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Destination Las Vegas
The 2009 award winner Emma Marshall, of RPS, receives a special plaque from ASHRAE president Gordon Holness during her visit to the ASHRAE winter conference in Orlando, Florida.
The annual CIBSE/ASHRAE Graduate of the Year award, sponsored by Baxi Commercial, is now open for entries. The award recognises the achievements and potential of young engineers across the country who have graduated within the last two years. Every year five finalists are
selected to give a presentation in
front of an audience and judging panel. For the first time, reigning Graduate of the Year Emma Marshall, of RPS, will be among the judges. The winner will go to Las Vegas for ASHRAE’s winter conference. Judging will take place on 7 October. The closing date for entries is 30 July. For more information visit
www.cibseashrae.org
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Red tape leaves PV in the shade
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Bureaucracy is preventing photovoltaics (PV) from
growing to their full potential in Europe, according to new research. The PV LEGAL project, run by a consortium of renewable energy bodies investigating the barriers to PV in Europe, took six months to research administrative and legal requirements for PV in 12 EU countries. And according to one of the consortium members, the UK’s Renewable Energy Association, the programme has found that the PV market is not yet expected to grow to its full potential due to ‘bureaucratic hurdles’. The consortium has now published its results on the internet, creating the largest and most comprehensive online database for PV. The study examined the
necessary procedures to be complied with for the three
main market segments: small- scale installations on residential buildings; small to medium-scale installations on commercial buildings and medium to large-scale ground-mounted installations on open lands. For each segment the project development processes have been identified and described in detail, with information on duration, waiting time and legal-administrative costs of each process. The database should provide
both market actors and policy makers with a detailed analysis of the situation, and highlight the best practices and existing bottlenecks. Project partners will now make
recommendations to policy makers and grid operators in the main European PV markets through advisory papers, national conferences and ad-hoc workshops.
www.pvlegal.eu/database
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