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Smart grids for preventing blackouts?

Transmission adequacy problems versus electrical growing consumptions, control and protection technological ageing, unpredictable renewable sources penetration, unbundling and market distortion effects, lack of coordination between system operators… are just examples of possible root causes which led to partial or total blackouts in recent years worldwide. USA and European large disturbances on [...]

ORP Potential can enhance flexibility

High operational flexibility (e.g. the ability of a power plant for fast start-up and to adjust load output as a function of changing of market requirement) is an essential pre-requisite to ensure economic success in a liberalized market. Plants under cycling duty are subjected to excursions of temperature, pressure, water flow rate, making very difficult to follow appropriate cycle chemistry guideline [...]

Heading for a Sustainable Energy Future 2050

Extract from the speech of Matteo Codazzi (CEO at CESI) at the 3rd Dii Desert Energy Conference, held in Berlin on November 7th, 2012 The Target Europe is undoubtedly a forerunner in the actions towards a sustainable energy future. Following a debate started in 2007, in 2009 the EU Parliament and Council set binding targets on CO2 emission reduction, RES generation penetration, increase in energy [...]

Volatile RES & Thermal Plants flexibility

Introduction With the aim of reducing CO2 emissions and dependency from fossil fuels, in various countries the sharp increase of electrical RES (Renewable Energy Sources) as a result of policies of substantial subsidies is creating problems to an efficient and reliable operation of the electrical power system. Both transmission and distribution systems have to face an increasingly variable production [...]

Doing Business in a sustainable way

Euro-zone is facing an economic crisis that can undermine the commitment to tackle environmental issues. This is one of the key messages by the European Environmental Agency, reported in a recent publication entitled “Building the future we want”. The 2012 edition explores the environmental impacts of our consumption and production patterns and how these can be changed to reduce their effect on the [...]

Supergrid VS distributed generation

Super Grid, Smart Grid, Renewable Energy Sources, Distributed Generation and other fashion concepts can be astonishing when they are put together and not clearly harmonized. In fact they only apparently, but not really, imply opposite visions of the future power system. Distributed Generation (DG) has been associated, at first, with a “small scale” concept of the power system, mainly with a local [...]

NEWS_21.05.2013

CESI sponsoring the FESTIVAL DELL’ENERGIA

CESI is a proud sponsor of the 6th edition of Festival dell’Energia, that will [...]

NEWS_20.05.2013

CPV9 Myazaki 2013

On April 15th-17th CESI participated to the CPV9 in Myazaki also presenting: [...]

NEWS_07.05.2013

CESI at the RES4MED Conference

CESI is pleased to announce its participation to the RES4MED Conference at [...]

NEWS_25.04.2013

WEC China 2013

CESI intensifying its active role as WEC Global partner Domenico Villani, [...]

NEWS_10.04.2013

9th ICOLD European Club Symposium 2013

On behalf of ITCOLD and ICOLD European Club, CESI has the pleasure to inform [...]