Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 13, 2023

million smart meter mark with meters with active remote services. million smart meters installed and 90% of the equipment is already under remote management, allowing automatic data collection, exempting consumers from sending readings and enabling the issuance of invoices by suppliers, without resorting to estimates or adjustments.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has acquired eks Energy in a strategic move to add power and electronics and energy management software to their ever-growing portfolio. Hitachi Energy called the move part of its strategy to meet global demand for battery energy storage solutions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced two separate loans of €462 million and €190 million for Poland’s Enea and Belgium’s RESA respectively for distribution network modernisation.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In this debut of the Power Playbook, our spotlight on the finance and investment side of the energy transition, Yusuf Latief investigates how Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech is becoming a burgeoning market space ripe with investment opportunities. This is what has caught our eye.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The growth of Home Energy Management (HEM) has led to a burgeoning, heretofore fragmented market, within which rages a business battleground of players large and small. The key to winning, explains Yusuf Latief in Smart Energy International ’s Power Playbook column, will be ownership of customer confidence. billion in 2021.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 13, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances leads with two stories on smart energy acquisitions, specifically Badger meter’s acquisition of Syrinix and TE Connectivity’s acquisition of Kries’ grid monitoring portfolio. Learn more: [link] pic.twitter.com/UbAIDqBu25 — Badger Meter (@Badger_Meter) January 5, 2023.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 5, 2024

Polish power company Enea has secured an investment loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) of PLN1 billion ($251 million) for the modernisation of the distribution network, including network construction and modernisation, as well as the installation of 2.4 million smart meters. a company in the ENEA S.A.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 14, 2024

billion) increase to its 2024-2028 investment plan, citing the need for continued grid expansion to connect an increasing number of renewable energy facilities. plans to boost its four-year investment plan from €33 billion ($36 billion) to €42 billion ($46 billion), focusing on energy networks and energy infrastructure solutions.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Octopus Energy Group has signed a deal to buy Shell Energy in the UK and Germany, taking on two million new home energy and broadband customers. The Shell Energy businesses provide domestic gas, power and broadband services. million household energy customers, equating to 2.5

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 24, 2024

Hitachi Energy has revealed investments of over $1.5 The investments will gradually expand the company’s global transformer capacity by 2027 and will be spread across their operations in Europe, the Americas and Asia. billion to ramp up its global transformer manufacturing capacity to keep pace with growing demand.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 6, 2024

Portuguese distribution system operator E-REDES has announced an automation project to make it possible to vary the intensity of street lighting and implement remote monitoring. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Compared to incandescent, LED lamps offer 80-90% energy savings. E-REDES states that in Coimbra, at Quinta de S.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Indian AMI provider IntelliSmart has announced a partnership with California-headquartered Trilliant for a head-end system as it continues with the smart meter rollout under the government’s Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS). million smart prepaid meters across 13 districts of South Bihar. Have you read: India marks 3.6

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Eurelectric’s Power Barometer 2023 points to positive trends following the peak of the energy crisis but the need to urgently accelerate infrastructure development. In particular unprecedented investments for grid expansion and digitalisation are needed, up 84% from now until 2050 compared with the average 7.5%

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As of October 1, 2023, the EU’s CBAM has entered into its transitional phase The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a groundbreaking strategy devised by the European Union (EU). Market Expansion: With the CBAM in place, there may be an increased demand for green hydrogen in Europe.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Today, on the first day of Enlit Europe 2023 in Paris, ABB launches two industry reports, sharing insights on the key digitalization and sustainability trends that are shaping the energy transition. In 2024, we expect this to result in an increased adoption of connected digital technologies, retrofitting and circularity.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Aydin Investment Monitoring and Coordination Directorate (YIKOB) has approved Zorlu Geothermal’s request to convert the resource exploration licenses of Kuyucak and Nazilli geothermal fields in Aydin province into geothermal resource operating licenses. Zorlu Enerji has an installed capacity of 239.5

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Centre stage in this week’s Smart Energy Finances is the closing of an acquisition by CPower. Upon the close of the transaction, previous Centrica demand response customers will join CPower and will be able to tap the company’s industry expertise and technology to support their energy portfolios across the US.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Millions of smart water meters are proposed for installation before 2030 and beyond in Britain as water companies seek to reduce leakages and consumption. million people with water supply, aims to complete its full smart meter rollout by 2030. South West Water proposes to install about 530,000 smart meters. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 30, 2022

