Energy

Powering tomorrow; from smart homes to megagrids

A home for those working or interested in energy technology. Offering a platform for the exchange of knowledge and facilitating professional networking for the science, engineering and technology (SET) communities. 

IET.tv

Challenging the naysayers: global wave and tidal deployment in five years' time

La Rance Tidal Power Plant - Lessons learnt

E&T magazine news

The Atomic Weapons Establishment complex in Aldermaston in Berkshire Atomic weapon maker admits responsibility for blast

The Atomic Weapons Establishment, which makes and maintains the UK’s nuclear warheads, has admitted putting employees at risk.

Researcher Aleksandra Sima is part of the Norwegian research team using drones to look for oil (CREDIT: Eivind Senneset/UiB) Drones used for oil exploration in Norway

Geologists in Norway are using flying drones with cameras to hunt for oil.

Factfiles

Energy storage

Electricity storage

This Briefing provides an introduction to electricity storage technologies and answers some key questions about the roles that storage can play within the electricity system.

Smart grids

What is a Smart Grid?

This IET briefing document explains what a smart grid is and why it is different from the existing electricity grid.  It explains why the move to low carbon electricity with significant amounts of variable wind generation will require new ways of balancing the electricity grid.

Journals

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IET Electric Power Applications

Publishing papers of a high technical standard with a suitable balance of practice and theory. Its scope covers a wide range of applications and apparatus in the power field.

Virtual library

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Virtual library

IET members can access for free electronic books and journals from: EBSCO, Engineering and IT Reference Library, Faulkner reports, Knovel, Wiley, and Key Note.

Resources

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Sector Review - Q1 2013

A roundup of the Sector's activities so far this year and plans going forward.


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Sustaining Engineering and Technology Skills

The IET Energy Sector is actively engaged in highlighting the potentially catastrophic UK Engineering and Technology skills gap.


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IET Policy Evidence on Gas Strategy

The IET gave oral evidence to the UK Parliament on 13 February 2013 in response to the Gas Generation Strategy. 


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Heat Debate

Following a cross sector roundtable debate between senior executives from the Energy and Built Environment on the topic of the future for Heat provision, we are planning a UK road show of activities in conjunction with IET local and technical networks to obtain input from key stakeholders around the country in preparation to produce an IET positional document in conjunction with our Energy Policy team to the UK government on District Heating and Combined Heat and Power (CHP).


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UK Power Networks Flexible Plug and Play

Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network (LCN) Fund is being invested to help Britain’s current electricity distribution network support faster and more cost effective distributed generation connections.


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Events and Conferences

If you would like to meet with representatives of the IET’s Energy Sector and other IET departments in the near future then please review the key activities we will be attending in the first part of this year.


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How the IET and nano-scale research are helping the global conservation effort

The IET’s Micro & Nano Letters publishes cutting edge global research in energy storage and energy harvesting, based on selected papers from the Asia-Pacific Conference on Transducers and Micro/Nano Technologies (APCOT 2012).


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Power Electronics Skills Competition – enabling a resilient energy system

Calling for Power Electronics innovators to help enable a resilient energy system and address some of the high level challenges facing the Energy industry.


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London Olympics delivery success: the lessons for nuclear

What did the nuclear industry learn from the London Olympics delivery with respect to the key areas of Commercial, Project Control and Delivery?

Energy articles

Beam it down

Beam it down

12 April 2013

It sounds like science fiction, but beaming solar power from space is now technically feasible.

Alcatraz: lighting up the Rock

Alcatraz: lighting up the Rock

10 April 2013

It used to be home to notorious criminals but now Alcatraz is the site of an ambitious renewable energy project.

Q and A - Energy efficiency with Dr Nick Eyre

Q and A - Energy efficiency with Dr Nick Eyre

11 March 2013

With energy efficiency sitting high on the political agenda, we caught up with Dr Nick Eyre, a Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Energy at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at Oxford's Oriel College, to unravel the tangled web of policy and technology.

Sector publications

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Energy Sector Newsletters

Bringing you all the latest on IET Energy Sector initiatives, partnerships and thought leadership together with details of upcoming events, Sector highlights on IET.tv and opportunities for you to get involved!


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IET Sectors 2012: A year in review

This high-level review summarises the major outcomes from a remarkable year of activity for IET Sectors.


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UK Power Networks: Engineered to Generate the Future

View the UK Power Networks case study to learn more about their "Energy Storage System (ESS)" technology.

Books

Energy storage for Power Systems

Energy storage for Power Systems book

Covers all existing energy storage techniques and at the same time deals with power system considerations for energy storage and storage applications.

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Distributed Generation

This book discusses the connection of generation to distribution networks and then moves on to consider how sustainable generation can be fully integrated into the operation of the power system.

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Protection of Electricity Distribution Networks

This book refers to most aspects of electrical protections, with emphasis in Distribution Systems.

Policy

Government policy

The IET represents the views of its members on a wide range of professional and technological issues.

Smart Meter Roll-out
Submitted on 07 February 2013 to Energy and Environment Select Committee
Electricity Demand Reduction: options to encourage permanent reductions in electricity use
Submitted on 31 January 2013 to Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Contact us


If you would like to learn more or have any questions about the Energy Sector, please email: energy@theiet.org

Collaborations

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Flexible Plug and Play

The IET and UK Power Networks have formed a unique partnership to share knowledge gained from an innovation project (Flexible Plug and Play) that is largely funded by Ofgem’s Low Carbon Network Fund.  


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E3 Academy

The E3 Academy involves three universities (Bristol, Newcastle and Nottingham) and six companies (Emerson – Control Techniques, Cummins Generator Technologies, Edwards, Parker SSD, Ricardo and Siemens Industry) working together to address the graduate recruitment crisis in the Electrical Energy Engineering (E3) sector