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What patents tell us: which countries, what sectors, are the clean energy innovators?

May 31, 2021 by Sean Fleming

Today’s solutions cannot give us a successful transition on their own. That’s why the innovations coming down the pipeline are so important. One way to measure what, and who, is innovating is to look at the number of patents being filed for low carbon energy (LCE), explains Sean Fleming writing for the World Economic Forum. He summarises the latest report from the European Patent Office and the IEA, “Patents and the energy transition: Global … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations Tagged With: batteries, CCUS, China, EU, Europe, EVs, geothermal, hydro, hydrogen, innovation, Japan, patents, SKorea, smart grids, solar, US, wind

Beyond pilots: scaling up energy innovation in cities

April 14, 2020 by Bax Company

Our current electricity grid was built hundreds of years ago, when power generation was centralised and our energy needs were far simpler. Electricity was distributed from large stable power plants to the consumers through a unidirectional flow that was easily predictable and did not require complex control. But over the last decades, cities have been going through a substantial change, seeing an exponential increase of their energy needs which … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Community, EU Policy, Innovations, Platform, Smartgrids Tagged With: climate change, ERDF, low-carbon, smart grids, smartcities, smartgrids

Grid Asset Management 2019

May 14, 2019 by Smartgrid Forums Leave a Comment

Grid Asset Management 2019 Data-Driven Asset Management to Support Smart Investment Planning and Optimised Lifecycle Management 3-Day Conference, Exhibition & Networking Forum 14-16 May 2019, London Drawing together 120+ smart grid asset management professionals, this 3-day case-study driven programme provides an intensive review of 14+ next generation asset management digitalisation programmes. As regulatory pressures and smart … [Read more...]

Tagged With: 2019, Britain, circulareconomy; innovation; energy, clean energy, Energy, energy investments, energy transition, investment, power networks, smart grids

Transforming Heating and Cooling creates jobs, new businesses

March 5, 2019 by Mark Woodward

The UK has had great success in reducing emissions: down 43% overall since 1990. But, like most places, Heating and Cooling is struggling. Mark Woodward, of The Smart City Alliance and Nordic Heat, sets out a plan for progress, and includes lessons from Europe. The focus is on four core energy efficiency activities: reduce, recover, store and distribute. He explains how this also opens up new business models: in one town in Sweden chemicals firm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, HVAC, Platform Tagged With: 5GDHC, emissions, energy efficiency, heat networks, heating and cooling, HVAC, jobs, smart cities, smart grids, training

Cyberattacks: the military considers micro grids as the answer

March 1, 2019 by Lukas TrakimaviÄŤius

European power grids have long been considered as potential targets for major cyberattacks given the enormous damage they could inflict. Successful cyberattacks against power grids could not only cause societal and economic disruptions, but also put a dent in the military readiness of European countries. In the event of a blackout, the lights could go out in town halls and military facilities alike. Lukas TrakimaviÄŤius explains how micro grids … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Networks, Platform Tagged With: cyber-security, Cyberattacks, digitization, electricity, energy efficiency, energy security, IoT, Microgrids, Military, Power Grid, smart grids

VW joins Tesla and BMW – EV and energy company all-in-one pays for business and consumers

January 16, 2019 by Energy Post Premium

Last week’s announcement by VW that it is setting up a company called “Elli” (short for Electric Life) offering energy services shows VW’s vision of what lies ahead for the automotive industry. It brings them head to head with Tesla and BMW who are already playing a role outside the traditional bounds of the car business. They are the new breed, ready to profit from customers who want to go electric as long as it makes financial as well as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, Energy efficiency, Renewables, Transport and energy Tagged With: battery, BMW, Elli, energy efficiency, EVs, jaguar, smart grids, storage, Tesla, VW

Solar farms getting smaller, cheaper and smarter to overcome grid hurdles

December 18, 2018 by Giles Parkinson

The technical challenges and fast-changing regulatory requirements associated with installing and integrating variable RES capacity are inevitably holding up the transition to clean energy all around the globe. So the announcement of a new smart solar farm in Australia that seems to have overcome these hurdles is really good news. The situation has been neatly captured across a number of recent reports (summarised here) by Giles Parkinson of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Innovations, Networks, Renewables Tagged With: australia, demand response, energy storage, energy transition, RES, smart grids, solar

