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Policy Brief: Application Readiness Map for Wide Band Gap (WBG) Semiconductors
This policy brief summarizes the results of the PECTA Application Readiness Map (ARM) for Wide Bandgap (WBG) Semiconductors report and describes the expected market position through to
AC/HP Test Methods 2.0: Phase 4 Findings Summary
This report provides the results of a round-robin testing across multiple international laboratories to evaluate the reproducibility and representativeness of a new 4E TCP Test Method for Air conditioner/Heat Pump products to better reflect real life energy performance.
Data Centre Energy Efficiency Labels
This study explores energy efficiency labels for data centres by researching and analysing existing labelling schemes and making suggestions for the characteristics of a worldwide applicable data centre energy efficiency label.
Public Data on Data Centre Energy Use
This report gathers and analyses a range of publicly available data on the energy consumed by data centres.
Cybersecurity for Demand Flexible Appliances
This report focusses on cybersecurity threats in relation to demand flexible networked appliances. It investigates current efforts to address these, and summarises the issues that policy makers
Optimized SiC PV Inverter
This report contains a detailed comparsion between a commercially available hybrid Si/SiC and a competitive full-SiC PV converter. The main objective was to provide a fair comparison in terms of semiconductor efficiency between both solutions.
IC 2023 Nucleus Laboratory Comparison Report Part 1: Lamp Artefacts
This report presents a comparison and demonstration of measurement equivalency of the five Nucleus laboratories that constitute the core of Interlaboratory Comparison 2023 (IC2023). This report is Part 1, covering LED lamp artefacts used in IC 2023.
AC power supply issue for intrinsic flicker performance measurement
These comments were prepared and submitted to Members of three Expert Working Groups investigating temporal light modulation: CIE TC 2-89, IEC TC34 WG5 and IES LM-90 WG.
DC Wallbox Pre Scoping Study
The 4E PECTA DC-Wallbox pre-scoping study aims to enhance understanding of DC-Wallboxes and pro-vides an overview of the current DC charging market, emphasizing the efficiencies of commercially avail-able chargers across different power levels.
Solid State Lighting: Review of Health Effects
This report offers a comprehensive review of the scientific knowledge acquired in the course of the last ten years on the effects of solid state light on human health.
Policy Brief – Digitalisation in electric motor driven systems: key findings from four reports
This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of four recent EMSA publications on digitalisation in electric motor systems.
Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part II: Technical recommendations for industrial end-users
In this publication, EMSA provides recommendations for industrial end-users on how to digitalise their motor systems.
Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part I: Findings for policy makers
This report summarises EMSA’s research on the digitalisation of electric motor systems between 2021 – 2024. It formulates nine recommendations for policy makers on how to advance digitalisation in motor systems.
Policy Brief: The Energy Saving Potential of Wide Band Gap Technology in selected applications
This policy brief summarises the key findings of the 2023 PECTA report Energy saving potential of WBG-commercial power converters in different applications. It provides an update of the potential energy savings given in the detailed analysis of the published Policy Brief in December 2020 (PECTA 1).
Reliability of electronic components and systems with WBG technology
Power electronics plays a vital role in various applications, from household devices to electric vehicles and renewable energy systems. This report, a result of the 4E PECTA Platform, covers reliability challenges at both component and system levels, discusses the state of the art in design processes, and proposes indicators for policymakers to support WBG adoption in energy applications.
Wide Band Gap Technology: Timing of most beneficial policy measures
This report reflects a special working result of the first term of PECTA, the Power Electronic Conversion Technology Platform. It contains suggestions for possible policy measures and mapping with applications over a timeline.
Policy Brief – Policy Development on Energy Efficiency of Data Centres
Provides an overview of initiatives for data centres; summarises the energy savings from potential measures and presents a range of issues for policy makers to consider.
Policy brief – Harnessing Smart and Dumb Devices
This policy brief deals with harnessing energy benefits from the ‘internet of things’ and how to turn existing ‘dumb’ appliances into smart ones using retrofit solutions.
Policy Brief – Interoperability
Policy brief pertaining to the issue of appliance ‘interoperability’ and the impact of this on demand flexibility.
Digitalisation in electric motor systems – Part IV: Energy consumption due to the digitalisation of electric motor systems
By analysing current research and real-life cases in industry, EMSA looked at the energy expenditure to facilitate digitalisation in electric motor systems.
