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Indonesia’s new rooftop solar rule set to boost industrial, commercial use

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https://etech.iec.ch/issue/2024-01/smart-homes-in-smart-cities

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The Council of the European Union has adopted amendments to EU law on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which includes a variety of products such as computers, refrigerators and photovoltaic panels.

These amendments aim to align the WEEE directive with a ruling by the EU Court of Justice in 2022 on the partial invalidity of the directive due to the unjustified retroactive application of extended producer responsibility to waste photovoltaic panels placed on the market between 13 August 2005 and 13 August 2012.

The amendments clarify that:

– The costs of management and disposal of waste photovoltaic panels placed on the market after 13 August 2012 are borne by the producer of the electrical and electronic equipment (EEE).

  – The extended producer responsibility for EEE products that were added to the scope of the directive in 2018 will apply to those electronic products that have been placed on the market after that date.

In addition, the amendments introduce a review clause, whereby the Commission must assess, by 2026 at the latest, the need for a revision of the directive.

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https://www.review-energy.com/solar/eu-places-extended-responsibility-on-producers-of-photovoltaic-panels

América Latina desempeña un papel crucial en la transición energética global debido a su rica dotación de recursos naturales y minerales, lo que le brinda la oportunidad de liderar en la adopción de fuentes de energía renovable.

Sin embargo, esta transición cuenta con múltiples desafíos que deben ser superados oportunamente. Incentivos para la inversión y la financiación de las inversiones requeridas, infraestructura oportuna y una regulación que le permita a Latinoamérica cerrar las brechas que aún persisten y avanzar de forma decidida en cuanto a los nuevos retos que ya son una realidad.

A pesar de esto, en un camino impulsado por acuerdos climáticos, los países latinoamericanos tienen la capacidad de compartir lecciones y mejores prácticas entre sí, aprovechando sus similitudes en recursos y enfrentando sus diferencias en aspectos como la matriz eléctrica y el uso de nuevas tecnologías.

Así que para comprender más a fondo el panorama energético de América Latina, Review Energy pudo conversar con Alessandra Amaral, directora ejecutiva de la Asociación de Distribuidoras de Energía Eléctrica Latinoamericanas , ADELAT. Para ella, uno de los desafíos que enfrenta la región en su camino hacia un futuro energético más sostenible es la adopción de modelos regulatorios y de incentivos. Estos deben sincronizar las nuevas inversiones realizadas con una remuneración más oportuna en el tiempo, mejorando sustancialmente la eficacia y la eficiencia de los nuevos planes de inversión que se proveen de mayor volumen, a razón de las necesidades de la Transición Energética.

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https://www.review-energy.com/otras-fuentes/los-desafios-y-oportunidades-de-los-clientes-y-las-distribuidoras-latinoamericanas-hacia-la-transicion-energetica-de-america-latina-adelat

U.S. industry has begun growing rapidly in recent years and is electrifying many processes that once relied on the combustion of fossil fuels—good news for our economy and the climate. Some projections have industrial electricity demand increasing tenfold by 2050. Meeting this demand could require doubling the nation’s total electricity generation over the next 25 years just to serve the industrial sector. 

For these industries transitioning from fossil fuels to electricity, it is critical that there be enough electricity on the grid and that the electricity be carbon free. Powering electrified industries without spiking greenhouse gas emissions from new fossil-fuel-powered generation plants will require using electricity at strategic times when renewable electricity generation is available, enabled by operational flexibility and electric and thermal energy storage.

A new ACEEE white paper calls on industry, utilities, and states to prepare for increasing loads by investing in strategies and technologies that enable demand flexibility, the ability of industrial facilities to adjust their energy consumption in response to grid conditions.

Industrial demand flexibility is an essential tool for addressing the challenges of our transitioning energy system

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Building retrofit measures—such as insulation and air sealing, daylighting, and installing efficient windows—don’t just reduce energy costs. They can improve the capacity of a building to retain livable conditions for longer periods during extreme temperatures, hurricanes, and wildfires, making buildings more resilient to disasters.

Improving building energy efficiency enhances resilience—the ability of buildings, the grid, and communities to withstand and rapidly recover from power outages and maintain operations. It can support grid reliability by lowering power demand and balancing the power demand and supply when electric systems are under stress to reduce the risk of grid overload and disruptions. In an outage, improved energy resilience of buildings also supports more orderly restoration of services, giving utilities time to prioritize where to restore first and in the most cost-efficient manner.

A new ACEEE report finds that although there are many resilience benefits from energy efficiency retrofits, these benefits are undervalued or missing from program cost-benefit evaluations and selection processes. That undercounting could even tip the scales to prevent an efficiency program from happening.

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https://www.aceee.org/blog-post/2024/03/ignoring-resilience-benefits-limits-growth-energy-efficiency-programs

The International Energy Agency says limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels will require worldwide annual energy efficiency improvements to double, from 2% in 2022 to more than 4% annually between now and 2030. In the United States, three policies could generate more than a third of the needed energy savings, say experts at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

“Across every sector of the economy … we need to make progress to reach that doubling goal,” Mark Kresowik, ACEEE senior policy director, said in a Thursday webinar.

ACEEE concluded in a 2019 study that energy efficiency can cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and energy use by about 50% by 2050, relative to 2005 levels and 2050 projected energy use, “getting us halfway to our national climate goals.” And the United States did post a 4% reduction in energy intensity last year, though Kresowik said it was mostly due to milder weather.

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As part of the six-year effort in California to develop tariffs that would help commercialize community microgrids, nonutility stakeholders have submitted proposed tariffs to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), but they say that the effort may not meet its intended goals.

The proposed tariffs would apply to multiproperty microgrids, also called community microgrids, which serve a number of customers on more than one property.

When the California Legislature passed SB 1339 in 2018, the goal was to create a microgrid tariff that would help commercialize microgrids, allowing for third-party microgrid development and ensuring microgrids’ potential benefits would serve those who receive microgrid power, the grid and ratepayers.

But nonutility stakeholders say they haven’t seen movement toward that goal during the proceeding (Rulemaking 19-09-009).

Microgrids as common workaday beasts

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https://www.microgridknowledge.com/microgrid-policy/article/33036216/california-stakeholders-submit-microgrid-tariff-proposals-saying-microgrids-should-be-donkeys-not-unicorns