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GreenCom Lands Funding to Expand IoT Home Energy Controls in Europe and Beyond

GreenTechMedia

Centrica’s 2019 investment , for example, cemented GreenCom’s role in providing the IoT backbone for the home energy services related to Centrica’s Hive smart home devices , now used by about 1.7 “Technically we are an IoT platform with a sweet spot on residential-type assets,” he said. million customers.

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Targeting grid resilience with digitalisation

Smart Energy International

This decarbonisation demands above all a grid that is robust, resilient, and reliable, able to withstand both the internal impacts of constantly changing demand and supply patterns and bidirectional power flows as well as external impacts such as extreme weather events. Grid resilience and reliability.

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eFORT project to enhance European grid resilience

Smart Energy International

The project, which is being coordinated by the Fundacion CIRCE technology and research centre, is aimed to address resilience and reliability against failures, cyberattacks and physical and other disturbances with a clear picture of the threats and vulnerabilities and the development of a set of solutions. Have you read?

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30. These events, made visible by the COVID-19 virus, have shown us the fragility of systems pushed to their breaking point by design constraints to maximize return on investment in the absence of resiliency. . Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. Tom Baruch.

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Off-Grid Power Sector Rides Out 2020, Readies For Place In Recovery Plans

GreenTechMedia

It was on track to be a feel-good story for the power sector in 2020. Companies like minigrid provider Husk Power were set for huge growth in 2020. ” Resilience as an off-grid selling point. The energy access market had for a long time been too complex with too many companies trying to do too much.

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Conserving a Network of Climate-Resilient Lands

Climate 4.0

By Eric Aldrich The Resilient and Connected Network, an ambitious GIS mapping tool developed over the past 10 years by more than 270 scientists led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), gives conservationists a way to save biodiversity for the future. Resiliency is directly related to having policies and governance already in place.

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Grid Edge Innovation Summit 2020: IBM’s Brad Gammons on Utility Digitalization in the Age of Decarbonization

GreenTechMedia

Gammons is one of the top energy industry executives speaking at next week’s virtual Grid Edge Innovation Summit 2020. Gammons: Allowing these new service providers to participate in that same digital overlay that connects the network to provide enhanced services that improve the reliability and resilience of the network.