Nuclear technology needs to address its problems, and holds tremendous promise if it does. The 'nuclear option' does not represent a single option, but offers many choices on building additional reactors, a moratorium ( no new reactors), phaseout (reduce existing reactors), reactor types, waste processing and R&D expenditure. When excluding all nuclear options, a plan is needed how to build ...

Incandescent lamps are cheap but tend to have short lifetimes. The light emitted by incandescent sources is perceived as particularly pleasant because these hot radiators generate a continuous (or full) emission spectrum. But this very fact means that they waste much of the electrical energy supplied to them. Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are actually the least compact of all the various lam...

This paper provides a state of the art of current electrification situation in the world, many parts are lighted but still one quarter has no access to electricity. The dark part happens in poor and developing countries with most people in rural and remote areas. To light the the rest of the world, in other word, is to electrify the rural areas. With innovation of technology, reduction in produ...

This paper introduces methods to quantify the impact of wind power and other types of distributed generation on the overvoltage risk. The so-called hosting capacity approach, introduced in the very first issue of this magazine, is used as the basic approach. Both a deterministic and a statistical approach are introduced. The deterministic approach is suitable for generation with a constant prod...

In this paper, a simple DC current chopper is proposed, combined with the reactive power control, in order to provide some interactive capabilities for power-electronics interfaced distributed- generation. The chopper provides a dynamic current limitation capability, which during voltage disturbances reduces the active current command to allow for more reactive current to be injected into the g...

World energy consumption and resources: a plausible outlook for the rest of the century. The numbers you should know before you venture to talk about energy, let alone to take decisions...