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Could Flex Services Draw New Players to Energy Sector?

GreenTechMedia

Smart technologies entering the domestic market, including heat pumps, electric vehicles and batteries, are creating a network of relatively high-load controllable assets suitable for the provision of DSR,” he said. energy consultancy. In the U.S.,

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Drone data helps a Minnesota city conserve energy

Renewable Energy World

Maintaining healthy, comfortable buildings can be expensive in Minnesota — especially during polar vortex events. Warren, a small city in Northern Minnesota, is offering an innovative public service: images that reveal building heat loss, captured by drones. Thermal scans help homeowners identify how their buildings are losing heat.

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Cities are growing faster and smarter, but can they go greener? We asked Siemens.

EDF + Business

You might not be thinking about smart cities, or how the company is working to accelerate technology innovation, eMobility, resilience, and urban sustainability. What exactly is a “smart city”? For a smart city to succeed, we need good data to understand how to optimize infrastructure performance.

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Ending toxic fossil fuel subsidies

Business Green

In fact, the reverse is true, and often by a large margin: globally, government subsidies for fossil fuels are tagged at more than $440bn per year, according to IEA (International Energy Agency) estimates. It is also a smart economic choice when you consider the true price of energy.

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10 most common causes of lost energy in wind systems

Renewable Energy World

Smart software can use predictive analytics of the data collected by those two models, to automatically detect when faults are likely to occur, and alert owners and operators to this using real-time notifications. The next step was to build a model that would automatically predict this issue. The next stage is to automate this.

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What’s It Like to Be a Lawyer at an Environmental Nonprofit?

GreenTechMedia

In this Greentech Media series, we’re asking people with jobs in cleantech — from installing solar panels, to permitting wind projects, to promoting building energy efficiency software — to tell us what they really do all day. We won’t succeed just by being smart people in a room.

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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

Mr. Sustainability

Summary - Saudi Arabia is building a $5 billion plant called Helios to make green fuel for export and decrease the country’s dependence on petrodollars. Saudi Arabia is therefore building a $5 billion plant called Helios Green Fuels powered entirely by sun and wind. million tons per year of green ammonia.

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