Confessions of a Curator #2

It’s been a productive 2 weeks for the Energy Galleries development – and may I say, a thoroughly interesting one for an Energy Curator!

I spent a fascinating afternoon with Dave Darlow, Sales Manager for Renewables and CE Electric at Garforth, Leeds. Siemens are thinking of donating some high voltage switchgear to MOSI, and I went to have a good look at what they had to offer. Indeed, there was lots of impressive switchgear which we might be able to use in the gallery, but the challenge is finding ways of adapting it so that visitors who are not engineers can understand it.

I also met with 2 members of the delightful team at Clicks & Links – Richard and Olli – as we discussed the possibility of acquiring some equipment and software to give real-time information of energy use in the Gallery. Their software, Greenica, stores energy data allowing the user to analyse their usage in real-time, compare their usage with their own historical data and also compare their usage with other users. Hopefully there’s an interactive to be made somewhere there!

Energy expert Tim Ternent from Tetra Marketing paid us a visit to talk about reaching out to the Energy sector for partnership opportunities. He had some great advice about events to attend, who we should be talking to and how we should spread the word. It’s great to see someone who is so passionate about the Energy sector and we look forward to working more closely with Tetra Marketing – and thanks again for the Energy in Buildings and Industry mag!