Energy and Apator SA are to supply smart meters to the DSO Tauron Dystrybucja in Wroc?aw. The meters will have a PLC communication module in the OSGP standard. The contract includes the delivery of smart meters along with installation, storage and clean-up works in Tauron Dystrybucja’s Smart City Wroc?aw Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At Enlit Europe 2023 in Paris, ABB Electrification launched two industry reports sharing insights on the key digitalisation and sustainability trends that are shaping the energy transition. When done right, this can lead not only to cost and energy efficiencies, but also set business on an accelerated path to decarbonisation.”

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Bringing out the most from flexible systems can enable a valuable entry point for consumers into the power system and support power grid management. They will be able to avoid costly price peaks by mainly consuming electricity when it is sufficiently windy or sunny.”

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 20, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances looks at Shell USA Inc., which has reaffirmed its march into the Electric Vehicle (EV) arena with the acquisition of EV network developer Volta Inc. The survey found the energy sector to be a dominant area for investment, specifically energy security, renewables and EVS/batteries.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Britain’s smart meter programme has failed to hit targets and secure public support, the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has reported. In that period the deadlines have been pushed back three times and the targets reduced from “all homes and small businesses” to have smart meters by the target date to the current 74.5%

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“Energy must be saved on a large scale…the challenge now is to practice the behaviour of energy sobriety,” said Marianne Laigneau, CEO of French energy company Enedis. She referenced storm Ciaran that hit France at the beginning of November, which disrupted the power supply to over 1.2

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 13, 2024

The European Commission has adopted the first-ever EU network code on cybersecurity for the electricity sector. According to the Commission in a release, the network code will be an important step to improve the cyber resilience of critical EU energy infrastructure and services.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, the UK government released the long-awaited Future Homes and Buildings Standards consultation, which aims to introduce measures ensuring all new-build housing is ‘net zero ready’ by 2025. As we inch ever closer to 2035 and 2050 net zero targets, there is increasing pressure to decarbonise high-emitting sectors.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 1, 2024

Decentralisation, blockchain and AI, the future grid and the space race are some of the areas in which numerous advances have been made in 2023 and are set to continue during 2024. Over the course of 2023 – and indeed since its start in mid-2022 – this column has not been short of possible new and future technology content to feature.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The hydrogen industry is undergoing a transformative journey driven by the immense potential of hydrogen as a clean, efficient, and versatile energy carrier. The hydrogen industry is undergoing a transformative journey driven by the immense potential of hydrogen as a clean, efficient, and versatile energy carrier.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees Smart Metering Services (SMS) post lifted dividends, citing increased smart meter installations – up to 40,000 per month – and their first grid-scale battery project coming online. SMS strong H1: 40k monthly smart meters and grid-scale battery project.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Federal Government of Austria thru the Climate and Energy Fund (Klima und Energiefonds) has announced a EUR 10-million funding program to support deep geothermal projects. The objective of the funding program is to reduce the risk of discovery in development drilling and make deep geothermal energy projects more investment-ready.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Between 2023-2025, Spanish utility Endesa will invest €994 million ($983.5 The nearly €1 billion investment also aims to deploy renewable energies, facilitate Catalonia’s energy transition and continue improving the quality of the service received by the company’s 4.4 million customers in the region.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 3, 2020

Europe's power system will look very different in 2030, with energy storage supporting the “dominance” of wind and solar generation, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. By 2040, Europe is expected to add another 169 gigawatts of wind and 172 gigawatts of solar.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Wind turbine market leader Vestas has revealed the first investment made by its venture fund with a stake in Swedish wooden wind tower start-up Modvion. No details on the size of the deal have been released but Vestas previously told Greentech Media that Vestas Ventures would look to invest €1 million to €6 million ($1.2

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Celtic nation was one of the first in Europe to take green technologies seriously with the Centre for Alternative Technology opening and spearheading research back in the early 1970s. This culture of innovation continues today with companies like Riversimple springing up and making history with their hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 25, 2023

Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS plc), an energy infrastructure company, has acquired the domestic services division of Manchester-based heat pump specialist Evergreen Energy, which imports and distributes European-made renewable energy products.

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