Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Following earlier announcements of new electricity, water and hydrogen meters another pair of new meters are launched and the US Department of Energy launches an office to focus on emerging technologies in the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Smart meters are prominent in water companies’ 2025-2030 business plans, in line with regulatory expectations for large-scale rollouts. What are the key benefits of smart meters for utilities and their customers? What are the key benefits of smart meters for utilities and their customers?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The UK’s first all-electric intercity bus service drove off with a top prize at the Scottish Green Energy Awards on 1 December. The bilingual multi-purpose facility uses a mix of energy sources such as solar panels, an air source heat pump, battery storage and insulation to reduce its dependence on the grid.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

The Environment Agency’s Environmental Sensor Network (ESNET) comprises modular water quality monitoring systems that can be quickly and easily deployed at remote sites. By Matt Dibbs, Managing Director of Meteor Communications, a firm that designs, builds and installs remote environmental monitoring systems. Water quality monitoring.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Regarding the prominent issue at hand, it is really true that electric car batteries can be recycled, and there are specific methods that allow for the recovery of up to 95% of the raw materials. However, electric vehicles (EVs) have faced criticism due to concerns about their sustainability, particularly about their batteries.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Energy sector digital identity app spins off for global use, an intelligent power solution for China’s high energy physics platform and a hydrogen-powered superyacht unveiled are in the week’s technology radar. The power system includes 138 panels of UniGear ZS1 MV switchgear, 318 panels of MNS3.0

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Charged

APRIL 3, 2024

Keysight explores technology advancements to save money and keep the planet green In an effort to make the earth a greener place for the next generation while lowering costs, technology companies are creating innovative eco-friendly products. Using a power dissipator is an economical solution for sinking a couple hundred watts.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Li-ion is the principal battery chemistry used in EVs, for example. Photoionisation detection (PID) sensors are able to detect potential problems before they occur in the manufacture and use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, and the enormous variety of devices that use rechargeable batteries. Famously, in 2016, around 2.5

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Charged

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Printed electronics company InnovationLab has announced a new battery monitoring solution for EVs called BaMoS. The ultra-thin printed sensor foils measure cell-level pressure and temperature in batteries. Measurement is the first step that leads to improved control and battery performance. Source: InnovationLab.

Energy Monitor 97

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI to monitor bird interactions with solar PV, lithium iron phosphate battery production coming in Europe, a lithium mine for EV batteries and the energy infrastructure requirements in the Moon to Mars exploration are on the week’s technology radar. First lithium iron phosphate battery cell prototype in Europe.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Australian shipbuilder Incat Tasmania is building a gigantic new battery-electric ferry. The lightweight catamaran has an overall length of 130 meters and a capacity of 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles. Norwegian maritime industry battery provider Corvus Energy will supply the battery systems to Wärtsilä.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Vaasa Sähköverkko Oy (Vaasa Electricity Network) has contracted Landis+Gyr for a 10-year smart metering project. The initiative in the Finland west coast city of Vaasa includes the supply and installation of 65,000 smart meters, IoT network communication and a 10-year managed service agreement. Have you read?

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Charged

APRIL 13, 2022

Metis Engineering’s Battery Safety Sensor is designed to monitor the health of a lithium-ion battery pack and detect cell venting, an early sign of catastrophic battery failure. It says units are already on trial with a number of EV OEMs and battery manufacturers. An optional Accelerometer can record shock loads.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Jordan Brompton is co-founder of myenergi, a UK designer and manufacturer of renewable energy products. Jordan Brompton explains how developments in smart tech are enabling increasingly eco-conscious consumers to more easily and effectively transition towards off-grid renewable energy.

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Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2023

ElDorado National (ENC), a subsidiary of REV Group, showed its new Axess EVO-BE electric bus at the recent Zero-emission Bus Conference (ZEB Con). It features 738 kWh of energy storage. ENC is one of several commercial EV-makers that use Proterra Powered technology in their vehicles. Source: ElDorado National

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

In a bid to support Irish grid stability, Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has opened a major battery plant at its Poolbeg site in Dublin, which will add 75MW/150MWh of fast-acting energy storage. No electricity system can operate without a backup.

