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Michael Psalidas – Emerging tendencies in the production, distribution and use of electrical power
It is particularly telling to look at the history behind the adoption of alternating instead of direct current, a choice that reflects the contemporary existence of the centralised model of energy use against the model of distributed generation. The predominance of Alternating Current (AC) over Direct Current (DC) was the result of an intense dispute and competition between two important personas of the economical and technological life in the USA, Thomas Alva Edison and the manufacturer George Westinghouse.
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Andrianos Tesas – The electricity market, p2p energy and smart grids in Greece
The proceedings of the last decade around the electric power market in Greece demonstrate a tendency of differentiation after a period of monopolistic stability and progressive expansion of electric power throughout the Greek territory that lasted almost half a century. The request for “clean” electricity combined with the potentiality offered by p2p energy presents highly attractive prospects, however the multifaceted challenges are still there, argues Andrianos Tesas.
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José Morales Barroso – P2P energy and the information grid
The rapid increase in energy consumption, says José Morales Barroso, makes advisable to invest strongly to expand the information and communications technologies. In our society, the only real possibility for the energy saving and the protection of the environment is to substitute, literally, the “Asphalt Freeways” for “Information Superhighways”. There is no doubt that the current model, based on growth and consumption is not sustainable, even if free and inexhaustible energy sources were to be discovered.
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