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Energy resilience: Why energy efficiency must be at the heart of the heat electrification agenda

Business Green

Rising fossil fuel costs have focused attention on energy security and energy resilience like never before, leading to greater awareness and understanding about fuel and energy sources. Enrique Vilamitjana is managing director of Panasonic HVAC Europe. We welcome the aims of the REPowerEU Plan.

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

Smart Energy International

The association also states that the focus initially should be on mature and proven solutions, such as space and water heating and HVAC. Have you read? The main challenge, however, is the investment required, indicating an urgent need to consider financing options and remuneration for flexibility.

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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

From decarbonization to resiliency, utilities need to be agile, innovative and connected to meet the demands of the future. To hear more from Andrew Barrington about the Avista AMI data-driven approach, watch our on-demand webinar Seize the Data: Optimizing Grid and Customer Programs in 2024.

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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. SmartAC.com raised a $22M Series B to ramp up sales of its HVAC-monitoring system.

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Grid Edge Trends From 2019 (So Far)

GreenTechMedia

billion globally by 2024. These programs are operating direct load control devices to cycle or switch off customers’ largest loads, such as HVAC systems, water heaters and pool pumps. Resiliency. From July through September 2019, WoodMac tracked over 1.2 million second-generation smart meters contracted in the U.S.

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DISTRIBUTECH keynote message: AI can build the grid of the future and improve our work lives

Smart Energy International

Zach Kass speaks at DISTRIBUTECH International 2024 So, is AI going to take our jobs? Electrification is growing rapidly, with companies converting from gas to electric boilers and converting their HVAC systems from gas to heat pumps. Kass said we will achieve AGI by 2030, maybe earlier. Short answer, no. from overseas.

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Inflation Reduction Act Activation Guide: Climate-Smart Agriculture

EDF + Business

36 USC 220506 Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited Our Experts Victoria Mills Managing Director Environmental Defense Fund vmills@edf.org Katie Anderson Director, Resilient Food and Forests Environmental Defense Fund kanderson@edf.org Sign up for Climate Policy News you can use Name * First Last Organization * Email * Δ