CERN, ESS, and ERF organise the first international workshop on better energy management for Big Science Lund, 13th October 2011 For the first time, international experts on energy and representatives from large-scale laboratories get together to explore new ideas on energy management, identify best practices and implement ways of effective collaboration. This community meets today in Lund, Sweden, at the European Spallation Source for a 2-day workshop co-organised by CERN, ESS and by ERF, the European Association of National Research Facilities. - This workshop places the questions of better energy management in Big Science definitively on the international science agenda, said Thomas Parker, ESS Energy Manager. We are honoured that the entire European large-scale laboratory community, as well as overseas guests, have come to Lund and we see this as a sign that the ideas that we have promoted are catching on. - The idea of promoting this workshop came from our commitment to share and improve energy management's policies with other large-scale Laboratories and Organisations, said Frédérick Bordry, Head of CERN's Technology Department. The energy management is and will be more and more a mandatory key criteria in the design and operation of accelerators, and more generally for scientific facilities. It should not be seen as a constraint but more as an opportunity to get more efficient installations and to give a concrete contribution to energy and environmental issues. The workshop is also an opportunity for presenting CERN's technologies which can play a role in the improvement of energy efficiency and quality. The workshop will focus on efficiency and optimisation of energy supply, energy recovery, storage and stability, challenges for heat recycling systems and water saving (energy conversion, heat recovery, high-temperature cooling loops). The discussion will also explore current and future strategic and financial challenges. - Large-scale European research laboratories attract the best researchers through the quality of their cutting-edge technical support, so the technical and managerial staff are continuously developing the best relevant technologies. Many of these are of interest to society and are connected to big challenges, such as improving the production and use of energy, said Carlo Rizzuto, Chair of ERF and President of Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy. The idea of the conference is to make the most of the laboratories' capabilities in this context - whether the large analytical laboratories such as ERF and ESS or the large physics laboratories such as CERN. We aim to improve the capability to introduce and demonstrate techniques and approaches that save energy and minimize the carbon footprint. Further information: Event website: www.esss.se/energyworkshop (http://www.http//esss.se-scandinavia.eu/ener gyworkshop) CERN website: www.cern.ch (http://www.cern.ch/) ESS website: www.esss.se ERF website: http://erf.desy.de/ (http://erf.desy.de/) Press contacts: CERN Press Office E-mail: press.office@cern.ch (press.office@cern.ch) Phone: +41 (0)22 767 34 32            +41 (0)22 767 21 41 Follow CERN at: www.cern.ch (http://www.cern.ch/) http://twitter.com/cern/ (http://twitter.com/cern/) http://www.quantumdiaries.org/ (http://www.quantumdiaries.org/) ESS Marianne Ekdahl Communications Officer Press & Politics E-mail: marianne.ekdahl@esss.se Phone: +46 (0) 46 222 83 89 www.esss.se ----------------------------------------------------------- This information was brought to you by Cision http://www.cisionwire.com http://www.cisionwire.com/european-spallation-source-ab/r/cern--ess--and-erf-organise-the-first-international-workshop-on-better-energy-management-for-big-sci,c9173522