Energy Monitor 105

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

From fleet management to environmental monitoring and smart grid management, to consumer applications including smart watches, smart buildings and, ultimately, entire smart cities. Think smart thermostats, alarm and access control systems for the home, smart bulbs, smart meters – you see where this is going.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

has a major new partner to bring its sleek, sensored and circuit-by-circuit remote-controllable electrical panels to market: lithium-ion battery giant LG Chem. On Thursday, LG Chem launched its new new " customizable backup ” solar-storage offering, which includes its RESU home batteries and a Span smart panel.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although the UK Government’s latest legislation solidifies their commitment to the smart meter rollout in the country, there are yet a number of issues with consumer perception and the performance of the technology that need to be ironed out, explains Michael Jary of Sense. This is connected to issues with the technology itself.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced funding for Intellihub in a virtual power plant (VPP) project to leverage a network of 2 million smart meters and interface with over 140,000 customer energy resources for optimised load control. On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has announced AU$9.75

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Charged

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The increase of vehicles becoming electric, autonomous, and connected causes the demands for safety and reliability to be at an all-time high. Safety is more than just the chassis of the vehicle; it also lies within the electronic materials of the interior components, such as the sensor technology within the battery management.

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Charged

JULY 28, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) and Tesla have launched a pilot program that will combine thousands of Powerwall home battery systems to create a “virtual power plant” or “distributed battery.” They can use the Tesla app to set their backup power needs or to opt out of a particular event, as necessary.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 11, 2021

Homes need a lot more digital smarts nowadays to manage rooftop solar, backup batteries and electric vehicle chargers. It’s nice if those distributed energy resources (DERs) can be integrated with household electrical load controls via smartphone or Alexa or Google voice-activated devices.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Stem, the decade-old behind-the-meter battery startup that was seeking a buyer earlier this year to bolster its growth ambitions, is now launching a plan to go public via a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) reverse merger. Friday’s announcement names Star Peak Energy Transition Corp. and abroad. and abroad.

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Charged

MARCH 8, 2023

US battery cell developer KORE Power has selected manufacturing conglomerate Siemens to support the KOREPlex, KORE’s planned 12 GWh lithium-ion battery cell production facility in the Phoenix area. KORE says Siemens will provide electrical infrastructure and energy management to automate and digitize building operations.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2023

Recently, some water companies in the Middle East have started to tender for the STS prepaid water meter, arousing new discussion on smart water metering, as a solution for improving billing efficiency, in African countries and beyond. Prepaid water meters are not a new thing, even in Africa, but most projects failed before 2010.

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Charged

JANUARY 23, 2023

Each 12-meter trolleybus is to be powered by a 160 kW traction motor and fitted with a 60 kWh Solaris High Power battery pack, enabling them to cover distances of up to 20 km at a time without connection to overhead wires. The vehicles are expected to arrive in Bucharest at the end of 2024. Source: Green Car Congress

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Measuring battery health and safety continuously is an important challenge—lithium-ion batteries can experience several challenges over their lifetimes such as unintended capacity loss, short circuits and thermal runaway. In 2011, Idaho National Laboratory researchers developed a new technology for measuring battery health and safety.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the second special Enlit Europe 2023 edition, Nimbus and Globy – the new hydrogen and electricity smart meters, a new fast network deployment partnership and digitalising smart secondary substations are on the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Limited visibility and understanding of distributed energy resource (DER) behaviour is creating operational challenges, Siemens has found in a new study with utilities in the US and Canada. Source: Siemens’ Seeing behind the meter survey Have you read?

Energy Monitor 98

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

New Orleans headquartered energy company Entergy has reported upgrading more than 3 million electricity meters for home and business customers. Over one million smart meters were installed during the past year. Over one million smart meters were installed during the past year. Have you read?

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Charged

MARCH 31, 2022

Fermata Energy ’s mission is to use its vehicle-to-everything (V2X) software and hardware platform to turn EVs into energy-storage assets. The city of Boulder, Colorado has partnered with Fermata Energy on a vehicle-to-building (V2B) pilot that began in December 2020. Source: Fermata Energy.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has filed a $3 billion plan for the years 2024-2027 towards its ongoing clean energy drive. Among the major investments detailed is the implementation of the next generation of smart meters in order to give customers more control, access and insights into their energy usage.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 26, 2021

Smart home electrical panel, meet voice-activated home controls. Over the past five years, Amazon’s corporate venture capital fund has been investing in a range of technologies that can integrate with its market-leading home automation and digital assistant business.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Electric cars are balancing supply and demand on the UK power grid for the first time in a trial hosted by National Grid ESO and Octopus Energy. The technology automatically adjusts the charging schedule of the car in response to the ESO requests for more or less power.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Norwegian chemical firm Yara International has developed an autonomous electric cargo ship, which is scheduled to make its maiden voyage with no crew members aboard later this year. Yara, a major shipper of bulk cargoes, created a subsidiary, Yara Marine Technologies, to address toxic emissions from marine diesel engines.

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