means of integrating sustainable heat into cities on a large scale, since they can simultaneously deliver heat derived from a range of sources and are not inherently dependent on any one source.

Active district energy plants under development right now include Sudbury, Ontario, cogeneration; Hamilton, Ontario, waste heat from industry; North Vancouver, British Columbia, waste hydrogen or heat pumps; Revelstoke, British Columbia, biomass waste; Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, surplus hydroelectric; Halifax, Nova Scotia, cogeneration; New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, biomass or cogeneration; Toronto, Ontario, deep lake cooling; and Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories, cogeneration.

While that resolution called for the enforcement of strict controls on nuclear material to prevent it from falling into dangerous hands, it also underlined the right of states to pursue peaceful nuclear energy under the IAEA supervision, so nuclear power is certainly acceptable and within the context of the use of nuclear material.