Energetic efficiency
The energy transition, a concept that initially had a mainly ecological connotation, namely reducing CO2 emissions by reducing the production of fossil fuels in favor of renewables, is in the process of profoundly transforming the very profession of the historical players in network management. . It should indeed be understood that, with renewable energies, it […]
Appeared in the United States in 1983 in the State of Minnesota, net-metering (net metering or net invoicing or compensation) is a policy of self-consumption of photovoltaic electricity that allows a customer producing his own electricity to inject the surplus of its consumption in the public electricity network. Under the net-metering contract, the customer, who […]
The RE observatory is an organization often created by an administration, generally the State, or by an association in order to monitor the development of the use of renewable energies in a territory. The main mission of these observatories is to supplement knowledge in order to facilitate decision-making and facilitate access to information in various […]
The solar cadastre is a mapping of a territory that highlights the solar energy that reaches the roofs over an average year. Usually financed by a local authority, this mapping is made available to the public using geographic information systems (GIS), in order to learn about the solar potential of buildings, and thus to know […]
Large electric power grids are large and complex structures whose role is to carry electricity, often over long distances. These networks are subject to very strict operating rules, which oblige the operators of the control centers to operate the network within its safety limits. These limits depend on the thermal resistance of the structures, but […]
A virtual power plant or VPP (Virtual Power Plant) is a combination of small energy sources (or available energy storage systems), which are activated and optimized by a computer system within a SMART GRID network, in order to carry out operations in the service of an electricity distribution operator or purchase options from a producer […]
The notion of consumer actor has developed thanks to the dissemination of the concept of sustainable development. It covers, in particular, aspects of social responsibility of the consumer-citizen. In addition to these social transformations which favor the emergence of a consumer actor, there are transformations in the electricity system. Indeed, the development of distributed electricity […]