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The widespread impact of ransomware in the Asia Pacific

Smart Energy International

Some 80% of organisations in the Asia Pacific were affected by ransomware attacks in 2021 with 51% paying the ransom, according to the Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2021: Resilience Amid Disruption report released by Claroty.

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Smart Energy Finances: Growth financing for AI-based network resilience

Smart Energy International

These models aim to help eliminate network monitoring blind spots in stress-testing grid resilience and improve severe weather response while reducing reliance on manual field surveys.

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Reclosers: Safeguarding electrical grid reliability

Smart Energy International

Reduce system outages and increase reliability by providing quality overcurrent protection on overhead lines. One of the solutions that has seen tremendous improvements, including smart technology, is the recloser.

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IRENA: Global renewables capacity grows a record 9.6 per cent

Business Green

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Building the Digital Energy Retailer: Lessons From IDC’s Worldwide Utilities 2020 Predictions

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For IDC Energy Insights, this effort rests on an analyst team that stretches from Europe to Asia, Oceania and North America. To thrive, they must become resilient organisations that can change frequently and quickly, and innovate continuously and rapidly to grab new opportunities as they arise.

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Keeping 1.5C alive: Is COP26 on track to deliver on its goals?

Business Green

Poorer nations have repeatedly stressed that the first big test of the Paris Agreement is provided by the pledge from industrialised nations to mobilise $100bn a year of climate finance from 2020 to help developing countries decarbonise and enhance their climate resilience. Known unknowns. And there are the other risks facing the Summit.