energy

All things ‘green’… and there’s money to be made!
Leading climate scientists have only just warned that our world is dangerously
near exceeding the 1.5oC upper limit for global warming, a mere eight months
after this target was established at the Paris climate summit. The negotiations,
deemed highly successful at the time, went further than the previously held 2oC
limit beyond which climate change would start to become catastrophic – and
possibly irreversible.
Smart Electrician
The Internet of Things for Electricians
The reasons are clear – the world is simply not de-carbonising fast enough.
At Smart Electrician, we have a mandate to look at all things high-tech
electrotechnical, including – of course – the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT)
sector. However, we also include the latest sustainable technologies, not least
because we all (presumably) want to save our world, but also because there’s
money to be made in saving energy and installing the systems.
Sustainable
energy
& the latest state of the technologies
Smart homes
are a key element of the
electricity industry
Solar PV systems
& how to install them
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Helping
electrical
contractors
to benefit from the
energy efficiency issue
new trends
that will impact
green buildings
So, we come to this issue, which a cursory glance at page 7 will show is largely
devoted to sustainable homes and buildings (which are also smart) and improving energy efficiency using the
latest ‘green’ technologies.
But first, back to that pesky 1.5oC limit, already so close to being exceeded. To avoid global warming catastrophe,
the world will have to decarbonise at some speed, to the extent that the world must have no coal-fired power
stations at all by 2025. That’s not all – by 2030 the internal combustion engine will need to be finished, whatever
the Jeremy Clarksons of this world think. Even these measures will apparently not guarantee a rise of no more than
1.5oC, yet the task is enormous – especially as while the IoT can help save lots of energy, the billions of electronic
devices of which it is comprised also use increasing amounts of electrical energy.
Still, all this means that increasingly clever use of the IoT in smart homes, buildings, grids and sustainable devolved
power generation will also be critical in keeping to the 1.5oC limit. And for smart electricians all of this means extra
work, and lots of it for many years. Better get smarter still….and fast…
So, in this issue of Smart Electrician, we bring you a veritable smorgasbord of latest ‘green’ trends and technologies
– the renewables and electricity markets, the benefits for smart electricians, sustainable energy and smart controls,
smart homes and grids, solar PV power generation (and how to install it), energy saving electrical protection and
ventilation efficiency.
That’s not all, as we also cover a method of sending electrical energy over data lines to drive small machines
and devices. This, Power over Ethernet (PoE), has been around for years in industry, but to date even many smart
electricians are not fully aware of it - so take a look….
….have fun!
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