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Comment: Massive IoT enables massive opportunities for utilities

Envirotec Magazine

From fleet management to environmental monitoring and smart grid management, to consumer applications including smart watches, smart buildings and, ultimately, entire smart cities. Many of these devices are communicating through cellular – 4G and now 5G – networks and are reliant upon long-life batteries.

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How today’s technology can support the energy system of tomorrow

Smart Energy International

Energy policy around the world has recently had to adapt to a massive geopolitical shift, with many countries taking steps to shore up their energy security and ensure their infrastructure and systems are built for resiliency. With increased urbanisation, there is an emphasis on energy consumption in growing cities.

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Tantalus and ETB bring commercial-grade microgrid solution to market

Smart Energy International

The microgrid includes solar panels and battery storage to provide resiliency to the headquarters of a major construction company in Riverdale, California. The combined solution will enable the construction company to manage demand charges, perform load shifting and take advantage of other economic optimisations.

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Sunrun is building Puerto Rico’s first virtual power plant

Smart Energy International

Sunrun said it will aggregate the solar and battery storage systems of more than 7,000 customers to form the 17MW VPP. ” Resiliency became a main focus in Puerto Rico in recent years as devastating storms have crippled the island’s electric grid. The company is aiming to dispatch the VPP in 2024.

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Smart grid: IoT predictive maintenance guide

Smart Energy International

To ensure successful smart grid IoT applications, the need for truly smart infrastructure management becomes evident. Predictive maintenance, which assists in determining live equipment conditions for timely maintenance, emerges as a key requirement to meet the growing demand for efficient uptime and rapid service reactions.

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Cities are growing faster and smarter, but can they go greener? We asked Siemens.

EDF + Business

You might not be thinking about smart cities, or how the company is working to accelerate technology innovation, eMobility, resilience, and urban sustainability. What exactly is a “smart city”? For a smart city to succeed, we need good data to understand how to optimize infrastructure performance.

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Flexible use of the grid could slash £12 billion in energy bills per year by 2050

Smart Energy International

The paper warns that the lack of a standard language that such devices can use to manage the demand they place on the grid (known as ‘flexibility’) is putting cost and carbon savings at risk. Turning down demand is known as demand-side response (DSR). Have you read: Ofgem supports National Grid with £1.5m

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