- "Energy development is the field of activities focused on obtaining sources of energy from natural resources."
The study of the physical infrastructure needed to produce, transport, and distribute energy.
Energy systems and their types: Understanding the types of energy systems such as fossil fuel, renewables, nuclear, geothermal, hydro, and their respective current importance is critical.
Energy production and consumption: Understanding the production and consumption pattern of energy, and the factors that influence their production and consumption, including policies, regulations, and global demand.
Energy policy: Energy policies set guidelines for energy development, consumption, and conservation. Understanding these policies and their impacts on energy infrastructure is essential.
Energy markets: Energy markets involve supply and demand, fossil fuel or electric power exchanges, and a complex system of interrelationships between various energy types.
Renewable energy sources: These include wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric plants. The understanding of renewable energy systems and their potential contribution to energy infrastructure is crucial.
Power grids and distribution systems: Understanding the flow of energy and transmission, the standards set for electricity production and transmission, and how it affects energy infrastructure performance.
Energy storage: From pumped storage to batteries, energy storage technologies are essential in developing renewable energy infrastructure.
Energy trading: Energy trading involves buying and selling power or fuel, and it’s important to understand its role in energy infrastructure.
Energy security: Energy security ensures that energy is reliable, affordable, and available to living standards for a country, a region, or the world.
Climate change and energy: Climate change has become one of the most significant global challenges of our times. A strong understanding of how it affects energy infrastructure is critical.
Energy efficiency: Maximizing energy efficiency can lower energy costs for individuals and companies, reduce demand, and enhance grid stability.
Smart and decentralized energy systems: This refers to a series of intelligent technologies and systems that improve the efficiency of energy infrastructure through decentralized energy systems.
Energy infrastructure planning: The planning of energy infrastructure involves the designing, building, upgrading, and maintaining of energy systems.
Energy governance and management: This involves regulating energy systems, policies, and practices for effective energy planning and implementation.
Energy pricing: Pricing is essential for suppliers and consumers in determining the cost of energy and assessing the potential benefits of renewable energy infrastructure.
Power plants: Facilities that generate electricity from various sources like coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, wind, solar, and others.
Transmission lines: High-voltage power lines that transport electricity from power plants to substations, which then distribute the electricity to homes and businesses.
Distribution systems: Networks of smaller power lines that deliver electricity from substations to homes, businesses, and other end-users.
Pipelines: Infrastructure for transporting oil, natural gas, and other gases across long distances.
Storage facilities: Tanks, caverns, and other storage infrastructure to store oil, natural gas, and other energy resources for future use.
Refineries: Processing facilities that convert crude oil into more useful products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) terminals: Facilities that receive, store, and export natural gas in its liquid form.
Renewables: Infrastructure that generates electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar, geothermal, and hydro.
Energy efficiency measures: Improvements in building design, lighting, HVAC systems, and other areas to reduce energy demand and consumption.
Smart grids: Advanced distribution systems that use advanced communication and control technologies to optimize the delivery and consumption of electricity.
- "These activities include the production of renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuel derived sources of energy."
- "Energy conservation and efficiency measures reduce the demand for energy development, and can have benefits to society with improvements to environmental issues."
- "Societies use energy for transportation, manufacturing, illumination, heating and air conditioning, and communication, for industrial, commercial, and domestic purposes."
- "Energy resources may be classified as primary resources, where the resource can be used in substantially its original form, or as secondary resources, where the energy source must be converted into a more conveniently usable form."
- "Non-renewable resources are significantly depleted by human use, whereas renewable resources are produced by ongoing processes that can sustain indefinite human exploitation."
- "Thousands of people are employed in the energy industry."
- "The conventional industry comprises the petroleum industry, the natural gas industry, the electrical power industry, and the nuclear industry."
- "New energy industries include the renewable energy industry, comprising alternative and sustainable manufacture, distribution, and sale of alternative fuels."
- "These activities include the production of renewable, nuclear, and fossil fuel derived sources of energy, and for the recovery and reuse of energy that would otherwise be wasted."
- "Energy conservation and efficiency measures reduce the demand for energy development, and can have benefits to society with improvements to environmental issues."
- "Societies use energy for transportation, manufacturing, illumination, heating and air conditioning, and communication, for industrial, commercial, and domestic purposes."
- "Energy resources may be classified as primary resources, where the resource can be used in substantially its original form."
- "Energy resources may be classified... as secondary resources, where the energy source must be converted into a more conveniently usable form."
- "Non-renewable resources are significantly depleted by human use."
- "Renewable resources are produced by ongoing processes that can sustain indefinite human exploitation."
- "Thousands of people are employed in the energy industry."
- "The conventional industry comprises the petroleum industry, the natural gas industry, the electrical power industry, and the nuclear industry."
- "The renewable energy industry comprises alternative and sustainable manufacture, distribution, and sale of alternative fuels."
- Energy development aims to obtain sources of energy from natural resources and recover/reuse energy that would otherwise be wasted.