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Tech talk – home appliances and interoperability

Smart Energy International

Home appliances constitute the lowest layer of flexibility in the energy system but arguably they also are one of the most important layers. Interoperability status What then is the status of achieving interoperability of home appliances? Have you read?

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Think Smartgrids highlights urgency to speed up demand side flexibility in France

Smart Energy International

As such three flexibility ‘levers’ are identified that should be activated as a priority, the association states – the price lever based on smart metering, load shifting in industry and demand side management in the tertiary building sector, i.e. offices, shopping centres, public buildings, etc. Have you read?

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Greentown Startups’ Biggest Accomplishments of 2023

Greentown Labs

Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities. Fervo Energy and Google’s next-generation, 3.5-MW

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ). ” Merritt said.

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Emporia’s energy management system prepares for the bidirectional EV charging future

Charged

Total control of power usage: from solar to EV and back to the house. Once an EV can double as a stationary storage device, it will take its place as part of an energy ecosystem that includes rooftop solar and energy management—and could even become a source of revenue for owners and a valuable grid-balancing resource for utilities.

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Inflation Reduction Act Activation Guide: Climate-Smart Agriculture

EDF + Business

Key Takeaways IRA adds $2 billion of funding to REAP in the next decade and increases grant share to 40% for all projects starting in 2023 Covers a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies such as wind, solar, biomass (incl. biomass, anaerobic digester, wind, solar) Energy Efficiency Investments (e.g.,

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Avista AMI Data & Bidgely’s DER Analytics as a Use-Case Generator: How The Utility’s Data-Driven Culture Is Keeping It Future-Ready

Bidgely

The most-forward thinking utilities are embracing the power of AI and big data to chart the most efficient and effective path to achieve future readiness. It was a strategic investment designed to enable us to learn more about charging behaviors and have the potential to control usage. We would have said no to the opportunity.” “We