Investment risk: nuclear high, new load-following fossil fuel plants low

November 22, 2018 by Schalk Cloete

In the current policy environment many energy technologies can appear attractive with the right set of assumptions: discounted clean energy technologies (wind, solar and nuclear) where the discount rate is heavily influenced by risk (see graph) and, perhaps surprisingly, new load-following fossil fuel plants (especially natural gas) where continued wind/solar technology forcing actually provides substantial upside potential. CCS researcher Schalk … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate policy, Energy, EU Policy, Markets, Nuclear, Oil, Gas & Coal, Renewables Tagged With: CCS, demand response, Energiewende, energy trading, EU energy policy, nuclear energy, renewables, smart grids, transition

We have a decade to prevent dangerous climate change: these 10 policies can save us

November 15, 2018 by Silvio Marcacci

The climate change challenge is not technical nor even economic, but a matter of enacting the right policies, writes Silvio Marcacci, Communications Director at San Francisco-based think tank Energy Innovation. Based on new research, Marcacci outlines the the types of policies that are the most effective. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Climate policy, Renewables Tagged With: carbon bubble, climate change, electric cars, electricity market, energy efficiency, energy transition, financing, grid, smart grids

Are solar microgrids the future in the developing world?

October 23, 2018 by Meredith Fowlie, Catherine Wolfram and Derek Wolfson

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Setting out to evaluate the real-world performance of solar microgrids in developing countries, a team from the Energy Institute at Haas partnered with startup Gram Power to provide small smart grid systems to unelectrified rural communities in India. While many industry experts see microgrids as important for future electrification, what the team found was that few communities wanted them, and they were difficult to implement and operate. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies, Renewables Tagged With: India, microgrid, renewables, smart grids, solar power

Huawei’s eLTE-DSA technology ushers in the Age of Wireless Power IoT

September 23, 2018 by Wei Ke-Tai

PROMOTED CONTENT - Huawei is building the world’s leading wireless power IOT in cooperation with the State Grid of China. Huawei’s eLTE-DSA technology ensures low latency, low power consumption, easy evolution and anti-interference, writes Wei Ke_Tai of the Huawei Enterprise Wireless Marketing Support Department. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Promoted content, Uncategorized Tagged With: grid, smart grids

Smart cities: not enough projects make the grade

September 17, 2018 by Clare Taylor

Despite the hype about smart cities, and the availability of EU funding, there are very few projects out there that qualify for funding, according to Lada Strelnikova, lead fund manager at the European Energy Efficiency Fund (EEEF). An exception: Belgian bank Belfius has, with the support of the European Investment Bank (EIB), provided €1 billion to smart city projects involving more than 100 municipalities in Belgium. According to Joost Declerck … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Energy efficiency, EU Policy Tagged With: electricity market, energy efficiency, energy transition, EU energy policy, financing, smart cities, smart grids, sustainable mobility

Why we need a blackout

September 14, 2018 by Gerard Reid

The risk of a cyber-attack that will take down the power system is seriously underestimated, writes financial energy specialist Gerard Reid. To prevent future disaster, we need to build a completely new power system. Reliability is not anymore about the “average minutes of downtime per year”. Courtesy Energy and Carbon blog. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Renewables Tagged With: cyber-security, electricity market, energy security, energy transition, geopolitics, grid, renewables, smart grids

How the micro-grid solar solution can realize electrification in remote regions

September 12, 2018 by Long Sheng

Promoted content - Micro-grids (solar PV and storage) are ideal to achieve rapid electrification in remote areas, but their implementation still faces many obstacles, writes Long Sheng of Huawei. The Chinese company has supported the Ministry of Energy in Cameroon to build a successful micro-grid solution. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Promoted content, Renewables Tagged With: energy storage, grid, microgrid, smart grids, solar power

DNV GL’s Energy Transition Outlook shows massive shift of investment from oil and gas into power lines

September 10, 2018 by Karel Beckman

The global energy transition will lead to a massive expansion of power lines at all voltage levels as well as a steep growth in the number of transformers and substations in the electricity system. This is one of the major new findings of the second edition of the Energy Transition Outlook, the annual flagship publication of global technical consultancy DNV GL. As a result, grid costs will triple, yet this cost explosion is offset by cost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: *, Energy Outlooks, Oil, Gas & Coal Tagged With: carbon bubble, CCS, climate change, coal power, electric cars, electricity market, energy efficiency, energy security, energy storage, energy transition, energy2030, EU energy policy, financing, gas pipelines, geopolitics, grid, infrastructure, natural gas, nuclear energy, oil, renewables, smart grids, solar power, wind power

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